A message from Lilian: 🥳 Announcement 🥳 Please join us at dVerse LIVE on Saturday, October 25th, from 10 to 11 AM EST. Click on this POST to join us with audio and video. Come sit in on our LIVE (video and audio) session. We welcome everyone to read aloud a poem of your choosing, […]| The Evergreen Hedge
Kim is our host at dVerse today for Poetics: Creating our own micro-seasons. Here’s what she would like us to create: Your challenge is to make up your own name for a micro season, such as ‘it’s raining again’ or ‘it’s still too cold to plant potatoes’, and write a poem about it, with the micro season’s […]| The Evergreen Hedge
Punam is over at dVerse as our host. She asks us to use a form of the word, sparkler! Just in time for Diwali. Let’s all celebrate the return of the light! Let the light return—in a ✨sparkle✨we must defeat our collective griefour world hungers for justicenew moon shadowshaunt our sovereigntythe people awakenwe reach for […]| The Evergreen Hedge
This week for Tanka Tuesday, Willow is our host. She asks us to write about the October Hunter’s Moon or the aging of the year as the theme to our poem. Or, we could explain in our poetry how Autumn makes you feel. Write a sijo, or a form of your choice, from the forms list HERE. If you’re in the […]| The Evergreen Hedge
Merril is over at dVerse hosting Poetics. She says: Today, I ask you to write a poem about some version of the headless horseman. It’s your chance to escape reality. Base your poem on one of the fo…| The Evergreen Hedge
I’ve written a rensaku for dVerse & #TankaTuesday using the prompts from both challenges. For dVerse, Dora asked us to write a poem about what October means to us. For Tanka Tuesday, we used a list of uncommon autumn words here: https://www.thesqueezeblog.com/fall-words/ This is a rensaku, which is a s-l-s-l-l tanka series: susurrus murmursunravel dryad […]| The Evergreen Hedge
At dVerse, De Jackson, is our host. It’s quadrille #233: Bring on the BOO! I tried to be lighthearted, but the muse was not amused. So, I wrote my feelings instead. Boo, words are highlighted…| The Evergreen Hedge
This is the last day in July and the last post on this blog. Let’s move on. There may be another post to remind everybody to switch blogs with me, but this is it. I fill them up fast, that’s for sure. After Ishita told me about imagecompressor.com, I managed to make this blog last […]| Manja Mexi Mexcessive (closed)
This day in my blogging history| Manja Mexi Mexcessive (closed)
There are several frames of mind possible over every little or big thing. Here is an example. But first, this just in: The first day of the Olympic Games in Tokyo, and Slovenia with its two million people has one medal already! Tadej Pogačar got bronze in the photo finish, almost silver, in the road […]| Manja Mexi Mexcessive (closed)
For your storm anniversary, here is a poem and a memory of a good August day which we spent in Planica in the Julian Alps last year. Last August, two days before I left Slovenia for almost a year, we took the chairlift up to the top of the ski flying hill and gazed at […]| Manja Mexi Mexcessive (closed)
Travelling companions at the end of the line Next year it will be ten years since this encounter and yet I still haven’t told many about it. It was September 2012 and I was travelling back home from my first visit to Tuscany and amore was still in the process of becoming one. The goodbye […]| Manja Mexi Mexcessive (closed)
This afternoon our temperature in mid-Michigan reached 48 F. It’s an amazing start to the week! This past weekend, my husband and I noticed the birds returned to our neighborhood. We saw Mour…| Colleen Writes & Publishes
The author is working on Japan’s 72 micro-seasons and invites others to join. They recently wrote a haiku reflecting the current snowy weather and gardening plans.| Colleen Writes & Publishes
Here we are in a new week and I barely keep up with last week’s challenge offerings! David’s W-3 challenge featured a poem by Svenja. See the post: Svenja’s prompt guidelines: THEME: Wr…| Colleen Writes & Publishes
UPDATE: I still can’t comment on most blogs. I’ve tried the bell menu, and going directly to the post. I keep getting kicked out because I’m not logged in. If I can post this, I w…| Colleen Writes & Publishes
Sanaa is the hostess at dVerse: She says, “For today’s Poetics, I want you all to select ONE of the following three options and write a poem:” 1- Love Potions and Concoctions: Write a …| Colleen Writes & Publishes
I’m a day late. I moved my office and did some spring cleaning since I was having trouble with Sunflower Tanka. I know WP was in my site Saturday and Sunday. It appears I can now comment on m…| Colleen Writes & Publishes
Robbie’s Syllabic Poetry Spin the Bottle prompt for this week was the Reverse Etheree. You could choose to write about the cake in her post or the concept of a special celebration. Since Imbo…| Colleen Writes & Publishes
