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33 More Sunrises & Sunsets before Book Launch
It’s happening!!! My new nature-focused book debuts at the MAC on Main Art Gallery in Bracebridge, Ontario on June 2. Views from the Edge of the Earth presents the beauty of the natural world through poetic musing and images of my artwork and photographs. The collection includes seventy-eight poems written in a mix of free …
Book Pays Homage to Mother Earth
Over the last couple of years, my concern for our planet has filled my mind and driven my writing. What inspires me as a painter, also captivates me as a writer – the morning sun tiptoeing across dew-kissed grass, the touch of winter’s frosty fingers, a solitary tree standing guard as a sentinel over a …
Sharing Poetry Inspired by Paintings
A year ago, I began building a collection of poetry mostly inspired by my paintings and shared a number of them on this blog. As the treasury of written works grows, I’ll continue posting selections and invite your comments. Painting: The Sap is Running, Acrylic on Canvas, 12 x 12 inches, Copyright Wendie Donabie The …
NaPoWriMo2022 Day#6
Today’s challenge: write a poem that reproduces a phrase with the first words of each line. Perhaps you could write a poem in which the first words of each line, read together, reproduce a treasured line of poetry? You could even try using a newspaper headline or something from a magazine article. I chose, Once …
NaPoWriMo 2022 Day #9
Today’s challenge was to write a Nonet. A nonet is a nine-line poem. In the nonet form, each line contains specific, descending syllable counts. The first line contains nine syllables, the second line contains eight, the third line contains seven, and so on. Day #9 Nonet Sleep-filled eyes gaze at the blazing sun flashing hot hues ‘tween …
NaPoWrMo 2022 – Day #3
A Glosa to Robert Frost’s STOPPING BY WOODS ON A SNOWY EVENING A Glosa or Glose is literally a poem that glosses, or explains, or in some way responds to another poem. The idea is to take a quatrain from a poem that you like, and then write a four-stanza poem that explains or responds …
NaPoWrMo 2022 – Day #2
In Pursuit of Weird Words I spent far too long searching for words, ones weird or slightly off. Wabbit I was by the end of it all I’d even developed a cough The words acted as a sternutator my sneezes heard near and far. I cannot go on This must come to an end This …
THE CONTENTMENT OF TREES
NaPoWrMo2022 Day #1 Inspired by this quote by John Muir: “I never saw a discontented tree. They grip the ground as though they liked it, and though fast rooted they travel about as far as we do. They go wandering forth in all directions with every wind, going and coming like ourselves, traveling with us …
Languishing
Apparently that’s the term for what so many of us have been experiencing over the last 16 months of the COVID-19 pandemic. Foggy brain, lack of concentration, forgetfulness, lethargy. In a New York Times article, Adam Grant, an organizational psychologist at Wharton, the author of “Think Again: The Power of Knowing What You Don’t Know” …
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