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Every day you are writing your story. Every situation, every decision, is adding a sentence, a page, or a chapter to the book of your life. In this message, Everyone has made a mess of their lives at some point or another. But God doesn't waste pain. If you'll surrender your story to Him, He'll turn your scars into sermons. He'll turn your breakdowns into breakthroughs. Pastor Jamie Nunnally shares how your mess can become your message. 1. Your story is history.Guilt says "what I did was bad." Shame says "who I am is bad." But God says "What I did and who I am has made you brand new."Christian, God has not only forgiven, but forgotten your sin.Isaiah 43:25 NLT To blot or wipe out in Hebrew is to "obliterate or exterminate."The blood of Jesus isn't just white-out that covers your sin—it's an eraser that completely removes it. 1 John 1:9 Honesty with God is the first step to healing from God. Shame grows in the dark, so bring it out into the light. Admit it, quit it, forget it. 2. Your story is His story.When talking about your past, your pain is not the headline—His power is.Romans 8:28 Don't glorify your pain; glorify God through your pain. 3. Your story is ministry.Your past can help someone's future. Ministry isn't just what happens on a stage at church; it's what happens when you sit with someone in the middle of their storm.2 Corinthians 1:3-4The ministry you're called to often comes from the mess you went through.The most powerful ministry tool you have is probably not your preaching, but your past. 4. Your story is prophecy.The Bible says God is no respecter of persons, so when you share what God has done for you, you are prophesying what He will do for someone else.2 Corinthians 1:10 NIV On him we have set our hope that he will continue to deliver usIf He did it before, He'll do it again!Your testimony is God's promise for someone else's problem. When you testify, you prophesy! 5. Your story is victory.Revelation 12:11 NKJVYou get to help God defeat His enemy with your testimony. 6. Your story is a journey.Your story isn't over—its still happening. 2 Corinthians 4:8-9 NLTWhen we stop short of finishing the story, we come away with the wrong conclusion. Don't write someone off while God is still writing their story. The very thing you think disqualifies you—your brokenness, your past, your mess—is the very thing God can use to bring beauty and healing to others. It's time to stop hiding the chapters of your life that you hate, and start letting God use them. Someone's healing is on the other side of your honesty. Let Him turn your mess into your message. Have your surrendered your story to the Lord?
Alicia explores the completely revamped ProAdvisor Academy, breaking down the new certification paths, training modules, and enhanced features available to QuickBooks ProAdvisors. She provides a detailed walkthrough of the six available certifications, including the new Intuit Bookkeeping certification, and explains how the point system ties into ProAdvisor benefits like premium support and third-party discounts. The episode offers valuable insights into test-taking strategies, certification requirements, and how to leverage the new Learn section to fill knowledge gaps without pursuing full certification.SponsorsCoefficient - https://uqb.promo/coefficient MediaBooks - https://uqb.promo/mediabooksRedmond Academy - https://uqb.promo/redmond(00:00) - Welcome to the Unofficial QuickBooks Accountants Podcast (01:01) - Accessing ProAdvisor Academy (01:45) - ProAdvisor Academy Overview (02:33) - Foundation Certifications (03:41) - Intuit Bookkeeping Certification (10:32) - Certification Levels 1 and 2 (20:17) - Desktop Certification (22:06) - ProAdvisor Academy Learn Section (22:53) - My History and Badges (29:31) - Conclusion and Final Thoughts Send your Questions/Comments (we could read/answer them on air) ask@uqapodcast.comLinks/Apps Mentioned in this episode:ProAdvisor Academy: https://www.firmofthefuture.com/quickbooks-proadvisor/exploring-the-new-quickbooks-proadvisor-academy/Insightful Accountant deep dive article: https://insightfulaccountant.com/in-the-news/people-and-business/exploring-the-new-quickbooks-proadvisor-academy-certification-and-training-reinvented/Free virtual conference to prepare for QuickBooks Online Certification Level 1 in December: https://proadvisor.training.intuit.com/dec2024vcon/Alicia's QBO Advanced class on Nov 26, http://royl.ws/QBO-Advanced?affiliate=5393907Sign up to Earmark to earn free CPE for listening to this podcasthttps://www.earmark.app/onboarding
Content warning: child sexual assault, child rape, statutory rape, incest, sexual abuse, cultic abuse, religious abuse, narcissistic abuse, assault, physical, emotional, mental, and financial abuse. Jessica Willis-Fisher is a singer-songwriter living in Nashville, Tennessee. Her childhood as the eldest of twelve siblings and member of a family band was marked by great tumult and abuse, despite spending several years in the public eye. Jessica would eventually free herself and deal with all that came next: coming to terms with her abuse, navigating the media, working to see her abuser imprisoned, and healing from the harm. The Broken Cycle Media has immense gratitude for Jessica's time, energy, and all the awareness she is bringing with this conversation to intrafamilial abuse. Jessica's website: https://jessicawillisfisher.com/ Jessica's song, “My History:” https://jessicawillisfisher.com/brand-new-day-lp/ Unspeakable: Surviving My Childhood and Finding My Voice - https://jessicawillisfisher.com/book/ A Little Bit Culty feat. Jessica: https://alittlebitculty.com/episode/behind-the-reality-jessica-willis-fisher-on-her-childhood-abuse For more resources and a list of related non-profit organizations, please visit http://www.somethingwaswrong.com/resources Sources: Fisher, Jessica Willis. “My History.” Brand New Day LP, Bard Craft Records, 2022, Track 6. https://jessicawillisfisher.com/brand-new-day-lp/ Baker, K. C. (2017, July 11). Former TLC Star Toby Willis Pleads Guilty to Child Rape and Receives 40-Year Sentence. People Magazine. https://people.com/crime/tlc-toby-willis-guilty-plea-child-rape/
Want to know more about mortgages and how to hack the system? Here are my Top 10 Tips! 00:00 – Intro 00:30 – My History with Mortgages 08:31 – My Top Ten Tips For Mortgage Success 09:43 – #1 Mortgage Size 10:22 – #2 Get Rid of it Before Retirement 11:59 – #3 Understand Your Down-Payment 15:54 – #4 Credit Score 17:33 – #5 Avoid ARMs 18:59 – #6 Recoup Closing Costs 19:52 – #7 Keep Equity as Equity 21:03 – #8 Refinance When it Makes Sense 25:51 – #9 Automate Extra Payments 27:04 – #10 Don't Go Backwards Today's Story is about Jay's experiences with mortgages and what he has learned along the way - including how Dave Ramsey's advice didn't quite work for him. Let us know what your experiences have been with mortgages in the comments. The Main Topic goes over Jay's Top 10 Tips for Mortgage Success. If you ever plan on having a mortgage you need to know these tips. If you have a tip we should have added, please leave us a comment! Please don't forget to like, share, and subscribe! Doing so helps us grow and share HopeFilled financial wisdom. We release a new full episode every Tuesday! Disclaimer: This podcast serves as educational entertainment only. Any and all opinions relating to real estate, law, taxes, insurance, and/or securities investing that may be contained within this podcast should not be interpreted or implemented as recommendations nor advice. The opinions related to these topics – especially those regulated by state and/or federal entities – should never be taken as replacement for advice from a competent, licensed professional. HopeFilled Financial Coaching is not liable for any individual acting on any understanding of topics directly or indirectly related to real estate, legal practice, taxes, insurance, or investing even if an individual in question changed their understanding after listening to this podcast. All listeners are entirely responsible for seeking advice from licensed professionals before taking any action of their own. Our Website: HopeFilledFinancial.com Music: "Take Me Higher" by Jahzzar Music Copyright License: This music is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International License. To view a copy of this license, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/b... or send a letter to Creative Commons, PO Box 1866, Mountain View, CA 94042, USA.
The Party told you to reject the evidence of your eyes and ears. It was their final, most essential command. White House calls videos of Biden's public malfunctions 'cheap fakes'. Donald Trump commands 18-point lead over Joe Biden in Iowa. Morgan Freeman explains why he detests Black History month. "My History is American History"
This episode is the second part and wrap-up of my postpartum body recomposition journey. I'm sharing more about my personal journey and what it took to maintain consistency. If your goal is body recomposition or fat loss, this episode covers how you must be in a caloric deficit, following the laws of energy balance, and staying consistent to see results. The number one reason I succeeded in my journey is that I never questioned if I was doing the right thing. My strategy always focused on energy balance and muscle maintenance, and I never thought I was doing it wrong. I'm sharing why my strategy and experience are the foundation of my coaching method. Connect with Hope: Follow on Instagram Join my email list Check out my website Resources & Links: Episode 29, 3 Components of Successful Body Recomposition Episode 18, My Postpartum Body Recomposition Journey So Far & The Power of Choice Episode 8, 3 Pillars of a Sustainable Diet + PEC Plates & 2-Mac-Snacks Episode 1, My History with the Paleo Diet & 3 Major Changes to My Nutrition Philosophy 7 Days of Simple Meals eBook 30-Minute Nutrition Consultation The Hopewell Approach Course 1:1 Nutrition Coaching Hopewell Health recipes Make sure to hit subscribe so you never miss an episode!
