Carpe Diem – Tanpopo (Dandelion)
Today’s Carpe Diem kigo is Tanpopo (Dandelion). And once more I turn to Claude Monet for an illustration you cannot stop a child blowing dandelion seed spreading of the weeds […]
Today’s Carpe Diem kigo is Tanpopo (Dandelion). And once more I turn to Claude Monet for an illustration you cannot stop a child blowing dandelion seed spreading of the weeds […]
Once you start to do prompts you see that sooner or later you have to merge them. This combine three prompts. dVerse wants me to write a Miltonian sonnet, Trifecta […]
Today the prompt in Carpe Diem is Tako (kite). As a physicist I got to think about Benjamin Franklin and the discovery of Electricity. (don’t try this at home) Benjamin […]
Triolet’s are one of my favorite forms. Yesterday the wordgame artwiculate had wonderful word called susurrus that begs for poetry. I wrote a tetrameter quatrain that I expand to a […]
Carpe Diem Prompt today is Shuntoo (Spring lantern), and as usual I have probably misunderstood the prompt, but I love Japanese woodblock prints. And this one was so nice. whispering […]
Writing about living in two places (and times)
Poems & Stories from The Author Stew
practising for a whole life
haikai poetry matters
Running in the slow lane
The view from here ... Or here!
“Life is like riding a bicycle. To keep your balance, you must keep moving.” — Albert Einstein
chronicling my quarter life crisis
Now we see through a glass, darkly