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jmccull96 posted an update in the group Writing Showcase: I want to share my piece from a writing prompt that […]

Mon, 21 Apr 2025 00:38:09 -0400

I want to share my piece from a writing prompt that George gave today called Found Poetry

Title: Melatonin

I want to escape from the natural noise of a busy world; a temporary escape

to dream about falling into a silent beautiful void; Nirvana inside of a black hole

dreaming of paradises that mothers would die for, yearning for them to…

Rita Borg posted an update in the group Writing Showcase: Hi, this is my first post. Do your worst, I'm used to it!

Sat, 19 Apr 2025 16:33:22 -0400

Hi, this is my first post. Do your worst, I’m used to it!

laur posted an update in the group Writing Showcase: Hello lovely writers! I had a day off work and was able […]

Fri, 18 Apr 2025 20:15:30 -0400

Hello lovely writers! I had a day off work and was able to attend the Friday writing session, which was such a nice way to start the day (mountain time where I am, so it was still early-ish). I had gone for a quick walk with the cat in the morning and was able to turn an experience into a haiku:

four geese in the high-

desert blue,…

jmccull96 posted an update in the group Writing Showcase: I thought I should enjoy some writing practice this […]

Thu, 17 Apr 2025 14:46:11 -0400

I thought I should enjoy some writing practice this morning. So, I took it upon myself to try this week’s writing prompt. The objective is to write about a memory that shifted over time.

I sat there in my chair squirming for better ideas.

I took too many final looks at the finished work on my screen

and felt nothing – an overwhelming void filling…

laurap posted an update in the group Writing Showcase: I wrote this during last night's poetry reading with […]

Thu, 17 Apr 2025 14:16:04 -0400

I wrote this during last night’s poetry reading with Susan Vespoli. What an amazing poet she is and I was so inspired by her style of writing, it prompted me to try a new way to write. This is what I came up with:

backwards grief

the thing is

grief sits with me

everyday

even when the sun

is shining

or the clouds hinge

in the cold air

i say his…

Karen posted an update in the group Writing Showcase: OK, so--our last craft discussion, talking meter, […]

Thu, 17 Apr 2025 13:04:38 -0400

OK, so–our last craft discussion, talking meter, rhythm, sound, musicality… around Kubla Khan. We then had a 15 minute write after which I read the following poem. NOTE: I did not write this poem during that 15 minutes. It’s from an earlier time and the backstory is this:

The idea of the poem was fomenting following our discussion back in…

laur posted an update in the group Writing Showcase: Hi everyone- here is something I’ve been working on […]

Thu, 17 Apr 2025 01:36:50 -0400

Hi everyone- here is something I’ve been working on fine-tuning. Any comments/suggestions/gushing praise (haha! joking!) welcome:

Houseguest

“I should write a poem and call it

we’re eating the houseguests” I said at dinner

and chuffled at my clever yeast humor,

while gnawing the bark of wild-

caught sourdough, grown and swollen

just yesterday. He…

Karen (Joan) posted an update in the group Writing Showcase: Hi writers, Here is my poem "Absence?" (written […]

Wed, 09 Apr 2025 02:22:19 -0400

Hi writers, Here is my poem “Absence?” (written during: April 8, 2025 Craft Session on W.S. Merwin’s “For the Anniversary of My Death”). I would love your overall comments and particularly about how well the formatting sounds/looks to you.

*My laptop is back and I will be reviewing your recent posts and beginnings. Please forgive…

babynenuphar posted an update in the group Writing Showcase: What Happens When You Teach Astronomy to 1st Graders(I […]

Wed, 09 Apr 2025 01:18:17 -0400

What Happens When You Teach Astronomy to 1st Graders

(I am trying to improve the clarity of this piece. It’s about things students tell me mostly and it is not set at a monster truck show though the first draft that I read in the Community Craft Write In seemed that way today. I changed things up a bit)

My students like to tell me that the moon…

laurap posted an update in the group Writing Showcase: This is an edited and expanded piece from […]

Sat, 29 Mar 2025 17:37:12 -0400

This is an edited and expanded piece from Friday’s workshop. Thanks Frederick and everyone for such an insightful writing session.

callmeelda posted an update in the group Writing Showcase: Hi!I've been working on a 100-word story about […]

Sun, 23 Mar 2025 10:16:33 -0400

Hi!
I’ve been working on a 100-word story about revenge. I’ll appreciate feedback.