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I'm excited to share my thrilling story of how I managed to break into New York Fashion Week not once, not twice, but three times. I was a young woman determined to land a job in the fashion industry, and I'll take you through my hilarious and outrageous attempts to get in. From trying to con my way past security to hacking my way in with an old QR code, I tried it all. Along the way, I encountered some of the biggest names in fashion and even checked in celebrities like Beyonce and Jessica Biel. But getting into Fashion Week was only half the battle. Listen in as I recount my firsthand experience of the glamour and excitement of the runway shows. ▶︎ Watch the Video Podcast Here! 00:42 — Intro 01:22 — My History of Breaking into Fashion Week 02:04 — Break In #1 06:59 — Break In #2 08:31 — Break In #3 20 :01 — Looking Back Resources: The Tents Documentary on Fashion Week The Doers Portal Team AP Consulting Team AP Resource Shop The Roundtable Freebies _____ Into it? Subscribe/Follow/Rate the podcast wherever you are listening (from one entrepreneur to another, we know how important this is right?!) Subscribe to the Team AP Consulting YouTube Channel! And make sure you take your Archetype quiz to unlock loads of free content tailored to you + your business. Follow us on IG here! And check out all the other bomb podcasts from Fast Forward Productions right here. Get more from Ashli over on this side and leave your listener voicemails at the link below --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/unfiltered-entrepreneur/message
Into the third week of Fantasy Fund Manager, the interest is still growing as over 3500 users have joined the fun with a critical education driver behind the initiative. Corion Capital's Garreth Montano and Chris Clarke from Money Better joined BizNews' Stuart Lowman. The most brought-in stock for the week was Richemont, which also made it the most-owned share in the game. Gareth put this down to the weakening rand, which might have also played the antithetical part in Capitec being the most sold-off share. The developers have also worked hard with the My History tab launched in-app. This addition allows users to keep track of any weekly trades and performance. If you still want to play the game, register at www.fantasyfundmanager.co.za and compete in the weekly and monthly prizes—thanks to our platinum sponsors Sharenet, Terebinth Capital, ClucasGray Asset Management, and Money Better. Remember to subscribe to the podcast so you don't miss an episode. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Jessica Willis Fisher is Americana singer/songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, and author of a bestselling memoir “Unspeakable: Surviving My Childhood and Finding My Voice”. Jessica is the eldest daughter in a family of 14 which was headed by an extremely controlling, abusive, violent and domineering father who is now serving a prison sentence of 40 years on 4 counts of child rape. The darker reality was far from the wholesome All-American Christian musical family persona depicted in their reality TV show or their stint on America's Got Talent. But Jessica found the courage to find her voice, share her story and do deep healing work; some of which has been channeled into music and her critically acclaimed debut solo album “Brand New Day”, a song of which is played at the end of this episode.We also discuss:Jessica's childhood abuse & her father's arrestNarcissism, sociopathy, cults, high control groups Healing from trauma & getting out of survival modeJessica's husband & the remarkable power of love in healing Moving forward & post-traumatic growthAre we friends on socials yet? If not, come and say hello through the links below! InstagramTikTokYouTubeWebsiteConnect with Jessica here: Instagram YouTubeWebsiteThe featured song at the end of the episode is "My History" which is available here on YouTube.Music by: Flood (Instrumental) by RYYZN https://soundcloud.com/ryyznCreative Commons — Attribution 3.0 Unported — CC BY 3.0
History of National Poetry Writing Month National Poetry Writing Month (also known as NaPoWriMo) is a creative writing project held annually in April in which participants attempt to write a poem each day for one month. NaPoWriMo coincides with National Poetry Month in the United States of America and Canada. This website is owned and operated by Maureen Thorson, a poet living in Washington, DC. Inspired by NaNoWriMo, National Novel Writing Month), she started writing a poem a day for the month of April back in 2003, posting the poems on her blog. When other people started writing poems for April and posting them on their own blogs, Maureen linked to them. After a few years, so many people were doing NaPoWriMo that Maureen decided to launch an independent website for the project. My History with National Poetry Writing Month I started writing poetry in 1988 after I had been exposed to T.S. Elliot in my honors English class in high school. In 1992 I started reading my poetry publicly at Espresso Europia Coffee Shop in Abilene Tx while I was in the United States Air Force. While living in Rockford Illinois I published my first book of poetry Throwing Yourself at the Ground and Missing in 2007 followed by Postcards From Someone You Don't Know in 2008 Wisdom From the Sack in 2010 and Shaving Crop Circles In My Chest Hair in 2017. You can get copies of all of these books in my merch section. In 2020 I started publishing my podcast version of the challenge and those can be viewed here for 2020 and here for 2021. What I am doing differently for Poetry Month For 2023 I am not going to be just writing poems in April, I will be writing poems all year round. Also, since I will be writing all year round, I am using a different source for my prompts. There is a blog called Think Written and you can find it here. I will also be performing these works at Katora Coffee House here in Fredericksburg Virginia on their Friday Night Snaps Open Mic Poetry reading. Some of the podcast episodes you will hear will be a live recording of me reading the poem to a live audience, other times I will be reading it in the comfort of my home studio. I do plan on posting my work to the NaPoWriMo site and interacting with the poets there and see if they want to read their work on this podcast. Todays Poetry Prompt Now, write your own two-part poem that focuses on a food or type of meal. At some point in the poem, describe the food or meal as if it were a specific kind of person. Give the food/meal at least one line of spoken dialogue. Thanksgiving Dinner 29 April 2023 I never really thought about this meal when I was younger We always drove the hour that took forever No rest stops unless you call pissing in the corn fields a rest stop We always left before dawn And were lucky to return with our lives We would eat freshly slaughtered ham Nothing tasted sweeter The mashed potatoes not from a box Was chunky and gritty smashed rather than mashed With all the cousins in their bare house And each year a James Bond flick on the background The cigarettes overflowed in the ashtray The beers and wine were flowing, even for the kids I'd like to say I tasted my first beer there But then I'd be lying to you Just like all the lies of “yeah we are good to drive” Before the days of MADD and knowing better One day I stopped going Could have been because my folks found god He was hiding out in the churches That met when I was watching wrestling And we as a family turned away I didn't really get that feeling again Yes, there was destructive activities That I can see from the safety of time “I didn't let you die during those days Yes, there was the accident one year before the times of DUI's Yes, there was the car on fire that you passed without a care But I didn't let you die I kept you as safe as I could for something else” When I lived alone With the roommates and on the 33rd floor above the Lake The diner that I had frequented was open Taking in others like me Without friends or a family And on the TV, still black and white A game of hockey played quietly While the others were munching on turkey I became engrossed And that was when I decided the next year to hold a feast But unknown to me what the next year would bring I was alone in my apartment I had finally escaped the crowds Making a meal for two In a studio barely big enough for one In case there was a knock at the door There was none But the next year was different I had stepped out and allowed myself to feel To become attached to those who enlightened me On being a human On being open and vulnerable And that year I had a few friends over Who had nowhere else to go And we dined like kings “I am preparing you for a much better feast A feast that you can share with family and friends A family you created And friends who were true” And so, one year of cooking and clamoring There I was A Husband and father of three mentor to a nephew And friends who brought friends to feast We dined on duck And other delicacies We left a spot open for anyone who had nowhere to go And my children sat there and asked Why the empty spot And we said together “That spot is for me That spot represents the chair that I once sat at Alone in my studio That chair represents those who couldn't make it to a home” With confused looks no more questions came And a small wish was born that day A wish that they wouldn't have to carry that tradition forward A wish that one day I wouldn't either A wish that the past could be forgiven And a wish for a better year ahead Sign Up for the Create Art Podcast Newsletter Or Subscribe Here Reaching Out To The Podcast To reach out to me, email timothy@createartpodcast.com I would love to hear about your journey and what you are working on. If you would like to be on the show or have me discuss a topic that is giving you trouble write in and let's start that conversation. Email: timothy@createartpodcast.com YouTube Channel: Create Art Podcast YT Channel IG: @createartpodcast Twitter: @createartpod Special Message If you have found value in this podcast please feel free to share it with a friend as that is the best way to find new podcasts. I want this to be a 5-star podcast in your eyes so let me know what you would like to see. Speaking about sharing with a friend, check out my other podcast Find A Podcast About where I help you outsmart the algorithm and find your next binge-worthy podcast. . You can find that podcast at findapodcastabout.xyz.
History of National Poetry Writing Month National Poetry Writing Month (also known as NaPoWriMo) is a creative writing project held annually in April in which participants attempt to write a poem each day for one month. NaPoWriMo coincides with National Poetry Month in the United States of America and Canada. This website is owned and operated by Maureen Thorson, a poet living in Washington, DC. Inspired by NaNoWriMo, National Novel Writing Month), she started writing a poem a day for the month of April back in 2003, posting the poems on her blog. When other people started writing poems for April and posting them on their own blogs, Maureen linked to them. After a few years, so many people were doing NaPoWriMo that Maureen decided to launch an independent website for the project. My History with National Poetry Writing Month I started writing poetry in 1988 after I had been exposed to T.S. Elliot in my honors English class in high school. In 1992 I started reading my poetry publicly at Espresso Europia Coffee Shop in Abilene Tx while I was in the United States Air Force. While living in Rockford Illinois I published my first book of poetry Throwing Yourself at the Ground and Missing in 2007 followed by Postcards From Someone You Don't Know in 2008 Wisdom From the Sack in 2010 and Shaving Crop Circles In My Chest Hair in 2017. You can get copies of all of these books in my merch section. In 2020 I started publishing my podcast version of the challenge and those can be viewed here for 2020 and here for 2021. What I am doing differently for Poetry Month For 2023 I am not going to be just writing poems in April, I will be writing poems all year round. Also, since I will be writing all year round, I am using a different source for my prompts. There is a blog called Think Written and you can find it here. I will also be performing these works at Katora Coffee House here in Fredericksburg Virginia on their Friday Night Snaps Open Mic Poetry reading. Some of the podcast episodes you will hear will be a live recording of me reading the poem to a live audience, other times I will be reading it in the comfort of my home studio. I do plan on posting my work to the NaPoWriMo site and interacting with the poets there and see if they want to read their work on this podcast. Todays Poetry Prompt I'd like to challenge you to write a palinode – a poem in which you retract a view or sentiment expressed in an earlier poem. For example, you might pick a poem you drafted earlier in the month and write a poem that contradicts or troubles it. This could be an interesting way to start working on a series of related poems. Alternatively, you could play around with the idea of a palinode by writing a poem in which the speaker says something like “I take it back” or otherwise abandons a prior position within the single poem. At One Time 30 April 2023 You used to be important to me I even let you seep into my world Mine The world of words That I crafted for others And let you reside for one or two works I looked to you to provide guidance and called you Papa I wanted to be the ideal son I don't know when I felt that I should And most normal families According to your third trophy wife Are set up that way And she said that because I told you not to come unannounced I gave you restrictions To protect my mental health To protect the family I cocreated I told you both not to send anything without checking And you could not abide You could not follow directions You could not honor my life So you were discarded I won't speak your name in my house I won't call you Papa Or father or friend or mentor Especially after the one call you did receive At a time when I knew you wouldn't be home And I left the last message You would ever receive from me You were renamed sperm donor Which is what you were But you were so much more You were my tormentor You instilled the hatred of my body My mind My choices You instilled that I shouldn't ever be satisfied with myself Which is not the same as never being satisfied with the status quo I have to lie to my children And beg their forgiveness later in life When they find out you didn't die When I vaguely mentioned that you did No details Just death Because you are dead to me But you still live in me And the hatred I have felt of myself Reminds me of your hold Your influence But the victory comes When the day you will actually die And I won't fear you showing up at my door Ad having to explain to my children who the person I won't let in the house Standing on the porch Waiting to infect The poison The poison you injected into me They may ask who that person is And again I will lie to them It's just easier this way Then describing your sickness So I do thank you for one thing And that is being the photo negative I don't ever want to be Other than that I'll see you in hell And that is what you mean to me Sign Up for the Create Art Podcast Newsletter Or Subscribe Here Reaching Out To The Podcast To reach out to me, email timothy@createartpodcast.com I would love to hear about your journey and what you are working on. If you would like to be on the show or have me discuss a topic that is giving you trouble write in and let's start that conversation. Email: timothy@createartpodcast.com YouTube Channel: Create Art Podcast YT Channel IG: @createartpodcast Twitter: @createartpod Special Message If you have found value in this podcast please feel free to share it with a friend as that is the best way to find new podcasts. I want this to be a 5-star podcast in your eyes so let me know what you would like to see. Speaking about sharing with a friend, check out my other podcast Find A Podcast About where I help you outsmart the algorithm and find your next binge-worthy podcast. . You can find that podcast at findapodcastabout.xyz.
