This is a special preview for the CPC Friday Fling poetry challenge. Poems should be posted there after the challenge opens Thursday evening at 9 PM EDT.   Friday Fling #233 for May 24th 2013 Yesterday I discovered three Barnes & Noble gift cards from Christmases past. When I had them scanned I was pleased [...]

This is a compilation of all the lines for this week’s collab that will post on Friday night at 9PM Eastern. Hope you’ll pick a few and join in on the fun! All are most welcome.

This is the first blog of three for the “CPC” Collab development process. On this blog we add lines and play off each others lines to generate lines for the collabs. Come on over and join in the fun. All are welcome!

This is my contribution to the CPC Magic Monday poetry challenge. Host Diane wants poems about swinging. var hupso_services_t=new Array(“Twitter”,”Facebook”,”Google Plus”,”Linkedin”,”StumbleUpon”,”Digg”,”Reddit”,”Bebo”,”Delicious”); var hupso_toolbar_size_t=”medium”;var hupso_counters_lang=”en_US”;var hupso_url_t=”http://www.friendburst.com/blog/106949/poem-swinging-with-the-grain/”;var hupso_title_t=”POEM: Swinging With The Grain”;

Welcome To Magic Monday Where We Bring Out The Magic In Poetry   Tonight We bring out the Magic Magical As We Swing Reaching For The Sky It Seems Never too high Remember those times as a child Memories  cherished up high in the sky Swinging  relaxing soul Remembering swinging when young or still today [...]

Whispered petals, Washing, Lapping over me, Oh, so tenderly. Am I , In these layers, Drowning in a sea of uncertainties? Or possibilities? Lost or found, Beneath these velvet waters, Am I bound? Luring, In their seductive caress, I sub come to the Softness of their velvet nest. Haunting in these depths, Of solitude, I [...]

This story poem was written to the featured art on the CPC’s Simple Sunday Picture Challenge. The artwork is by Tran Nguyen and is titled “Drowning In A Sea Of Uncertainties.” HERA’S HERO It is the author’s fervent wish this odyssey is just your dish. For it would make him very sad if it should [...]

  Welcome to Simple Sunday! Tonight we are featuring a piece of art by Tran Nguyen.     http://www.mynameistran.com It is titled “Drowning in a Sea of Uncertainties”.   Looking forward to see what this artwork inspires your muse with. Please click the heart above if you enjoy this blog. It would also be great [...]

~A Handful of Crumbs~ Crumbs gathered, Clandestine, From our daily buffet, Filling our own outstretched palms, ..and others, Along the way. They gathered closely, Then quickly flew away, As the sun rode high, And sweet music played. A lifted arm, Hands raised, Offered in silent supplication, With a  handful  of crumbs, Brought them back, In [...]

I reached sleepily for your pillow, But you were no longer there, In the room were the echoes of my dreams. Tugging hungrily at my mind. Time after time. Bereft, Into the darkness, I could only stare. Sitting on the dresser, Our love letters silent, Left unread. Silly me, Those daydreams still haunt…dance in my [...]

This was my Ottava Rima creation for the CPC Friday Fling poetry challenge.  Our theme was obsessions.   BREWING OBSESSION I always liked ingredients by smell As well as by their combinations’ taste But when poured internally they can swell your stomach like some pig’s butt you could baste. Oh beer!  can make a heaven [...]

This is my collab composition for the CPC Saturday Share poetry challenge. Angel Love’s key line was “As I slowly crept out of bed.”   RUDE AWAKENING On a storm-tossed sea, aboard a pirate ship, upon the clear blue sky, I bumped my head. Unconscious until the ship had reached its slip, my body and [...]

Earlier in the week, a blog was posted inviting everyone to come and give “One-More-Line” to generate lines for this “Collab” Poetry. Hope you will join in the fun with collabs and/or comments. Everyone is welcome!

Friday Fling #232 for May 17th 2013 From time to time in my life, I have acted a bit like Mr. Toad in the Wind In The Willows story. I have been known to get really involved in something so deeply, usually some hobby or activity or source of enjoyment, that it might more rightly [...]

This is a compilation of all the lines for this week’s collab that will post on Friday night at 9PM Eastern. Hope you’ll pick a few and join in on the fun! All are most welcome.

~Sanctity of Tears~ Have you been ordained by God, …the creator? If not I’ll talk to you… later. Have you swam in the holiness, The sanctity, The loneliness, …of my tears? Have you cared, To dip into the enlightenment there? Coming from spiritual wells, …of soul. No, this baptismal, Has been my own. Have you [...]

This is a special preview for the CPC Friday Fling poetry challenge. Poems should be posted there after the challenge opens Thursday evening at 9 P.M. EDT. Friday Fling #232 for May 17th 2013 From time to time in my life, I have acted a bit like Mr. Toad in the Wind In The Willows [...]

Seek and Write What You Find Pick A Graphic Guess what is in the pictures or what do you really see – What ever it be write about it – It can be Poetically funny or Is it Reality Humorous or Plain Madness Here are a few for you to choose from or You may [...]

This is the first blog of three for the “CPC” Collab development process. On this blog we add lines and play off each others lines to generate lines for the collabs. Come on over and join in the fun. All are welcome!

Welcome To Magic Monday Where We Bring Out The Magic In Poetry   Tonight We bring out the Magic Of A Mothers Love Blessed when not here but, know near Her Love Never Ends Tonight we are celebrating A Mother Love So, much magic within shared Some with own, some chosen One you call mother [...]