Carolee is on vacation for a couple of weeks. While we will miss her terribly, it does give us a chance to take over the poll dance and write something having to do with, you guessed it: collaboration. (Smell a conspiracy? Nope. Carolee really is on vacation, although she is here in spirit. And she [...]
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This week’s prompt is a collaborative work between me (Blythe) and the fabulous blogger and guest contributor Twitches.
Twitches loves smell, and she’s written blog entries about her favorite perfume brands that are more sensual and evocative than most of my poetry. So when she suggested a prompt on smell, I was excited to work [...]
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It’s the time of year when the earth blooms with warmth and color, baby robins crack through eggshells to naively take on the world, and Hollywood moms proudly strut about to reveal their winter-night-born love-bumps. And the American greeting card industry is counting on us all to send our mothers a card.
I resisted making this [...]
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As Juliet mentioned on Monday, this Friday — March 21 — is World Poetry Day.
So I thought we could all take some time to go green this week. Laud the beauty of nature, decry the ruin of the earth, or simply ponder all the things we throw away and ask yourself this fundamental question: [...]
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Today marks the beginning of Lent for Christians around the world. It is a forty-day season of fasting and prayer in preparation for Easter.
I was raised in a family that did not take much notice of Lent; I associate this time of year with various fish promotions at the local fast food joints. (Even though [...]
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