History of National Poetry Writing Month National Poetry Writing Month (also known as NaPoWriMo) is a creative writing project held annually in April in which participants attempt to write a poem each day for one month. NaPoWriMo coincides with National Poetry Month in the United States of America and Canada. This website is owned and operated by Maureen Thorson, a poet living in Washington, DC. Inspired by NaNoWriMo, National Novel Writing Month), she started writing a poem a day for the month of April back in 2003, posting the poems on her blog. When other people started writing poems for April and posting them on their own blogs, Maureen linked to them. After a few years, so many people were doing NaPoWriMo that Maureen decided to launch an independent website for the project. My History with National Poetry Writing Month I started writing poetry in 1988 after I had been exposed to T.S. Elliot in my honors English class in high school. In 1992 I started reading my poetry publicly at Espresso Europia Coffee Shop in Abilene Tx while I was in the United States Air Force. While living in Rockford Illinois I published my first book of poetry Throwing Yourself at the Ground and Missing in 2007 followed by Postcards From Someone You Don't Know in 2008 Wisdom From the Sack in 2010 and Shaving Crop Circles In My Chest Hair in 2017. You can get copies of all of these books in my merch section. In 2020 I started publishing my podcast version of the challenge and those can be viewed here for 2020 and here for 2021. What I am doing differently for Poetry Month For 2023 I am not going to be just writing poems in April, I will be writing poems all year round. Also, since I will be writing all year round, I am using a different source for my prompts. There is a blog called Think Written and you can find it here. I will also be performing these works at Katora Coffee House here in Fredericksburg Virginia on their Friday Night Snaps Open Mic Poetry reading. Some of the podcast episodes you will hear will be a live recording of me reading the poem to a live audience, other times I will be reading it in the comfort of my home studio. I do plan on posting my work to the NaPoWriMo site and interacting with the poets there and see if they want to read their work on this podcast. Todays Poetry Prompt Today, begin by reading Bernadette Mayer's poem “The Lobelias of Fear.” Now write your own poem titled “The ________ of ________,” where the first blank is a very particular kind of plant or animal, and the second blank is an abstract noun. The poem should contain at least one simile that plays on double meanings or otherwise doesn't quite make “sense,” and describe things or beings from very different times or places as co-existing in the same space. The Vulture of Tolerance 27 April 2023 It doesn't matter who we are Or where we came from Or what religion we subscribe to How much money we made How many people's lives we have positively impacted There is no difference in party allegiance Or Nationality Gender or sexual orientation If your socks match If you are wearing underwear or prefer to go commando If there is dirt under your fingernails Or callouses on your palms Or glitter nail polish that you let your children apply If you are obese Or suffer from a chronic disorder Or suffer from too much of the chronic Once your body is laid out in a field You all taste the same to them And no, you don't taste like chicken You are their food And all that makes you, matters little to them Your dreams and aspirations are just seasoning They don't care at all about anything you have done You are what's for dinner Dark meat, light meat Meat is meat And when you are as ugly as they are An easy meal is like going to the drive thru for them So, cheer up Be their happy meal And make sure not to carry plastic toys in your pockets Choking hazard ya know Wouldn't want to be the next meal Sign Up for the Create Art Podcast Newsletter Or Subscribe Here Reaching Out To The Podcast To reach out to me, email timothy@createartpodcast.com I would love to hear about your journey and what you are working on. If you would like to be on the show or have me discuss a topic that is giving you trouble write in and let's start that conversation. Email: timothy@createartpodcast.com YouTube Channel: Create Art Podcast YT Channel IG: @createartpodcast Twitter: @createartpod Special Message If you have found value in this podcast please feel free to share it with a friend as that is the best way to find new podcasts. I want this to be a 5-star podcast in your eyes so let me know what you would like to see. Speaking about sharing with a friend, check out my other podcast Find A Podcast About where I help you outsmart the algorithm and find your next binge-worthy podcast. . You can find that podcast at findapodcastabout.xyz.
History of National Poetry Writing Month National Poetry Writing Month (also known as NaPoWriMo) is a creative writing project held annually in April in which participants attempt to write a poem each day for one month. NaPoWriMo coincides with National Poetry Month in the United States of America and Canada. This website is owned and operated by Maureen Thorson, a poet living in Washington, DC. Inspired by NaNoWriMo, National Novel Writing Month), she started writing a poem a day for the month of April back in 2003, posting the poems on her blog. When other people started writing poems for April and posting them on their own blogs, Maureen linked to them. After a few years, so many people were doing NaPoWriMo that Maureen decided to launch an independent website for the project. My History with National Poetry Writing Month I started writing poetry in 1988 after I had been exposed to T.S. Elliot in my honors English class in high school. In 1992 I started reading my poetry publicly at Espresso Europia Coffee Shop in Abilene Tx while I was in the United States Air Force. While living in Rockford Illinois I published my first book of poetry Throwing Yourself at the Ground and Missing in 2007 followed by Postcards From Someone You Don't Know in 2008 Wisdom From the Sack in 2010 and Shaving Crop Circles In My Chest Hair in 2017. You can get copies of all of these books in my merch section. In 2020 I started publishing my podcast version of the challenge and those can be viewed here for 2020 and here for 2021. What I am doing differently for Poetry Month For 2023 I am not going to be just writing poems in April, I will be writing poems all year round. Also, since I will be writing all year round, I am using a different source for my prompts. There is a blog called Think Written and you can find it here. I will also be performing these works at Katora Coffee House here in Fredericksburg Virginia on their Friday Night Snaps Open Mic Poetry reading. Some of the podcast episodes you will hear will be a live recording of me reading the poem to a live audience, other times I will be reading it in the comfort of my home studio. I do plan on posting my work to the NaPoWriMo site and interacting with the poets there and see if they want to read their work on this podcast. Todays Poetry Prompt Today, I challenge you to write your own index poem. You could start with found language from an actual index, or you could invent an index (actual index used from It's Not All In Your Head by Patricia Ferrell PHD) Indexing A Diagnosis 28 April 2023 Multiple Sclerosis (MS) Acceptance 43-46 but I was 48 when I finally got the diagnosis and even today, I don't fully accept it, and for sure when I was 43-46 I sure as fuck didn't so who was supposed to tell me to accept it when there was nothing to accept Anger 10-11 Let me tell you, I have been angry for more than those two years, I have been angry at this insidious condition for what feels a lifetime, and I don't think at 10 or 11 I was that angry Anxiety 71-96 oh great I have that to look forward to, at least I'll live to 96, but then how does this book know that, oh wait is it the level of anxiety on a 100-point scale, well that seems about right each and every day that ends with a Y Attitude 197-198 I don't have one, I am just frustrated with people's ignorance and bullshit, if you want attitude I'll give you attitude Bike rides 196-197 Yes, I have a stationary one in my mancave, it's great for collecting dust, hanging clothes, for looking like I care for my body. Children 57-59 every prayer I say to a god I don't believe in or recognize is that they don't get this and if they do then what I will do to the gods that allowed this Cognitive Impairment 3-5, 64-66 are you talking about the time I was pouring beers for the sperm donors party when he wanted to be an elected official or are you talking about all the cigarette smoke I inhaled because it wasn't the right time to quit or are you talking about how many times I have to reread a line to remember that I read that line. CNS Components 6-10 is that a new Canadian free streaming service, will they teach us Americans the correct way to make poutine or play hockey or to just be nice, no? How about a Canadian stereo system, no? Well, I know what a CNC lathe is, am I close? Coping Strategies 173-199 I thought I knew how to cope, but now I want this tattooed to my chest, written backwards so I can read it in the mirror and when I take off my shirt people can ask me what is carved there. Humor is a hell of a drug Sign Up for the Create Art Podcast Newsletter Or Subscribe Here Reaching Out To The Podcast To reach out to me, email timothy@createartpodcast.com I would love to hear about your journey and what you are working on. If you would like to be on the show or have me discuss a topic that is giving you trouble write in and let's start that conversation. Email: timothy@createartpodcast.com YouTube Channel: Create Art Podcast YT Channel IG: @createartpodcast Twitter: @createartpod Special Message If you have found value in this podcast please feel free to share it with a friend as that is the best way to find new podcasts. I want this to be a 5-star podcast in your eyes so let me know what you would like to see. Speaking about sharing with a friend, check out my other podcast Find A Podcast About where I help you outsmart the algorithm and find your next binge-worthy podcast. . You can find that podcast at findapodcastabout.xyz.
History of National Poetry Writing Month National Poetry Writing Month (also known as NaPoWriMo) is a creative writing project held annually in April in which participants attempt to write a poem each day for one month. NaPoWriMo coincides with National Poetry Month in the United States of America and Canada. This website is owned and operated by Maureen Thorson, a poet living in Washington, DC. Inspired by NaNoWriMo, National Novel Writing Month), she started writing a poem a day for the month of April back in 2003, posting the poems on her blog. When other people started writing poems for April and posting them on their own blogs, Maureen linked to them. After a few years, so many people were doing NaPoWriMo that Maureen decided to launch an independent website for the project. My History with National Poetry Writing Month I started writing poetry in 1988 after I had been exposed to T.S. Elliot in my honors English class in high school. In 1992 I started reading my poetry publicly at Espresso Europia Coffee Shop in Abilene Tx while I was in the United States Air Force. While living in Rockford Illinois I published my first book of poetry Throwing Yourself at the Ground and Missing in 2007 followed by Postcards From Someone You Don't Know in 2008 Wisdom From the Sack in 2010 and Shaving Crop Circles In My Chest Hair in 2017. You can get copies of all of these books in my merch section. In 2020 I started publishing my podcast version of the challenge and those can be viewed here for 2020 and here for 2021. What I am doing differently for Poetry Month For 2023 I am not going to be just writing poems in April, I will be writing poems all year round. Also, since I will be writing all year round, I am using a different source for my prompts. There is a blog called Think Written and you can find it here. I will also be performing these works at Katora Coffee House here in Fredericksburg Virginia on their Friday Night Snaps Open Mic Poetry reading. Some of the podcast episodes you will hear will be a live recording of me reading the poem to a live audience, other times I will be reading it in the comfort of my home studio. I do plan on posting my work to the NaPoWriMo site and interacting with the poets there and see if they want to read their work on this podcast. Todays Poetry Prompt prompt for the day asks you to write a portrait poem that focuses on or plays with the meaning of the subject's name. This could be a self-portrait, a portrait of a family member or close friend, or even a portrait of a famous or historical person. Defined By A Name 26 April 2023 How can I honor a god that doesn't honor me back It's not that I don't believe, simply I don't believe as you do My idea is less personal and more expansive But stick with coloring in the lines It's what you really want to do I wasn't there being Paul's bunk mate It's not my fault that he hijacked your religion That guy was a two fer part Jewish and part Greek So, I hope he can make a great falafel gyro Hold the pork You may think I am rich And I have some student loans to show you You may think I am masculine And my ex-boyfriends will tell you the same I like to shock people's perceptions That's why I took on my nickname I am strong and nerdy I am so many contradictions An Anarchist in Libertarian clothes From blue-collar 80-hour work weeks to two flights of stairs commute Have fun unspooling my threads Sign Up for the Create Art Podcast Newsletter Or Subscribe Here Reaching Out To The Podcast To reach out to me, email timothy@createartpodcast.com I would love to hear about your journey and what you are working on. If you would like to be on the show or have me discuss a topic that is giving you trouble write in and let's start that conversation. Email: timothy@createartpodcast.com YouTube Channel: Create Art Podcast YT Channel IG: @createartpodcast Twitter: @createartpod Special Message If you have found value in this podcast please feel free to share it with a friend as that is the best way to find new podcasts. I want this to be a 5-star podcast in your eyes so let me know what you would like to see. Speaking about sharing with a friend, check out my other podcast Find A Podcast About where I help you outsmart the algorithm and find your next binge-worthy podcast. . You can find that podcast at findapodcastabout.xyz.
