Category Archives: Ripped from the headlines
January 6, 2023
Two years ago, I sat, like many, watching the insurrection unfold on live television. I’d started out with the intention, like many, to watch this thing called the electoral college do its supposedly boring task and accomplish its part in … Continue reading
Day 14 NaPoWriMo 2022
Quick trip to the grocery store and swing by Mom’s. She was out pruning back perennials in her front yard in the odd eighty degree April day. I stopped on the way home to see a movie (going around a … Continue reading
The Eve of April
My tradition is to write an eve of April poem so here it goes. Maureen over at NaPoWriMo headquarters suggested a play on Emily Dickinson so that was a nice launching prompt. So without further ado: hope it’s a forever … Continue reading
Posted in covid19, deadline, Do the Work, life around us, NaPoWriMo, Poetry and Lyrics, Ripped from the headlines, sonnet, the creative process, traditions, watercolor
Tagged covid, dothework, GloPoWriMo, NaPoWriMo, process, sonnet, watercolor
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Ukraine
It has been a rising tide of news until you can barely stand up against the waves that come faster and faster. This morning I sat down to write out a few bonus postcards for the world peace poetry postcard … Continue reading
NaPoWriMo Day Twenty
Now you might ask, but MB – I didn’t see Day Nineteen? And you would be right. Every month-o-poems, there’s a chance that a poem might be just a little too personal, a little too pointed , a little too … Continue reading
Posted in clouds, Do the Work, haiku, In the neighborhood, landscape, NaPoWriMo, Ripped from the headlines, the creative process
Tagged clouds, GeorgeFloyd, haiku, NaPoWriMo, neighborhood, Valatie
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