Flawless in Death

The silver revolver was pressed to Aaron’s temple. He stared at me—his expression serene, craving release.

Click.

“I removed the bullets,” I bragged.

Aaron sagged back into the bed. “…How? You’re dead.”

“And…

J. Adam posted an update in the group Writing Showcase: Here is what I worked on and read in today's […]

Fri, 21 Mar 2025 16:43:56 -0400

Here is what I worked on and read in today’s write-in. Thank you for your feedback. I’m not sure if it’s finished or if all of the tankas will stay, but I’ve been having a lot of fun playing with this form and using it as a vehicle to get my writing started.

laur posted an update in the group Writing Showcase: Thanks again Frederick for sharing your dad’s poem and […]

Wed, 19 Mar 2025 17:16:49 -0400

Thanks again Frederick for sharing your dad’s poem and leading us into another nice evening of community writing. Here’s what I started last night, I did some tiny edits but not much.

Last Days of Winter

Wind yowls across the dry cold

thrusting pinon branches frenzied.

pollen-bronzed junipers wild

stagger and spit their pollen.

We are in the last…

Paul Booth posted an update in the group Writing Showcase: Here something I shared in the wrong space. Chapter 6 – […]

Sun, 16 Mar 2025 00:19:04 -0400

Here something I shared in the wrong space.

Chapter 6 – The Question

One morning, after three months in the Hall with minimal contact with my parents, the staff dressed me in a little suit I had never seen before. Confused, a female aide escorted me across the great lawn to the courtroom. She and I waited in the hallway nervously until the…

laur posted an update in the group Writing Showcase: Thanks again for a stimulating evening spent with all […]

Wed, 12 Mar 2025 02:16:39 -0400

Thanks again for a stimulating evening spent with all you lovely individuals! Here’s what I wrote, not sure if I am going to try to do anything else with it, but thought I’d share:

“It is only with the heart that one can see rightly. What is essential is invisible to the eye… you become responsible forever for what you have tamed” the fox, in…

J. Adam posted an update in the group Writing Showcase: Hello writers, last week was inspirational and I drafted […]

Tue, 11 Mar 2025 19:06:19 -0400

Hello writers, last week was inspirational and I drafted two poems when my goal was one. I’d love your feedback on this, which I’m unsure is finished. Does it need more setting, more character, more contextual memories? I welcome any and all suggestions. Thank you!

Karen posted an update in the group Writing Showcase: So, yesterday, I attended a live writing workshop that had […]

Sun, 09 Mar 2025 14:57:13 -0400

So, yesterday, I attended a live writing workshop that had a “bibliomancy” exercise to it. That’s where you randomly open a book to a word or passage and perhaps rif off it, or allow it to spark your imagination. Also, it was offered we might go to the text with a question or an intention in mind. I took w/ me the intention that crept up when…

Brandi posted an update in the group Writing Showcase: A response to our Tennyson prompt today. I have […]

Wed, 26 Feb 2025 05:18:02 -0500

A response to our Tennyson prompt today. I have been studying Japanese poetic traditions and enjoy exploring possibilities and experimenting within the containers provided by the ancient practices and modern comprehensions. It felt apt to pull from Eastern practice to respond to the excerpt of “In Memoriam A.H.H.” (and broader discourse about…

Karen posted an update in the group Writing Showcase: Hi friends: Any feedback on the following welcome. […]

Mon, 24 Feb 2025 13:03:33 -0500

Hi friends: Any feedback on the following welcome. I consider working further on this poem in one of three ways: to put the flowers in conversation; to continue describing how specific flowers converse; or, do nothing–leave it as is. Suggestions?