History of National Poetry Writing Month National Poetry Writing Month (also known as NaPoWriMo) is a creative writing project held annually in April in which participants attempt to write a poem each day for one month. NaPoWriMo coincides with National Poetry Month in the United States of America and Canada. This website is owned and operated by Maureen Thorson, a poet living in Washington, DC. Inspired by NaNoWriMo, National Novel Writing Month), she started writing a poem a day for the month of April back in 2003, posting the poems on her blog. When other people started writing poems for April and posting them on their own blogs, Maureen linked to them. After a few years, so many people were doing NaPoWriMo that Maureen decided to launch an independent website for the project. My History with National Poetry Writing Month I started writing poetry in 1988 after I had been exposed to T.S. Elliot in my honors English class in high school. In 1992 I started reading my poetry publicly at Espresso Europia Coffee Shop in Abilene Tx while I was in the United States Air Force. While living in Rockford Illinois I published my first book of poetry Throwing Yourself at the Ground and Missing in 2007 followed by Postcards From Someone You Don't Know in 2008 Wisdom From the Sack in 2010 and Shaving Crop Circles In My Chest Hair in 2017. You can get copies of all of these books in my merch section. In 2020 I started publishing my podcast version of the challenge and those can be viewed here for 2020 and here for 2021. What I am doing differently for Poetry Month For 2023 I am not going to be just writing poems in April, I will be writing poems all year round. Also, since I will be writing all year round, I am using a different source for my prompts. There is a blog called Think Written and you can find it here. I will also be performing these works at Katora Coffee House here in Fredericksburg Virginia on their Friday Night Snaps Open Mic Poetry reading. Some of the podcast episodes you will hear will be a live recording of me reading the poem to a live audience, other times I will be reading it in the comfort of my home studio. I do plan on posting my work to the NaPoWriMo site and interacting with the poets there and see if they want to read their work on this podcast. Todays Poetry Prompt Today's prompt challenges you to also write a love poem, one that names at least one flower, contains one parenthetical statement, and in which at least some lines break in unusual places. Giving Love Another Try 25 April 2023 I wasn't content With being Alone But I wasn't interested In sharing Everything I wasn't content With the Life But I wasn't interested In starting Over I wasn't content With the Past But I wasn't interested In rehashing Us I wasn't content With the Situation But I wasn't interested In developing Feelings (I found contentment in your eyes, I found interest in your smile I found tulips where you walked)) You didn't want Just another Body But you did Try to Love You didn't want This to Fail But you did Rely on Defenses You didn't want Me to Escape But you did Honor my Freedom (You found where I hid my heart, You found a way to trust me You found daisies to put everywhere) We weren't sure About our Compatibility But we tried To make It We weren't sure About being Dependent But we tried With open Minds We weren't sure About our Lasting But we tried And are Trying (We were met with scoffs, We sometimes scoffed at ourselves we planted a family) We weren't sure but we tried You didn't want but you did I wasn't content but I wasn't interested (And so far, it's the journey That we needed to be on Together) Sign Up for the Create Art Podcast Newsletter Or Subscribe Here Reaching Out To The Podcast To reach out to me, email timothy@createartpodcast.com I would love to hear about your journey and what you are working on. If you would like to be on the show or have me discuss a topic that is giving you trouble write in and let's start that conversation. Email: timothy@createartpodcast.com YouTube Channel: Create Art Podcast YT Channel IG: @createartpodcast Twitter: @createartpod Special Message If you have found value in this podcast please feel free to share it with a friend as that is the best way to find new podcasts. I want this to be a 5-star podcast in your eyes so let me know what you would like to see. Speaking about sharing with a friend, check out my other podcast Find A Podcast About where I help you outsmart the algorithm and find your next binge-worthy podcast. . You can find that podcast at findapodcastabout.xyz.
History of National Poetry Writing Month National Poetry Writing Month (also known as NaPoWriMo) is a creative writing project held annually in April in which participants attempt to write a poem each day for one month. NaPoWriMo coincides with National Poetry Month in the United States of America and Canada. This website is owned and operated by Maureen Thorson, a poet living in Washington, DC. Inspired by NaNoWriMo, National Novel Writing Month), she started writing a poem a day for the month of April back in 2003, posting the poems on her blog. When other people started writing poems for April and posting them on their own blogs, Maureen linked to them. After a few years, so many people were doing NaPoWriMo that Maureen decided to launch an independent website for the project. My History with National Poetry Writing Month I started writing poetry in 1988 after I had been exposed to T.S. Elliot in my honors English class in high school. In 1992 I started reading my poetry publicly at Espresso Europia Coffee Shop in Abilene Tx while I was in the United States Air Force. While living in Rockford Illinois I published my first book of poetry Throwing Yourself at the Ground and Missing in 2007 followed by Postcards From Someone You Don't Know in 2008 Wisdom From the Sack in 2010 and Shaving Crop Circles In My Chest Hair in 2017. You can get copies of all of these books in my merch section. In 2020 I started publishing my podcast version of the challenge and those can be viewed here for 2020 and here for 2021. What I am doing differently for Poetry Month For 2023 I am not going to be just writing poems in April, I will be writing poems all year round. Also, since I will be writing all year round, I am using a different source for my prompts. There is a blog called Think Written and you can find it here. I will also be performing these works at Katora Coffee House here in Fredericksburg Virginia on their Friday Night Snaps Open Mic Poetry reading. Some of the podcast episodes you will hear will be a live recording of me reading the poem to a live audience, other times I will be reading it in the comfort of my home studio. I do plan on posting my work to the NaPoWriMo site and interacting with the poets there and see if they want to read their work on this podcast. Todays Poetry Prompt I'd like to challenge you to write a poem in the form of a review. But not a review of a book or a movie of a restaurant. Instead, I challenge you to write a poetic review of something that isn't normally reviewed. For example, your mother-in-law, the moon, or the year you were ten years old. 2 Stars 24 April 2023 Not a big fan of 2020 I rated that year at zero stars If I could have, I would have gone into the negative numbers but your system doesn't allow for that Someone is upper management needs to know what happened I usually like to give years the benefit of the doubt And think about them from a different perspective But 2020 was worse than 2016 And that is saying something So I decided that maybe I was being a bit harsh And I gave 2020 1 star in 2021 There were a lot of lessons learned in that year Things seemed to be getting better I could find toilet paper everywhere I went I am talking 2 ply And the ads for bidets didn't interest me anymore Kids were back in school The talk of mass extinction was quashed And except for that one day in January Things were okay, not normal but okay In 2022 I kept my 1-star rating of 2020 Because it seems we still haven't learned the lessons We needed to learn to prevent another 2020 from happening And we were 2 years out I mean come on folks I know some of our family trees don't fork But at least lets really look at what happened And not do the same shit all over again At some points it looked like we were going to go back And then I would have had to go back down to zero stars So here we are in 2023 I have to say I am not recommending 2020 under any circumstances However, I am raising my rating to 2 stars We got through it, and we are here right now A bit smarter A bit larger And all in the comfort of our homes If we are lucky enough to be able to have a stay-at-home job We praised the essential workers Until the next headline came by We praised some of our elected officials Until they were found making backdoor deals as usual Some of us have even found our true calling And left the world of bosses behind I don't plan on shopping here for future years Nor can I recommend shopping here for the future Look what we are leaving the young with The four horsemen on red bull and bottom shelf vodka I won't be here for the hangover that's coming Sign Up for the Create Art Podcast Newsletter Or Subscribe Here Reaching Out To The Podcast To reach out to me, email timothy@createartpodcast.com I would love to hear about your journey and what you are working on. If you would like to be on the show or have me discuss a topic that is giving you trouble write in and let's start that conversation. Email: timothy@createartpodcast.com YouTube Channel: Create Art Podcast YT Channel IG: @createartpodcast Twitter: @createartpod [podcast_subscribe id="207"] Special Message If you have found value in this podcast please feel free to share it with a friend as that is the best way to find new podcasts. I want this to be a 5-star podcast in your eyes so let me know what you would like to see. Speaking about sharing with a friend, check out my other podcast Find A Podcast About where I help you outsmart the algorithm and find your next binge-worthy podcast. . You can find that podcast at findapodcastabout.xyz.
History of National Poetry Writing Month National Poetry Writing Month (also known as NaPoWriMo) is a creative writing project held annually in April in which participants attempt to write a poem each day for one month. NaPoWriMo coincides with National Poetry Month in the United States of America and Canada. This website is owned and operated by Maureen Thorson, a poet living in Washington, DC. Inspired by NaNoWriMo, National Novel Writing Month), she started writing a poem a day for the month of April back in 2003, posting the poems on her blog. When other people started writing poems for April and posting them on their own blogs, Maureen linked to them. After a few years, so many people were doing NaPoWriMo that Maureen decided to launch an independent website for the project. My History with National Poetry Writing Month I started writing poetry in 1988 after I had been exposed to T.S. Elliot in my honors English class in high school. In 1992 I started reading my poetry publicly at Espresso Europia Coffee Shop in Abilene Tx while I was in the United States Air Force. While living in Rockford Illinois I published my first book of poetry Throwing Yourself at the Ground and Missing in 2007 followed by Postcards From Someone You Don't Know in 2008 Wisdom From the Sack in 2010 and Shaving Crop Circles In My Chest Hair in 2017. You can get copies of all of these books in my merch section. In 2020 I started publishing my podcast version of the challenge and those can be viewed here for 2020 and here for 2021. What I am doing differently for Poetry Month For 2023 I am not going to be just writing poems in April, I will be writing poems all year round. Also, since I will be writing all year round, I am using a different source for my prompts. There is a blog called Think Written and you can find it here. I will also be performing these works at Katora Coffee House here in Fredericksburg Virginia on their Friday Night Snaps Open Mic Poetry reading. Some of the podcast episodes you will hear will be a live recording of me reading the poem to a live audience, other times I will be reading it in the comfort of my home studio. I do plan on posting my work to the NaPoWriMo site and interacting with the poets there and see if they want to read their work on this podcast. Todays Poetry Prompt Now, cast your mind back to your own childhood and write a poem about something that scared you – or was used to scare you – and which still haunts you (if only a little bit) today. Summer Nightmare 19 April 2023 The heat had settled in for the season We were sweltering although the sun had gone down hours ago When building the house It was decided not to have central air or a basement Our neighborhood was rumored to have been built on a gravesite For the indigenous population It was the type of rumor to keep kids in at night But some rumors need to be heeded It was another night of sweating With the hum of fans that put us to sleep I knew I was dreaming Only to wake up to the sound of a broken window I peered over to my window The drapes were opened when they should have been shut And a figure was standing outside Readying what appeared to be a bow and arrow I heard a swoosh and then a thud in the wall Right above my stomach And then I sprang up Breaking the shaft of the arrow And ran to my parents' room I forgot about the fan in my startled state And ran right through the fan Slicing up my knee and leg Waking my father who took me to the bathroom We cleaned off the blood in the tub And I frantically told him what happened I had awakened everyone in the house As we turned on the light in my bedroom We found the window intact The drapes pulled back But no broken shaft Just two arrowheads lodged into the wall Right above where I slept My father thought I had planted the arrowheads As one could find them easily in our neighborhood And decided to yell at me for breaking his sleep Telling me this was all in my wild imagination When we moved away years later The arrowheads I recovered from that night Were lost in the move But I still can feel the figure pursuing me And I always make sure the drapes are closed Sign Up for the Create Art Podcast Newsletter Or Subscribe Here Reaching Out To The Podcast To reach out to me, email timothy@createartpodcast.com I would love to hear about your journey and what you are working on. If you would like to be on the show or have me discuss a topic that is giving you trouble write in and let's start that conversation. Email: timothy@createartpodcast.com YouTube Channel: Create Art Podcast YT Channel IG: @createartpodcast Twitter: @createartpod Special Message If you have found value in this podcast please feel free to share it with a friend as that is the best way to find new podcasts. I want this to be a 5-star podcast in your eyes so let me know what you would like to see. Speaking about sharing with a friend, check out my other podcast Find A Podcast About where I help you outsmart the algorithm and find your next binge-worthy podcast. . You can find that podcast at findapodcastabout.xyz.
