I came back I do every so often, just in case. Would love to be in contact with Pengwenn! Any chance? Wish everyone would come to Allpoetry, even if not to enter stuff but to be able to keep in touch, as Jill does. I miss the old gang!

I came just to see if anyone was rattling around in here. Guess not! Miss you guys!

I think you may just be a wee bit late for that song writing contest! Good job, though!

Congrats on your progress, funky...scary at times, how quick it goes, isn't it?
Amazing what we can see "outside the window"...you're doing great! just keep on writing, whenever you can. Sending you a message...

Keep at it...it keeps the brain turning over!

lol Excellent, OP! Yeah, it's always some hidden drawback to everything we attempt. As for piece D, hole 4, and the zz nails...we've been there, done that. Usually a disaster. Especially if the "English" instructions were written by a Taiwanese.

Yeah, I dread going looking at them. My computer guru promises to go with me and advise me, as I haven't a clue, but he knows what I use it for, etc., so will know which bells and whistles I couldn't care less about having. This one is fine as long as I leave it perpetually turned on. It's when I sh...

Hi, mae...interesting twist on the prompt! lol You see very strange things in church bulletins sometimes!

I have to disagree with you. There is "real" poetry, that speaks of something universal that can resonate in all of us, and does so in a unique, fresh manner. And there is incredibly bad "poetry" that hauls out every cliche about love, friendship, nature or whatever, with trite over-used phrases and...

Hey, BF, how are you progressing?? Hope you're still fired up and writing. Nothing wrong with "2 rolls of film"...if it's a period piece. lol

I agree with your feelings about being compared with other writers. I have a poetry student on another site who keeps trying to compare himself with Robert Frost and others. Which is ridiculous. He is Singaporean. All his experiences and lifestyle are in the Asian way. Frost was a New England Yankee...

Hi, Hiker...glad to see some new poems being posted here. It's been unbelievably quiet. I'm trying to get things moving by starting to post poetry challenges again. Please exercise your muscles on the new one (or older ones). :) On this poem...it seems to me that you have the makings of two poems he...

Looks like I've been posting the Tuesday challenge on a sunday! :D But I catch it when I can. Hope we'll have a few venture to take these on this week. 1. How about stretching the imagination with the word "Birdhouse"? Go abstract as far as you want as long as there's one thin strand that connects. ...

Well, what d'ya know...I remembered I had a blog here. As Charles might say, this is to say there's nothing new to report. Except that my computer is dying a slow death, so if I'm absent a while, I'm computer shopping probably.

It seems every quotation has a predecessor which has a predecessor...etc. etc. Another quote..there's nothing new under the sun.

1 & # 3 Not So Sunny Shores Very nicely done! They sure are a noisy bird but I still kind of like them. Just something raffish and independent about them...:) Honored Guest I love word banks...this one filled in so nicely to your hummingbird. Yesterday one came right to this window while I was o...

How about:

grandparents long gone...
yet ruby throat, green feathers
evoke their mem'ry

seagull poem? Short and to the point! hahaha Seagulls and pigeons are the champs at human target practice!

Hey, nice job CP, with a little bit of wistfulness in there too. Hummingbirds, bleeding hearts in the garden, lots of little things like that, do the same for me too. Memories are wonderful things to have.
Now how about a seagull??

New challenge posted, Mae and Hiss! Let's get a little transfusion going here???

Good going, Charles. I wrote a poem a day for NaPoMo...but then, I write at least one a day anyway. lol

Well, let's see if anyone is interested in a few poetic challenges???

1. Your prompt is "Seagull"...take it where you will.

2. A poem in 35 words or less on a "Hummingbird".

3. Write a poem using the following wordbank:
view, airy, somewhere, wings, fog, footprints, amethyst, melody

Hiiiii, Hiss...I see you been lifting weights again!

Good write! My Dad used to take me ice fishing. I'd skate while he fished and then he'd cook pork chops on the end of an ice chisel over the fire. Ah, those days....

Anyone still tuning in? Have a word bank challenge and a scene for you hardy souls to create deathless poetry from...

1. bubble, arch, gray, bronze, amorphous, nib, ruffle, slot, petal, etch

2. Outside the window dawn is breaking...what do you see?

Hope you got my email??

Taking Hold Today snow is dripping from house eaves and their curtain of icicles has melted under golden fingers of sun. The bird that I keep on that green-leafed branch in my heart, has begun singing and wherever I turn the absence of winter's cold grasp is evident. I feel like floating paper boats...