Kelly Bennett's Blog
October 15, 2025
Poetry Challenge #92: This Plum is Too Ripe!
All of us is sorry for or about something. (If you’re not, then lucky you!)
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October 8, 2025
Poetry Challenge #91: Words! Words! Words!
YES, Eliza! The answer is unequivocally, unapologetically, YES!—so on to the Challenge: ...
Words! Words! Words!
I’m so sick of words!
I hear words all day through/first from him, now from you/is that all you blighters can do?*
October 3, 2025
Fin Pal asks Norman “BOO to YOU!”
Because it’s October and Norman the Goldfish loves doing tricks—and loves gobbling treats—we’re kicking off Halloween a little early with some BOOs for YOU!
...October 2, 2025
Poetry Challenge #90: Like a YO-YO, Yo!
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September 24, 2025
Poetry Challenge #89 Famous Last Words
Charles Schultz was onto something: Wah-wa-wah WAH. . . Halloween Wah-wa-wah WAH . . . Great Pumpkin.
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September 17, 2025
Poetry Challenge #88-What They Said . . .
I am a shameless eavesdropper. So bad in fact, that I’ll often shush Curtis (who does not talk much anyway) so I can focus on other diner’s conversations. Yes, I’m that bad…
...September 12, 2025
September 10, 2025
Poetry Challenge #87-How's This for an Idea?
Sometimes, my head is full of ideas. But sometimes . . . At those times a little prompting is in order.
Poetry Challenge #87 How’s This for an Idea? Choose one of the prom...September 3, 2025
Poetry Challenge #86: Make Mine Chicago Style
On a flight from Chicago, munching Garrett’s Popcorn (the best part of O’Hare layovers), my bygone Chicago Blues popped into mind—specifically one night I heard Albert King play Crosscut Saw*. It’s nicknamed “that dirty blues song” but, it doesn’t have to be. That’s the challenge!
...August 27, 2025
Poetry Challenge #85-Yes, You May!
What month is it where you are?
If you said “August” or “July” or “September” or “The eighth one.”
BOOOOONG! Wrong answer.
It’s May! It’s May! We declare it “Yes, You May” Month (or at least today, or right now, anyway.) Hooray! Hooray!
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