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October 29, 2021

Paint Chip Octave No. 5

We’ve made it to the end of the month (almost) and the last October octave prompt. To read the definition of octave and the full instructions for this prompt, read Paint Chip Octave No. 1. You can read my continuing saga about my teddy bear...

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October 22, 2021

Paint Chip Octave No. 4

I’m going to sound like a broken record, but as you can see I’m late again with this Friday’s prompt. But we’re still having another octave prompt in the continuing poem of five octaves. For the definition of octave and the full prompt, see this post from...

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September 3, 2021

Slanting the Paint Chips

September is upon us. Apparently, according to meteorologists, it is now meteorological fall. I prefer astronomical fall, because that means three more weeks of summer, my very favorite season. Besides, my wedding anniversary is next Monday and I was married in the summer, not the...

Poetry Comments: 18

August 17, 2021

Forgiveness Healed My Heart

This article was originally published in the October 2019 issue of The Christian Journal. I had all but given up. I mentally catalogued the various prescription and over-the-counter pills in my medicine cabinet. There were enough to end my hopelessness forever. I truly believed my...

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August 10, 2021

God Used My Trials

This article was originally published in the September 2019 issue of The Christian Journal. We moved from my childhood home in sunny Southern California to a one-traffic-light town on the outskirts of a Washington rainforest right before I started eighth grade. I made new friends,...

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July 7, 2021

Poetry for Healing

This is just a quick post to share that I have had two poems published in the Antelier of Healing. My poems are in chapter 4, but this lovely online anthology has many more poems about trauma and recovery. These poems are a great example...

Poetry Comments: 10

June 25, 2021

Tanka with Paint Chips

It’s Friday again (well, actually Thursday when I’m writing this, but for you readers it’s Friday). We are into the T section of the poetry dictionary and the entry I’ve selected is the tanka. It was hard to choose because I also love the terza...

Poetry Comments: 19

June 22, 2021

Never Give Up!

I’ve always been a writer. I have no choice but to put words to paper (or computer screen). It has only been the past nine or ten years that I seriously studied the craft of writing with a desire to improve each sentence and paragraph...

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April 23, 2021

Object Poems with Paint Chips

It’s Friday once again and time for another paint chip poetry prompt. This week we are in the O section of the poetry dictionary. I was torn between two of the entries, until I actually pulled the paint chips and found one that I could...

Poetry Comments: 13

April 16, 2021

Narrative Poetry and Paint Chips

Hey there, poetry friends. Sorry for the missed prompt last week. A family issue was taking up all of my thoughts and energy and I just couldn’t get it done. But I’m back and I don’t plan to make a habit of missing Friday prompts....

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Another Fearless Year

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Paint Chip Octave No. 5

Paint Chip Octave No. 4

Slanting the Paint Chips

Forgiveness Healed My Heart

God Used My Trials

Poetry for Healing

Tanka with Paint Chips

Never Give Up!

Object Poems with Paint Chips

Narrative Poetry and Paint Chips

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Paint Chip Octave No. 5

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Paint Chip Octave No. 4

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Slanting the Paint Chips

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Forgiveness Healed My Heart

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God Used My Trials

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Tanka with Paint Chips

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