When Flowers Converse

Wisteria speaks in whispers

delicate as the blossom

a language that…

J. Adam posted an update in the group Writing Showcase: Hi writers! Today's workshop was very productive for […]

Fri, 21 Feb 2025 22:23:16 -0500

Hi writers! Today’s workshop was very productive for me. Here is this week’s new poem to the prompt: Write about something not as it appears, but as it is. I greatly appreciate any reactions and suggestions. Thank you for reading!

We Knew This Day Would Come

Now we choke down this broken earth,
breathe it into the hollows of our throats

and…

laur posted an update in the group Writing Showcase: Hello all- I started this on Saturday at our wonderful […]

Mon, 17 Feb 2025 22:48:59 -0500

Hello all- I started this on Saturday at our wonderful craft talk about poetry and thought i’d share: (feedback? if you feel so inclined 😆)

why I write poetry

you dip your cold nose, a bobbing bird, down to the steam,

dew pools in the fold from tongue to cheek,

giraffe yearning for leaves, stretch lips

connect to that other lip of the mug,

brimstone…

laur posted an update in the group Writing Showcase: Hi all- I’ve been playing with this pantoum for my […]

Mon, 10 Feb 2025 03:06:33 -0500

Hi all- I’ve been playing with this pantoum for my workshop and wanted to see if it seems to work, anyone have any thoughts? I feel like I have repeated these lines so many times in my head that I’m no longer a valid judge of them 😆 Also, still not sure on the title, so Untitled Pantoum for now.

We lived in love, a land of profusion

The ocean…

Bridget Hayes posted an update in the group Writing Showcase: I was asked by some members of the group to share my […]

Fri, 07 Feb 2025 18:14:35 -0500

I was asked by some members of the group to share my takeoff of Mary Oliver’s, Wild Geese, from our Poetry Write-In last night (2/7/25).

The Ship
You do not have to be my friend.
You do not have to listen without your ears
for thousands of hours amidst the moan of the waves.
You only have to let the esca-lure of your inner angler fish*
shine as…

Brandi posted an update in the group Writing Showcase: Hi Everyone, this is a second draft. I think I’m seeking […]

Thu, 06 Feb 2025 23:49:27 -0500

Hi Everyone, this is a second draft. I think I’m seeking feedback on further possibilities tied to questions of 1) Does the reader want/need to know/see more of this day-in-the-life in order to feel more immersed?, and 2) Is there a more effective form to try? Thank you in advance.

J. Adam posted an update in the group Writing Showcase: Hello writers. Here is a poem I've been working on for […]

Tue, 04 Feb 2025 01:08:32 -0500

Hello writers. Here is a poem I’ve been working on for some time, and I can’t quite put my finger on what I need to do to finish it. I feel like it’s almost there. I’d love any feedback you might have on images or phrases that really resonate for you. As well as any areas where you might be lost or want more metaphor over narrative. Thank you…

jmccull96 posted an update in the group Writing Showcase: (This is a poem i wrote for a class im in. let me know […]

Sat, 01 Feb 2025 13:39:56 -0500

(This is a poem i wrote for a class im in. let me know what you think 😀)

Title: The winter stormed this year …

The snow began to fall like confetti in the sky,

So graceful, it fell without impact,

Coating the whole ground

with a fresh winter blanket

The air was crisp, yet fresh and cool

on the skin, kissing with no frostbite

her lips. She was cool…

Bridget Hayes posted an update in the group Writing Showcase: Some work with metaphor and zuihitsu...Seven New Days […]

Sat, 01 Feb 2025 06:03:22 -0500

Some work with metaphor and zuihitsu…

Seven New Days of Rain

I say goodbye to the sun for seven new days of rain. The sky lies, but the temperature grimaces and promises to squeeze out some sprinkles by midnight. I remember when they told me to get ready, Humboldt winters would rain for months without stopping. I arrived too late, the endless…

lolawillis posted an update in the group Writing Showcase: I also wrote on the metaphor we worked with in the […]

Fri, 31 Jan 2025 00:33:55 -0500

I also wrote on the metaphor we worked with in the Craft Exploration, though I tweaked it a little. I’ve enjoyed reading the other results of our meeting, so I thought I’d share mine as well!

