Failure is: stasis. Failure is seeing the elephant in the room and not shooing it out before it has the chance to poo all over the rug. Failure is forgetting who you are in favor of living for another. Failure is seeing the mess and not picking it up for whatever reasons. Failure is, not…
Category: My Poetry
June 4 – My Poetry Writing Month
Revamped this piece from a project I complete in 2013, called, 100 Words a social-task site, everyday you write 100 words, then when you finish that month’s “batch”, your collection gets published to the collective site. I’m grateful to see they have recently relaunched, and I’d love to do another batch there, after this month…
June 2 – MyPoWriMo: Birthday Haiku
#MyPoWriMo* Day 2: According to #9 in The Writer’s Greenhouse’s NaPoWriMo: 15 tips for writing a poem a day: It’s fine to write a quickie. There are fewer writing excercises that more quick, but still pack a punch than Haiku. Therefore, on my birthday, I give myself a present in this birthday month – poem…
#MyPoWriMo – MY POetry WRIting MOnth
A few weeks ago I decided to spend my birth month (June) kicking my butt back into writing shape by writing a poem a day, for the whole month. Numero uno. June 1, 2023 -MyPoWriMo Letting the daze go by Into the blue Songs on the radio still sway my soul On this eave of…
Writing Catharsis
Writing catharsis, panacea, balm of breaks, and battle scars, soother of sorrows. I write to clear my head. Ease my soul, Sing my song, and break a bottle or two. I. love. writing. I like seeing my thoughts manifest in characters. Feeling that emotional bladder release into something that can be put out into the…
Devourer of Marriages
Originally published as a collaborative creative exercise 100 Words that I contributed for April 2013. The title denotes the day of writing. I’m reposting here, because I’d like my blog to be a full collection of my writing, and because I fear the 100 Words site’s potential future demise as it seems to not be managed any longer….