‘The Mountain Stream Freezes Over’

Hi, Mark this week informs us have entered the micro-season of “The Mountain Stream Freezes Over”, which is the second micro-season of the mini-season Major Cold. https://naturalistweekly.com/2023/01/27/micro-season-the-mountain-stream-freezes-over-2/ I really enjoyed the read about how flowing water freezes and the accompanying haikus. Our challenge is to write a haiku or senryu that references frozen water in

Magnetic Poetry for #JusJoJan

Hi, happy Monday 🙂 I am thankful for KL Caley and her blog today ‘Tile Tales’ where she used magnetic tiles to create a poem – https://new2writing.wordpress.com/2023/01/23/tile-tales-off-course/#comment-11623 so I had a go for my JusJoJan post and found it fun, thanks for looking 🙂 It’s also post number 20 for Penny Wilson’s January challenge https://pennywilsonwrites.com/2023/01/16/week-4-name-your-number-writing-challenge/

dVerse – Last Lines

Hi in the dVerse bar hosted by Laura Bloomsbury’s the theme is all about endings, she has challenged us to take the very last line from each of our most recent poems and re-write them into a poem https://dversepoets.com/2022/12/01/mtb-in-my-end-is-my-beginning/ – choose at least 12 poems (for this 12th month!) – keep each line intact, unadulterated

Prompt of the Week

Hi, Lady Jabberwocky’s prompt for this week is to write a poem or piece of prose with a ‘farm’, as the setting: https://ladyjabberwocky.com/2022/11/28/prompt-of-the-week-farm-living-in-the-countryside/ , my poem is entitled ‘on the fence’. Thanks for looking 🙂 https://ko-fi.com/aj335577

Saturday Haiku

Hi, everyone hope you are enjoying your Saturday, below is my nineteenth haiku for this months NaNoBloMo, hope to see you back tomorrow 🙂 https://ko-fi.com/aj335577

Inked

Windfall

Hi folks the weekend is fast approaching, not long now. Here is a poem I wrote a year ago in response to a challenge to write a poem in 94 word, using the word ‘Glow’, hope you like it thanks for stopping by. I love a nice juicy apple 🙂

Creative Poetry Practice

One of the great things about writing poetry is that we are never ‘incorrect‘, what constitutes a good or bad poem is merely in the eye of the reader. Creative poetry however, requires regular practice, the more time we give to our craft the more creative we become. I make time to write each day,

Poetry is Therapeutic

The healing effect of words has long been recognised, as far back as 4000 BCE, early Egyptians wrote words on papyrus, dissolve them in liquid, and gave them to those who were ill as a form of medicine. Also poetry for healing and personal growth, can be seen in ancient times when shamans conducted religious

Emily Jane Brontë

Emily Brontë (1818-1848) was born on this day, 30 July 1818 in the rectory at Thornton in Yorkshire to the Reverend Patrick Brontë and Maria Branwell Brontë, the 5th of their six children and the only daughter to be given a middle name. Unfortunately her mother died when she was only 3 years old and