Patchwork Prose and Verse
I’ve been reading Lightning Paths by Kyle Vaughn. Today’s exercise is a poem about cards, a game, or an event. I chose a Haiku to write about my favorite card game!
Lone Hand one hand of euchre holding both bowers, all trump I'll play it alone!
I’ve been reading Kyle Vaughn’s Lightning Paths: 75 Poetry Writing Exercises, which inspired me to delve into another book study of poetry forms and responses. I’ll be making my way through the exercises and prompts between now and the end of the year.
In today’s prompt, Vaughn encourages writers to compose poems that describe epic journeys.
the food hasn't been anything to write home about but the distance? remarkable on this journey toward goal weight
I’ve been reading Kyle Vaughn’s Lightning Paths: 75 Poetry Writing Exercises, which inspired me to delve into another book study of poetry forms and responses. I’ll be making my way through the exercises and prompts between now and the end of the year.
In today’s exercise, writers are encouraged to create poems about the invisible or the shift from visible to invisible, even as a metaphor. I’m thinking about tonight, when I will go outside and watch the Taurid Meteor Shower from campsite 109 of F D R State Park in Pine Mountain, Georgia. I can’t wait to see the show!
Prime Time meteor showers night-sky visibility November's Prime Time
I’ve been reading Kyle Vaughn’s Lightning Paths: 75 Poetry Writing Exercises, which inspired me to delve into another book study of poetry forms and responses. I’ll be making my way through the exercises and prompts between now and the end of the year.
Vaughn challenges writers to compose poems about space – filled or unfilled, outdoors or in, or how we make use of it.
In the Camper unclaustrophobic cloistered camper cubbyholes~ safe spaces to breathe
I’ve been reading Kyle Vaughn’s Lightning Paths: 75 Poetry Writing Exercises, which inspired me to delve into another book study of poetry forms and responses. I’ll be making my way through the exercises and prompts between now and the end of the year.
In today’s writing exercise, Vaughn asks readers to write a poem about a first, showing the feeling of the moment.
I cheered you, head first drawing your first breath of life seven pounds: pure love
I’ve been reading Kyle Vaughn’s Lightning Paths: 75 Poetry Writing Exercises, which inspired me to delve into another book study of poetry forms and responses. I’ll be making my way through the exercises and prompts between now and the end of the year.
In today’s exercise, Vaughn challenges writers to write a poem using a variety of figurative language and forms of imagery to describe the setting so that the imaginary becomes the real through words.
First I Dreamed First, I dreamed of her red-trimmed white Little Guy Max soul in a tear-drop took a YouTube tour birch cabinets, black counters stargazing window stand-up full wet bath just enough for three schnoodles two adventurers un-gymnasium seeking more cozy snuggles more marshmallow nights more fairy tree lights fewer deadlines, more good books more life in less space
I’ve been reading Kyle Vaughn’s Lightning Paths: 75 Poetry Writing Exercises, which inspired me to delve into another book study of poetry forms and responses. I’ll be making my way through the exercises and prompts between now and the end of the year.
Today’s writing is a poem with epistrophy. In the first stanza or section, the writer includes a message with hidden meaning or association using figurative language, and in the second, the writer turns up the concreteness a notch without blatantly saying it. It’s like talking in codes and symbols.
2026 a cocoon from workweek woes weekend escape fireside chats roasting marshmallows stargazing sighs ready for weeknights just like these thinking: how amazing to turn in the keys smile, eat a slice of cake stop setting alarms
I’ve been reading Kyle Vaughn’s Lightning Paths: 75 Poetry Writing Exercises, which inspired me to delve into another book study of poetry forms and responses. I’ll be making my way through the exercises and prompts between now and the end of the year.
Today, Vaughn explains enantiodromia as the changing of something into its opposite, much like a shifting image.
Then and Now Shaking schnoodle, abandoned, alone scared, uncertain, vulnerable caged, in the back of a van awaiting adoption~ and look at you now! half-human child in control fully loved
I’ve been reading Kyle Vaughn’s Lightning Paths: 75 Poetry Writing Exercises, which inspired me to delve into another book study of poetry forms and responses. I’ll be making my way through the exercises and prompts between now and the end of the year.
In today’s prompt, Vaughn encourages readers to write a poem in which an image changes over the course of the poem. I embrace the brevity of short poems, so I chose a Haiku.
Fitting fitting and having a good fit are two wholly different concepts
I’ve been reading Kyle Vaughn’s Lightning Paths: 75 Poetry Writing Exercises, (available on Amazon, linked on title or here on NCTE), which inspired me to delve into another book study of poetry forms and responses. I’ll be making my way through the exercises and prompts between now and the end of the year.
Above: Lake Hamburg from Campsite 18 at Hamburg State Park, early morning of October 30, 2022 after vapors disappeared
Below: A pond near the Johnson Funny Farm where I see steam rising each morning
On Lake Hamburg wisps of steam vapors on Lake Hamburg rising, swirling, reaching Heavenward vanishing into the fall trees on the edge of the shore light, ethereal, angelic is that you over there, waving from the distant shore?
Common Threads 