I followed the day 11 prompt from napowrimo.net and wrote a villanelle. This took some time, and I don't believe it's great, but there...

Today, I chose a prompt from Instagram's Poetry Prompt Generator for Day 8. Alas, it's day 10, but the day 8 prompt inspired me to write...

I didn't follow any specific prompt today, but decided to make a thought into a poem. A manifesto into a poem A thought while the...

I used today's prompt on napowrimo.net . Today’s prompt (optional, as always) veers slightly away from our ekphrastic theme. To get...

This poem was inspired by the day 5 napowrimo.net prompt for national poetry writing month. My words and phrases that I chose:...

I followed the day four prompt on the NaPoWriMo.net for this poem. Write a poem about a painting in your home or common public spaces. I...

This poem is new as of this week for National Poetry Month, but I had been thinking about this house and this truck in my neighborhood...

I forgot to post this on day two, but it was written on day 2! A haiku inspired by my exhaustion and my hope for light at the end of the...

I didn't use the prompt from Napowrimo.net for the first day of National Poetry Month. Instead, I've been having a lot of reoccurring...

I'm sharing a snapshot from my journal on 10/13/2024. It is a gorgeous morning in mid-October, I've been feeling a lot of anxiety, and so...

Yesterday was 84 degrees and the sky so clear I could see three mountains at once: Adams, Hood, and St. Helens. Now, the clouds shade the...

I want to do some quick administrative items in this post and then dive into poetry. I won’t be posting every single day in this blog...

I enjoyed experimenting with the last pantoum I wrote in this post here. I decided to dive deeper. I did a free-write on May 1st and used...

pantoum poetry form mentioning the american poetry review and their podcast with Dorothy Chan and her triple sonnets.

Here's to another great April of writing poems! I can't pass up writing without mentioning that 160 countries celebrate May Day as global...

This is the final day of NaPoWriMo 2024 and I chose to feature my poem I wrote during Christopher Luna's Tuesday morning Zoom workshop...

**Quick update! This poem was featured as one of the Day 28 poems highlighted. Very exciting!** Of course, I wrote in response to today's...

I wrote a sonnet in response to today's napowrimo.net prompt. Today we’d like to challenge you to write an “American sonnet.” What’s...

I have skipped quite a few days, but we have been busy with home improvement projects, family medical issues, and exhaustion. I'm glad...

Today's is a color experiment after the Day 21 prompt on napowrimo.net.