History of National Poetry Writing Month National Poetry Writing Month (also known as NaPoWriMo) is a creative writing project held annually in April in which participants attempt to write a poem each day for one month. NaPoWriMo coincides with National Poetry Month in the United States of America and Canada. This website is owned and operated by Maureen Thorson, a poet living in Washington, DC. Inspired by NaNoWriMo, National Novel Writing Month), she started writing a poem a day for the month of April back in 2003, posting the poems on her blog. When other people started writing poems for April and posting them on their own blogs, Maureen linked to them. After a few years, so many people were doing NaPoWriMo that Maureen decided to launch an independent website for the project. My History with National Poetry Writing Month I started writing poetry in 1988 after I had been exposed to T.S. Elliot in my honors English class in high school. In 1992 I started reading my poetry publicly at Espresso Europia Coffee Shop in Abilene Tx while I was in the United States Air Force. While living in Rockford Illinois I published my first book of poetry Throwing Yourself at the Ground and Missing in 2007 followed by Postcards From Someone You Don't Know in 2008 Wisdom From the Sack in 2010 and Shaving Crop Circles In My Chest Hair in 2017. You can get copies of all of these books in my merch section. In 2020 I started publishing my podcast version of the challenge and those can be viewed here for 2020 and here for 2021. What I am doing differently for Poetry Month For 2023 I am not going to be just writing poems in April, I will be writing poems all year round. Also, since I will be writing all year round, I am using a different source for my prompts. There is a blog called Think Written and you can find it here. I will also be performing these works at Katora Coffee House here in Fredericksburg Virginia on their Friday Night Snaps Open Mic Poetry reading. Some of the podcast episodes you will hear will be a live recording of me reading the poem to a live audience, other times I will be reading it in the comfort of my home studio. I do plan on posting my work to the NaPoWriMo site and interacting with the poets there and see if they want to read their work on this podcast. Todays Poetry Prompt Cafeteria: Create a poem inspired by the people who might be eating lunch in a cafeteria at school or at a hospital. Chicken Enchilada 17 April 2023 I was back in Illinois Not my hometown or the city I adopted But a small-town dependent on the base I had just puddle-jumped from St. Louis When in processing was done And I had raised my hand when asked Who was a musician I was whisked away to a special squadron A small group of us who raised our hands Stood in the day room of the squadron We were given rooms And a tour of our new temporary home We were told to drop off our luggage And return later that afternoon So, we all silently went to our rooms I knew at that time to pack lightly To tread lightly on this Earth And as I opened the door to my new home My new roommate was not there Heading back down to the dining facility I wanted to have a few moments of solitude I'd just spent 6 weeks living with 50 other soon-to-be men And my sociability jar had been exhausted Working my way through the food line Looking over my shoulder Waiting for a training instructor to slip in behind me And scare the shit out of me My head was on a swivel I grabbed the bare essentials for lunch Not wanting to draw attention to myself I crawled into an empty booth Breathed deeply and went to work on the food I tasted my food It had been weeks of rushing to shove groceries down my throat But now I had nowhere to be, no one to answer to for a few minutes I savored each bite It was at that time I was overcome with a feeling of certitude I felt that the decision was right It had been one of the first times I felt this way And the food cemented my feeling I am not sure how long I sat alone in that booth Others came and went without much fanfare My comrades in basic training found me And we all sat quietly Deep in thought Living like the kings we told ourselves we were Sign Up for the Create Art Podcast Newsletter Or Subscribe Here Reaching Out To The Podcast To reach out to me, email timothy@createartpodcast.com I would love to hear about your journey and what you are working on. If you would like to be on the show or have me discuss a topic that is giving you trouble write in and let's start that conversation. Email: timothy@createartpodcast.com YouTube Channel: Create Art Podcast YT Channel IG: @createartpodcast Twitter: @createartpod [podcast_subscribe id="207"] Special Message If you have found value in this podcast please feel free to share it with a friend as that is the best way to find new podcasts. I want this to be a 5-star podcast in your eyes so let me know what you would like to see. Speaking about sharing with a friend, check out my other podcast Find A Podcast About where I help you outsmart the algorithm and find your next binge-worthy podcast. Yo
History of National Poetry Writing Month National Poetry Writing Month (also known as NaPoWriMo) is a creative writing project held annually in April in which participants attempt to write a poem each day for one month. NaPoWriMo coincides with National Poetry Month in the United States of America and Canada. This website is owned and operated by Maureen Thorson, a poet living in Washington, DC. Inspired by NaNoWriMo, National Novel Writing Month), she started writing a poem a day for the month of April back in 2003, posting the poems on her blog. When other people started writing poems for April and posting them on their own blogs, Maureen linked to them. After a few years, so many people were doing NaPoWriMo that Maureen decided to launch an independent website for the project. My History with National Poetry Writing Month I started writing poetry in 1988 after I had been exposed to T.S. Elliot in my honors English class in high school. In 1992 I started reading my poetry publicly at Espresso Europia Coffee Shop in Abilene Tx while I was in the United States Air Force. While living in Rockford Illinois I published my first book of poetry Throwing Yourself at the Ground and Missing in 2007 followed by Postcards From Someone You Don't Know in 2008 Wisdom From the Sack in 2010 and Shaving Crop Circles In My Chest Hair in 2017. You can get copies of all of these books in my merch section. In 2020 I started publishing my podcast version of the challenge and those can be viewed here for 2020 and here for 2021. What I am doing differently for Poetry Month For 2023 I am not going to be just writing poems in April, I will be writing poems all year round. Also, since I will be writing all year round, I am using a different source for my prompts. There is a blog called Think Written and you can find it here. I will also be performing these works at Katora Coffee House here in Fredericksburg Virginia on their Friday Night Snaps Open Mic Poetry reading. Some of the podcast episodes you will hear will be a live recording of me reading the poem to a live audience, other times I will be reading it in the comfort of my home studio. I do plan on posting my work to the NaPoWriMo site and interacting with the poets there and see if they want to read their work on this podcast. Todays Poetry Prompt Signs of the Times: How has a place you are familiar with changed over the past 10 years? Pacifying Uptown 14 April 2023 I lived in this neighborhood for a year or so Top floor, facing south, seeing Wrigley Field from a distance Two blocks from the Green Mill And the Red Line El Someone in the neighborhood had rescue greyhounds They would walk them around Stop for coffee and water at the local Starbucks The one that had a drive by when I was with my girl at the time A great Mexican restaurant that was open late Due to all the bars in the area Grabbing my first real horchata And just steps from Montrose Beach But I moved away To be with my wife To start a new life But I can't let go of the place So I signed up for the Uptown Facebook group And I get notifications daily The Uptown Theater that had been closed for decades Being revamped and reopened Meaning that the bookstore next door Had to clean up its act or move out That bookstore stank of cigarettes and cat piss Is no longer there Not able to get enough Chantix to quit their habit Not able to keep up with the bigger bookstores That closed down before I left I miss this place Even though I wasn't there that long Moving through the crowds And having my doc just a few blocks away Having my dentist who played the rat Packs greatest hits And picked up conversations started months in-between visits I didn't have to drive anywhere Even to get groceries Jewel, pronounced with an S at the end Again, was mere steps away But now they have changed the feeling They have changed the stores The rents have gone through the roof Now there is no one there I know The shops don't have the same feel Even the thugs that did the drive by have moved away to the burbs I'd never move my family back there It would be cost prohibitive It would be safer than when I lived there But it isn't the same space It isn't as special as it used to be Its tame and expensive And the reason why I lived there Was not for safety, was not for being tame I wanted to have excitement I wanted to have stories to tell I wanted different things than I do now Sign Up for the Create Art Podcast Newsletter Or Subscribe Here Reaching Out To The Podcast To reach out to me, email timothy@createartpodcast.com I would love to hear about your journey and what you are working on. If you would like to be on the show or have me discuss a topic that is giving you trouble write in and let's start that conversation. Email: timothy@createartpodcast.com YouTube Channel: Create Art Podcast YT Channel IG: @createartpodcast Twitter: @createartpod Special Message If you have found value in this podcast please feel free to share it with a friend as that is the best way to find new podcasts. I want this to be a 5-star podcast in your eyes so let me know what you would like to see. Speaking about sharing with a friend, check out my other podcast Find A Podcast About where I help you outsmart the algorithm and find your next binge-worthy podcast. You can find that podcast at findapodcastabout.xyz.
History of National Poetry Writing Month National Poetry Writing Month (also known as NaPoWriMo) is a creative writing project held annually in April in which participants attempt to write a poem each day for one month. NaPoWriMo coincides with National Poetry Month in the United States of America and Canada. This website is owned and operated by Maureen Thorson, a poet living in Washington, DC. Inspired by NaNoWriMo, National Novel Writing Month), she started writing a poem a day for the month of April back in 2003, posting the poems on her blog. When other people started writing poems for April and posting them on their own blogs, Maureen linked to them. After a few years, so many people were doing NaPoWriMo that Maureen decided to launch an independent website for the project. My History with National Poetry Writing Month I started writing poetry in 1988 after I had been exposed to T.S. Elliot in my honors English class in high school. In 1992 I started reading my poetry publicly at Espresso Europia Coffee Shop in Abilene Tx while I was in the United States Air Force. While living in Rockford Illinois I published my first book of poetry Throwing Yourself at the Ground and Missing in 2007 followed by Postcards From Someone You Don't Know in 2008 Wisdom From the Sack in 2010 and Shaving Crop Circles In My Chest Hair in 2017. You can get copies of all of these books in my merch section. In 2020 I started publishing my podcast version of the challenge and those can be viewed here for 2020 and here for 2021. What I am doing differently for Poetry Month For 2023 I am not going to be just writing poems in April, I will be writing poems all year round. Also, since I will be writing all year round, I am using a different source for my prompts. There is a blog called Think Written and you can find it here. I will also be performing these works at Katora Coffee House here in Fredericksburg Virginia on their Friday Night Snaps Open Mic Poetry reading. Some of the podcast episodes you will hear will be a live recording of me reading the poem to a live audience, other times I will be reading it in the comfort of my home studio. I do plan on posting my work to the NaPoWriMo site and interacting with the poets there and see if they want to read their work on this podcast. Todays Poetry Prompt First Car: Write an ode to your first car Old Baby Blue 13 April 2023 You did run like a scolded dawg That Marine was right To think I could have purchased my mid-life crisis car with busted rings For the same price as you I wouldn't have been able to sleep in that car Nor could I fall asleep at the wheel And safely get through Bloomington Illinois Changing highways in the middle of the night The stereo system I bought for you Cost more than what you were worth And you reminded me when it rained And the DIY sunroof flooded and collected fish I drove you to escape from where I was I drove you to Texas to escape where I came from I drove you until something flashier caught my eye And then I sold you for a motorcycle Because I had only crashed 2 other motorcycles in my life So that seemed like a fair trade You never started up again When all the paperwork was done And your new owner took possession You refused to be traded away And as I crashed another motorcycle There you stood stoically in the parking lot Reminding me that I would still have transportation Hoping I would come to my senses and take you back But no, I was young back then And flashy new things, which was everything Took my attention away from you And I bought a shiny new red compact car It looked like a clown car when I stepped out of it And that car drove me away from Texas From you From the memories we made Sometimes I seek out your relatives I look at what others have done with your kind And I miss our days together You were protecting me Me fixing another alternator for you Changing your oil from inside the cab Hearing that 302 engine roar Wishing it was in a Mustang But was resigned to hauling around my possessions You were my first old baby blue And I'll never forget your shag carpet interior, your tinted moon windows The swiveling captain chairs And the fish tank turned sunroof Sign Up for the Create Art Podcast Newsletter Or Subscribe Here Reaching Out To The Podcast To reach out to me, email timothy@createartpodcast.com I would love to hear about your journey and what you are working on. If you would like to be on the show or have me discuss a topic that is giving you trouble write in and let's start that conversation. Email: timothy@createartpodcast.com YouTube Channel: Create Art Podcast YT Channel IG: @createartpodcast Twitter: @createartpod Special Message If you have found value in this podcast please feel free to share it with a friend as that is the best way to find new podcasts. I want this to be a 5-star podcast in your eyes so let me know what you would like to see. Speaking about sharing with a friend, check out my other podcast Find A Podcast About where I help you outsmart the algorithm and find your next binge-worthy podcast. You can find that podcast at findapodcastabout.xyz.
