Unsold Poems for the May 16, 2023 Poetry Fishbowl

The following poems from the May 2, 2023 Poetry Fishbowl are currently available. Poems may be sponsored via PayPal -- there's a permanent donation button on my Dreamwidth profile page -- or you can write to me and discuss other methods. There are still verses left in the linkback poems "Let the Children Lead Us," "Pumpkin Spice Prosperity," "Delight in Another," "A Sense of Weather Changes," "Ouroboros Insects," "The Loving Embrace of Night," "Generations of Cooks Past," "Begin to Understand Ourselves," "Homefree and Clear, " "One Bite at a Time," "Stars and Diamonds," "Mishpocha," "There's an Art to It," "The Glass Cat," "Changing Your Nature," and "Besa."

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Poetry Fishbowl Report for May 16, 2023

This session's theme was "anything goes." I wrote from 12:45 PM to 5 AM, so about 14 hours 15 minutes, accounting for lunch and supper breaks. I wrote 5 poems on Tuesday and another 5 later in the week.

Participation was still low, with 11 comments on LiveJournal and another 33 on Dreamwidth. A total of 12 people sent prompts. There were no new prompters.


Read Some Poetry!
The following poems from the May 16, 2023 Poetry Fishbowl have been posted:
"Affuage"
"The Color and Scent of Relaxation"
"A Way of Finding the People Who Need Them"
"Yelve"

"The Qui to Everything" (Quixotic Ideas, April 4, 2023 Poetry Fishbowl)


Buy some poetry!
If you plan to sponsor some poetry but haven't made up your mind yet, see the unsold poetry list from May 16. That includes the title, length, price, and the original thumbnail description for the poems still available.

This month's donors include: fuzzyred, ng_moonmoth, and Anthony Barrette. There were no new donors. There are 0 tallies toward a bonus fishbowl.


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Poem: "A Way of Finding the People Who Need Them"

This poem is spillover from the May 16, 2023 Poetry Fishbowl. It was inspired and sponsored by Anthony Barrette. It also fills the "service animal" square in my 5-1-23 card for the Pets and Animals Bingo fest. This poem belongs to the series Arts and Crafts America.

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Poetry Fishbowl on Tuesday, June 6, 2023

This is an advance announcement for the Tuesday, June 6, 2023 Poetry Fishbowl. This time the theme will be "Surprise Solutions from Unexpected Sources." I'll be soliciting ideas for troubleshooters, explorers, first responders, partners, housemates, siblings, parents, teachers, clergy, leaders, superheroes, supervillains, teammates, drifters, alien or fantasy species, failure analysts, ethicists, activists, rebels, other people who get into unusual situations, surprising people, troubleshooting, parenting, teaching, adventuring, leaving your comfort zone, discovering things, conducting experiments, observation changing experiments, improvising, adapting, cleaning up messes, cooperating, bartering, taking over in an emergency, saving the day, discovering yourself, studying others, testing boundaries, coming of age, learning what you can (and can't) do, sharing, preparing for the worst, expecting the unexpected, fixing what's broke, upsetting the status quo, changing the world, accomplishing the impossible, recovering from setbacks, returning home, cities, schools, churches, sharehouses, kitchens, laboratories, supervillain lairs, makerspaces, stores, farmer's markets, liminal zones, the forest primeval, campfires, nonhuman accommodations and adaptations, starships, alien planets, magical lands, foreign dimensions, other places where the unexpected happens, sudden surprises, travel mishaps, the buck stops here, trial and error, weird food, secret ingredients, supplements that turn out to be metagenic, intercultural entanglements, asking for help and getting it, enemies to friends/lovers, interdimensional travel, nose for trouble, Get a Life Program, lab conditions are not field conditions, superpower manifestation, the end of where your framework actually applies, ethics, innovation, problems that can't be solved by hitting, teamwork, found family, complementary strengths and weaknesses, personal growth, and poetic forms in particular.

Among my more relevant series for the main theme:

An Army of One is developing its own neurovariant culture.

Arts and Crafts America is good at creative solutions to unexpected problems.

The Bear Tunnels introduces modern principles to people in the past.

A Conflagration of Dragons has the Six Races (plus the dragons) who all have different cultures and climates.  This often poses challenges for the refugees.

The Daughters of the Apocalypse has people trying to find enough resources to survive, when former cities are unsafe.

Eloquent Souls presents a setting where soulmarks are common, leading to many odd expressions as people try to make their Words distinctive.

Feathered Nests is about humans interacting with birdlike aliens, and their cross-cultural dynamics.

Frankenstein's Family features two scientists running a valley in historic Romania, along with a pack of werewolves, a couple of vampires, and a mummy.

Hart's Farm is a free love community with lots of interesting relationships.

Monster House is suburban fantasy with a diverse household.

The Moon Door explores a women's chronic pain group and lycanthropy.

The Ocracies has a wide variety of countries crammed together, each with a totally different government.

One God's Story of Mid-Life Crisis follows Shaeth as he works on becoming the God of Drunks.

Polychrome Heroics has ordinary humans, supernaries, blue-plate specials, superheroes, supervillains, primal and animal soups all trying to get along and figure out how to make a functional society.

Quixotic Ideas is a fantasy world with a positive tone, where magic integrates with moder life.  That creates challenges as different people and cultures try to get along.

Or you can ask for something new.

I have a linkback poem, "Where We All Meet" (5 verses, standalone).

If you're interested, mark the date on your calendar, and please hold actual prompts until the "Poetry Fishbowl Open" post next week. (If you're not available that day, or you live in a time zone that makes it hard to reach me, you can leave advance prompts. I am now.) Meanwhile, if you want to help with promotion, please feel free to link back here or repost this on your blog.

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Birdfeeding

Today is sunny and quite warm.

I fed the birds. I've seen several sparrows and a fox squirrel.

EDIT 5/30/23 -- I started cutting brush along the east side of the house.

EDIT 5/30/23 -- I finished cutting brush along the east side of the house, then cut a bit more near the telephone pole garden.

EDIT 5/30/23 -- I cut some low-hanging branches in the yard by the house and the savanna.

I've seen a male house finch.

EDIT 5/30/23 -- I watered the septic garden and plants in the yard by the house.

EDIT 5/30/23 -- I watered the telephone pole garden, the wildflower garden, and the notch in the prairie garden.

EDIT 5/30/23 -- I watered the oak seedlings, the tulip bed, and the grass patch.

As it is now dark, I am done for the night.

Recipe: "Sunny Honey Cookies"

Today I made Sunny Honey Cookies. My partner Doug found some honey-roasted sunflower seeds, which are quite tasty, and I wanted to make cookies with them. I am very pleased with the results. :D

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