The Poetry Fishbowl is now CLOSED. Thank you for your time and attention. Please keep an eye on this page, as I am still writing.

Starting now, the Poetry Fishbowl is open! Today's theme is "Cryptids." I will be checking this page periodically throughout the day. When people make suggestions, I'll pick some and weave them together into a poem ... ( Read more... )

This poem came out of the September 3, 2024 Poetry Fishbowl. It was inspired and sponsored by janetmiles. It also fills the "Born Like This" square in my 9-1-24 card for the People with Disabilities Drabble Fest Bingo. This poem belongs to the series Polychrome Heroics.

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This is today's freebie. It was inspired by a prompt from Dreamwidth user Siberian_skys. It also fills the "science" square in my 8-1-24 card for the Discworld Bingo Fest. This poem belongs to the series LIFC.

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This poem came out of the March 5, 2024 Poetry Fishbowl. It was inspired by prompts from Dreamwidth users Siliconshaman, Kengr, and See_also_friend. It also fills the "Pottery" square (both from the prompt) in my 3-1-24 card for the National Crafting Month Bingo fest. This poem has been sponsored anonymously as a gift for . It belongs to the series ( Read more... )

This poem came out of the March 19, 2024 Bonus Fishbowl. It was inspired by a prompt from Dreamwidth user Wyld_dandelyon. It also fills the "Wool" square in my 3-1-24 card for the National Crafting Month Bingo fest. This poem has been sponsored by Anthony Barrette. It belongs to the series Beneath the Family Tree.

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Today we drove down to Toledo and Greenup to view the eclipse where totality would last a couple of minutes.  We had a nice drive down.

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This poem came out of the October 3, 2023 Poetry Fishbowl. It was inspired by prompts from Dreamwidth users Siliconshaman, Acelightning73, and See_also_friend. It also fills the "Mad Scientist" square in my 10-1-23 card for the Fall Fest Bingo. This poem has been sponsored by Anthony Barrette. It belongs to the series Polychrome Heroics.

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This poem is spillover from the May 16, 2023 Bonus Fishbowl. It was inspired by prompts from Dreamwidth users Fuzzyred and Wyld_dandelyon. It also fills the "bite" square in my 5-1-23 card for the Pets and Animals Bingo fest. This poem has been sponsored by a pool with DW user Fuzzyred. It belongs to the Shiv thread of the Polychrome Heroics series ( Read more... )

This poem was written outside the regular prompt calls. It also fills "Labradorite - Awareness of Layers of Reality" square in my 12-1-22 card for the Valentines Bingo fest. This poem has been sponsored by janetmiles. It belongs to the series A Poesy of Obscure Sorrows.

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This is today's second freebie, courtesy of new prompter Dreamwidth user Ombra_la_lupa99, who inspired it along with a recent comment from HylianEngineer over on AO3. It also fills the "12 Moment of Frustration Day" square in my 10-3-23 card for the Fall Fest Bingo. This poem belongs to the LIFC series.

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