Collecting My Thoughts

I used to belong to an internet writing group called Poetry Thursday. I was really enjoying it but the owners quit so the group fell apart. ...

4121 We're back from Ireland In Ireland green I caught the grippe while touring onboard a famine ship. In Waterford it was crystal clea...

Poetry Thursday I can't find that I posted this poem which I wrote in July 2003. It is based on two incidents 57 years apart. Pet in th...

4054 Poetry Thursday--a betrayal of trust Last week I took a writing class at the Rhein Center here in Lakeside with Patricia Mote . One of...

Thursday Thirteen--13 Words for sheep Feminist librarians say naming (cataloging and classification) is a form of power. Yawn. Librarians al...

3836 Poetry Thursday--Oft in the stilly night This poem by Thomas Moore (1779-1852) was the selection for May 17 in my "A poem a da...

Poetry Thursday "Think of places that most need to see a poem. Think of people who most need to read a poem. Go to those places, to tho...

Poetry Thursday Today I am poemless, rhymless, and without meter. I'm seeing nothing in syllables, no images in words, no sound in the ...

Poetry Thursday #14 Today's challenge has two parts. I think I've met it. I'll keep this at the top of the page, but scroll d...

Poetry Thursday #13 This week's challenge is ekphrasis , "a literary description of or commentary on a visual work of art." ...

Poetry Thursday #12 Today's challenge is: "Write a poem motivated by an image — preferably one that is in the form of a photo you ...

Poetry Thursday #11 Today's totally optional challenge is to find a word we don't know in the dictionary and write a poem using it w...

Poetry Thursday #10 This week’s (completely and totally optional) idea is simply: Red. I was really stumped. It's not a favorite color...

Poetry Thursday #9 This week for Poetry Thursday, we are invited to write about something beautiful without using its name. This feels like...

Poetry Thursday #8 This week's (completely and totally optional) idea for Poetry Thursday is this phrase: "the body knows." ...

Poetry Thursday #7 Truthfully, I have no idea what a prose poem is--today’s assignment for Poetry Thursday. Poetry Previews describes it: ...

Poetry Thursday #6 CHANGE is this week's theme in honor of PT's new website . What changes more than women's fashion? Truthfully...

Poetry Thursday has moved! Here's the new site ; I'll have to change my template link. So here's this week's challenge: ...

Poetry Thursday #5 Today's assignment--a poem with math terms. Plane geometry in my sophomore year in high school was the only math clas...

Poetry Thursday #4 Our prompt this week is "Why I love poetry." In 153 words or less. I don't have a "poetry base;...