Jan
27
I am too late to join in Poetry Picnic Week 23: New York Times Headline Topics, linky is already closed. Hopefully I will remember to come back and link this for the No Theme for Week 24.
Bird-Watchers Revel in Unusual Spike in Snowy Owl Sightings
flash of white disrupts
the dark of lunar new year
snowy irruption
I dreamed of snowy owls the other night, a sign I need to get out and go birding before the irruption ends!
Added to:
Dec
30
Prompt: Review
review class offer
tickets to Jekyll & Hyde
newspaper critique
In the summer of 2002, I took a “Writing the Review” class taught by Christopher Rawson, the local paper’s drama critic. It was an awesome summer with excuses to go to movies, art galleries, theatre, museums, and more, all for school.
Our professor offered everyone in the class the opportunity to go to the Pittsburgh Civic Light Opera opening nights with him: free tickets to the show, the chance to write your own review sitting at the computer next to him as he composed the one that would be in the paper the next morning, and a tour of the newspaper offices. Out of a class of around 40, only two of us took him up on the offer (both of us older, nontraditional students). I went to Jekyll & Hyde with him; he even said he added a couple of my comments into the final article.
Also submitted to Thursday Poets Rally.
Dec
8
Once again the kind folks at the Thursday Poets Rally have presented me with one of their Perfect Poets awards.
In honor of this, I’ve attempted a new form, the cameo. It is a strictly syllabic form with seven lines of 2, 5, 8, 3, 8, 7, 2 syllables per line.
penguins
beneath a blue sky
so formal in their tuxedos
offering
from the Thursday Poets Rally
the Perfect Poets Award
Thank You
I nominate Marit for the next award.
Linked to the Thursday Poets Rally Week 57
Nov
11
Haiku Heights – Prompt #93 – Mystery
mystery stalking
darkness beyond the windows
the night presses closer
Trying to sneak this one in right under the wire, linky says submissions close in just half an hour. And my sister asks why my muse gives me so many procrastination poems.
Also submitted to Thursday Poets Rally Week 56.
Nov
3
Haiku Heights – Prompt #92 – Ghosts
November morning
silent mist drifts from the fields
ghosts fleeing sunrise
Also submitted to Thursday Poets Rally Week 55.
Sep
28
An unexpected surprise appeared in my inbox this week: “You have exceptional contributions to poets rally during week 49 to week 51, I am thrilled to know that Ava selects you as winners of The Perfect Poet Award for week 52.” Certainly one way to snap my attention back to blogging!
The Height of Haiku Challenge, Day 28 – Prompt #86 – Charm
Hidden Timbers Charming Streak
like a healing spell
little horse captured our hearts
with magical charm
Continued…
Jul
28
The Thursday Think Tank offers grass as its 59th, but first for me, prompt. I’m sharing the following poem also with the Thursday Poets Rally.
ocean of green waves
rippling with serenity
caressing the earth
as the breeze gently whispers
as she dances through the grass
