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Molly’s Cafe

March 17th, 2010 1 Comment

Last Saturday, I read with two other poets, Marita and Jake, from my writing group at Molly’s Cafe. Molly is a Canadian who came to Istanbul 12 years ago to teach and direct an English language school. Several years ago, she gave that up and opened a small cafe hear Galata Tower. Whenever you are [...]

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NaPoWriMo #30: leave a line, take a line

April 30th, 2009 5 Comments

The final NaPoWriMo Read Write Poem prompt was to leave a line for an exquisite corpse and take a line as an inspiration for the final poem. I used Joanna‘s line, a handful of feathers, for a modified Fibonacci poem using word instead of syllable counts for each line. A Handful of Feathers I open [...]

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NaPoWriMo #29: i don’t think i can

April 29th, 2009 6 Comments

Today’s Read Write Poem prompt, things you don’t think you can do, very nearly didn’t come together for me. Maybe this little engine is running out of steam. No Matter No matter what I think I can I think I can I think I can I cannot be in two places at the same time, [...]

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NaPoWriMo #28: seeing red

April 28th, 2009 3 Comments

Today’s Read Write Poem prompt was to write about red. I was stalled until I read the question of the day on my TED widget: Where will you walk today? That was when red and TED all came together for today’s poem. I know we have a few days left, but I want to thank [...]

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NaPoWriMo #27: Cadence

April 27th, 2009 4 Comments

Very nearly off-prompt. Read Write Poem proposed making a poem from a Wordle list. I used the word ‘cadence’ for the title of this haiku. Cadence bird on the high branch sings into deepening gloom just before the rain NaPoWriMo #27

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