I was very pleased with my poetic productivity in April. Here’s the breakdown. I competed in daily challenges on the Sims 3 forums. These consisted of weekly themes, and daily styles/forms. Not all poems had to be newly written for the contest. Wrote 19 new poems, and entered all but one day. Won twelve days [...]
If you’re not aware, April is National Poetry Month. Next week is also National Library Week. AtYourLibrary.org is celebrating both with a contest. Use the books from your library to compose a Book Spine Poem telling why the library matters to you (deadline April 20). I haven’t made it out to my library yet, but [...]
The Mystery By Lin Neiswender You were the cutest thing So happy with a simple toy like green grass A carpet to comfort your feet Leaves blowing down sidewalks Yours to track by scratchy sound When wind blew stone-cold Sharing a snack with the rest of the pack Barking fiercely while picking goodies from kitchen [...]
I love to write rhymed poetry, and as I have started on another collection of science fiction poetry set in the Aleyne universe, I’m planning to write a fair number of story-poems, a format which lends itself to rhyme. I have my own algorithm for generating rhymes (more about that later), but I also make [...]
On February 5, I introduced Saleema, one of our workshop winners. I noted that Saleema was a winner in our Persona category. Today I’d like to share that winning poem with you, as well as a follow up poem she has since shared with us. In a Persona, the poet writes in the voice of [...]
Winter Winds Here comes the wind Not the balmy wind of Spring Not the sweaty wind of Summer, Not the vigorous wind of Fall Winter rules with biting grasp Tangling around throat Bitter fingers of ice steal breath With every exhilation Sidewalks and roads slick as glass Waiting till a pale sun arrives [...]
Again this year I participated in Robert Lee Brewer’s November Poem A Day challenge. The poems are supposed to form a chapbook, but I wasn’t aiming for that. I simply wanted to write poetry. My muse has been in an un-serious mood most of the month. I’ve done a lot of rhyming and a lot [...]
I got email from the Mass Poetry festival letting me know they’d received my workshop proposal. Fortunately they copied the email I sent them, because I forgot to save a copy. I don’t know if they will go for it, but, hey, at least I sent it in. Workshop Even if we don’t suffer from [...]
I don’t often write book reviews. I must recommend, highly, this collection of poetry: Staying Alive: Real Poems for Unreal Times edited by Neil Astley. The poetry collection was published by Miramax Books originally in 2002. The poems contained are in several categories: Body and Soul, Roads, Dead or Alive, Bittersweet, Growing up, Man and [...]
I spent the last several days watching TV specials on the tragedy of 9/11. Some were new, some old, but all touched my heart strings. It gave me hope for humanity to see the EMT’s, doctors and nurses, Police Officers, Firemen and ordinary people rising to greater heights caring for the injured and getting them [...]
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