Spinning words – From Poet’s Corner blog

Sought after, captured the words like a star Precious like diamonds and seen from afar Nurtured and fashioned committed to pen falling to page to …

Spinning words

What You Should Do Now That WordPress Have Officially Retired The Classic Editor – From Hugh’s Views blog

Are you still using the WordPress.Com Classic editor to write your blog posts? You may have missed this important announcement from WordPress.

What You Should Do Now That WordPress Have Officially Retired The Classic Editor

How To Market Your Poetry Online – guest blog post by Hayley Zelda – From Trish Hopkinson blog

Not everyone in modern times truly appreciates poetry. It’s often linked to old sonnets and pretty love rhymes. But as a poet, you know there’s much …

How To Market Your Poetry Online – guest blog post by Hayley Zelda

Retro Future: France in the Year 2000, as Envisioned in 1899 – From Moss and Fog blog

First released in 1899, “France in the Year 2000“ was a series of postcards that envisioned a future one hundred years ahead.  The designs and …

Retro Future: France in the Year 2000, as Envisioned in 1899

Monochrome Magic (3)

“Fall colours in black and white! How odd!” Gun Roswell

Monochrome Magic (3)

Hiding leaf

A half rotten leaf
Hang on to the tree
So strongly willed
That even the chills
Of autumn weather
Could not breach the tether
As strong as the mighty oak
It was grabbing on
Some said, it was a joke
Nothing could survive
The circle of life

“Well,” said the lone leaf
“In your face Mother Nature,
Serves you to let your hatred
Leashed onto a poor piece of dying matter
But now I am finally striking back at ya
So, deal with it,
For I ain’t taking shit
I’ll be here
Way until next year!”

10 Cute Southern Phrases and What They Actually Mean – From Bonnywood Manor blog

1. “Well, sugar my foot!” Translation: “I am thoroughly astonished that what you just said is actually true. Even if it’s really not.” This is a …

10 Cute Southern Phrases and What They Actually Mean

Monochrome Magic (2)

“Fall colours in black and white! How odd!” Gun Roswell

Monochrome Magic (2)

Berried treasure

On the strongest of tree branches
A bunch of free range berries launching
Their planned dive, several feet high
Plunging into the ground below
With sounds loudly thundering
Making the earth tremor and wondering
Wether an earthquake of a great magnitude
Hit the surroundings without prelude

Monochrome Magic (1)

“Fall colours in black and white! How odd!” Gun Roswell

Monochrome Magic (1)

A frozen rose

Even the strongest and prettiest rose
Did in the cold temperatures freeze into an eternal pose
Preserved, for a longest of time
In the most natural cryogenic slime
With a mixture of pure clean water and the weather
The gorgeous flower has now finally been tethered
To the very ground, it once proudly sprout from
A preserved three dee image, now never gone

The seat on the sunny side of the yard

“The sunshine too special to miss, sitting on the side of it, what a bliss” Gun Roswell

The seat on the sunny side of the yard

After a long period, of just sitting, inside

The walls surrounding only, a place none too wide

Phobias, ever growing, of all shapes and sizes

The constant companion in this great, divide

But, a hope, every now and then

The opportunity some time to spend

In the soothing and gorgeous nature exploring

Appears, without so much as a second warning

Packing up a small bag of all the necessities

Because I am planning on a long day, stress free

As this day, will be one in a long while, as one of the rarities

Due to what eve is now going around the world you see

As I finally, take my first step, outside

To be able to venture into the somewhat open wide

I feel some stain on my very own face start

But, ignoring it for a moment to settle the light

And as I look beyond the front porch of my house to part

I know now, what the strange feeling was

Feeling the sides of my face and suddenly find

That totally unexpected, great big smile

Saturday Writing Tips: Writing Effective Action Scenes #WritingTips – From Alison Williams Writing blog

Action scenes don’t necessarily mean huge battles, violence, gunfights or crime. While this might be the case in Hollywood blockbusters, action …

Saturday Writing Tips: Writing Effective Action Scenes #WritingTips