Entering a New November Novelling Era

I’ve been trying to fill the void left by #NaNoWriMo’s implosion…semi-successfully. So I was super excited to see NaNo 2.0 launched, refocusing on the joy of #writing! I’m excited about novelling again! #WritingCommunity

April 16th’s Fantastic Poem A Day

Robert Lee Brewer’s poetry prompt for today is the title of my poem. Brewer wrote: “…what inspired me to create this prompt are the fantastic works of magical realists and poems like Donald Hall’s “On Reaching the Age of Two Hundred.”” Something FantasticSomething fantasticAs light —That bends and seeks yourSoul through the labyrinthOf lies you’ve…

Risky: Poem A Day

For today’s prompt from Robert Lee Brewer of Writer’s Digest, I immediately thought of how even today, the neurostimulation and neuromodulation treatments that heal much of my brain injury, are still considered risky, unproven. They’ve only been around 40+ years, proven for 20 to heal brain damage. But, I guess, we love to watch science…

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,…