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 "Composite Creatures." I will be checking this page periodically throughout the day. When people make suggestions, I'll pick some and weave them together into ( Read more... )

This poem came out of the February 7, 2023 Poetry Fishbowl. It was inspired by prompts from Dreamwidth users Siliconshaman, Readera, Kengr, and Helgatwb along with this discussion of quantum language. It also fills the "Nuummite - Empowerment of Untapped Potential" square in my 2-7-23 card for the Valentines Bingo fest. This poem has been sponsored ( Read more... )

This is the freebie for the January Creative Jam. It was inspired by a prompt from . It also fills the "Historical Fiction" square in my 11-1-22 card for the Drabble Fest Bingo.

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This poem is spillover from the October 4, 2022 Poetry Fishbowl. It was inspired by a prompt from Dreamwidth user Wispfox. It also fills the "Mystery" square in my 10-1-22 card for the Fall Festival Bingo. It has been sponsored by a pool with DW user Fuzzyred. It belongs to the Iron Horses thread of the Polychrome Heroics series.

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This poem is spillover from the December 6, 2022 Poetry Fishbowl. It was inspired and sponsored by ng_moonmoth. It also fills the "Extinction" square in my 12-1-22 card for the Wonders of Nature Bingo fest. This poem belongs to the series Artists of Destruction.

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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 "Unusual Sensory Experiences." I will be checking this page periodically throughout the day. When people make suggestions, I'll pick some and weave them ( Read more... )

This is the linkback perk poem for the April 5, 2022 Poetry Fishbowl, originally hosted by Dreamwidth user Dialecticdreamer.  It is spillover from the May 1, 2018 Poetry Fishbowl.  It was inspired by a prompt from rix_scaedu.  This poem also fills the "poetry (magnet or otherwise)" square in my 4-7-18: card for the Origfic Bingo fest.

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This is an advance announcement for the Tuesday, April 5, 2021 Poetry Fishbowl. This time the theme will be "Alternate Universe or Multiverse." I'll be soliciting ideas for Schrodinger's Heroes, other dimensional travelers, time travelers, time masters, man out of time, alternate self, historians, futurists, explorers, inventors, quantum mechanics ( Read more... )

This article talks about common types of exoplanets discovered, and why those are probably not the most common planets, just the easiest to find.

I'll throw in another reason not mentioned there: we're finding a lot of super-Earths, but it is more likely to have lots of little planets in a solar system.  That's because it takes less mass, so each ( Read more... )

Prehistoric inventions abound. Most of these are one-shot gizmos that one genius invented and other people copied, without modification, sometimes for millions of years.

It's not the occasional, isolated super-genius that uplifts a species.  It's the ability to produce multiple  genii close enough together that they can interact, which is how you ( Read more... )