Quirky Quips & Sewing Snips
A Premature Farewell Twenty-nine poems in twenty-nine days. The 30th and final day, I forgot to post. My attention span left Without finishing the job. Damn. CLA Poetic Asides, Day 30 Prompt: write a farewell poem Posted May 1st, 8:41 a.m. (HST) [...]
Welcome to Three Word Thursday #12. This week, joining the quondam word-list, we have paladin, intransigent, & invidious. We also have a whole list of perspicacious writers. If you enjoy reading my story, leave a comment then click on the names of the other players and go see how they used [...]
Never Learning I learned my nevers as a child. Never take candy from strangers. Never take wooden nickles. Never count chickens before they’ve hatched. Never look a gift horse in the mouth. Never bite the hand that feeds you. Never cry over spilt milk. Never sign up to write a [...]
Jientje, our mistress of fun, has cooked up a new photo challenge, and this is what she has to say about it: When I was a kid, I was always fascinated by the colourful language my grandmother used. She had such a way with words, she had her own funny [...]
Promptly Sestina, He Said “Write a sestina,” he said, and here I sit with eighty seconds to compose. I hate writing to a time limit and a prompt. I was suckered in by the romance of, National Poetry Month. Some of us have to work you know. I don’t get [...]