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2026 PAD Challenge Day 11

2026 PAD Challenge Day 11

my response is:

perhaps it is the universe's joke
played on my life that I keep ending up 
walking down the roads to nowhere.

I end up finding a way to somewhere 
but not in the normal ways.
I have no tether to the right road 
and truthfully I don't know if I want one,
for I have learned more from being lost 
than I ever could if I followed some plan.

I will gladly walk those roads to nowhere 
and find myself lost and learning 
than to follow the plan and be 
                               miserable.

BTW I posted a poem a couple of days ago and I said I was not sure if it belonged in kissed by Verse. I think it does not. I am going to open a new volume for it and this one…

Saturday Thoughts

This is my work in progress list… and how I keep track of my word count.

I feel like though I am exhausted and still fighting with bronchitis (Joe’s been giving me nyquil so I can sleep)  I have done fairly well with my poetry this week. I got a little bit of words to the current works in progress.

I have been able to keep up with the Fae Corps Publishing PAD Challenge so far. I have looked daily at the writer’s digest prompts and found that none of them work for me this time. I usually do their pad. as long as I am writing I don’t care where the prompt is coming from.

Tuesday Tunes will be up this week, I know that I have been hit or miss where that is concerned.

2026 PAD Challenge Day 7

2026 PAD Challenge Day 7

my response is:

under the midnight sky
tis easy to feel the hand 
              of the goddess 

to receive moonlight blessings 
and dance in the glory of the divine.

when the rest of the world sleeps 
tis easy to feel the joy of nature 
and revel in the beauty the gods 
                     blessed upon us.

Down for the day

so I did not get Tuesday Tunes scheduled ahead of time and I am so sick today I am unable to get it done today. I am so sorry for the inconvenience. tomorrow is scheduled already.

2026 PAD Challenge Day 6

2026 PAD Challenge Day 6

okay I set up the prompts and I already did this one once because it was stuck in my head but I really am trying to do the pad challenge using the Fae Corps Publishing prompts so …

my response is :

daisy chains 
tied us together
in flowers and paper

childhood memories 
tree trimmings 
and moments in the world 

each one precious 
each one unique 
a chance to be 
young eternally

Monday Poetry

Poetry

Saturday Thoughts

This is my work in progress list… and how I keep track of my word count.

Still fighting bronchitis and I have a new wound in my foot. I am attempting the pad challenge using the Fae Corps Publishing prompts. This year I have been unable to see anything from the writer’s digest prompts. I guess I am just not in the right place for them.

Are you doing the pad challenge this year ?

2026 PAD Challenge Day 4

2026 PAD Challenge Day 4

Serena’s response is:

Dripping ink pours
from every pore 

as if it were my 
lifeblood leaking 

I need to write to survive 
and still it drips freely 
as if I am unable to use it 
fast enough

Monday Poetry

Poetry

Saturday Thoughts

This is my work in progress list… and how I keep track of my word count.

okay I am running late today. I am also fighting bronchitis. This weather has me sick.

I started a new theme volume. so I listed it on there but the only writing in it so far is the foreword. That explains the idea of the volume and the rules I want to use within it. I don’t normally add that to the count because it is a natural part of the process…but it is starting that volumes set up. it is another one focusing on specific forms.

I also found out why I was struggling to get The sea serpent to go forward and fixed it. so I got some words in it.