I hope you'll swing over to Texty Ladies today and try today's prompt. It's easy and fun!

Tomorrow: I'll be answering Jamie Ridler's five questions to me.

It's another crazy day but I plan to catch up with everyone tomorrow and over the weekend. Hugs!

Update

It's a crazy busy day! I'll post later this evening when the world quiets down..... I hope!

In the meantime, I've posted the prompt for Poetry Play Thursday over at Texty Ladies. If you're game, stop on over and have a look-see. :)

Have a bright, shiny day friends and I'll catch up with you tonight!

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Poetry Ideas

The contest winners for the Texty Ladies National Poetry Month poetry contest have been announced today. It was difficult to choose the winning entries, as you can imagine, but a contest generally requires a winner so there you go. It was fun reading the entries and we received quite an eclectic mix. They were all winners in my book!

We learn as we go and I think to make our next contest easier for the participants and judges, we will post a blurb about what the judges will be looking for in that particular contest. My personal preference and belief about poetry is that the meaning should not be a complete mystery to the reader; they should not have to work overtime to discover its purpose. Not that it has to be simple and spelled out for you. Like other forms of art, a poem can be subjective just not a complete mystery. Those are my thoughts on the subject anyway. I should clarify that the meaning or message was fairly clear in the poems submitted to the contest.

I'm still tinkering with Poetry Play Thursday. I'm not sure if I should switch up the format each month or just pick a different form of poetry to explore each week. For May, I'd like to give a structured prompt for people to use, not just one word but something like the following:

What if _____________?
I might _____________
What if _____________?
I could _____________
What if _____________?
I would _____________
(Ask a Question)______________?

Would anyone be interested in trying something that structured?

What if there was no daylight?
I might run with wolves and howl at the moon
What if the moon spoke in whispers?
I could learn the secrets of the universe
What if words brought life to dreams?
I would write of the pack, intuition and truth
What if we listened to the Wild Woman within us?




Wild Woman by Pamela Sweet is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-No Derivative Works 3.0 United States License.

We Need You - Poetry Play Thursday

I'm trying something different at Texty Ladies today for Poetry Play Thursday and I hope you'll stop by and help us out. The poetry form I've chosen for the week is Renga and it requires pairs or small groups to write.

I think it will be fun if people participate. You don't have to be a seasoned poet, just be willing to write a few lines to continue the poem.

I can't wait to find out what direction this poem will take! See you over there! :)

POETRY CONTEST & Poetry Play Thursday

In celebration of National Poetry Month, the Texty Ladies are holding a Poetry Contest! For more details, please go to the Texty Ladies site. Good luck to those who enter! (Even those who don't.) :)

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Updates

My interview with talented romance author Melody Lane will post this Thursday, March 26, at Texty Ladies.

Poetry Play Thursday will return the following week, when we'll start our celebration of National Poetry Month.

The Texty Ladies are publishing a free ezine (through free subscription) in May and are accepting submissions of the following:

paintings

drawings

photographs

flash fiction

poetry

essays

writing and art tutorials

writing and art workshops

and more...

related to Spring, beginnings, fresh starts, growth, new love, renewed love...you get the idea.

Send submissions and/or questions to: textyladies@gmail.com

Submission deadline: April 15, 2009

Compensation: As we are unable to pay for your work, compensation will be in the form of advertising and promotion. We hope to be able to compensate monetarily for future work at some point.

Poetry Play Thursday

It's Poetry Play Thursday over at Texty Ladies today. Each week we explore a different form of poetry. Can you guess which one it is this week?

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News & Contest

Poetry Play Thursday is on today at my group blog Texty Ladies.

Look for my upcoming interview with talented author Melody Lane, which will post at Texty Ladies. I'll let you know when I have a confirmed date.

I also wanted to let you know that my friend and author Jane E. Jones is hosting a contest at Texty Ladies where she's giving away a romance themed gift bag filled with all sorts of groovy stuff! The details can be found here.

Poetry Play Thursday Starts Today

I hope you'll head over to Texty Ladies today where I'm posting my new meme, Poetry Play Thursday. We'll start off easy and move on to more difficult forms as we gain confidence.

Why not give it a try?

Texty Ladies News

We're amping things up over at Texty Ladies, my group blog. We'll be posting more artist and author interviews, writing exercises, book reviews and more. We're creating a newsletter that will be distributed periodically by subscription and we're also working on an ezine!

I'm starting a new meme called Poetry Play Thursday which will feature, you guessed it....poetry! April is National Poetry Month so, hopefully, this meme will help us prepare for it. You can click on the badge in the sidebar of this blog and it will take you to the website. I hope you'll give it a try!