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July 23, 2021

Paint Chip Villanelle Poetry Prompt

As I mentioned last week, we’ll be staying in the V section of the poetry dictionary this week with one of my favorite poetry forms: the villanelle. It is a very long entry in the dictionary so I’m only sharing part of it, just enough...

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June 11, 2021

Paint Chip Rondelet

I’m back on track this week with a prompt based on an entry in the next section of the poetry dictionary and the normal seven paint chips, randomly selected, to work with. We are in the R section and there were a lot of great...

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October 23, 2020

Paint Chip Poetry Prompt #43

Welcome to week #43 of my fun paint chip prompts. I discovered this week that I actually had enough paint chips to make it to the end of the year. So for the rest of the year we will have the full seven paint chips...

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October 9, 2020

Paint Chip Poetry Prompt #41

It’s week 41, I’m out of prompts from the deck, and no one suggested another. So now we really find out “what if there are no prompts?” I thought a lot about it and finally came up with a plan. It involves a book of...

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October 4, 2020

Summer’s End

According to the calendar, summer has come to an end. Fall is in the air, as they say. Even the warm, sunny days this past week had a different feel than the long days of summer. I thought I’d share today some of my early...

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September 18, 2020

Paint Chip Poetry Prompt #38

Here we are at week #38. I had grand plans for this year of prompts. Does it feel like maybe the paint chips have lived up to the hype? I know I’ve read some awesome poems that wouldn’t have been without the inspiration of these...

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September 4, 2020

Paint Chip Poetry Prompt #36

Another week flew by where I was so busy I didn’t get this prompt written until after 9:00 p.m. on Thursday. But I guess that’s better than 3:30 in the afternoon on Friday. I did, however, submit my memoir book proposal to a small publisher...

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August 7, 2020

Paint Chip Poetry Prompt #32

Here we are at week #32 of the paint chip poetry prompt and I have a bit of a dilemma. Tonight when I pulled the cards for this prompt, I realized there aren’t enough unused prompt cards to get us to the end of the...

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March 23, 2020

Better Than Magic

It’s in their DNA to sip then zip away Hovering in one spot as other birds cannot The agile hummingbird Magical is the only word That will adequately describe members of this tribe Even magic is not enough To illuminate the Creator’s amazing stuff _______________________________...

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