Poetry Fishbowl Open!

The Poetry Fishbowl is now CLOSED. Thank you for your time and attention.

Starting now, the Poetry Fishbowl is open! This is the perk for the Poetry Fishbowl meeting the $250 goal four times. Today's theme is "Eloquent Souls." I will be checking this page periodically throughout the day. When people make suggestions, I'll pick some and weave them together into a poem ... and then another ... and so on. I'm hoping to get a lot of ideas and a lot of poems.

This series is fantasy romance about soulmates, soulmarks, and soulbonds. These features don't solve everything, but they do make life more interesting. In this setting, most people have soulmates. They argue over whether everyone has a soulmate, or only some people; and whether each person has only one, or multiple possibilities. A soulbond can take various forms. It is most often sexual/romantic, but it can be platonic, sensual, and so on. The first words a soulmate will say appear on a person's skin, usually but not always in the soulmate's handwriting. These things can be welcome or unwelcome, depending on the context. Most people manage to deal with them, but sometimes things get ... complicated.

There are also some notes for this setting, appearing under "Soul Song". They explain a bit about how soulmarks and soulbonds work in this setting. You can use these as inspiration for your prompts. If you want to keep your poem price toward the lower end, using things I've already researched will save me time so I'm less likely to need extra research fees.

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Poetry Fishbowl Open!

The Poetry Fishbowl is now CLOSED. Thank you for your time and attention.

Starting now, the Poetry Fishbowl is open! This is the perk for the Poetry Fishbowl meeting the $250 goal four times. Today's theme is "Eloquent Souls." I will be checking this page periodically throughout the day. When people make suggestions, I'll pick some and weave them together into a poem ... and then another ... and so on. I'm hoping to get a lot of ideas and a lot of poems.

This series is fantasy romance about soulmates, soulmarks, and soulbonds. These features don't solve everything, but they do make life more interesting. In this setting, most people have soulmates. They argue over whether everyone has a soulmate, or only some people; and whether each person has only one, or multiple possibilities. A soulbond can take various forms. It is most often sexual/romantic, but it can be platonic, sensual, and so on. The first words a soulmate will say appear on a person's skin, usually but not always in the soulmate's handwriting. These things can be welcome or unwelcome, depending on the context. Most people manage to deal with them, but sometimes things get ... complicated.

There are also some notes for this setting, appearing under "Soul Song". They explain a bit about how soulmarks and soulbonds work in this setting. You can use these as inspiration for your prompts. If you want to keep your poem price toward the lower end, using things I've already researched will save me time so I'm less likely to need extra research fees.

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Birdfeeding

Today is partly sunny and mild.  There are big puddles again, and the patches of snow are smaller.  Mud everywhere.

I fed the birds.  I haven't seen much activity today, just a few sparrows and cardinals.  The hopper feeder was empty though. 

Poem: "With You 'Til the End of the Line"

This is today's freebie, prompted by siberian_skys.  It also fills the "Be Honest with Yourself" square in my 2-1-22 card for the Valentines Bingo fest.

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