On Dying is like Flying

Divided from flesh, stripped away cell by cell, shedding the worldly part of myself. I am on the air, witnessing the…

Karen posted an update in the group Writing Showcase: "Like dying in slow motion" flying in an air-o-plane, […]

Thu, 30 Jan 2025 15:29:17 -0500

“Like dying in slow motion” flying in an air-o-plane, and so we embarked on managing the metaphor, looking for a “path in”– never for a moment wondering whether the path in put us on a collision course with a Black Hawk helicopter that might take us down into the depths of a body of water so literal that no one gets out alive. But, here we…

Karen (Joan) posted an update in the group Writing Showcase: from today's session exploring metaphor, and flying […]

Thu, 30 Jan 2025 01:46:09 -0500

from today’s session exploring metaphor, and flying as dying — a poem “Walking on Air.” Any comments welcome.

Walking on air

along the hallway

kids glancing

and moving on

as if normal

Can’t believe they aren’t staring

floating up high above them

great to be high

not used to being tall

I like it

The air is supportive

there’s no dislocation

it all…

laur posted an update in the group Writing Showcase: This is a piece I worked on for a workshop prompt and […]

Tue, 28 Jan 2025 02:49:39 -0500

This is a piece I worked on for a workshop prompt and have tried to simplify and remove some of the un-necessary words 😉

I could not tell

I could not tell

How fragile it was-

Life, love, mind, body.

Delicate birdbones,

Diaphanous webs

Bubbles that pop.

I could not tell

How fleeting it was,

How cherry blossoms, once

Fallen, wilt.

I could not tell

How…

Karen (Joan) posted an update in the group Writing Showcase: In tonight's Jan. 27, 2025 poetry session, I took up […]

Tue, 28 Jan 2025 01:50:24 -0500

In tonight’s Jan. 27, 2025 poetry session, I took up an earlier poem and stripped away to the essence. I want there to be ambiguity in who moves, a change of meaning in how it is read. Does it work? Feedback would be appreciated.

“Absence is a creature”

a movement

there

across the lake

I squint in the late sun and see

either you or a loon

at…

Karen (Joan) posted an update in the group Writing Showcase: Writing excerpt from our prompt Friday Jan. 24, […]

Fri, 24 Jan 2025 19:34:14 -0500

Writing excerpt from our prompt Friday Jan. 24, 2025 “Flying in my dreams” and “Bertie” — continuation of dystopian fiction. I’d like impressions/critique/what works/what doesn’t! Thank you, Karen

Flying in my dreams

There was a time when I was running and climbing into the air using breaststrokes to propel myself up pumping higher and faster…

laurap posted an update in the group Writing Showcase: I have been working on this after our poetry meeting when […]

Tue, 21 Jan 2025 21:13:19 -0500

I have been working on this after our poetry meeting when we read Ezra Pound’s The River-Merchant’s Wife: A Letter. Although I did not translate another poet’s work, I was inspired to write a spin off from Virginia Woolf’s A Room of One’s Own. I’d like to know if my feeling to find the right writing space and family responsibilities are…

lolawillis posted an update in the group Writing Showcase: Product of Friday morning's writing prompt. […]

Fri, 10 Jan 2025 19:06:48 -0500

Product of Friday morning’s writing prompt. Any/all comments and suggestions welcome. Thank you so much!

