Tense: Poem A Day

TensePast tells a storyPresent lives a storyFuture pretends a story we want to live but never will. #PoemADay #BrainInjury #PTSD #grief Tense was the prompt for today’s poem for Writer’s Digest April poetry challenge. For today’s prompt, write a tense poem. It could be past tense, present tense, and/or future tense. Or it could be…

from where I’m sitting: A Poem

For Writer’s Digest Poem A Day, day two, I wrote in Bluesky in a couple of minutes: from where I’m sittingA glassScratched and etched from useA strawMetal, bent, and stainedA drinkCold, dark, liquid fuelA brewTo wake me up and greetThe storm. #PoemADay #Poem

The Worst of Times: A Poem

Robert Lee Brewer of Writer’s Digest has run a poem a day event during the month of April. I participated in it — and posted my poems here — eons ago. One poem so captivated my Pastor, he asked Old Testament scholars to comment on the thoughts behind it. Being scholars and me being not,…

Shake-It-Up Saturday

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Shake-it-up Saturday is the sixth day of the Written Academy’s 7-Day Writing Sprint. You’re supposed to do something different or shake up your writing environment or whatever. Anything to shake up your writing routine. I’m playing with Lottie Animations.

Changing CES to taVNS

I wrote on Psychology Today about taVNS and its dramatic potential to heal brain injury. Then I decided to follow Dave Siever’s guidance on how to position the CES clips to provide taVNS. Wow! I did not expect such a powerfully motivating and productive result!!