This poem combines two prompts from Poefusion: the Monday Mural and the Friday Five. The form is a cadae,which you can learn how to write on Poefusion.
Photo by Michelle Johnson, Poefusion
The Bricks Remain
When life ceased,
hearth’s
fire faded too.
Bricks
once harboring heat
warmed a farmer’s blood, his heart beating
duple.
The farmer’s
gone,
a lone chimney
his
vintage placeholder,
souvenir of schemes and dreams, [...]
Photos by Cool Chica
To read the first part of this story please click here: The River Park.
We headed down a boardwalk extending over a swamp. I persuaded Rider off his bike, saying, “There’s an abandoned shed and a rusted out car at the end of this trail.” He agreed to rest his bike against a [...]
For 3WW the words are cigarette, afford, dim. The following is the beginning of a short story.
Chocolate in Spain
The day I arrived with my luggage at the penthouse apartment Esperanza was in the dim light of a back hallway, crossing from the bathroom to a bedroom while smoking a cigarette. She turned to me, [...]
photo by Cool Chica, my sister
Attention to Detail, 15 minute writing practice from red Ravine.
I want to remember the small details of the Friday afternoon I spent with my two sisters and their children, the day after Thanksgiving.
We arrived at the Chattahoochee River Park at 4:00, forgetting night comes earlier now. A hill on [...]
Didn’t have much time to post today. Due to nablopomo I offer these sentences. I wrote for an hour in my journal while waiting for the mechanic to change the oil in my car. Scratched out a few lines of a poem waiting for the doctor with my youngest, who has a bad cold but [...]
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This poem is a nonet, a form explained on Poefusion. The Friday Five for last week are also incorporated into this piece. Please visit Michelle’s page to find out which ones they were.
Don Quijote’s Paramour
He grafted his image of Woman
onto that Dulcinea, calved
her from mental sequences.
Her milkmaid outer rind,
bewitched by madness,
fine lady fair
in his [...]
There are three memes circling overhead waiting to land on my blog, so I thought I’d give them some help and combine all three. Leslie from Dog Face Boy, a talented poet, freelance writer, teacher, mother, and… well lots of things, tagged me to write seven random facts about myself.
Angie from Between theLines tagged me [...]
Group mandala made by the students of the Living Yoga Program, track 2, 2007.
May I be free from danger.
May I be happy.
May I be healthy.
May I live with ease.
The four phrases beginning a traditional metta practice, p. 193, The Insight Meditation Workbook, by Sharon Salzberg and Joseph Goldstein.
When Lovingkindness mediation first crossed my radar I [...]
Dewali Lights, by mariacristina
Click here to listen to my rendition of When You Are Old, by WB Yeats.
I have strange thoughts sometimes, like what would I do if I were ever imprisoned, say for my political beliefs for example. How would I pass the time? I’m only half kidding about this concept.
Other hard-case [...]
