Today I am doing poetry prompts.
1) weapons
2) Injuries
3) ladybugs
4) hair
5)wealth
6) scams
7) pets
8) shoes
9) memories
10) sewing
Comment your poetry or email to Iampublishd@gmail.com to be featured on my Monday poetry. I look forward to seeing what you come up with.
This week has been a personal mess. So I have been trying to think of topics for upcoming blogs. April will be a huge poetry push. I will likely be posting not only my own poems but I think that I will be posting some of my favorite pieces from poets of the past with information about the poet. Note that I will be sure to credit the poets for their work. Even if most are no longer with us.
I always do writer’s digest poem prompts in both April and November. I am going to try to post the poems with links to the prompts through the month. It is also time for camp nano. I think Serena will be continuing to work on Life, Guilt, and Undeath.
We have decided to do as the first audiobook Bedtime tales: the princess lost. It will give me a smaller recording to start with. I have to record it, and then work on editing the audio until I think it worth publishing. I tend to be a bit of a perfectionist where my published books are concerned. I try to give my readers the best material that I possibly can. Most authors that I know are. I will be posting the link as soon as I have it for the audiobook version of each of the books.
So what would you like to see as far as topics here? Is there a poet who you want to see my favorite poem of?
Been a few weeks since I shared my own poetry. I may feature another poet soon…but I was feeling like sharing my own poetry.
It’s my pleasure to introduce you to a wonderful artist. He was so nice and gave me a wide variety for you to read.
D W Storer
Author and poet
Born October 1966 in Mitcham , Surrey – currently residing in Exmouth, Devon
– Even the most ordinary can lead to the most extraordinary inspirations –
as a writer I tend to mix prose and verse to illustrate scenes , moods, emotions-
works range through the spectrums of dark nihilism, paganism, humour, and even children’s poetry books
Heretical in religious views, pagan, lover of classical history and forteana
Prefers classical music and jazz
published works – all available on Amazon
The Key of the Storm
Poems Without A Home
The Recusant Who Never Recanted
The Myth of Age And Time
Over The Seas and Far Away
For children – the Blue Ted’s Adventures series
Blue Ted’s Seven Sleeps ‘Till Christmas
Blue Ted’s Easter and Other Tales
Blue Ted’s Seaside Adventures
Blue Ted’s Halloween Adventures
Blue Ted’s Snowy Days Adventures
Blue Ted’s Viking Adventures
Blue Ted Meets The Aliens
Grunkle’s Book Of Bottom Burps
Works in progress
The Lady In White – pagan / wiccan poetry
The Diary Of A Madman – poetry dealing with depression and mental illness
D W Storer has performed in many London recitals of poetry with theatre groups and spends his time, when not writing, mostly staring at clouds, waves, trees, and rocks
He can be found on Facebook – https://www.facebook.com/dwstorerauthor
and on Amazon
https://www.amazon.co.uk/Darren-Storer/e/B008JDJ04M
So I really want to introduce you to the most amazing author. Poetry is admittedly not her primary vehicle. She writes lovely stories, and makes awesome clay art. She is way more organized than I will ever be… And I had to pester her to be here(nah actually not much…. She was just shy). So let’s show her some love!
Jess Reece was practically born with a pen in her hand. As a teenager and young adult, she won various local writing awards for her poetry and short fiction. Jessica’s goal is to draw her readers into worlds that are as real to them as they are to her, and have them fall in love with her words. She also writes nonfiction, using her skills to mentor adult survivors of childhood abuse and trauma – healing that pain, sometimes decades old, through creative writing and storytelling.
You can find Jess on the interwebs at these places :
Facebook : http://bit.ly/2LSNQtL
Twitter : https://twitter.com/justjessblog
And last, but not least her Instagram is : https://www.instagram.com/jessreece_authorartist/
Go show her some love!
1.) Write a Haiku about a shoe.
2.) Use two of these words in one poem:
Religion, Angel, Dust, sanity, sin, knife, bleed
3.) Freestyle prompts
Dreary, educate, joy, spark, flame, ball, coffee, book, vape, cloud
Send me your poetry here! For a chance to be featured on my Monday poetry.
Hi! This is another spotlight on my amazing poet friends. Today I want to introduce Kim D. Bailey.
When I asked her for a poem to use to introduce her to you all she sent me this powerful piece, which she told me had been published in a blog. I was so tickled that she agreed to be introduced to you all. Her work is often powerful and has a strong voice throughout it.
How To Help
by Kim D. Bailey
When momma cooked supper I washed
the dishes, while my sister dried, caressing
them like a crystal ball, and we saw
our unmapped futures. Unrequited.
Babies are made this way, we clench
our teeth hold our breath hope for more, sometimes
less. We got what we prayed for, more
than we expected. Nonrefundable.
Momma can’t wash the dishes anymore.
We wring our hands, howl at windmills, feel
the earth fall upon our skin; it clings like
molasses until we are face down. Asphyxiated.
I try to help. My words are sucked
away, my breaths are shallow. A
mountain has formed in the curve of
my spine. My chest is gravel. Scatter
me on fields of
cotton, clothe the world.
Kim D. Bailey is a 2016 Pushcart Nominee for nonfiction, and a 2018 Best of the Net Nominee for poetry. She is published in several online and print journals and in audio, including but not limited to Firefly Magazine, Tuck Magazine, The Scarlet Leaf Review, Writer’s Digest, Anti Heroine Chic, The Song Is, The 52 Men Podcast, and Tupelo Press. Kim was a columnist for Five 2 One Literary Magazine from June 2016 to October 2017, writing to Breaking the Legacy of Silence. She has also held editorial positions with Firefly Magazine and Sick Lit Magazine. She lives in Pennsylvania with her husband and two dogs.
Following poetry prompts on tumblr and I ran across a prompt… A visit to a grave. This resulted.
Pattimouse 