Paint Chip Poetry Prompt #34

How a person can simultaneously be thrilled that it’s finally Friday, and completely forget that it’s Friday and therefor a poetry prompt should be posted, I do not know. But that is exactly my week. It’s 3:14 in the afternoon and suddenly it dawned on...

Paint Chip Poetry Prompt #33

It’s week 33 and it’s been a crazy week. I didn’t think about writing this week’s prompt until I was getting ready for bed last night and saw a comment on last week’s prompt saying she’d made it just in time because the new one...

Frequent Flowers

Frequent Flowers My favorite flowers bloom in the garden again and again and again I deadhead my flowers to keep them healthy again and again and again Of frequent flower care I never complain because such beauty graces my back yard again and again and...

Paint Chip Poetry Prompt #30

It’s week 30 of the paint chip poetry prompt. My apologies for those of you who were looking for this prompt early this morning. Friday snuck up on me this week and I just realized I hadn’t posted this yet. The Challenge This week we...

Fun with Haiku and Senryu

I recently came across a delightful website called Poetry Pea run by a poet named Patricia. They publish a print journal of submitted haiku and senryu, and also have a monthly podcast in which Patricia (who has a delightful voice, I might add) reads some...

Paint Chip Poetry Prompt #29

Here we are at week 29 and still going strong. For those of you who’ve come to enjoy my cousin Ron’s poems you may have to look beyond the comments. He’s started posting them on his own blog here: https://ronrowland.com/blog/. And while you’re over there...

Singing the Blues

From Lamentations to Stevie Ray Vaughn the blues remind us we’re not alone Bitterly we weep while the sky is crying Affliction and sadness forever universal and somehow that simple reminder set to Biblical verse or a guitar riff that talks makes life bearable It’s...