‘Dear Monday…’ e-book available!

"Dear Monday…" book cover‘Dear Monday…’, my collection of love notes to the days of the week, is available in e-book form from Smashwords (ePub/Kindle) and Amazon Kindle. Continue reading

A mid-May morning (a poem)

I had not particularly intended to follow today’s prompt in The Daily Poet, by Kelli Russell Agodon and Martha Silano, which is to listen to jazz or classical music, make notes of what comes to mind while you listen, then write a poem about something you thought of while listening. As it turned out, I started this poem while listening to one of Thelonious Monk’s solo recordings on Pandora…

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iPhone poem (a poem)

Yesterday’s prompt in The Daily Poet, by Kelli Russell Agodon and Martha Silano involved using the computer to write, instead of my usual pen and paper. I took it another step further, using my iPhone, and letting the autofill feature guide the sentences. The only drawback turned out to be that the choices were rather limited. Consequently, I went back through what I had written, placing the cursor at different points to check for alternate word choices. I’m not thrilled with the result, but them’s the rules…

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