2016 Holiday Poetry Sale

The Holiday Poetry Sale is now CLOSED.  Thank you all for your support!

A silver lantern glazed with cobalt glass panes sends a flickering blue light over the snow...
Welcome to the 2016 Holiday Poetry Sale! Today through Friday, December 23, my remaining fishbowl poems from 2016 are half price. So are poems from the Creative Jam and other activities. Especially check out the epics; they range $16 to $187.50, so if you've been yearning for an epic of your very own, now's the time! For those of you with just a few dollars to spend, we're starting with four poems at $2.50 and eight at $5. We currently have four epics open, all in Polychrome Heroics, so I'd prefer not to open another. Thumbnail descriptions of the individual poems appear in the first section which is listed by price.

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2016 Holiday Poetry Sale

The 2016 Holiday Poetry Sale is now open on LiveJournal. 

Monday Update 12-19-16

These are some posts from the later part of last week in case you missed them:
Historic Soup: John Stapp
Poem: "Blood and Water"
How to Handle Uncomfortable Farmemory
Poem: "The Candle Burns Not for Us"
Communities Magazine
Poem: "If I Can Accept Others"
Donor Alert: PayPal Announcement
Read "Shared Holiday" by Dialecticdreamer
Unsold Poems from the December 6, 2016 Poetry Fishbowl
Hard Things
Furnace in Progress
Read "Diving Companions" by Dialecticdreamer


The 2016 Holiday Poetry Sale is now open! Go shop for poetry.  Linking to the sale will reveal verses of perk poems.

Winterfaire 2016 is still open. Do you have goods or services that would make a good holiday gift? Come post a booth! Are you shopping for hard-to-find items? Come look at the offerings, or post what you're hunting. Do you have a holiday shopping post, or know of one? Give me links and I'll cross-list them. 


Poetry in Microfunding:
"Holding Hope and Love" belongs to Polychrome Heroics.  Sunny tries to talk Cheersquad into taking a break.  "A Hope and a Promise" belongs to Polychrome Heroics.  Aidan explores the Rainbow Room.  "The Sharpest Dose of Reality" belongs to Polychrome Heroics: Shiv.  There are many new verses, in which Pain's Gray blows Shiv's mind and then Shiv begins to freak out over the intimacy.  "Become Music Again" belongs to Polychrome Heroics: Shiv.  Boss White has a gift for Shiv after release from prison.

Torn World writing update:
Approved as canon: "Unicorns on Parade" "Spruce Deer" "Wandering the Heights" (poetry).  Back to me for edits: "Winterheart" (parts 2-3), "Stinging Like Nettles"  "Off the Clock" (poetry).  Currently in front of the canon board: "Ghost Bat" (nonfiction). Drafted: "Like Ash Before the Wind," "From Dark to Bright," "The Inappropriate But Useful Disposal of Lettuce" "A Thin Red Trail" (fiction), "Changes in the Wind" (poetry), "Southern Breads" "Tangleweed Article" (articles), Jularei (character sheet).  In revision at home: "Water Dance," "When the Wind's Teeth Sing," "Raining Kittens," "Finding the Holes," "Broken Hopes," "Brewing Beauty," "Little Paws in the Licenses" (fiction), "The Smallest Invaders," "Raising the Future" "Beach Pies" "Unsolid Ground" "Riding from the Rescue" "To Ride Death" (poetry), "Rammer" (nonfiction).  Currently writing: "Catch of the Day," "A Cold Clear Night" (fiction).


The weather has been cold.  We got a dusting of snow and some ice.  The new furnace is keeping the house warm (not counting the upstairs, which is still chilly, but I expected that) without going into emergency heat or us needing to light a fire.  \o/  This week at the birdfeeder I have seen many sparrows, some mourning doves, and a couple of male cardinals.  My partner Doug spotted a bluejay.

Poem: "Victory Conditions"

This poem came out of the October 2016 crowdfunding Creative Jam. It was inspired by prompts from alexseanchai. It also fills the "chess" square in my 10-4-16 card for the Games and Sports Bingo fest. This poem has been sponsored by daisiesrockalot. It belongs to the Antimatter & Stalwart Stan thread of the Polychrome Heroics series.

Warning: This poem contains some intense and controversial topics. Highlight to read the warnings, some of which are spoilers. It includes shifting affinities, interpersonal friction, changing alliances, homophobic actions. harsh homophobic language, bullying, gender discrimination, gender identity issues, emotional injury, ambivalent help-seeking behavior, Coach Bo Ray being an absolute asshole, Stan not knowing his own strength and clocking the coach verbally, extreme stress reactions, Stan quitting the football team, other players complaining about Stan quitting now that their crappy behavior is costing them something they want, Lawrence trying to clean up the mess, awkward conversations about sex and gender stuff, massive teen angst, and other challenges. If these are sensitive issues for you, please consider your tastes and headspace before reading onward.

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Poetry Pool Open

daisiesrockalot has opened a pool in the Holiday Poetry Sale:

I will match up to a total of $100 on any poem or group of poems. I will also catch the second half of "The Easiest of All Hunting Expeditions", "As Is", "The Rare Elements of Grace", "Valence", "Honeybumping", "A Significant Threat", "Such Agreeable Friends", "A Little Spark of Which", and/or "The Big Crunch" if someone else buys the first half and lets me know.