Anais Nin
My ideas usually come not at my desk writing but in the midst of living. Anais Nin
Tag Archives: writing
It’s Simple
Day 287 prompt: Simple/Minimalism The simple life I’d like to lead Would give me ample time to read From written works of every sort: Books, blogs, labels, signs, reports, Newsy papers, […]
Happy Heart
Day 250 prompt: The Letter H (a haiku) happily honing her heart’s habitual hum: humorous haikus
The Arts
Day 244 prompt: The Arts Dancer Muscle and rhythm And space to let them move Carver Chisel and knife And block to cut away Painter Brush and color And surface to […]
Relaxation
Day 233 prompt: Relaxation get a massage read a book take a nap sit by a brook light a candle sniff a flower watch a movie take a shower tidy a […]
Garden | Beth’s Essay
When I was a little girl, we had a huge garden just west of the front yard. It felt, to me, as big as a football field. Probably it was […]
Anatole France
The finest words in the world are only vain sounds if you cannot understand them. Anatole France, novelist, essayist, Nobel laureate (1844-1924)
Roald Models
Day 203 prompt: Literature Seuss stirs silliness Carroll cultivates creativity Fitzgerald fully fascinates Dickinson deftly describes Nash narrates nuttiness Orwell observes offenses White wields wonder Poe positively petrifies
Warmth
Day 191 prompt: Warm (an acrostic poem) Writing Always Restores My Troubled Heart
Heartwarming
Day 173 prompt: Heartwarming it all begins with a brainstorm then with luck the ideas swarm keep working til the lines form finished poem makes my heart warm
Thornton Wilder
If you write to impress it will always be bad, but if you write to express it will be good. Thornton Wilder, writer (1897-1975)
Don’t Bother
Day 167 prompt: Love don’t bother with love so many poets and songwriters have already rhymed and opined about how they found and lost and proclaimed and stifled and invested and […]
Eff It
Day 157 prompt: The Letter F if you eff it the air turns fair your act becomes fact the east gets to feast lower makes a flower the lame turns to […]
Rules of the Ode
Day 150 prompt: Rule of Thirds A well-composed photo Complies with the rule of thirds A well-composed poem Just needs the right words
House Stories
Day 135 prompt: Letters in Architecture If the house where you grew up wrote a memoir, would its recollection of your childhood match your own?
Beth Nyland 