History of National Poetry Writing Month National Poetry Writing Month (also known as NaPoWriMo) is a creative writing project held annually in April in which participants attempt to write a poem each day for one month. NaPoWriMo coincides with National Poetry Month in the United States of America and Canada. This website is owned and operated by Maureen Thorson, a poet living in Washington, DC. Inspired by NaNoWriMo, National Novel Writing Month), she started writing a poem a day for the month of April back in 2003, posting the poems on her blog. When other people started writing poems for April and posting them on their own blogs, Maureen linked to them. After a few years, so many people were doing NaPoWriMo that Maureen decided to launch an independent website for the project. My History with National Poetry Writing Month I started writing poetry in 1988 after I had been exposed to T.S. Elliot in my honors English class in high school. In 1992 I started reading my poetry publicly at Espresso Europia Coffee Shop in Abilene Tx while I was in the United States Air Force. While living in Rockford Illinois I published my first book of poetry Throwing Yourself at the Ground and Missing in 2007 followed by Postcards From Someone You Don't Know in 2008 Wisdom From the Sack in 2010 and Shaving Crop Circles In My Chest Hair in 2017. You can get copies of all of these books in my merch section. In 2020 I started publishing my podcast version of the challenge and those can be viewed here for 2020 and here for 2021. What I am doing differently for Poetry Month For 2023 I am not going to be just writing poems in April, I will be writing poems all year round. Also, since I will be writing all year round, I am using a different source for my prompts. There is a blog called Think Written and you can find it here. I will also be performing these works at Katora Coffee House here in Fredericksburg Virginia on their Friday Night Snaps Open Mic Poetry reading. Some of the podcast episodes you will hear will be a live recording of me reading the poem to a live audience, other times I will be reading it in the comfort of my home studio. I do plan on posting my work to the NaPoWriMo site and interacting with the poets there and see if they want to read their work on this podcast. Todays Poetry Prompt Fast Food: Write a poem about fast food restaurants and experiences. After The Casino 11 April 2023 Driving through the fog of West Virginia Taking the backroads because my car can't do 75 Before everyone and their brother had cell phone coverage We both struggled to keep our eyes open We should have probably grabbed some food on the way out of the casino We had both won a tidy sum that paid for the trip and the rent for the next two months We didn't notice when we crossed back into Virginia Because at night, most states look the same With the last cigarette tossed out of the window And a few hours until we arrived at home We pulled over at a gas station and Waffle House Conjoined at the hip The sun was still a few hours away We entered the gas station and purchased our brand of addiction Relived ourselves in the grimy bathroom And found a seat in the empty restaurant The sounds of the bells and whistles From the plethora of machines drowned out the waitress And it took longer than it should have to take our order All three of us were tired But only 1 was being paid to be here And it wasn't my passenger and I My passenger stated his order as I was downing the first cup of coffee Then it was my turn to interact Mindlessly I ordered breakfast and some soup The waitress appeared to me Muttered crackers? And thinking she was referring to us Two white boys in the middle of the night Driving a car in need of serious repair Smelling of smoke and speaking loudly We both broke out in laughter The waitress asked what was so funny I replied you called us crackers No, crackers for your soup is what I asked You boys look a little rough tonight how far have you got to go We let her know and talked to her till the sun rose We were well fed Energized from the copious amount of coffee Ready to take on the final leg of the journey And to this day, when either of us hears the word crackers We are transported to that night Somewhere between West Virginia and home Sign Up for the Create Art Podcast Newsletter Or Subscribe Here Reaching Out To The Podcast To reach out to me, email timothy@createartpodcast.com I would love to hear about your journey and what you are working on. If you would like to be on the show or have me discuss a topic that is giving you trouble write in and let's start that conversation. Email: timothy@createartpodcast.com YouTube Channel: Create Art Podcast YT Channel IG: @createartpodcast Twitter: @createartpod Special Message If you have found value in this podcast please feel free to share it with a friend as that is the best way to find new podcasts. I want this to be a 5-star podcast in your eyes so let me know what you would like to see. Speaking about sharing with a friend, check out my other podcast Find A Podcast About where I help you outsmart the algorithm and find your next binge-worthy podcast. You can find that podcast at findapodcastabout.xyz.
History of National Poetry Writing Month National Poetry Writing Month (also known as NaPoWriMo) is a creative writing project held annually in April in which participants attempt to write a poem each day for one month. NaPoWriMo coincides with National Poetry Month in the United States of America and Canada. This website is owned and operated by Maureen Thorson, a poet living in Washington, DC. Inspired by NaNoWriMo, National Novel Writing Month), she started writing a poem a day for the month of April back in 2003, posting the poems on her blog. When other people started writing poems for April and posting them on their own blogs, Maureen linked to them. After a few years, so many people were doing NaPoWriMo that Maureen decided to launch an independent website for the project. My History with National Poetry Writing Month I started writing poetry in 1988 after I had been exposed to T.S. Elliot in my honors English class in high school. In 1992 I started reading my poetry publicly at Espresso Europia Coffee Shop in Abilene Tx while I was in the United States Air Force. While living in Rockford Illinois I published my first book of poetry Throwing Yourself at the Ground and Missing in 2007 followed by Postcards From Someone You Don't Know in 2008 Wisdom From the Sack in 2010 and Shaving Crop Circles In My Chest Hair in 2017. You can get copies of all of these books in my merch section. In 2020 I started publishing my podcast version of the challenge and those can be viewed here for 2020 and here for 2021. What I am doing differently for Poetry Month For 2023 I am not going to be just writing poems in April, I will be writing poems all year round. Also, since I will be writing all year round, I am using a different source for my prompts. There is a blog called Think Written and you can find it here. I will also be performing these works at Katora Coffee House here in Fredericksburg Virginia on their Friday Night Snaps Open Mic Poetry reading. Some of the podcast episodes you will hear will be a live recording of me reading the poem to a live audience, other times I will be reading it in the comfort of my home studio. I do plan on posting my work to the NaPoWriMo site and interacting with the poets there and see if they want to read their work on this podcast. Todays Poetry Prompt Weirder Than Fiction: Think of the most unbelievable moment in your life and write a poem about the experience. Just Passing Through 11 April 2023 I had just got on the last bus headed for home It was dark, and cold, and since the windows were tinted I felt blind to the outside world My carryon was in my lap Turning on the overhead light I noticed that the passenger next to me was reading I pulled out my borrowed copy of a book The author isn't important Someone I should have been enjoying But this was not a good book to start with When my seatmate heard my yawn for the fifth time in 10 minutes He asked me what I was reading When I showed him, he asked if was it my first time with this author Yes it was and I wasn't enjoying it at all was my response I let him know it was a borrowed book from a friend who thought I'd dig it But it just wasn't working for me The passenger opened his carryon bag Handed me another book by the same author Here read this, it moves faster than the one you have I tried to politely decline since my stop was in 5 hours If you don't finish take it with you You can give it to me the next time you see me I thought this was preposterous but accepted is offer So, I read with amazement for 5 hours until my stop As I got up to leave, I tried to hand the book back to him He said nope, give it to me when we see each other again I offered to pay for the book Again, he declined and said to give it back when we see each other Taking the book to the place at that time I called home My mother told me she wanted no books From Satanists in her house She wanted to throw it out or burn it But I let her know it was on loan and it was expected to be returned She said I had met a devil on the bus I said I had met a human Causing the trip home to be contentious Two years later I found myself on another bus Again, the last one out of the station I made sure to bring the borrowed book And just like that, he was there I sat next to him and held out the book He smiled and said great you are ready for book two in the series He took the book I borrowed and replaced it with the new one I asked when he wanted it back He just closed his eyes and fell asleep I haven't been on many cross-country busses since then But I always keep the copy he gave me in case Sign Up for the Create Art Podcast Newsletter Or Subscribe Here Reaching Out To The Podcast To reach out to me, email timothy@createartpodcast.com I would love to hear about your journey and what you are working on. If you would like to be on the show or have me discuss a topic that is giving you trouble write in and let's start that conversation. Email: timothy@createartpodcast.com YouTube Channel: Create Art Podcast YT Channel IG: @createartpodcast Twitter: @createartpod Special Message If you have found value in this podcast please feel free to share it with a friend as that is the best way to find new podcasts. I want this to be a 5-star podcast in your eyes so let me know what you would like to see. Speaking about sharing with a friend, check out my other podcast Find A Podcast About where I help you outsmart the algorithm and find your next binge-worthy podcast. You can find that podcast at findapodcastabout.xyz.
History of National Poetry Writing Month National Poetry Writing Month (also known as NaPoWriMo) is a creative writing project held annually in April in which participants attempt to write a poem each day for one month. NaPoWriMo coincides with National Poetry Month in the United States of America and Canada. This website is owned and operated by Maureen Thorson, a poet living in Washington, DC. Inspired by NaNoWriMo, National Novel Writing Month), she started writing a poem a day for the month of April back in 2003, posting the poems on her blog. When other people started writing poems for April and posting them on their own blogs, Maureen linked to them. After a few years, so many people were doing NaPoWriMo that Maureen decided to launch an independent website for the project. My History with National Poetry Writing Month I started writing poetry in 1988 after I had been exposed to T.S. Elliot in my honors English class in high school. In 1992 I started reading my poetry publicly at Espresso Europia Coffee Shop in Abilene Tx while I was in the United States Air Force. While living in Rockford Illinois I published my first book of poetry Throwing Yourself at the Ground and Missing in 2007 followed by Postcards From Someone You Don't Know in 2008 Wisdom From the Sack in 2010 and Shaving Crop Circles In My Chest Hair in 2017. You can get copies of all of these books in my merch section. In 2020 I started publishing my podcast version of the challenge and those can be viewed here for 2020 and here for 2021. What I am doing differently for Poetry Month For 2023 I am not going to be just writing poems in April, I will be writing poems all year round. Also, since I will be writing all year round, I am using a different source for my prompts. There is a blog called Think Written and you can find it here. I will also be performing these works at Katora Coffee House here in Fredericksburg Virginia on their Friday Night Snaps Open Mic Poetry reading. Some of the podcast episodes you will hear will be a live recording of me reading the poem to a live audience, other times I will be reading it in the comfort of my home studio. I do plan on posting my work to the NaPoWriMo site and interacting with the poets there and see if they want to read their work on this podcast. Todays Poetry Prompt Sound of Silence: Take some inspiration from the classic Simon & Garfunkel song and describe what silence sounds like. No Thing 10 April 2023 Laying down, ready for sleep The fan is set for high (even in the winter) And the music is set for introspection through jazz Drowning out the usual high-pitched squeal that has become my swan song I am prepared to enter the ethereal lands Being alone with my thoughts Is the quickest way to insanity The voices that plagued my mother Descend with vengeance Ready to eliminate any respite shown me Nightly I sonically excavate The landscapes of my awake and sleeping mind Reliving mistakes I have made And paying for them dearly In ways only my mind can torture me One moment would be nice To be able to turn off the thoughts and dreams To not think, fear, be anxious Just that total blankness of a new sheet of paper Or an empty canvas I do not afford myself such luxuries But to have that one moment Where nothing comes in or goes out Would only fuel the idea That my brain is flawed That the internal demons Who wanted to silence this voice Have won the war against me There will be no peace in our time Sign Up for the Create Art Podcast Newsletter Or Subscribe Here Reaching Out To The Podcast To reach out to me, email timothy@createartpodcast.com I would love to hear about your journey and what you are working on. If you would like to be on the show or have me discuss a topic that is giving you trouble write in and let's start that conversation. Email: timothy@createartpodcast.com YouTube Channel: Create Art Podcast YT Channel IG: @createartpodcast Twitter: @createartpod Special Message If you have found value in this podcast please feel free to share it with a friend as that is the best way to find new podcasts. I want this to be a 5-star podcast in your eyes so let me know what you would like to see. Speaking about sharing with a friend, check out my other podcast Find A Podcast About where I help you outsmart the algorithm and find your next binge-worthy podcast. You can find that podcast at findapodcastabout.xyz.
