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Anzac Biscuits – Weekly Photo Challenge: Fresh
2015 is the ANZAC Centenary year, so I’ve chosen for this post fresh, crunchy, delicious and nutritious ANZAC Biscuits, sent by mothers, sisters, wives and sweethearts to soldiers in WWI. They were all volunteers as was my father in the … Continue reading
EXCITING changes coming to ARTISTS4PEACE…READ ON…
Originally posted on Rethinking Life:
ARTISTS4PEACE It is time to grow! 😀 It has been wonderful setting the foundation with all of you and our monthly scheduled topics. It is nice to share our work and our passion for peace…
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Call for Submissions: Me, as a Child Poetry Series
Originally posted on Silver Birch Press:
Spring is almost upon us (actually, in Los Angeles it’s already here) and our thoughts turn to beginnings — the inspiration for our latest call for submissions: ME, AS A CHILD Poetry Series. PROMPT: In…
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Growing Up In The 1940s
This year we are celebrating the 70th Anniversary of the end of World War Two. It was such a long time ago. I’m trying to remember what it was like for me in those turbulent years of War, and … Continue reading
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Tagged 70th Anniversary of the end of WWII, History, Ivan Mestrovic, memoir, Montessori preschool, Nikola Tesla, Novel, Sur le pont d'Avignon, WWII, Zagreb
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Weekly Photo Challenge: Orange
Just as an orange nourishes your body, so the orange colour energises your soul. The colour orange was named after the fruit. ~ Nasturtium is not only a weed buster, but it’s also edible and very good for your health. … Continue reading
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Tagged bird of paradise, gratitude, nasturtium, orange, photo essay, photography, photos, sunset, Weekly Photo Challenge, Weekly Photo Challenge: Orange
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SunWinks! March 8, 2015: Rhymes with “Economy”
Originally posted on SunWinks!:
[This column first appeared in slightly different form on Gather in 2012] Dear SunWinks! Symbiotes: Metonymy! (gesundheit…) Pardon my Greek… The word “metonymy” itself may look as arcane and hairy as, say, onomatopoeia, but like onomatopoeia,…
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Gertrude Stein’s Mentoring – SunWinks! March 1, 2015: Abstract Poetry
A rose. A rose is a rose is a rose is a rose. A shrivelled rose is a shrivelled rose is a shrivelled rose. Which is sad, very sad, very very sad. You see It is true, very true, … Continue reading
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Tagged abstract poetry, Gertrude Stein, Novel, photo, poem, poetry/photography, SunWe, SunWinks!, wilted rose
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The Black Prince – Prose Poem – SunWinks! February 22, 2015: Waxing Prosaic
Who is The Black Prince? There he stands haughty, resplendent in his shiny blackness, black as tar, black as night, with a touch of white, just to soften his stern image, a sign of his noble lineage that stern image. … Continue reading
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Tagged black prince, Novel, poetry, prose poem, SunWe, SunWinks!
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SunWinks! March 1, 2015: Abstract Poetry: The Medium is the Message.
Originally posted on SunWinks!:
Dear SunWinkers! This is a lightly reworked reissue of my September, 2012 column for Gather.com on the topic of Abstract and Cubist Poetry. I also urge you to read our recent SunWinks! columns on Edith Sitwell…
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My Poem Has Been Published
Dear Fellow Bloggers, My poem “The First Kiss In The 1950s” has been published on Narrator International. Some of you might remember this poem, but if you have time and wish to support me there, please click on the link … Continue reading
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