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Poetry Challenge #60-Go Back Jack and do it Again!

We hear you! Seven minutes is not a long time! Unless, of course, you’re holding your breath…

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2024 Annual Report & "WINNER-WINNER CHICKEN DINNER" Last 2024 GIVEAWAY Winner!

Happy mid-point of the 1st Quarter of 2025 Fishbowl Review! My New Year’s resolution was to write y’all an update about what’s swirling in the Fishbowl AND FINALLY draw the winner of the 4th Quarter Winner-Winner Giveaway first thing… January 1st… Well, that’s one broken resolution out of the way. (Have no fear, I will announce the winner shortly.) First the news!

The end of 2024 beginning of 2025 knocked me sideways. (Maybe not for the reason you might imagine.) My mother decided it was time to ...

Poetry Challenge #59-If The Form Fits . . .

Sometimes You Feel Like Going Commando—poetically speaking, of course. Sometimes (often in my case) some structure, foundation, form is needed.

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Poetry Challenge #57-One, Two, Three…GO!

In traditional Western storytelling, 3 is the magic number. ...

Poetry Challenge #56-Kid’s Stuff

Feb 5th is World Read Aloud Day !

Created in 2011 by LitWorld, World Read Aloud Day is a day set aside to “Bring awareness to the importance of reading aloud and sharing stories as well as advocating for literacy as a human right.” 

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Poetry Challenge #56.5-Nano-Nano

Nano-Nano! That’s alien speak for hello, goodbye, cheers…whatever. (Mork pronounced it “nanu-nanu” so that’s how it came to be known.) Robin Williams, the unpredictable, hilarious, wacky, innovative comedian, got his break as the alien Mork in the late 70’s sitcom Mork and Mindy.

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Poetry Challenge #55-Poem Stew

Bill Cosby (the comedian before he became the predator) was hilarious! One bit I still chuckle over (and admittedly copy) was him riffing on how his mother could turn anything into a weapon.

“But mom, it’s just a shoe…”

“Just a shoe…I’ll show you just a shoe!!!”

“But Mom… I asked for scrambled eggs?”

“You want scrambled? I’ll give you scrambled—with bacon!”

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Poetry Challenge #54-Alphabet Jam

Sometimes—often—the most interesting things begin with “I Can’t…” ...

Poetry Challenge #53-Shandorma Anyone?

Sometimes when you want to write a poem, it helps to use a poetic form. It helps you stretch… ...

Poetry Challenge #52-Contronym-nally Thinking

New Year’s Eve/Day being both an end and beginning, a time to look back and forward, the omega and alpha is a contronym isn’t it?

So are bolt, buckle, bill…and, in keeping with the season, trim.

When we trim our trees, we snip away bits.

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