Make Something: Before Lunch
Hey father, provider, so good and so great! Thanks for the marvelous food on my plate … soft mellow cheese and juicy red meat, crisp salty chips and a salsa with heat, […]
Category Archives: Poetry
Make Something: Paper Bag
What if you had to live for a week from a sack? The brown paper kind school kids use for a snack? What precious things would you choose to stow? […]
Make Something: Skeleton
cardboard skeleton brass brad joints set at neat points fixed still with brown tape
Make Something: Birds
mother robin builds twenty homes in her time I have one to tidy and keep out all the grime toothpaste in the sink shoes by the door dishes on the […]
Make Something: Indoors Seem Outdoors
frost on the mirror snow on the sill a window scarcely open admits abundant chill
Make Something: Black and White
white screen taunts until black letters pop into view fingers tap story
Make Something: Pencil
Make something with a pencil? Sure. I love pencils. They’re so forgiving.
Make Something: Wind
For day 164 of 365: Make Something Every Day and Change Your Life, Noah Scalin’s suggestion is to “use the wind.” In this irreverent household, every family member I consulted […]
Make Something: Thumbprint
My thumbprint inspired me to make a haiku this evening.
Make Something: Fictional Character
Oh, Wonder Woman! Response to the prompt: “Make something inspired by a fictional character.” oh, Wonder Woman, great feminist icon princess and warrior hailed from the Amazon strength and speed […]
Make Something: Morning Sky
Make something inspired by today’s morning sky? Sure. How about a haiku? (Photo compliments of husband Jim Nyland and his iPhone. Jim got out under the blue sky a couple […]
Make Something: Childhood Story
Today’s make something prompt: Reinterpret your favorite childhood story. And so, I give you … Remembering Alice girl named Alice follows bunny down a hole to a world that’s funny magic […]
Make Something: 10 Words
Thank God today’s make something prompt is in my wheelhouse. If the assignment were other than writing, I’m not sure what I would produce. For only the second time in […]
Make Something: Foil
I detest aluminum foil. It sets my teeth on edge. Big time. My family knows to give me notice when they’re planning to use the stuff, so I can leave […]
Make Something: Red
scrapes of red sully marked-up draft ’til revisions heal text with edits Today, in response to the make something challenge to work with red, I wrote the red haiku above. A teacher […]
Beth Nyland 