History of National Poetry Writing Month National Poetry Writing Month (also known as NaPoWriMo) is a creative writing project held annually in April in which participants attempt to write a poem each day for one month. NaPoWriMo coincides with National Poetry Month in the United States of America and Canada. This website is owned and operated by Maureen Thorson, a poet living in Washington, DC. Inspired by NaNoWriMo, National Novel Writing Month), she started writing a poem a day for the month of April back in 2003, posting the poems on her blog. When other people started writing poems for April and posting them on their own blogs, Maureen linked to them. After a few years, so many people were doing NaPoWriMo that Maureen decided to launch an independent website for the project. My History with National Poetry Writing Month I started writing poetry in 1988 after I had been exposed to T.S. Elliot in my honors English class in high school. In 1992 I started reading my poetry publicly at Espresso Europia Coffee Shop in Abilene Tx while I was in the United States Air Force. While living in Rockford Illinois I published my first book of poetry Throwing Yourself at the Ground and Missing in 2007 followed by Postcards From Someone You Don't Know in 2008 Wisdom From the Sack in 2010 and Shaving Crop Circles In My Chest Hair in 2017. You can get copies of all of these books in my merch section. In 2020 I started publishing my podcast version of the challenge and those can be viewed here for 2020 and here for 2021. What I am doing differently for Poetry Month For 2023 I am not going to be just writing poems in April, I will be writing poems all year round. Also, since I will be writing all year round, I am using a different source for my prompts. There is a blog called Think Written and you can find it here. I will also be performing these works at Katora Coffee House here in Fredericksburg Virginia on their Friday Night Snaps Open Mic Poetry reading. Some of the podcast episodes you will hear will be a live recording of me reading the poem to a live audience, other times I will be reading it in the comfort of my home studio. I do plan on posting my work to the NaPoWriMo site and interacting with the poets there and see if they want to read their work on this podcast. Todays Poetry Prompt Weirder Than Fiction: Think of the most unbelievable moment in your life and write a poem about the experience. Todays Poem Greyhound Pimpin 5 April 2023 The cheapest way to see the country With people, you probably will never meet again I was on the East Coast heading out west To the city of Sun Phoenix to visit a friend After pushing off the homeless guys Begging for smoke or spare change at the depot I got into the bus where all the seats are coach Towards the back, near the bathrooms The slight smell of antiseptic and piss soaked into the cloth seats We pulled out of there Just to stop again, and again, and again Gaining more and more people Dropping off others The miles crawled by We got to Atlanta that night Time to switch busses Time to find my bags And tote them over to our new driver The same bums begging for change followed us Like there was an ATM on board And naturally, we were all well off Seeing the country the cheapest way possible There was a couple already occupying the back seats And I sat in front of them The smell had changed from cleaner and piss To sweet sweet rotgut With a hint of patolli So, I gave them my spare pack of smokes And at each stop, we stood off from the others And huffed our way to bliss The driver came to the back more than once Complaining about the smell and noise I could play straight easily But they were true amateurs By the time we got to El Paso The cops were waiting for them As we left the bus for another round They were taken in And I puffed on a smoke a stones throw away They waved goodbye And I said till we meet again I got back on that bus And changed seats Trying to outsmart the driver When we were stopped at the border security station I thought they were coming for me They pulled off a few who looked darker Than those in the land of the free They didn't wave at me And I didn't say goodbye They were lost in that New Mexico sky We pulled into Phoenix The heat was still on high The city didn't care if it was the middle of Fall or Summer It was hot all the time And there was my friend waiting in his Mercedes The bums from Richmond and Atlanta followed us And started to beg again When they tried to wash his windows He pulled out his gun They scurried off like mice And we headed to the nearest strip club Sign Up for the Create Art Podcast Newsletter Reaching Out To The Podcast To reach out to me, email timothy@createartpodcast.com I would love to hear about your journey and what you are working on. If you would like to be on the show or have me discuss a topic that is giving you trouble write in and let's start that conversation. Email: timothy@createartpodcast.com YouTube Channel: Create Art Podcast YT Channel IG: @createartpodcast Twitter: @createartpod Special Message If you have found value in this podcast please feel free to share it with a friend as that is the best way to find new podcasts. I want this to be a 5-star podcast in your eyes so let me know what you would like to see. Speaking about sharing with a friend, check out my other podcast Find A Podcast About where I help you outsmart the algorithm and find your next binge-worthy podcast. You can find that podcast at findapodcastabout.xyz.
History of National Poetry Writing Month National Poetry Writing Month (also known as NaPoWriMo) is a creative writing project held annually in April in which participants attempt to write a poem each day for one month. NaPoWriMo coincides with National Poetry Month in the United States of America and Canada. This website is owned and operated by Maureen Thorson, a poet living in Washington, DC. Inspired by NaNoWriMo, National Novel Writing Month), she started writing a poem a day for the month of April back in 2003, posting the poems on her blog. When other people started writing poems for April and posting them on their own blogs, Maureen linked to them. After a few years, so many people were doing NaPoWriMo that Maureen decided to launch an independent website for the project. My History with National Poetry Writing Month I started writing poetry in 1988 after I had been exposed to T.S. Elliot in my honors English class in high school. In 1992 I started reading my poetry publicly at Espresso Europia Coffee Shop in Abilene Tx while I was in the United States Air Force. While living in Rockford Illinois I published my first book of poetry Throwing Yourself at the Ground and Missing in 2007 followed by Postcards From Someone You Don't Know in 2008 Wisdom From the Sack in 2010 and Shaving Crop Circles In My Chest Hair in 2017. You can get copies of all of these books in my merch section. In 2020 I started publishing my podcast version of the challenge and those can be viewed here for 2020 and here for 2021. What I am doing differently for Poetry Month For 2023 I am not going to be just writing poems in April, I will be writing poems all year round. Also, since I will be writing all year round, I am using a different source for my prompts. There is a blog called Think Written and you can find it here. I will also be performing these works at Katora Coffee House here in Fredericksburg Virginia on their Friday Night Snaps Open Mic Poetry reading. Some of the podcast episodes you will hear will be a live recording of me reading the poem to a live audience, other times I will be reading it in the comfort of my home studio. I do plan on posting my work to the NaPoWriMo site and interacting with the poets there and see if they want to read their work on this podcast. Todays Poetry Prompt People You Have Known: Make each line about different people you have met but lost contact with over the years. These could be old friends, passed-on family, etc. Todays Poem No Longer In Communication 4 April 2023 To Jeff, you were the subject of my first attempt at poetry, four-line stanzas four stanzas long, all these words on paper and electrons floating throughout the universe hold the code that is you To Katina, working with you at the movie theater was bliss, kissing you in the back of the shop with the lights off was magical, and hearing how you kept the baby of your rapist still angers me that you had to make that choice Mike D, your family invited this stranger in, and for years you were that little brother that became successful, except you, couldn't put that bottle down, so I put you down, that's the way I detach and preserve my sanity Kelly, the eyes are what I remember the most, the drunken nights and the way you brought other men to bed have been forgotten, but as you changed your ways and became a mother, your life was taken away, and now I can only guess where to send flowers Mr. Hoppe, that stoic man, demanding that these rednecks produce a sound that the gods recognized our importance, you left for Arizona, I wanted to go with you, and I made it out there never to find you Gordon Odegard Director, GOD for short, your breath stank of dog shit, but you inspired this kid to believe in something greater than religion, greater than science, you made me believe I could make a difference, and ensure that the audience could see the actors eyes Albert, you probably wouldn't have been proud of my stereo setup, but you would be proud of the impact of my music collection on our nephew, you gave me the love of music, good music, and showed me how to sing while driving, I wanted to come to your funeral, but I was working 80 hour weeks and had no reliable transportation Tommy, my hippie grade school pal, sneaking off to your house to listen to KISS records and play with your toys was the first time I ran away from home, your spasms and outbursts have a name now, and my daughter has them, I hope you are alive, but I am too afraid to find out To she that cannot be named, I was in a bad spot, you took advantage of it without knowing what you were doing, I wasn't honest with you and to this day I am still not honest with others who wonder why we don't speak, you will probably never read this and that is fair I wasn't ready for a one night stand nor was I ready to be the lead singer of your brother's death metal math prog band To the Lt Col who took a long stroll off a short pier, what you inspired in me keeps fueling my work, I won't stop until I can achieve half of what you have To Moses, otherwise known as Mr. Heston, we don't have latrines in the Air Force, we have full-service restrooms and please tip the towel boy on your way out, by the way, guns do kill people and your legacy is tied to the fools you would not suffer when you were alive Sign Up for the Create Art Podcast Newsletter Reaching Out To The Podcast To reach out to me, email timothy@createartpodcast.com I would love to hear about your journey and what you are working on. If you would like to be on the show or have me discuss a topic that is giving you trouble write in and let's start that conversation. Email: timothy@createartpodcast.com YouTube Channel: Create Art Podcast YT Channel IG: @createartpodcast Twitter: @createartpod Special Message If you have found value in this podcast please feel free to share it with a friend as that is the best way to find new podcasts. I want this to be a 5-star podcast in your eyes so let me know what you would like to see. Speaking about sharing with a friend, check out my other podcast Find A Podcast About where I help you outsmart the algorithm and find your next binge-worthy podcast. You can find that podcast at findapodcastabout.xyz.