Midsummer of Adam

Lush of oily aubergine, skin silken unbroken, give to lips a song hoarding selfish sunlight, warms to drips coated thick. And split pomegranate, eyes shining over garnet coves. Snags the breath in stitches, heady…

laur posted an update in the group Writing Showcase: I’ve been playing with this since the Monday write-in and […]

Fri, 10 Jan 2025 02:45:43 -0500

I’ve been playing with this since the Monday write-in and then did some other tweaks tonight after the very interesting and thought-provoking discussion on adjectives. I struggle a bit with releasing my poems out into the world- I don’t necessarily want to hoard them, but I so enjoy the process of revising… I tell myself I can still revise…

Kimberly Rossi posted an update in the group Writing Showcase: My apologies if this posts twice: I had posted my […]

Wed, 08 Jan 2025 21:11:32 -0500

My apologies if this posts twice: I had posted my poem already and then it disappeared!

This is the poem i wrote at Monday’s Community Poetry Write-in. I would love any feedback concerning what’s working, what’s confusing, etc. I was inspired by the ending of the poem we discussed at the write-in and I tried to make my ending very…

Karen posted an update in the group Writing Showcase: Friends, This is what I came up with in tonight's […]

Tue, 07 Jan 2025 02:39:55 -0500

Friends, This is what I came up with in tonight’s wonderful gathering with Frederick. When it came to the write, I specifically wanted to work with line breaks on a free verse poem, such as we read by Anna Scotti. I’d especially like any suggestions regarding my line breaks below. If any of them work, or could be improved. If anything comes…

Aaliyah El-Amin posted an update in the group Writing Showcase: *I’m having a bit of trouble with the spacing on this […]

Sat, 04 Jan 2025 05:06:25 -0500

*I’m having a bit of trouble with the spacing on this site, so I’m hoping it is readable

I was inspired by this group to write a New Year’s poem.

Star of Self

Rumi says, “If you reach for a star, you are a star.”

If stars are matter, and you are matter,

You are reaching out for a part of yourself.

Your future self and your past selves…

Jay Yair posted an update in the group Writing Showcase: Hi there. Here is what was stimulated by […]

Fri, 03 Jan 2025 17:36:29 -0500

Hi there. Here is what was stimulated by Frederick’s prompt(s) today 😊

They say that about love, I think even the Beatles
sang about it. It’s all we need and the more we make

the more can take. Perhaps like a muscle, the more
exercised, the stronger it gets. Not letting it become

flaccid. Foster. Hone. Use it or lose it. No, use it
to create more.…

laur posted an update in the group Writing Showcase: I am not used to posting things; poems seem to […]

Thu, 02 Jan 2025 18:05:55 -0500

I am not used to posting things; poems seem to usually collect on scraps of paper, notes in my phone or revised-just-for-me versions… however I am working on stretching myself just to start to get comfortable with the idea of it.

I wrote this yesterday, new year’s, just a draft and not sure if I will take it any farther one day or not.

New…

laurap posted an update in the group Writing Showcase: Happy New Year to all! My one-liner for the […]

Thu, 02 Jan 2025 17:04:57 -0500

Happy New Year to all! My one-liner for the New Year…..maybe it will become a poem one day.

“I am unfinished”

babynenuphar posted an update in the group Writing Showcase: I have been playing with this poem over the past few […]

Thu, 02 Jan 2025 16:25:38 -0500

I have been playing with this poem over the past few months. I am wondering about clarity and line breaks. I call it Grandfather Clock.

Big tree, look at me.

I want to turn you

into a grandfather clock.

I want to make you

into a memory:

Mom is beautiful, bow-legged, and bound

by Dad in the dining room. He scowls

at his plate full of canned foods.…

lolawillis posted an update in the group Writing Showcase: Hello, friends! I guess I'll kick us off. This is my […]

Thu, 02 Jan 2025 12:39:51 -0500

Hello, friends! I guess I’ll kick us off. This is my first piece of the New Year, inspired by the attack on Bourbon St., New Orleans. I’m open to all forms of feedback. Thank you so much!

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New Year’s Day | Bourbon Street, New Orleans

A madman crushed the rush this First Morning at a quarter past three. I caught your phantom playing eulogy on the…