Category: poems
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This Photo Wants to Be a Poem: Slice of Life #sol21 10/31
Each Wednesday, Margaret at Reflections on the Teche shares a photo that inspires a “small poem.” I love photos, and I love small poems, so I’ve been saving this idea for a Wednesday slice. To add an extra challenge, I closed my eyes, scrolled through my camera roll, and committed to writing a poem about…
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Magnet Poetry: Playing with Poetry #playingwithpoetryNPM 30/30 #sol19
This month, I’m tagging along with Christie, Margaret, Jone, Mary Lee, and other writers to play with poetry for National Poetry Writing Month. I’ll be creating poems using haikubes, metaphor dice, magnet poetry, paint chips and anything else that catches my fancy. I’m always sad when the end of March comes around, and it’s time to stop the daily slice. But…
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Paint Chip Poetry: Playing with Poetry #playingwithpoetryNPM 29/30
This month, I’m tagging along with Christie, Margaret, Jone, Mary Lee, and other writers to play with poetry for National Poetry Writing Month. I’ll be creating poems using haikubes, metaphor dice, magnet poetry, paint chips and anything else that catches my fancy. Today I decided to do a backwards paint chip poem. I don’t think that’s really a thing, but I…
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Metaphor Dice Poetry: Playing with Poetry #playingwithpoetryNPM 28/30
This month, I’m tagging along with Christie, Margaret, Jone, Mary Lee, and other writers to play with poetry for National Poetry Writing Month. I’ll be creating poems using haikubes, metaphor dice, magnet poetry, paint chips and anything else that catches my fancy. I thought that all of these poetry metaphors had some potential, and I initially thought I might write a…
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Haikubes: Playing with Poetry #playingwithpoetryNPM 27/30
This month, I’m tagging along with Christie, Margaret, Jone, Mary Lee, and other writers to play with poetry for National Poetry Writing Month. I’ll be creating poems using haikubes, metaphor dice, magnet poetry, paint chips and anything else that catches my fancy. For the last four days of this daily poetry challenge, I decided I will write one final poem using…
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Paint Chip Poetry: Playing with Poetry #playingwithpoetryNPM 26/30
This month, I’m tagging along with Christie, Margaret, Jone, Mary Lee, and other writers to play with poetry for National Poetry Writing Month. I’ll be creating poems using haikubes, metaphor dice, magnet poetry, paint chips and anything else that catches my fancy. Today I decided to focus on some new paint chip interior design brochures that my mom picked up for…
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Metaphor Dice Poetry: Playing with Poetry #playingwithpoetryNPM 25/30
This month, I’m tagging along with Christie, Margaret, Jone, Mary Lee, and other writers to play with poetry for National Poetry Writing Month. I’ll be creating poems using haikubes, metaphor dice, magnet poetry, paint chips and anything else that catches my fancy. Today, metaphor dice poetry meets equation poetry (metaphor dice + equations = poem). This mash-up idea came from following…
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Paint Chip Poetry: Playing with Poetry #playingwithpoetryNPM 24/30
This month, I’m tagging along with Christie, Margaret, Jone, Mary Lee, and other writers to play with poetry for National Poetry Writing Month. I’ll be creating poems using haikubes, metaphor dice, magnet poetry, paint chips and anything else that catches my fancy. Today’s poem happened because I’ve been wanting to write a poem for a paint chip called Slow Down. The…
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Magnet Poetry: Playing with Poetry #playingwithpoetryNPM 23/30 #sol19
This month, I’m tagging along with Christie, Margaret, Jone, Mary Lee, and other writers to play with poetry for National Poetry Writing Month. I’ll be creating poems using haikubes, metaphor dice, magnet poetry, paint chips and anything else that catches my fancy. I liked my Poetry Mega Set Word Magnets so much that I decided to order two more kits: Cat…
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Haikubes: Playing with Poetry #playingwithpoetryNPM 22/30
This month, I’m tagging along with Christie, Margaret, Jone, Mary Lee, and other writers to play with poetry for National Poetry Writing Month. I’ll be creating poems using haikubes, metaphor dice, magnet poetry, paint chips and anything else that catches my fancy. I’ve tried to play with the haikubes a few times, and nothing has come of it aside from cats…
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