350/365 Lemon Meyer flickr photo by NomadWarMachine shared under a Creative Commons (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0) license Today’s TDC says Write a three line poem about lemons without using the following words: lemon, yellow, round, fruit, citrus, tart, juicy, peel, and sour. I wrote a haiku: Sunlight on a branch Zesty tingles on the tongue Summer in a glass
Berry Heron poem flickr photo by NomadWarMachine shared under a Creative Commons (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0) license Today’s TDC says: Poet and environmentalist Wendell Berry has died at age 92 Make some art in his memory – maybe illustrate one of his poems or write one inspired by his words. I love The Peace of Wild Things, so I looked through my Flickr albums and found a photo of a heron, taken last year – probably at Mugdock. When despair for the world grows in […]
During the month of August I will be participating in Blaugust, a month long blogging challenge. Virus flickr photo by NomadWarMachine shared under a Creative Commons (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0) license Today’s TDC says: Write a poem on a nice virus, and add some images. Bonus points if you make it go viral Here’s mine: VIRUS Viciously lurking,Invisible till it strikes,Rapidly spreading,Unwelcome everywhere,Sneakily multiplying.
July weather is unpredictable, from sweltering heatwaves to torrential rain. I take my chances where I can and step outside to enjoy my garden. At the moment my geraniums are glorious – shaded from the worst of the heat by the forsythia above, spreading out across the garden. Today they are shining in the sun. On a sunny day Flowwers turn their faces up Basking in the light 189/365 Geraniums flickr photo by NomadWarMachine shared under a Creative Commons (CC […]
Cat on a lap flickr photo by NomadWarMachine shared under a Creative Commons (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0) license Loudly shouting for food and treats Always in the way during Zoom meetings Creating havoc when the bathroom door is closed Eyes looking daggers when I stroke the other cat Yet cuddly and affectionate when she gets her own way For TDC5168
Pizza flickr photo by NomadWarMachine shared under a Creative Commons (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0) license Tomatoes are red Rocket is green This lovely pizza Is fit for a queen TDC5146
324/365 Wood Pigeon flickr photo by NomadWarMachine shared under a Creative Commons (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0) license I’d like to eat an ice cream after dark while picking flowers in the park I’d like to take a train to Ayr and paddle in the water there Instead I sit here warm and dry and watch the birds fly in the sky
Prime Poem flickr photo by NomadWarMachine shared under a Creative Commons (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0) license One Recipe for Creativity Take: One cat One cup of tea And one Daily Create And mix together Do not shake TDC5063
Glasgow Crematorium flickr photo by NomadWarMachine shared under a Creative Commons (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0) license Mum in law’s funeral today, so just a quick cautionary poem: Those who do not behave Might end up here, or in a grave TDC5040
Today’s Daily Create is to write an ode to Father Time O silent keeper of all things, You move unseen through shadows cast, With footsteps soft, yet never still. The stars align, the tides obey, All yield to you—relentless, vast. Your hands are weathered, old as stone, Yet you are ageless, ever new. You mend, you break, you heal, you mar, A sculptor’s chisel, carving through, Unveiling lives in cycles far. A child’s first cry, an elder’s sigh, The bloom […]
This week, we’ve finally begun our much-anticipated exploration of Elit. (Perhaps, it’s only much-anticipated on my end though…?) Delving into Elit As I may have mentioned before, I’ve taken a few courses already on ELiterature and networked narratives. And so, I’ve already developed a bit of a soft spot for the genre. I find the experimentation and spontaneity and interactivity of Elit to be engaging in a way that is not better than traditional literature but that allows for more of my […]
mark on It took 100 days but President Trump finally spoke a truth. I don’t think he intended to be honest, so I made a 1 minute video to commemorate this milestone and the fact that in his first 100 days he accomplished exactly none of the things he promised during his campaign. Today’s speech will undoubtedly produce the same results. http://markcorbettwilson.com/wp/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/First-100-days.mp4
Wendy Taleo on "Elsewhere the sky is the roof of the world; but here the earth was the floor of the sky."~Willa CatherNetworked Narratives Intercept 9 starts this way.The following poem is another interception constructed from this video of Mia Zamora and Alan Levine chatting.VISIONS OF ELSEWHEREOur sense of scale is correctedputting self into perspectivewhen we view the sky orthe view out another persons windowwe need this correction to seeour relative unimportance in the worldI feel the need of 'elsewhere' timeopen space and […]
Behind the barrier are bits and pieces, shards of shattered glass, fragments of battered bone, a girl in slices of herself, writing each down, committing the splinterings to memory through word weaving, through cathartic construction of confession into bite-size commodity for consumption–predominantly hers. Beyond the threshold is Pandora’s reverse–curse–a home for holdout hope who couldn’t escape so stashed her whole self away. Endlessness encapsulated. The opposite of liminal space. Comprehension rendered obsolete in the face of an open door, an invitation to […]
Wendy Taleo on I started a collaborative activity in our NetNarr repose week(s). This came about from a Twitter DM conversation amongst a few of the open participants. I threw it out into the wild and the response has been fantastic, moving and multi-dimensional. The challenge for any learning activity is how much structure to put around it and how much structure is put upon us because of the tech/app used. This has continues to surface in the Network Narratives course/event/LOOM as people […]
