pink elephant corn childhood’s quick-vanishing treat branches pop pink spring © 2017 by Violet Nesdoly (All rights reserved) ************ Prompt - Inspiration This April 2012 haiku was prompted by Spring, of course. What more is there to say? ~*~*~*~*~ This April I’m celebrating National Poetry Month by posting some not-as-yet published poems from my files,… Continue reading pink elephant corn
On Saturday the writing prompt at NaPoWriMo included a Paris Review interview of Kay Ryan. In it I discovered that she enjoys using clichés as inspiration: I often find myself thinking in clichés. I’ll urge myself on with various bromides and chasten myself with others. When I want to write they’re one way to start… Continue reading Limelight
Storing I am storing up Bible verses on index cards a collection of river stones against the day I’ll need to remember* a shed full of life rafts for when I am in deep water a freezer of cooked dinners for a time when life is too hectic to cook a meal from scratch out… Continue reading Storing
And so the work of writing a poem a day begins... work it starts with pen on paper it’s scribbles and cross-outs and trying again it’s squeezing eyes shut to focus it’s herding cat-thoughts into an orderly, logical line it’s silence no music, the door closed no one dropping into my office to chat it’s… Continue reading work
Tomorrow is April 1st. As I write that I feel a frisson of excitement. April is National Poetry Month (in Canada, the U.S. and perhaps other places too). This April, as I’ve done during the last several Aprils, I’m planning to drop other projects and works-in-progress and concentrate on poetry. Yes!! Last year I wrote… Continue reading Preserving
Complete Guide to Bible Journaling: Creative Techniques to Express Your Faith by Joanne Fink My rating: 5 of 5 stars Before I got this book, I had only a vague idea there was such a thing as Bible journaling and no idea how to go about it or what a movement it had become. But… Continue reading Complete Guide to Bible Journaling (review)
Note to Spring The monsoons of March with their downpours and douses are greening the sides of the fences and houses. Yes, we love green (it is St. Paddy's Day, after all!) but we’re eager for more colors to brighten the outdoor decor. Purple and yellow red, blue, pink, and white we’re longing to find… Continue reading Note to Spring
Curling In the hack and grip your rock crouch and graceful glide precise eyes on broom across the sheet send the stone along the ice. But you can’t hit everything— need to keep the four-rock rule. Play it cagey—make the tick learned in Weagle curling school. Skip is yelling from the house to the sweepers,… Continue reading Curling
I’m delighted to be joining the celebration of former U.S. Poet Laureate Billy Collins and his 76th birthday on March 22nd. (Thanks to Heidi Mordhorst and others for the suggestion and heads-up on this!) Though I don’t have any complete books of Billy Collins’ poetry, I’ve come across many of his poems online and have… Continue reading Collins and Canada
The subject of today’s Spiritual Journey first Thursday is CONNECTION. It’s Doraine Bennett’s one-little-word for this year. I’ve been thinking about connection and connections for several days now and the more I do, the more I realize it’s a big concept. Many of our tools (like the computer I’m typing on) need a connection to… Continue reading Cheerleaders
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