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Thought Ripples: A Question of Dreams
On the first day of this website I posted a Thought Ripple that concluded with this poem. Conversation with Muse Do you whisper ideas My ears cannot hear, Or have you given up Trying for my...
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Surrendering Into The Way
Pandora’s Box (Photo credit: yum9me) Over at Poetic Asides, we have been asked to explore the notion of “Operation” – be it the medical kind, the military kind or the concentrated effort kind. Yes,...
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Poetic Asides Goes Wordle
A Wordle is any poem that must use specific words within its body. Today’s PA Prompt went like this: write a poem that includes the words: change, wrap, bottle, bargain, and bear. These are common...
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Garden: Thought Ripples on Rules
When my writing partner, Meena Rose, wrote her Observations on Modern Day Ancients a few days ago, it set my mind spinning just a bit. I was reminded of something that I’d studied many years. During...
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Calliope: Watching For Language Threats
1739 Edition of Poor Richard’s Almanac (Photo credit: Wikipedia) Has your lemons-to-lemonade experience ever turned sour shortly thereafter? Or, have your two birds in the hand ever crapped all over...
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Speaking of Foreign Words
That’s our assignment today from Poetic Asides PAD Day 10 Prompt: Write a poem with a foreign word in either title or body of the poem. Whether you’ve ever actually spoken a foreign language or not,...
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November PAD 2012 – Day 10
English: Graph of the number of asylum-seeking children with “symptoms of apathy” in Sweden, years 2000-2007 Svenska: Graf över antalet asylsökande barn med “uppgivenhetssymtom” (apatiska asylsökande...
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Poetic Asides Provides Two For Tuesday
“TUESDAY” production sign (Photo credit: Vaguely Artistic) At Poetic Asides it’s Two For Tuesday. Our assignment today was to: Write a possible poem. Write an impossible poem. Having just finished the...
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NaPoWriMo’s Coloring Book
Color picture (Photo credit: @Doug88888) Day 28 of NaPoWriMo gave us a prompt to pick a color. How many synonyms are there for your color (e.g., green, chartreuse, olive, veridian)? Is your color...
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Thought Ripples: Enough
Courtesy of BJJones Phototgraphy Webster’s Collegiate Dictionary defines “enough” as meaning occurring in such quantity, quality, or scope as to fully satisfy demands or needs; in or to a degree or...
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