ysabetwordsmith is helding her monthly Poetry Fishbowl given the coincidence of today's anniversary and the theme of Sleep and Dreams I left a prompt about the trampled dreams of the Tiananmen students, this poem is the result. Thank you, Elizabeth.

The Dream of Freedom
The demonstrations in Tiananmen Square ( Read more... )

Yesterday's Poetry Fishbowl had a fascinating theme: 'Influential women'. A series of prompts combined in inspiring ysabetwordsmith to write Rarely Well Behaved .

While I like her work and I get her point, I must admit that I have trouble with the last verse, because, well one can be a good girl and sit at the loom because she doesn't know any better, but one can ( Read more... )

The Poetry Fishbowl  for October has just been opened. :-)
The theme for today is horror: demons

Join us, leave a prompt, read others' prompts and join a conversation or just read the poems that will be posted during the Fishbowl; the more, the merrier. 

Read The Treasures of Marco Polo a poem by ysabetwordsmith based on my prompt about some objects Marco brought back from his travels and their possible history and significance.

The objects are real and documented, the poem is part of an alternate history series in which China and Italy have been closed allies for about 2000 years because they are two of the many ( Read more... )