April 2022

or “help! a poet has taken over my brain!” ZaNila Rhyme is a modern poetic form created by Laura LaMarcha. It features at least three quatrain stanzas with a specific rhyme scheme and syllable count. I think that I will title it “What creates the bad in a bad dream?” Who is the monster in […]

storytime with Berry Bear (guest blogger) Look for more stories to come from Berry Bear, who promises to be a guest blogger on occasion! He is planning all sorts of fun adventures and can’t wait to tell you more about them. He thanks Lia and her great grandmother Martha for all of their attention to

Today’s word is xiaoshi. It’s a Chinese form of short poetry that has been called the Chinese haiku. It is usually written as a quatrain. A quatrain is a stanza of four lines, especially one having alternate rhymes. The xiaoshi is a style of poetry that dates back to the 1920s. It presents seemingly unrelated

alice’s april art challenge… On the first of this month, I received a box in the mail with a few art supplies and 20 sheets of 4×7 inch (10.16×17.78 cm) hot press finish watercolor paper in a little block. A block is when the paper is attached on two sides. In a usual tablet, the

an interview with… me! I’ve been participating in blogging challenges for a while now, and I have noticed that many of the same people come back again and again. It’s really great because I’ve discovered that I am building relationships with other bloggers, even though I’ve never met them in person. So, when, on Sunday,

Sometimes, on a cloudy day, you can smell the rain that hasn’t come yet. You can feel the heavy dampness in the air. And it feels okay to stay inside and do some creative project that you’ve been working on for a while or one that you let go of because you were just too

The grayness is gonewhen bulbs burst forth with colorsweet early springtime. Daffodil facesshine yellower than the sunearly afternoon Sunshine is sweeterwhen you’re with your favorite friendsafter months indoors I hope that you have a good and sweet week. Try to take time to enjoy nature!!! What sort of plants do you see where you’re living

fun with archaic words can old words become new again? Sometimes, words just disappear from the language. For some reason that’s unknown to me, people just stop using these words. When they were used, all of the now-archaic words had meaning and were used very appropriately. Over the passage of years, the words were forgotten

A sedoka is a Japanese poetic form. It is based on the number of syllables in each line, and there is no need to rhyme. This is how Poetrysoup.com describes a sedoka: “Sedoka is a Japanese verse form that evolved from ancient songs. They can be mood poems, similar to tanka, or they can tell

and recollections “Tree are a poem the earth writes across the sky. Humanity cuts them down for paper so we may record our emptiness.”   – Kahlil Gibran Happy Earth Day! This is a great day to celebrate the our beautiful blue home, Earth. I really look forward to this day every year because it’s the