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Poetics: Daffy for Daffodils, Sprung in Spring   Today, dVerse offers the following prompt.     " Below you will find some names of daffodil varieties. Choose at least 3 words/phrases to use in your poem, but you may choose more. If the name is more than one word, you must use both words. There is no required form or length. Your poem does NOT have to be about daffodils or spring, and there is no restriction on form, style, or subject." From the list I chose beautiful eyes , golden dawn , love call , narcissus , silver smiles , tete-a-tete , and Thalia .  Plus the image below is by Dutch master   Georgius Jacobus Johannes van Os, featuring several types of daffodils.  The last photo is my own Tete-a-Tete daffodils blooming in my herb garden.  Love calls. A little tete-a-tete with my own sweet self. Such beautiful eyes, and those silver smiles. Even the golden dawn in my own image. Enough to turn  Thalia’s head    from Apollo.   I am Narcissus, after all. ©2024 Lisa Smit

Blogging from A to Z April Challenge 2024 - Theme Reveal

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It's that time of year again!  What time?  The time bloggers around the world look forward to each year!  It's time for the Blogging From A to Z April Challenge .  Well, it's time for us to reveal our themes, the challenge starts, and ends, in April.   What is the Challenge?   The A to Z of whatever you want.  26 letters of the alphabet, 26 days of April (daily with Sundays off).  April 1st is A, the 2nd is B... so forth until Z on April 30th.  Anything goes.  Really.  Photographs.  Music.  Books.  Animals.  Postage stamps.  Recipes.  General musings.  Things you find in your house.  ANYTHING A to Z!  Click the link above to join in.  The A to Z team has chosen the theme for the challenge of Victorious Blogging, or "... hope, positivity, and living your best life blogging your best blog." My theme is A to Z Poetry .  A new poem for each day of the challenge.  Maybe the letter will signify a poetic form, a poem inspired by something starting with the letter of the

Writer's Workshop Prompts of March 7, 2024

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My first time joining in to John Holton's (The Sound of One Hand Typing) Writer's Workshop .   John is one of the team of the  Blogging from A to Z Challenge in April . Check it out, it's almost time!  Badge by Patty,  http://anothercookieplease.com Here are the prompts for this week’s Writer’s Workshop: Write a post based on the word  manual . Write a post in exactly 13 sentences. Tell us about a favorite childhood toy. What was the most useless class you took? Tell us about it. Which fictional character (from a book, comic book, TV show, or movie) did you want to be? Why? When did you learn that Santa Claus/the Easter Bunny/the Tooth Fairy was your parents? How did you figure it out? I've gone with #1 and #2.           My son collects manual typewriters.      They are interesting machines from a former time. Not so former as to make them “before my time!”      I took typing in high school. We were given one week on electric machines. Such progress that seemed in 1974!

24 Seasons: Keichitsu (Wintering Insects Awake) No. 24

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 24 Seasons Syllabic Poetry Challenge, No. 24  Wintering Insects Awake (March 5 – 19) Keichitsu 啓蟄 " Your syllabic poetry writing invitation is to choose a kigo word or phrase from the seasonal kigo list on the post, or you can choose from the spring category on the kigo word list links below. Share your kigo word on your pos t." It's been raining.  It's been snowing.  Then more rain.  It's muddy.  Very, very muddy.  So, what kigo phrase would be more fitting right now than Spring Mud ?  Nothing I can think of.   It was made for me considering I took the photo below just two days ago!  I wrote a h aiga . ©2024 Lisa Smith Nelson. All Rights Reserved #tankatuesday #kigo #tankatuesdaypoetrychallenge #tankatuesday24seasons #haiga #syllabicpoetry 

24 Seasons: Usui (Snow Becomes Rain) No. 23

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  24 Seasons Syllabic Poetry Challenge, No. 23  Snow Becomes Rain (February 19 – March 4) Usui 雨水 " Your writing invitation is to choose one of the 24 Forms for your poem. (You can select 3 different forms for the 3 suggested kigo word phrases, if you’d like). You can use the kigo words and phrases from the Part I challenge post..., or you can use the phrases I’ve created..." Kigo phrases for the Northern Hemisphere. early spring [insert an early spring flower name] spring flowers lingering snow leap day photo ©Lisa Smith Nelson, taken in February 2019 leap day garden stroll winter's overstayed his time  yet more snow forecast lingering snow slush crunches under my rain boots dismal day ahead early spring crocus bright jewels on frozen ground my morning replete  ©2024 Lisa Smith Nelson. All Rights Reserved  photo ©Lisa Smith Nelson, taken in February 2019

24 Seasons: Usui (Snow Becomes Rain) No. 22

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 24 Seasons Syllabic Poetry Challenge, No. 22  Snow Becomes Rain (February 19 – March 4) Usui 雨水 "Your syllabic poetry writing invitation is to choose a kigo word or phrase from the seasonal kigo list on the post. You can select from the Winter and Early Spring categories ( Yuki Teikei Haiku Society ) on the kigo word list links below. Share your kigo word on your post." I have written a kouta with the kigo phrase, " the month of expectation, "  using plural " months ."    I have edited the original to change "the" in the last line to "nor," as it wasn't clear that "he" did not live to see the spring blooms.  image public domain These months of expectation promise nothing to me now. He'll not see another spring, nor cherries in bloom. ©2024 Lisa Smith Nelson. All Rights Reserved  #tankatuesday #kigo #tankatuesdaypoetrychallenge #tankatuesday24seasons #kouta #syllabicpoetry 

24 Seasons: Risshun (The Beginning of Spring) No. 21

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  24 Seasons Syllabic Poetry Challenge, No. 21 The Beginning of Spring (February 3 – 20) Risshun 立 " ... write a poem using one of the 24 forms—your choice. Choose a kigo word or phrase from the seasonal kigo list on the post. Or you can select from the Winter and Early Spring categories ( Yuki Teikei Haiku Society ) or select from the kigo word list links below. Share your kigo word on your post ." My choice from the 24 forms is a mondo .  My kigo phrases are " lingering cold ," " crisp weather ," and a rewording of " remaining snow ."  Peas do get planted in February here in Southern Oregon. Why are you planting seeds in the lingering cold while snow remains in the shade? Crisp weather sowing is just right for the snap peas  you love so well in stir-fry. ©2024 Lisa Smith Nelson. All Rights Reserved  #tankatuesday #kigo #tankatuesdaypoetrychallenge #tankatuesday24seasons #mondopoem #mondo #tanka #syllabicpoetry