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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?*
Poetry Challenge #91
A Few of My Favorite Words
Do you have favorite words? If you do, pause right now and jot them down. I love to collect words I hear or read that are unfamiliar or that have an interesting sound. I try to remember to write them down to use another day. A...
June 7, 2019
Poetry Challenge #90: Like a YO-YO, Yo!
“I used to be a swinger/Til you wrapped me round your finger . . .” Who can forget inspired lyrics like those by Joe South—or the singer who sang them to Hit status in 1971? (BTW: It was not Yo-Yo Ma.)
June 6th was National Yo-Yo Day. (Sorry for being tardy, I was so busy bopping to that oldie but goodie Donnie Osmond version, and twining vines around my backyard arbor, I completely forgot to post this prompt.) But, just like a Yo-Yo, I’m back!
Take a moment to ponder YO-YO. Who could have...
June 3, 2019
May 29, 2019
Poetry Challenge #89 Famous Last Words
Charles Schultz was onto something: Wah-wa-wah WAH. . . Halloween Wah-wa-wah WAH . . . Great Pumpkin.
So was
Margaret Mitchell
when she gave Rhett the best parting shot: “Frankly Scarlett I don’t give a damn.” 
He’s whispering a famous first line here…a prompt for another time!
Shultz and Mitchell knew what my kick-butt senior English teacher, Miss Reedlinger (the finest 5-Paragrah Essay coach of all time) called the secret to the best Dagwood. The secret she said, was in the bread. Start...
May 22, 2019
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…
New Haven Train Sign
Which may be why an old sing-along-in-the-car song, called Humoresque aka Passengers Will Please Refrain, has long been one of my favorites. Set to the tune of Dvořák's Humoresque Number 7 it’s begins with a New Haven Railroad toilet sign ends with If Sherman’s horse can stand it so can you and in b...
May 15, 2019
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 prompts below as your first line and write as fast as you can. If you get stuck, try another prompt. Or: How’s this for an idea: Write a 4 line poem using each prompt for one of the lines. No one knows I’m here… Here’s a neat idea… I’m scared of… I wish I could remember… Pick a PromptSet the timer for 7 minutes.Start writing! Don’t th...May 8, 2019
Poetry Challenge #86: Riffing 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!
The Garrett’s Kiosk at O’Hare, opposite gate B8
Poetry Challenge #86 Riffing Chicago Style Chicago Style Blues started as musical improv, performers creating on the fly, riffing off each other, daring each other, ch...May 1, 2019
Poetry Challenge #85-Yes, You May!
It’s May! It’s May! Flowers are blooming, birds are chirping, grass is growing, trees are branching out—and so are we! Hooray! Hooray!
Ring around the May Pole
Taking a cue from the musical Camelot’s Lusty Month of May song, in which merrymakers prance about singing “It’s May! It’s May! The month of Yes, You May!” we’re giving ourselves permission to break a few rules.
Poetry Challenge #85* “Yes, You May!”With “Yes, You May” as the title, write a poem giving someone (or something)—maybe you...
