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NaPoWriMo 2026, Day 17
These days some days to get through it
you have to turn it all off and
let something else grab your attention
just for some hours, an afternoon… Continue reading
Posted in birds and chickens, cats helpful cats, Do the Work, gratitude, landscape, life around us, NaPoWriMo, National Haiku Day, Poetry and Lyrics, Ripped from the headlines, sonnet, the creative process
Tagged blackcat, Cat, coping, dothework, landscape, NaPoWriMo, news, poetry, process, sewing, sonnet
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NaPoWriMo 2024 Day 17
another day • another two pink lines • more isolation Continue reading
Posted in cats helpful cats, CatsOfMastodon, covid19, Do the Work, gardens and flowers, haiku, kittens, NaPoWriMo, National Haiku Day, Poetry and Lyrics, the creative process, traditions, weather
Tagged blackcat, cats, catsofmastodon, covid19, daffodils, dothework, haiku, NaPoWriMo, poem, poetry, process, senryu
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NaPoWriMo 2023 Day 17
When the first drops fell •
everyone paused turning •
toward the window Continue reading
Posted in Do the Work, From the Quote Box, haiku, In the neighborhood, landscape, life around us, NaPoWriMo, National Haiku Day, Poetry and Lyrics, the creative process, watercolor, weather
Tagged dothework, haiku, landscape, NaPoWriMo, poetry, processw, quote, rain, watercolor, watercolorpainting, weather
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Day 17 NaPoWriMo 2022 – Haiku Day
I am calling it a rest day, since I was out and around and ate way too much for dinner tonight. Here are the haiku that I mushed together with minor massaging into yesterday’s sonnet: april seventeen easter, pesach, ramadan … Continue reading
Posted in Do the Work, gardens and flowers, NaPoWriMo, National Haiku Day, Poetry and Lyrics, taking time to look, the creative process
Tagged garden, GloPoWriMo, haiku, NaPoWriMo, NationalHaikuDay, snow
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Day 16 NaPoWriMo 2022
The NaPoWriMo prompt suggested we “write a curtal sonnet. This is a variation on the classic 14-line sonnet. The curtal sonnet form was developed by Gerard Manley Hopkins, and he used it for what is probably his most famous poem, … Continue reading