Tag: poetry
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Free Verse Friday: To Capture
Welcome to Another Free Verse Friday! Explore your creativity. What makes you creative? Create a poem that expresses your creativity, whether through writing, drawing, painting, or another art form. To Capture Is it your uniqueness that gives you pause?Let yourself wander in the creativeness that is you.Words whispering to you. Serenading you. Brush in hand…
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Free Verse Friday: Turning Autumn
Welcome to Another Free Verse Friday! For today’s Free Verse Friday, write about how autumn makes you feel. Does the changing scenery bring you peace, fill you with excitement, or remind you of memories from years past? Let the colors, cooler weather, and falling leaves inspire your words. Turning Autumn It’s that time of year…
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25 Days of Christmas: An Emotional Holiday Season | Early Release
I have some exciting news to share! My poetry collection, 25 Days of Christmas: An Emotional Holiday Season, is available now on Amazon Kindle — earlier than originally planned! Christmas isn’t always a season filled with joy and laughter. Sometimes, it brings back memories, stirs up complicated emotions, reminds us of relationships we’ve lost, and…
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Free Verse Friday: Who Knew She Would Bloom
Unexpected Free Verse Friday This Free Verse Friday was unexpected. While about to write my response to my Prompt Friday, this poem said no I need to be written now. It came fast and was emotionally heavy. It didn’t ask for permission; it just showed up. I really love this poem. Who Knew She Would…
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And You Thought You Couldn’t Finish
Are you a writer who has never finished a poem, story, or novel? It’s okay. It’s not a bad thing, because you can finish. Don’t let that overwhelming feeling rob you of completing your goal. You are going to learn how to finish writing projects faster. Once you learn how to finish smaller projects, you…
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Free Verse Friday: Mentally Tapped
This Week’s Free Verse Friday Write how you feel without filters. Write fast and unapologetically. Mentally Tapped My mental capacity is blocked.Too much complaining.Too many things that can’t be changed.Too much self-destruction.Too many empty words lingering in the air.They suffocate with a high-pitched frequency.Exhausted from seeing your faces.Sleep is a distant memory.This toxicity must be…
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Free Verse Friday: How Beautifully You Fly
Welcome to Another Free Verse Friday I wrote this poem in just a few minutes. How fast can you write a free verse poem? The clock starts now. How Beautifully You Fly Butterfly, Butterfly, how beautifully you fly.With elegance and purity, you glide.You make spring and summer bright.Your multicolored wings bring light and peace.Each flap…
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Free Verse Friday: Words of Agency
Welcome to Another Free Verse Friday. For today’s Free Verse Friday, challenge yourself. Set a timer for five minutes and see what comes out. Words of Agency As I get older, I think about all the dreams I want to come true.Living out my dreams inside my head. Hoping they gain agency. Envisioning all the…
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An Old Poetry Style – Does It Still Exist?
I came across a poem I wrote in my early twenties. It plays with the idea of an acrostic, and it made me wonder… do people still enjoy this kind of poetry? Here it is: Below the riverbankElegant sunset ariseHigh above the riverbank the sun shinesInside the river swarm a school of fishNever before have…