#padchallenge

[maryannmccarra-fitzpatrick]

#PADChallenge #PoemADayChallenge #November Day 3 Prompt: Write a poem of threes. https://www.instagram.com/p/B4bQbHUFLbx/?igshid=1elua4bwfnx3p

[tashtoo]

I've captured a moment A blinking and darting firefly Isolated, alone A mason jar home I've captured a moment I won't let it go. Natasha Head FB/tashtooparlour #poetry #poetsofinstagram #writers #writersofinstagram #poets #wordporn #poetrymonth #padchallenge #tashtoo #natashahead

[cobanionsmith]

The North Wind and the Sun

Sun asked North Wind, Hey, wanna make a bet? Word, said Wind. Well, just check out that dude in the coat. Bet you can’t make him take it off faster than me. Fffttt.Watch this. So Wind started blowing, just a little at first. No big deal, but the guy buttoned up his coat. So he blew harder. But the dude, we’ll call him Steve, put up his collar, shoved his hands in his pockets, and actually leaned into Wind. Mad now, Wind let him have it. Dust stung Steve’s eyes, so he pulled down his hat, tucked his hands under his arms, hugging his coat even closer.

All done? Sun asked sweetly. Wind huffed and panted, but grudgingly gave over. Sun started grinning, gently warming the now chilled Steve. You know what happened next, right? Steve relaxed, dropped his hands, put down his collar, even undid a button or two. Rubbing her hands together, Sun really smiled now. Steve unbuttoned the rest. Sun laughed. You know what good ol’ Steve did, right? Took off his coat, slung it over his shoulder, even started whistling as he continued walking, practically skipping, on down the road.

Moral? Make a man think it’s his idea, and he’ll do whatever you want.

PAD 2017 Day 22 (Fables)

[fridayblue23]

@faecorpspublishing #padchallenge

Inspired by @pattimouse poetry volumes

Graphic made by @pattimouse

#screamingintothevoid

[authormarialberg]

Day Twenty-Nine: The Birth of Yearning

The Birth of Yearning #photography #poetry #NaPoWriMo #PADChallenge #AtoZChalleng

Yearning by Maria L. Berg 2022 Yearning Yearning is a deep longing: a strong, persistent craving or desire accompanied by tenderness or sadness for something unattainable or distant. Thinking about how to represent yearning, I thought about how the other abstract nouns I’ve explored this month are entangled with yearning: Ambition, Goals, Ideas, Needs and Hopes can induce yearning; people yearn…

[ratherbereading143-blog]

Day 3 of @indiesink photo of the day challenge. Today is photo of favorite indie author. That's a tough one for me. It's like picking your favorite child. A momma just can't do that. So here is a current look at my kindle with just a few of my current reads which include several #indieauthors including @stellajamesauthor @jessbryantbooks @paigefieldsted @alyssadrakenovels @mickeymillerauthor @authorkellijean @acekgray @authordeeellis @awildingwells just to name a few 😉Who else is participating in the #indiesinkpad #padchallenge ??!?! #iloveindieauthors #indieauthors #mustread #bookblogger #bookeditor #bookbetareader

[nwpoetariel]

Day 10 NaNoWriMo & NovPAD

Day 10 NaNoWriMo & NovPAD #PacNWpoet #poetry #poet #poetryprompt #writingprompt #amwriting #poem #NaNoWriMo #NovPAD #NaNoWriMo2018 #NovPAD2018 #PADChallenge

Day 10 of 30 in our 2018 NaNoWriMo & November Poem-A-Day (NovPAD) challenges – a third of the way there!

Today is International Accounting Day / Marine Corps Birthday / Sesame Street Day Let’sfind away to use all three … Today’s prompt? “counting on ol’ Sergent Bert”

Over at Brewer’s 2018 PAD Challenge, Day 10’s prompt is to write a teenage poem

For Poetry Potion’s Poem-A-Day Challenge, Day 10’s…

[maryannmccarra-fitzpatrick]

Day 20 PAD Challenge - Writers Digest - Prompt: Write a “light” poem.

