Writing Articles

Poetry Forms Challenge 2026: “Pirouette”

Another form to try!

Poetic Inspiration or Lack Thereof

Writing prompts don’t always work well for me. Here are some of the things I use, when feeling “uninspired,” instead. Feel free to give them a try if you’re facing a bit of “writers block.” Or go out into the sunshine, paint a picture, work on a puzzle – do something el…

Poetry Forms Challenge 2026: “Quadrille”

Longer than a fortune cookie, shorter than an epic poem – try your hand at the Quadrille poetry form.

Another Poem Fished Out of the Moat

Somebody said, “You get all the best spam!” Sure. But that doesn’t mean I want or need more of it. Nor does it mean any of this made it through the spam filter. No link backs for you, Spammers!

Humans imagined as a broad spectrum of flesh-colored crayons.

Just Another Crayon in the Box

Apr 28, 2025 | Poetry, Writing

How can you not want all the nuance and potential and variety in the world?

Imagine if words were flowers in a garden, or flowers were covered in words - that is what this image is trying to convey, a garden of wildwords.

Increase Diversity

Apr 28, 2025 | Poetry, Writing

Grant Wood's painting, "Young Corn," showing the rolling green and yellow hills and farmland of Iowa.

Heralding the Feast

Apr 16, 2025 | Poetry, Writing

A Dorsimbra poem inspired by the rolling hills and farms of Iowa and Grant Wood’s painting, “Young Corn.”

Midjourney

Apr 14, 2023 | Poetry

Don’t blame the AI if it’s got a personality disorder. It’s been watching US.

Lucid Dreaming

Apr 13, 2023 | Poetry

Knead

Apr 12, 2023 | Poetry

Wartime poets. Bowls of Bread and Bombs. We could all do without this kind of inspiration.

Joy

Apr 11, 2023 | Poetry

Today’s featured image is a collaboration with Midjourney. I fed it the entirety of today’s poem; it gave me this marvelous image of childhood joy! Sometimes, AI isn’t so bad.

In Praise of the Non-Breaking Space

Apr 10, 2023 | Poetry

To the reader who thinks poetry is code – not all poetry is code and not all code is poetry.

Hunger and Longing

Apr 8, 2023 | Poetry

Gratitude

Apr 7, 2023 | Poetry

A reminder: it’s not just the big things that are worth noticing and appreciating.

Frost

Apr 6, 2023 | Poetry

Ekphrastic

Apr 5, 2023 | Poetry

Ekphrastic poems are poets’ responses to art. But in this post, which came first – the poem, or the art? In fact, I used Midjourney AI to generate images based on the ideas expressed in the poem.

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