Patchwork Prose and Verse
I’ve been reading Lightning Paths by Kyle Vaughn and finding inspiration in his daily exercises. Today’s exercise is to write a poem about something undergoing a transformation and take it from its beginning stage to its end.
Collector paring down a life disposing of collections now minimalist
I’ve been reading Lightning Paths by Kyle Vaughn, and today’s challenge is writing a poem about a manufactured landscape with human handprints.
stargazing cultivated camp- sites: stargazers’ sunset seats front-row fabulous!
I’ve been reading Lightning Paths by Kyle Vaughn, and today’s challenge is writing a poem about what’s in a filing cabinet.
Truth In the back corner stained divorce papers hold the truth of your affair
I’ve been reading Lightning Paths by Kyle Vaughn. Today’s exercise is to write a poem about a trinket.
Carabiner Clips never too many, never enough ~ assorted carabiner clips keeping my car keys always clipped at the ready~ organized living!
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
Common Threads 