Did your week stink?

Have a stinky hug and make it all better.


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First, Erin Underwood has a post up featuring kitty-related poetry by a number of authors, including yours truly. You can find it right here.

A blurb:

Poetry for Cats is a special literary project to help cats in need by featuring poetry written for and about our furry feline friends. Running an animal rescue is an expensive operation that takes ( Read more... )

Hay! Just a fun note to say that e_underwood is putting together a blog-based poetry project to benefit shelter cats. Specifically:

I'm doing a little poetry project to support cats in need, specifically bengal cats who are sheltered by the Great Lakes Bengal Rescue (GLBR). Unfortunately, I'm not a poet. So, I need your help ( Read more... )

This is the poem I referenced in this entry.

I wanted something like my favorite werewolf pack would use to teach their kids, something that gave just a taste of the underlying culture. It wound up being darkish and a little sad . . . not very cute or childlike. I was very pleased with it, for a silly exercise.

Lycanthropic Acrostic

A is our ( Read more... )

I just want to point out that my friend and fellow werewolf Dr. Omed is an amazing poet.

Wolf RosarySeriously, go read. Guaranteed to bring a howl to the throat ( Read more... )

I had not read any of Lucille Clifton's work before now, and that is a terrible shame, because she was wonderful. It is a pity that she just recently died. She was apparently quite an extraordinary person. And I think that in this picture she looks sort of like my maternal grandmotherSome of her stuff is extraordinarily painful to read, some of ( Read more... )

Something cool for you to play with.

Heather McDougal over at Cabinet of Wonders -- an awesome blog all on its own -- has come up with a very cool poetry form: The mobius or meta haiku.

Her explanation is here.

The haiku have five links on the top line, seven on the middle, and five on the bottom, echoing the syllabic line-structure. The ( Read more... )

Proud Queen of the Earth Gods ( Read more... )

For The Cat in the DoorwayYou lie across every sunbeam ( Read more... )

Well, I was in favor of leaving it, but I recognize now that in the long run it is probably best to go in favor of implied loins, and revise to substitute a less problematic word.

As moriarty6 so deftly pointed out, loins should probably be hinted at. Left hovering on the periphery, as it were. Not jutting obscenely from the page like the spring-loaded ( Read more... )