In autumn leaves fall
Their bright colors twirling down
Red-gold becomes dust

© October 29, 2014
by Twig Plantgirl

The Poet's Occasional AlternativeI was going to write a poem ( Read more... )

Earlier this year I read an anthology of poetry. I took note of poets who grabbed me and am slowly reading more of their work as time, and my local library, allow ( Read more... )

There's a poem to be written from that subject line, but I don't have it yet. If you find it please let me know?

You've probably heard about the cold front that is sweeping across the country. Temperatures were in the mid-40s here for most of today and it's been raining steadily. But over the next few hours the temperature will drop 25 degrees1. ( Read more... )

Down behind the trees
fragments of giant orange moon.
One cricket sings.

I've been reading like crazy & not posting any reviews. Let's see if I can change that. :)

In the last year I've discovered several new mystery series, and a wonderful web site. The website is Fantastic Fiction. It lets you search multiple ways & it is very useful if you want to know what books are in a series. Go, explore, play, discover ( Read more... )

Just had a very funny typo. I was writing a lot of very short sentences with exclamation points. Like this! And this! This one, too! And then I tried to write the words "exclamation points!" and instead wrote explanation points.

I want some of those.

pain should form a poem
neat, concise, clearly bounded
not this shattering

Demimonde is an erotic science fiction novel-in-stories by Mary Anne Mohanraj, funded through Kickstarter. Deadline: Wed Oct 12! Pledge your support today!I just pledged. The process is verrrrry easy, especially if you have an account with Amazon. $10 gets you an electronic copy of the book once it is finished, and larger donations get even ( Read more... )

I just finished reading Go Down, Moses, by William Faulkner. It was originally published as short stories but Faulkner later declared it a novel. The stories are intertwined & build on each other. A mosaic novel, I think it's called.

From the Wikipedia article about the book (if you click the link be warned of possible spoilers): "It spans more ( Read more... )