Today’s prompt has me giving advice about a topic that I have a lot of knowledge about. Today, that advice will be about defeating writer’s block… or, at the very least, pushing writer’s block aside. It may come back, but not yet. One of the reasons that people have writer’s block is the fear that […]
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And, as in uffish thought he stood,the jabberwock, with eye of flame,came bursting through the tulgey woodand burbled as it came. This morning, I went to the Japanese gardens behind the Buffalo History Museum to see the cherry blossoms. I had read that they had opened, and I wanted to avoid a repetition of last
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April is National Poetry Month, which I didn’t know until I started reading Vidya Tiru’s postings for the two blogging challenges that we are both participating in. Vidya writes about a different type of poetry every day, and she also includes a complete lesson plan for teachers who want to offer lessons in poetry. Her
because I don’t have a clue of what to write about… So, I don’t know what to say. It’s as if I got stuck and I want to talk about random stuff. Or maybe I could write a poem. A poem about a sailboat that floats off into the sea. So here goes. I’m going
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Today, I am offering you another technique for writing with a prompt. This prompt will include a picture and a few ideas for a first line to be used for a story or a poem. You have complete freedom to choose your genre, but you have to include the first line and refer to the
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An oddly placed bencha nice perching place for squirrelson a snowy day Decorative fencecovered with powdery snowdreary winter’s day Outdoor oasisherb garden has gone dormantwintertime respite Trees stand tall and straightwatching gardens hibernatewaiting for sunlight Outdoor umbrellaswhen the sky is overcastprotect from the snow Question for you: What do you see out of your window
(It’s day six of Inktober, and the prompt for today is “trek.”) It was the night before the Long Trek to the Mountains, which was when the Bears gathered to sing, dance, tell stories and to give names to the babies that had been born since the last Trek. The Trek didn’t occur every year
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Today, I am going to share a few images from the Grand Island Garden Walk, which was held on July 14th, as well as a few poems about gardens. Gardens are beautiful, and they inspire the imagination and emotions of poets. I mind me in the days departedHow often underneath the sunwith childish bounds I
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It’s the first day of the third Ultimate Blogging Challenge of the year, and I’m sharing stories and pictures about my adventures, the beauty of the outdoors, and more! Today, it’s all about bees and poetry! What’s it about for you today? Please share in the comments section. I sit quietlyin a world of busy-nessin
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Today, I chose to write a poem, and the poetic form that I picked was the blank verse. This poetic form can be any number of lines. It is an unrhymed form of poetry, and each line is ten syllables. I’ve been thinking about the weather forecast because it’s gardening season now. So, tomorrow, the