(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
Another term for unit in poetry is “stanza.” There are different types of stanzas in poetry, some with rhyme patterns and some without. Generally, the name of the stanza has to do with the number of lines in the poem. The shortest would be the couplet (2). Then there’s tercet (3), quatrain (4), cinquain (5),
April is National Poetry month, so it’s time for another poem. The poetic style for today will be tanka. This is a five-line poem that is similar to haiku in subject matter (nature). The nature image that I’m going to use for my poem will be the sunflower. In the image above, I had fun
April is National Poetry Month. So, for this blog post, I am writing a four-stanza quatrain based on the word that the Random Word Generator has chosen for me. Today’s letter is H, and the word is “heat.” Each stanza has four lines, and the format is an envelope stanza, with an ABBA rhyme pattern.
I went to the random word generator and got the word “burn” or “burning.” So I drew flames and wrote a haiku because fire is beautiful, but destructive. And poetry is beautiful, but it can be dark at times. Also, this is National Poetry month. #WordlessWednesdays
Fly high, butterfly, your eye pointed to the sky, and see no limits Today’s letter is B, and the word that I got from the random word generator was butterfly. The Ultimate Blogging Challenge prompt is “What got you started in this niche or market?” I’m not really sure. I am a storyteller and have
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There is so much sadness in the world, and I can feel the heartbreak. A few weeks ago, I wrote this poem about the world’s rips and tears and the hope that there could be patches to fix the broken hearts. Although my belief that a real change of heart is flagging, I refuse to
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