Tag: Poetry

  • I haven’t done a Friday Random 10 in a very long time. I found this old post and thought for National Poetry Month, it would be interesting to combine the two ideas. So here is the idea: Put your music player on random. Blog the first 10 songs that come up. Then make a kind…

  • As you all know I am a lover of poetry and I love to celebrate National Poetry Month when it comes around every April. I found this project the other day and thought it was really cool so I decided to participate. I encourage you to, also! And share the link to your recording here…

  • Death, Grief, Love*

    Death is the calm presence of a male nurse in the hospital room at 3 am describing the act: “You take a breath and die.” Grief is the dull ache deep inside the soul that is always there, sometimes forgotten, but never ignored when it makes its presence known. Love is the compulsion to drive all day, on icy…

  • I am using the daily prompt from yesterday: Now that you’ve got some blogging experience under your belt, re-write your very first post. First, I want to take this opportunity to say that my blog is going to be TEN YEARS OLD on January 27, 2013. I am cooking up something in celebration and I…

  • The Santa Cruz Monica

    Sometimes I wonder If there is another me who still lives in Santa Cruz. The Santa Cruz Monica. The me who chose to be A creative writing major at UCSC. She had guts. She is the one who runs on the beach at sunrise. She is the one who surfs The Hook. She is the…