[tashtoo]

It is constant, the story Their story, The one you become a part of When facades fall And the mighty stumble. We all have our moments of struggle Our days of pain But even the moments of the mundane Out number them Like their lives Even the struggle is beautiful And the will to persevere Is the only happy ending we need. Natasha Head FB/tashtooparlour #poetry #poems #tashtoo #natashahead #poetrymonth #wordporn #writing #storytelling #padchallenge

[cobanionsmith]

Toenails

Just one time I clipped the little piggy too close. Then, crying, blood, salve, and Batman bandaid. Now, every time I try to trim them, "You did it! You hurt me! Don't! Don't do it!" My three year old's sharp, convicting accusations just kill me, pierce my heart like velociraptor’s claws once hidden inside Wolverine socks. He's right, though. I did it, but he forgets that he wiggled after I told him "Be a statue. Be perfectly still." Nope. He's a big, nervous chicken clucking “don't-don't don't-don't don't-don't you do it!” All he'll ever remember is my betrayal, the failed attempt at loving care, the shock of pain, and the blood of just that one time every single time.

[authormarialberg]

Day Seventeen: Mysteries of the Mind

Mysteries of the Mind #NaPoWriMo #PADChallenge #photography #poetry #collage

This is the third Sunday of the of the month, and there is no A to Z on Sundays, so today’s photo-challenge is a little different. I’ll be using the photos I took this week to create visual poems guided by a homograph. In Mind by Maria L. Berg 2022 Mind Looking back at this week’s abstract nouns, my mind has been filled with: ideas, joy, kindness, luck, motivation, and need. That’s a lot to…

[nwpoetariel]

Posted today's prompt earlier. The Guidelines for the 10th (10 years already?) April PAD Challenge for latecomer NaPoWriMo/GloPoWriMo. 

Robert Lee Brewer has been hosting this particular challenge for 10 years. And yes, it’s my 10th year participating.

[maryannmccarra-fitzpatrick]

#PADChallenge #NovemberPADChallenge #WritersDigest Day 6 Prompt: Write an “opening” poem. https://www.instagram.com/p/B4iZ6rdFa52/?igshid=1xwhfysn6y5fx

[tashtoo]

It would serve me well to pay attention to the lessons my mother taught me. "The more you pick the scab, the worse the scar will be." Still, I am driven to be my own undoing. I can't pretend it's not there, that I don't care. That the hurt never happened. Skin may heal, pink and new But the scabs of the heart seldom do. They grow and fester Become wounds to the mind So while we may go days thinking everything's fine We're doomed to bleed again. Natasha Head Tashtoo.com #poetry #PoetryMonth #poetrycommunity #igpoets #poetsofig #poetssociety #bleeders #WritersOfIG #igwriters #prose #BirthingInadequacy #books #mothers #poets #tashtoo #NatashaHead #napowrimo #poemaday #padchallenge #Ijustwannawrite

[cobanionsmith]

Dance, 17 Haikus

1. Anyone can dance but not everyone can do it well or alone.

2. Wallflower was my primary occupation, junior high dances.

3. His dance entranced me. My two left feet didn’t faze him. Wedding bells rang.

4. “Check out my moves, Mom!” Smith Family Dance Parties rule: unrestrained joy!

5. Wife, mom, cook, teacher writer, reader of looks who dances like Elaine.

6. Father, husband, friend,  lover, partner--switching roles,  a dance of betweens. 

7. Images and words dance. The screen or page, readers needed (and a stage).

8. Truth dances within Your Words. Distractions pull me from Your presence.

9. Communication is a dance we still haven’t mastered. Will we ever?

10. Brightly feathered males must impress with song and dance. Why not humans, too? 

11. Birthday surprise! Your  denim blue eyes might just dance  right out of your head.

12. In Tír na nÓg, fay  dance forever. I wonder:  are my boys from there? 

13. Weird arithmetic: skipping forward, backward dance when my youngest counts. 

14. How many angels can dance on the head of a pin? Only need one. 

15. Three in one being:  body, soul, spirit of me  dancing for control. 

16. Paradox of Faith: Father, Son, Holy Spirit dance at once as one. 

17. Poetry eludes me. Determined, I wrestle; it just wants to dance.

PAD 2017 Day 17 (Dance)

[maryannmccarra-fitzpatrick]

Day 26 #PADChallenge #WritersDigest #PoemADay #PAD #NovemberChallenge Prompt: Write a “love” or an “anti-love” poem. (at Peekskill, New York) https://www.instagram.com/p/B5Wrirjlshh/?igshid=1iaxgeosoqkpp