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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 [...]

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 [...]

The Repurposing of WhyNotRachel

A bit about the site, then and now:
This was my first domain and I named it as I asked the question “why not see if I have anything meaningful to say, lots of people write and share their ideas, why can’t I?….WhyNotRachel was born. I had just closed down my studio and was tapering down [...]

Governor David Paterson: A Perspective Check

Today’s thoughts on “Living Without Limitations” is all about a perspective check:
Did you catch last weekends Saturday Night Live’s skit spoofing Gov. David Paterson of New York State? If you didn’t see it, maybe you have been hearing all the noise that has followed in its wake.
My take is that this is good [...]

Helping Your Disabled War Vet Spouse

Today is a repost from Patty Newbold’s Blog. For those of you who are not familiar with Patty’s work, she’s a “happy marriage expert.” Her blog, Assume Love: How to have a happier marriage without waiting for your spouse to change, is a must-add to your RSS feed.
Yesterday she wrote a blog [...]

A Letter to Injured War Vets (and the people who love them)

I was reading a newspaper article about “helping injured war vets put the pieces back together”. I read a lot of articles that talk about helping vets get back to “normal” The articles always have the same effect on me, they bug the CRAP out of me and here’s why.
I think this language can, and [...]