Go outside and play - magical words when you're a child - unheard as an adult. But is it really? Go out in the world and play. Like playing a character in a theatrical performance or on film...we slip into characters from the moment we wake up. And like in many superhero films and theatre, … Continue reading THROWBACK FRIDAY: Play
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Throwback Friday: Recklessly She Declared Truth – Christine E. Ray
Thank you Davy D for serving as this piece's inspiration recklessly she looked deep inside saw fire and ice in her heart smelled iron and cooper in her blood felt moon and ocean tides tug her soul knew the hum of words crawling under skin burning to escape knew herself a poet the shortsightedness of self-declared … Continue reading Throwback Friday: Recklessly She Declared Truth – Christine E. Ray
THREE LINES SPARK INSPIRATION
By Charles Robert Lindholm He's not really a Pied Piper but on the other hand his words do lure you into a very special place where you feel inspired by his powerful and insightful three lines of magic and wisdom Somehow those three lines touch your heart and soul and open up your own inner … Continue reading THREE LINES SPARK INSPIRATION
My Mug. My Life.
I am kind of giggling that I could write about a coffee mug. But thanks to Christine Ray, a line in her poem "A Poet's Love Song"inspired this piece, and I just had to run with it! I stared at the chip in my favorite teal colored coffee mug. The mug with the typewriter … Continue reading My Mug. My Life.
Inspiration Wall: What is Poetry?/Jem Croucher
A collection of words with juxtaposition Crafted into some lines That speak of my life and the things that I see To capture a few of those times It’s the nuance they have and the mystery too that capture imagination And the joy of finding a stanza to fit Within gift and my arbitration ©Jemverse … Continue reading Inspiration Wall: What is Poetry?/Jem Croucher
Inspiration Wall: Poetry/HitandRun1964
poetry is something inside of a person that has to get out words that stick in one’s throat if not freed onto paper or into air words that choke and suffocate so the poet is unable to think of anything but catching their next breath
Inspiration Wall: Poetry…/Aurora Phoenix
Response poem to today’s Go Dog Go question of What is Poetry is a volcano lain dormant beneath centuries sparked to life when the earth cracked asunder tectonic splicing it sends smoke signals puffed aboriginal messages rumbling urgency it flows molten inexorable undivertible singeing any who dare inhibiting stance paving a sea-bound path it erupts … Continue reading Inspiration Wall: Poetry…/Aurora Phoenix
Inspiration Wall: Poetry
A response poem to Davy D’s question What Is Poetry? on the Go Dog Go Cafe it is a stir an ache rising from my core growing in urgency pushing to my surface gasping hungrily for air sitting impatiently on my tongue black pearl ruby tear shaped diamond waiting for hand to grasp pen fingers to touch … Continue reading Inspiration Wall: Poetry
Inspiration Wall: A Poet By Any Other Name…/Aurora Phoenix
Prompted by this morning’s post by Davy D and response by braveandreckless at the Go Dog Go Cafe . she eschews labels having been singed by the hot iron of many a branding she simply knows in her bones infused with wisdom of ageless sages her words pour voluminous from the depths of the well that is her essence anoint … Continue reading Inspiration Wall: A Poet By Any Other Name…/Aurora Phoenix
Inspiration Wall: Recklessly She Declared Truth
Thank you Davy D for this morning’s inspiration recklessly she looked deeply inside saw fire and ice in her heart smelled iron and cooper in her blood felt moon and ocean tides tug her soul knew the hum of words crawling under skin burning to escape knew herself a poet the short shortsightedness of self-declared authorities … Continue reading Inspiration Wall: Recklessly She Declared Truth