Originally posted on Entertaining Stories: I started off setting up the old Mac, now that my work PC has been replaced by a laptop. The laptop gives me more versatility, and I have my desk back. After the inevitable upgrades, I spent some time letting my email program catch up. All of that took a…

Originally posted on Does writing excuse watching?: elbow room in woodsvacant areas that suggestlife has gone missing for Colleen’s Weekly Tanka Tuesday Poetry Challenge

Originally posted on rivrvlogr: a growing distance in absence of affection no longer lovers This senryū is my response to Colleen’s 2019 Weekly #Tanka Tuesday #Poetry Challenge No. 148 #SynonymsOnly, which offers empty and space as prompt words. I have used “absence” and “distance” as synonyms.

Originally posted on Trent's World (the Blog): Me Alone Late at night I hear a noise Is she following? I feel the clammy cold The clods from her barren grave I turn and she is just right there Vacuous eyes staring coldly at me Dripping rotting flesh as she approaches Backing away from her…

Originally posted on willowdot21: It’s Tuesday and time for Colleen’s Tuesday Tanka Challenge. Here are your two words for Here are your two words for this week: Empty & Space. Now the twist is we can only use synonyms for these words. I have chosen to write a Tanka. Read into this poem what you…

Originally posted on Jane Dougherty Writes: An etheree for Colleen’s weekly challenge. This woodpecker is part of our evening ritual, watching out for her/him to come back to the dead tree to roost, the hare to come up from the stream bank to browse, and the blackbird to roost in the lime tree outside the…