Neoblogism - A new word invented especially for bloggers 🙂 Welcome to part two of my dictionary suggestions (part one here). I apologise to all that I barely have time to post at the moment, and I will try to catch up on reading other people's doo-dads when things quieten down a little. Meanwhile, there... Continue Reading →
Rubato – A Sestina and Poetry Challenge
The sestina is evil, having a complicated form based on sixes which is explained further below. I tried this out due to a personal challenge from Crabby, who I will make suffer in return! So this weekends Poetry challenge is to write a sestina. Being really strict, you should have 10 syllables per line, or... Continue Reading →
Guest Blogger – FatW gets mean all over her own ass! (oh my god that sounds disgusting!)
Eight-million years ago I ran a poetry competition and the prize was a guest post on Rule of Stupid (you can imagine the celebrations). In this guest post, competition winner Face At The Window pretends to be me writing about her, tres post-modern dahling... and I've thrown in some cartoons too. Bring it on... Guest... Continue Reading →
Creative Cookery – A Poem – Acrostic
Professionals Only Pontificate In Theory It's Not The Humbly Educated Opining Vaguely, Ending Nicely Who Access Ingenious Thought Amateurs Never Dissect Ideas Tidily But Authors Know Every Single Voice Offers Inspiration Lovingly Accepted Not Offering Theories Starves Poets Eventually And Knowledge Is Not Gained Helping Enthusiastically Lends People Sagacity Nourishing Ourselves Originating Novel Expression
Poetry Prompt – Four Antonyms
Thank you to the people who have begun to write to these prompts. I'm really enjoying the poetry and how it has connected me to so many other great poets. I will get back to writing rants as well, but I'm a bit tied up with other projects at the moment. These prompts are open... Continue Reading →
New Poetry challenge
Hello to: Rambly, Face, Susan, Prayer, Mimsy, Kellogg ...and anyone else who fancies writing poetry to a challenge prompt. Our new challenge is this. Write a poem using apostrophe, the theme is saudade, and it must include the line "love across a bloody ocean" somewhere. Yep, complicated, but it was Susan and myself who cooked it and... Continue Reading →
The nuts and a squirrel – The infinite poetry challenge!
I apologise that I missed Ramblys prompt. A group of us, Rambly, Susan, Prayer, Mimsy, Kellogg have been playing poetry games, and this is one of the prompts. The words required were Salt, River and Book, the theme infinite possibilities. I'm in a sad love poem mood, so here is my effort. Bottoming out I cried until the river Was... Continue Reading →
These people are beautiful :D
Thank you to these people who are engorged with loveliness. Click on the links people, because that's the only wages this lot will get for working ON CHRISTMAS DAY - FOR FREE - JUST TO BE NICE. Fucking idiots!! 😉 Rarasaur Changeforbetterme SerenityintheCity Aliceatwonderland thegreenstudy Faceatthewindow simplyjyune Windycitywonderer jasonwrites Thecurtainraiser SusanDanielsden kirbysdawgblog Myspokenheart WelcomeToTheAlternatePlanet ramblingsfromamum... Continue Reading →
Last push for C4C! – Good news in a good world that only thinks it’s bad
Hi All. C4C goes live in two days! One last push folks. If you haven't done this already - PLEASE retweet. It's for a good cause, costs nothing, takes seconds and could make a massive difference 🙂 You don't have to follow C4C, or even care who we are - just PRESS MY BUTTON!! You'd... Continue Reading →
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