Good News

Good news includes all the things which make us happy or otherwise feel good. It can be personal or public. We never know when something wonderful will happen, and when it does, most people want to share it with someone. It's disappointing when nobody is there to appreciate it. Happily, blogging allows us to share our joys and pat each other on the back.

What good news have you had recently? Are you anticipating any more? Have you found a cute picture or a video that makes you smile? Is there anything your online friends could do to make your life a little happier?

Poem: "How to Paint with Dry Water"

This poem was written outside the regular prompt calls. It has been sponsored by janetmiles.


"How to Paint with Dry Water"
-- a prose poem


Learning to write a prose poem is like learning how to paint with dry water.
Then you hang the painting in the dark and learn how to see by black light.
There are no rules, no guidelines; the painting hangs there without a frame.
The colors run to the edge of the canvas and then wrap around the sides.
There is no rhyme or meter in this piece, only words made of language.
The guardrail of grammar seems flimsy in the face of such creative chaos.
If it were music, it would be jazz; it would be jamming the sound of blue smoke.
If it were dance, it would be bodies bopping against each other at a nightclub.
Prose poetry is all of these and none of these: neti neti, not this, not that.
It can be heard but not described, observed and yet never defined.
It is neither fish nor fowl, prose nor poem, but somehow still both.
It is a heraldic beast galloping across the page, tantalizing, then gone.

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Notes:

Prose poetry is not written in verse, but uses other poetic techniques such as imagery and alliteration.

Neti neti  is Sanskrit for "not this, not that," part of the process of paring away everything that is not the True Self.

Poem: "Her First Performance"

This poem was written outside the regular prompt calls. It fills the "First performance" square in my 1-21-20 card for the Less Usual Bingo Patterns fest. It has been sponsored by janetmiles. This poem belongs to the series Arts and Crafts America.

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Poem: "Even After Everything"

This poem came out of the February 4, 2020 Poetry Fishbowl. It was inspired by a prompt from chanter1944. It also fills the "Denial" square in my 2-1-20 card for the Valentines Bingo fest. This poem has been sponsored by janetmiles. It belongs to the Fledgling Grace series.

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Poem: "It Reveals You to Yourself"

This poem is spillover from the July 7, 2020 Poetry Fishbowl. It was inspired by a prompt from rix_scaedu. It also fills the "Candy" square in my 7-1-20 card for the Winterfest in July Bingo. This poem has been sponsored by janetmiles. It belongs to the series One God's Story of Mid-Life Crisis.

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Poem: "From the Shelter of Compassion and Pity"

This poem came out of the February 4, 2020 Poetry Fishbowl. It was inspired by prompts from torc87 and rix_scaedu. It also fills the "Fern - Shelter" square in my 2-1-20 card for the Valentines Bingo fest. This poem has been sponsored by janetmiles. It belongs to the series One God's Story of Mid-Life Crisis.

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Poem: "The Tiger Women"

This poem came out of the December 1, 2020 Poetry Fishbowl. It was inspired and sponsored by Anthony Barrette. It belongs to the Polychrome Heroics series.


"The Tiger Women"

[2016]

In India, the jungles
keep a strange secret.

There are women
living with tigers.

The women walk away
from the farms and the cities
full of violent, unpredictable men.

They walk into the jungles
full of wild tigers, who are
less dangerous than men.

The tigers, too, have
suffered at the hands of men --
hunted for their beauty as
much as for their danger.

So the women and the tigers
form an alliance of sorts.

They live together and
hunt together, depending
on each other for survival.

They slip through the forests
like ghosts made of flame,
bright colors surprisingly hidden
by the green and brown trees.

The few men who dare to follow
them learn the old lesson anew:

The female of the species is
more deadly than the male.

Poem: "He Made Some Houses"

This poem came out of the December 1, 2020 Poetry Fishbowl. It was inspired by prompts from Shirley Barrette and Anonymous. It also fills the "tree" square in my 12-1-20 card for the Winter Fest Bingo. This poem has been sponsored by Shirley Barrette. It belongs to the Polychrome Heroics series.

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Notes for "He Made Some Houses"

These are the notes for "He Made Some Houses."

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Poem: "Pumpkin Spice Prosperity"

This was the linkback perk poem for the December 1, 2020 Poetry Fishbowl.  It was originally hosted by Dreamwidth user Dialecticdreamer.  It came out of the November 2020 Creative Jam, prompted by DW user Alexseanchai.  It also fills the "taste" square in my 11-1-20 card for the Sense-Ation Bingo fest.  This poem belongs to the Polychrome Heroics series.

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