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National Poetry Month – a Poem a Day – Day 13
I am a day late. Here is an attempt at Day 13 NaPoWriMo prompt for today (April 13) is “simply to take a walk. Make notes — mental or otherwise — on what you see on your walk, and incorporate these...
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Poem a Day for Day 14
I just couldn’t get into this one. Below the prompt is a poem. At least it rhymes = kind of…. Day 14 prompt. Today’s should be fun — I hope. I challenge you to write a persona poem — that is, a poem...
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Poem a Day Day 15
They did say to write anything. And that some would be better than others. So that’s my apology for day 15. Ravens soaring over the wasteland Screaming cacophonous woeful calls I swore to never move...
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Poem a Day Day 16 Weird stuff.
Well this was weird. First I tried a Celtic poem, but I found I had no idea how to pronounce the words. Or maybe that was the point. This one is Latvian. Remember it’s just the sounds, not an...
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Poem a Day Day 17 Hello. Or Not.
Almost caught up Early on in the month, I asked you to write a valediction — a poem of farewell. Today, let’s try the opposite, and write poems of greeting. There’s lots of things you could greet. The...
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Poem a Day Day 18
Poem a Day Day 18. After reading some other poems today I feel humbled at even trying. but I am determined to finish the assignment. Yeah, it’s sad again. From watching too much news I guess....
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Poem a Day Day 19
Day 19 “Write a poem in the form of a personal ad! Or, if you like, try any kind of want ad. Personal ads, though, do have a kind of poetry to them.” Wanted: A brother who won’t lead his little...
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Poem a Day. Day 20
I could not get inspired from NaPoWriMo’s prompt today . Then I saw this photo. Fields of purple blue spreading to horizon far my heart longs for you photo credit unknown
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Poem a Day Day 22 For Earth Day but not newly written today.
Holy Ground This is Holy Ground, You have desecrated our Holy shrines. Words said throughout the ages to excuse Mankind’s warring and destructive ways. But what is Holy Ground? Where battles were...
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Published in Carry the Light
Two short stories and two poems (three of them prize winners) are published in the Carry The Light Anthology, Vol. II from 2013 San Mateo County Fair Literary Arts Division. (I am also in last year’s...
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http://nancycurteman.wordpress.com/2013/08/15/7-ways-to-add-tension-to-any-ki...
http://nancycurteman.wordpress.com/2013/08/15/7-ways-to-add-tension-to-any-kind-of-novel/. Good, tips and good talk last night at South Bay Writers Club. :-)
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Cranky Autumn
CRANKY AUTUMN Crisp apples falling with worm holes and squirrel bites Colorful leaves littering sidewalks swept up by gas blowers Burning candles and crackling fires the fire code says no fires spread...
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Wish for 2014 – to find the source
IF ONLY If only we could find the wished for Balm of Gilead the source of healing flowing from the heart of giving love. Some say it’s church the pope or cross or fluttering white dove. Others say go...
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National Poetry Month April 2014
Day 16 WD PAD write an elegy. An elegy doesn’t have specific formal rules. Rather, it’s a poem for someone who has died. In fact, elegies are defined as “love poems for the dead” in John Drury’s The...
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7 Ways Authors Can Create Realistic Settings
deepercolors:More good advice from Nancy Originally posted on Global Mysteries: It is essential for authors to create realistic settings. Setting is one of the elements that enables readers to imagine...
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Top Ten Writing Mistakes Editors See Every Day
deepercolors:I sometimes think I will never finish a novel. Sigh. Originally posted on Blot the Skrip and Jar It: In addition to writing and teaching, one of the things I do for a living is to evaluate...
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Two of my poems for Veteran’s Day.
Two of my poems for Veteran’s Day. Fathers Lost The children and their mothers cry. Left alone after a bomb falls into their homes. Or a lone plane goes down in flames. Whether in Bagdad, Or Kosovo,...
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Writer’s Digest Poem a Day – Day 1
Writer’s Digest Poem A Day prompt for day 1 was Today’s prompt is a poem of negation – yes (or maybe, no), I challenge you to write a poem that involves describing something in terms of what it is not,...
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Writer’s Digest Poem a Day – Day 2
Take your gaze upward, and write a poem about the stars. You may find inspiration in this website that lists constellations, while also providing information on the myths associated with each one, as...
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