Archive for April, 2011

No Poems?

No poems. We just returned home from a speedy trip to Dallas. On the trip my cell phone took its last breath. So since we touched down at home I’ve been scrambling to research and buy a new phone. I’m now dependent on this technology to run my business. This means I have to research, [...]

Goofy Poem?

Today is our first “Two for Tuesday” prompt of the month. For those who are new to the challenge, I provide two prompts instead of one–usually polar opposites of each other–and poets can choose which one to use. Of course, quite a few poets write a poem for both prompts.

For today’s prompt, do one [...]

The Volunteer’s Daughter:

One more for today…..
The volunteer’s daughter:
6 PM he is paged to dispatch at the station
Midnight to a smoke investigation
2AM it’s a medical emergency
someone’s child is choking
3AM I’m awakened
by my father’s arms around me -
I know another child has died.

Boo Wears a Tinfoil Hat

Here we go with Robert’s suggestion for today:
For today’s prompt, pick a type of person and write a poem about him or her. To help set the scene, you may want to title your poem as who the type of person is. For instance, you could write a poem titled “Firefighter,” “Cynic,” “Optimist,” “Teacher,” “2-year-old,” [...]

Imagine the world without you

Robert’s prompt today is to imagine the world without you.
Here’s what he wrote:
Today’s prompt is to write a poem in which you imagine the world without you. Since my favorite movie (It’s a Wonderful Life) plays with this idea, I’m surprised I’ve never used this prompt before. The world could be a much worse place [...]

A Postcard Poem

April is National Poetry Month and over on Robert Lee Brewer’s site Poetics Asides, he has a poem a day challenge going on. Well, I’m not sure I’ll get one out every day but I spit one out today.
Robert’s challenge reads:
For today’s prompt, write a postcard poem. Make it brief and communicate what it is [...]

From The Ground Up Thought

Poor whynotrachel.com. I continue to use and abandon it. Now I want to use it for snippets of thoughts and words I’m playing with. A home for my mental scrapbook, where an ideas does not have to be complete to be alive. A place to enjoy a raw word diet.
So welcome to my treehouse. You’re [...]