The haiku is my choice for the sleep prompt.
Curled up in my arms
You were intoxicating
And I could not sleep
poetry
Writing 101 – Reflections
To reflect, to bend back your thoughts.
To wonder why you are here, alone, yet not lonely.
To think about a city that promises never to make you reflect on your stay.
What happens here stays here, so the ads say.
Photo taken at the Wynn, Las Vegas
Writing 101 – Magic
Las Vegas, whose magic cast a spell, enchanted me to stay.
Eat, drink, play, explore, she beckoned.
The magic of her strip of dreams, fulfilled and dashed, of winners and losers.
Her bridges filled with homeless and beggars can’t spoil her brightness.
She’s like Circe, the Goddess of Magic, to whom Odysseus didn’t succumb, but remained for the feast and wine.
Writing 101 – Las Vegas series of 5 poems
Since I am visiting Las Vegas during my Writing 101 course, I decided to put assignments 1 to 5 in a Las Vegas theme.
The prompts are:
1. magic
2. reflections
3. sleep
4. seconds
5. freedom
I will post each separately and hope to be finished catching up by Monday.
Writing 101-A poem a day
I am taking an online course called Writing 101. I will be writing a poem a day. I’m starting late so I need to catch up as the 4th poetry prompt has been posted.
I hope you will enjoy my poetry!
little brown bag
I have been cleaning my apartment and found a folder today containing this poem I wrote in 2003 for a Writing Group I regularly attended in 2003.
I scanned it and I hope it’s legible so I will present it to you, who hopefully enjoy my poetry and can relate to retail therapy.
JillMPallack.wordpress.com – spinoff blog
Dear followers and readers of Jillypopmusic. This was always intended to be purely a blog about independent music. It started to veer into creative writing and I have decided to spin off into a new wordpress blog which will be a portfolio of my writing.
If you’re interested, please visit http://jillmpallack.wordpress.com
My first post is live http://wp.me/p5PPGi-2
Thanks for following my blog! I hope you will follow my portfolio blog also.
-Jill
There’s a place for me in the sun
My #ReblogWednesday is this lovely poem by Luke Otley. Read more of his poetry at lukeotley.com
There was the bus
beastly, pulling up
I sprinted, nimble in my winkle-pickers
thinking ‘ahh, there she goes’
in a lurching, twerking cloud of fetid stink
It’s funny; in your rushed make-up
lines climbed around your eyes like the
footprints of tiny sea birds
in a riverbed
‘Two winters is too long’, I thought
There must be
a place for me
somewhere
in the sun
Water simile haiku : Poetry Assignment #1
The is my first assignment for an online poetry course.
The heavier the weight
I crave clear droplets of you
And sweat you away
all worlds are born in mighty dreams (a triolet)
Katerina Marks wrote a beautiful poem that I am pleased to share today, since Wednesday is my day for creative writing posts.
all worlds are born in mighty dreams
for many views there are no eyes
tears give life to beautiful streams
all worlds are born in mighty dreams
secrets take flight on soft moonbeams
despair washed away in deep sighs
all worlds are born in mighty dreams
for many views there are no eyes
Katerina Marks
3 Feb 2015
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