291/365 Frost flickr photo by NomadWarMachine shared under a Creative Commons (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0) license Today’s TDC says Take a moment to observe nature and write a haiku inspired by your experience. Here’s mine Frost on the garden Like icing on a cupcake Shining in the sun
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
Today’s TDC says A suggestion linked by Austin Kleon in his newsletter “Every day or so break some trivial law that makes no sense, even if it’s only jaywalking. Use your own head to judge whether a law is just or reasonable. That way, you’ll keep trim; and when the big day comes, you’ll be ready.” (Or, in the words of Wendell Berry, “Every day do something that won’t compute.”) What trivial law will you break today? Well, this is […]
Today’s TDC says Audrey Watters said, “repetition of the word ‘masses’ in the first 2 lines of Black Sabbath’s War Pigs is the most disappointing failure of imagination in the history of rhyme.” So let’s give Geezer some help. What else could he have used for the second line? Rhyme on. Well, actually I don’t mind the repetition – as it reminds me that there is more than one meaning of ‘masses’, but here goes. I tried a couple of […]
Autumn Morning flickr photo by NomadWarMachine shared under a Creative Commons (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0) license Today’s TDC says: Use this random word generator and write a haiku (5, 7, 5 syllables) about the first word you generate! The word I got was drift: A crisp autumn day Clouds drift across the skyline Trees dance in the breeze I took a photo through my study window, it’s at the top of this post
During the month of August I will be participating in Blaugust, a month long blogging challenge. Sestetle flickr photo by NomadWarMachine shared under a Creative Commons (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0) license Today’s TDC is a familiar one, though not a remix. The last time the prompt was to write a sestetle, which is more appealing than today’s suggestion: Give Mark Sample’s Sestetle generator a spin for a 6 line poetic stanza made of 5 letter words, generated Wordle style, then wrote a lofty sophisticated […]
During the month of August I will be participating in Blaugust, a month long blogging challenge. Today’s TDC asks us to Make a silly solage A silly solage is a happy poem of three lines, two of them as long as you dare, the third is one word. The third word is surprising and silly. As far as I can tell this is a form of poetry just made up by Kathryn Apel as I can’t find it elsewhere in an […]
A great TDC today – to write or change a poem so it contains instructions about how to do it. I don’t think I quite did that, but I had a lot of fun changing the words to Elizabeth Barrett Browning’s Sonnet 43. Here it is: How Do I Love Thee? How do I love thee? Let me count the ways. I love thee to the depth and breadth and height My soul can reach, when feeling out of sight […]
A cinquain is a five-line poem. Line one has one word and is the title. Line two describes the title in two words. Line three uses three words to express action. Line four uses four words to express a feeling. Line five uses one word that restates the title. Here’s mine for TDC5305 Hot So hot Very, very hot This is too hot Melting! Sunset flickr photo by NomadWarMachine shared under a Creative Commons (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0) license
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 […]
For today’s TDC I take a pause To wash my paws As my human sighs At the length and size Of the nonsense she writes About all of the rites Around pauses and sizes of writing An ode to a semicolon flickr photo by NomadWarMachine shared under a Creative Commons (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0) license
Cotton wool clouds flickr photo by NomadWarMachine shared under a Creative Commons (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0) license When life gives you sunshine … Stand outside and drink it in Breathe it deep into your lungs And bask in the warmth of the day
For today’s TDC There once was a little striped sock Who went for a swim in a loch It swam and it swam To the edge of the dam That brave little sock in a loch Oona socks flickr photo by NomadWarMachine shared under a Creative Commons (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0) license
Just now the lilac is in bloom, All before my little room 123/365 Just now the lilac is in bloom flickr photo by NomadWarMachine shared under a Creative Commons (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0) license
August: Belinda Caught Dogs Eating Firewood. Gosh! How Irritating Just Krackers! Let’s Make Next October Party time. Queue Responsibly, Somebody Took Umbrage, Very Weird, Xtremely Yellow. Zounds!