History of National Poetry Writing Month National Poetry Writing Month (also known as NaPoWriMo) is a creative writing project held annually in April in which participants attempt to write a poem each day for one month. NaPoWriMo coincides with National Poetry Month in the United States of America and Canada. This website is owned and operated by Maureen Thorson, a poet living in Washington, DC. Inspired by NaNoWriMo, National Novel Writing Month), she started writing a poem a day for the month of April back in 2003, posting the poems on her blog. When other people started writing poems for April and posting them on their own blogs, Maureen linked to them. After a few years, so many people were doing NaPoWriMo that Maureen decided to launch an independent website for the project. My History with National Poetry Writing Month I started writing poetry in 1988 after I had been exposed to T.S. Elliot in my honors English class in high school. In 1992 I started reading my poetry publicly at Espresso Europia Coffee Shop in Abilene Tx while I was in the United States Air Force. While living in Rockford Illinois I published my first book of poetry Throwing Yourself at the Ground and Missing in 2007 followed by Postcards From Someone You Don't Know in 2008 Wisdom From the Sack in 2010 and Shaving Crop Circles In My Chest Hair in 2017. You can get copies of all of these books in my merch section. In 2020 I started publishing my podcast version of the challenge and those can be viewed here for 2020 and here for 2021. What I am doing differently for Poetry Month For 2023 I am not going to be just writing poems in April, I will be writing poems all year round. Also, since I will be writing all year round, I am using a different source for my prompts. There is a blog called Think Written and you can find it here. I will also be performing these works at Katora Coffee House here in Fredericksburg Virginia on their Friday Night Snaps Open Mic Poetry reading. Some of the podcast episodes you will hear will be a live recording of me reading the poem to a live audience, other times I will be reading it in the comfort of my home studio. I do plan on posting my work to the NaPoWriMo site and interacting with the poets there and see if they want to read their work on this podcast. Todays Poetry Prompt Last Words: Use the last sentence from the nearest book as the inspiration for the first line of your poem. “And indeed, as he listened to the cries of joy rising from the town, Rieux remembered that such joy is always imperiled” The Plague by Camus Todays Poem Holding It In 3 April 2023 The ideas we don't share The voices running through our heads We dare not whisper to those around us The weight of the wrongs we have committed in the name of love The frustration of believing the inner dictator vs the creator The need to spill our guts When we know it will make us feel better But we are too worried about how those outside our brains will react The fear that finding out our truth is not shared by any other soul Looking foolish is not the fashion statement we want to employ Ridicule awaits when we emotionally expose ourselves So, we drop trow and plant our butt cheeks against the window My firewall is struggling not to be breached But I don't really give a shit about your insecurities Carrying the secrets of decades has improved my musculature Also, it has caused microscopic cracks in all my bones I pay the monthly garbage disposal fee To my therapist Hoping that no one is dumpster-diving through his notes I have lugged all this baggage, so you don't have to be exposed I kept it in a lead-lined case so the radiation wouldn't seep into your body The glowing from within escaped out of the cracks of the case And became my nightlight Clutching the pain of all the years Was the best coping mechanism as seen on TV Being above the fray, refusing to break down Or become flexible Was the ideal I thought would work Only to find it eating me up from the inside And leaving me with few salvageable innards My fear was that I was nothing without the pain And I have found that the pain is what caused more pain In this aching frame So I release it The torrent that has been encapsulated in my mind It doesn't feel better, but it feels better to feel And finding out that is what I was craving That is what the hole in my soul was missing Makes it easier to move on with today And let the past die in peace Sign Up for the Create Art Podcast Newsletter Reaching Out To The Podcast To reach out to me, email timothy@createartpodcast.com I would love to hear about your journey and what you are working on. If you would like to be on the show or have me discuss a topic that is giving you trouble write in and let's start that conversation. Email: timothy@createartpodcast.com YouTube Channel: Create Art Podcast YT Channel IG: @createartpodcast Twitter: @createartpod Special Message If you have found value in this podcast please feel free to share it with a friend as that is the best way to find new podcasts. I want this to be a 5-star podcast in your eyes so let me know what you would like to see. Speaking about sharing with a friend, check out my other podcast Find A Podcast About where I help you outsmart the algorithm a
History of National Poetry Writing Month National Poetry Writing Month (also known as NaPoWriMo) is a creative writing project held annually in April in which participants attempt to write a poem each day for one month. NaPoWriMo coincides with National Poetry Month in the United States of America and Canada. This website is owned and operated by Maureen Thorson, a poet living in Washington, DC. Inspired by NaNoWriMo, National Novel Writing Month), she started writing a poem a day for the month of April back in 2003, posting the poems on her blog. When other people started writing poems for April and posting them on their own blogs, Maureen linked to them. After a few years, so many people were doing NaPoWriMo that Maureen decided to launch an independent website for the project. My History with National Poetry Writing Month I started writing poetry in 1988 after I had been exposed to T.S. Elliot in my honors English class in high school. In 1992 I started reading my poetry publicly at Espresso Europia Coffee Shop in Abilene Tx while I was in the United States Air Force. While living in Rockford Illinois I published my first book of poetry Throwing Yourself at the Ground and Missing in 2007 followed by Postcards From Someone You Don't Know in 2008 Wisdom From the Sack in 2010 and Shaving Crop Circles In My Chest Hair in 2017. You can get copies of all of these books in my merch section. In 2020 I started publishing my podcast version of the challenge and those can be viewed here for 2020 and here for 2021. What I am doing differently for Poetry Month For 2023 I am not going to be just writing poems in April, I will be writing poems all year round. Also, since I will be writing all year round, I am using a different source for my prompts. There is a blog called Think Written and you can find it here. I will also be performing these works at Katora Coffee House here in Fredericksburg Virginia on their Friday Night Snaps Open Mic Poetry reading. Some of the podcast episodes you will hear will be a live recording of me reading the poem to a live audience, other times I will be reading it in the comfort of my home studio. I do plan on posting my work to the NaPoWriMo site and interacting with the poets there and see if they want to read their work on this podcast. Todays Poetry Prompt Dear Reader: What audience enjoys reading the type of poetry you like to write? Craft a note to your potential audience that addresses their biggest fears, hopes, and dreams. Todays Poem Read with Caution 8 April 2023 You who are searching for a familiar voice You who want to laugh at me and my mishaps You who really like how I keep it real You have no idea who I am I give you a peek inside But I gotta say I cleaned up the back room If you suddenly drop in unexpected You'd see something completely different You think you know my political affiliation But guess what kiddos, I am as loyal to them As they are to me Being an anarchist in libertarian clothes is hard to comprehend I used to smoke cigs And I talked about them forever With a cup of joe and lusting after the dark-haired barista The only problem is I was too shy to talk to her I used to have a drink or three And I just got dizzy and sick There was no pontifications That rattled the cages I used to get high 13 times a day I kept count at some point, I don't remember when But now I can't partake Because I love my pension and Retirment more than Mary I drove around the country to visit friends Now I can't stand to drive an hour to get to work Traffic angers me more Than injustice If you knew me when I was fearless If you knew me when I was invulnerable If you knew me way back when Then you know I was not any of those things I've always been a teddy bear I was the person who would be up at 3 in the morning And you could call me and have me listen But now, at 3 AM I only get up to scare nightmares away Sign Up for the Create Art Podcast Newsletter Or Subscribe Here Reaching Out To The Podcast To reach out to me, email timothy@createartpodcast.com I would love to hear about your journey and what you are working on. If you would like to be on the show or have me discuss a topic that is giving you trouble write in and let's start that conversation. Email: timothy@createartpodcast.com YouTube Channel: Create Art Podcast YT Channel IG: @createartpodcast Twitter: @createartpod Special Message If you have found value in this podcast please feel free to share it with a friend as that is the best way to find new podcasts. I want this to be a 5-star podcast in your eyes so let me know what you would like to see. Speaking about sharing with a friend, check out my other podcast Find A Podcast About where I help you outsmart the algorithm and find your next binge-worthy podcast. You can find that podcast at findapodcastabout.xyz.
History of National Poetry Writing Month National Poetry Writing Month (also known as NaPoWriMo) is a creative writing project held annually in April in which participants attempt to write a poem each day for one month. NaPoWriMo coincides with National Poetry Month in the United States of America and Canada. This website is owned and operated by Maureen Thorson, a poet living in Washington, DC. Inspired by NaNoWriMo, National Novel Writing Month), she started writing a poem a day for the month of April back in 2003, posting the poems on her blog. When other people started writing poems for April and posting them on their own blogs, Maureen linked to them. After a few years, so many people were doing NaPoWriMo that Maureen decided to launch an independent website for the project. My History with National Poetry Writing Month I started writing poetry in 1988 after I had been exposed to T.S. Elliot in my honors English class in high school. In 1992 I started reading my poetry publicly at Espresso Europia Coffee Shop in Abilene Tx while I was in the United States Air Force. While living in Rockford Illinois I published my first book of poetry Throwing Yourself at the Ground and Missing in 2007 followed by Postcards From Someone You Don't Know in 2008 Wisdom From the Sack in 2010 and Shaving Crop Circles In My Chest Hair in 2017. You can get copies of all of these books in my merch section. In 2020 I started publishing my podcast version of the challenge and those can be viewed here for 2020 and here for 2021. What I am doing differently for Poetry Month For 2023 I am not going to be just writing poems in April, I will be writing poems all year round. Also, since I will be writing all year round, I am using a different source for my prompts. There is a blog called Think Written and you can find it here. I will also be performing these works at Katora Coffee House here in Fredericksburg Virginia on their Friday Night Snaps Open Mic Poetry reading. Some of the podcast episodes you will hear will be a live recording of me reading the poem to a live audience, other times I will be reading it in the comfort of my home studio. I do plan on posting my work to the NaPoWriMo site and interacting with the poets there and see if they want to read their work on this podcast. Todays Poetry Prompt Last Words: Use the last sentence from the nearest book as the inspiration for the first line of your poem. “And indeed, as he listened to the cries of joy rising from the town, Rieux remembered that such joy is always imperiled” The Plague by Camus Todays Poem Joy is Always Imperiled 29 March 2023 Don't live in the warm glow of love In the past it has left by the morning That was the way I used to be And then fatherhood happened The smiles and gurgling of two babies Changed my heart I wanted to be around for more than my ten-year plan I was able to overlook the few faults of my lover And she was able to overlook mine I've seen fatherhood calm other men Make them look at the long game And forget that it's not about them anymore It's about what they brought into this world It's about bringing a fresh mind into the collective unconsciousness Sign Up for the Create Art Podcast Newsletter Reaching Out To The Podcast To reach out to me, email timothy@createartpodcast.com I would love to hear about your journey and what you are working on. If you would like to be on the show or have me discuss a topic that is giving you trouble write in and let's start that conversation. Email: timothy@createartpodcast.com YouTube Channel: Create Art Podcast YT Channel IG: @createartpodcast Twitter: @createartpod Special Message If you have found value in this podcast please feel free to share it with a friend as that is the best way to find new podcasts. I want this to be a 5-star podcast in your eyes so let me know what you would like to see. Speaking about sharing with a friend, check out my other podcast Find A Podcast About where I help you outsmart the algorithm and find your next binge-worthy podcast. You can find that podcast at findapodcastabout.xyz.
History of National Poetry Writing Month National Poetry Writing Month (also known as NaPoWriMo) is a creative writing project held annually in April in which participants attempt to write a poem each day for one month. NaPoWriMo coincides with National Poetry Month in the United States of America and Canada. This website is owned and operated by Maureen Thorson, a poet living in Washington, DC. Inspired by NaNoWriMo, National Novel Writing Month), she started writing a poem a day for the month of April back in 2003, posting the poems on her blog. When other people started writing poems for April and posting them on their own blogs, Maureen linked to them. After a few years, so many people were doing NaPoWriMo that Maureen decided to launch an independent website for the project. My History with National Poetry Writing Month I started writing poetry in 1988 after I had been exposed to T.S. Elliot in my honors English class in high school. In 1992 I started reading my poetry publicly at Espresso Europia Coffee Shop in Abilene Tx while I was in the United States Air Force. While living in Rockford Illinois I published my first book of poetry Throwing Yourself at the Ground and Missing in 2007 followed by Postcards From Someone You Don't Know in 2008 Wisdom From the Sack in 2010 and Shaving Crop Circles In My Chest Hair in 2017. You can get copies of all of these books in my merch section. In 2020 I started publishing my podcast version of the challenge and those can be viewed here for 2020 and here for 2021. What I am doing differently for Poetry Month For 2023 I am not going to be just writing poems in April, I will be writing poems all year round. Also, since I will be writing all year round, I am using a different source for my prompts. There is a blog called Think Written and you can find it here. I will also be performing these works at Katora Coffee House here in Fredericksburg Virginia on their Friday Night Snaps Open Mic Poetry reading. Some of the podcast episodes you will hear will be a live recording of me reading the poem to a live audience, other times I will be reading it in the comfort of my home studio. I do plan on posting my work to the NaPoWriMo site and interacting with the poets there and see if they want to read their work on this podcast. Todays Poetry Prompt Goodbyes: Write about a time in your life you said goodbye to someone – this could be as simple as ending a mundane phone conversation, or harder goodbyes to close friends, family members, or former partners. Todays Poem Closed Casket 22 March 2023 I can hear you from over 20 years of you rotting in the ground I idolized you and believed in everything you said I was selfish, greedy, self-centered I was a mistake; I was lucky to be alive If I had been born earlier, I would have died in your womb Like another child did Or you would have aborted me if the voices in your head told you to #3 husband wanted to get you in the ground So he could move onto his next 2 conquests That person couldn't even remember you said to have the lid closed He has no Indigenous blood running through his veins There was no medicine man that called me bright light And no one dosed your coffee with PCP The cologne that sperm donor wore, you weren't allergic to You just knew that he was on the prowl And wanted him to know that you knew So I wasn't allowed to wear deodorant And my sweaty pits smelled like the pot Your oldest children smoked When I saw you laying there with all that makeup on I thanked the funeral director for their work But I told him that it wasn't you I should have told the preacher to revoke the post humorous Membership in their church But I let sperm donor have his day of celebration And just so you know Although you probably already knew You weren't cold in the ground for a year When he took his next bride Who was so rich and smart That he couldn't drain her accounts And there I was, a babbling weeping self-centered man child Breaking down, fist bumping your casket Counting the minutes until my next cigarette Climbing in the car to put you 6 feet under Sperm donor didn't have the money for your headstone And he never visited your grave with me All those times I took the time to head back to the land of my torture Replace plastic flowers and put trinkets that you treasured there And not once did he come with me You chose to end it all, and if you wondered if I missed you I did, until the other night When my child said she was self-centered, greedy, selfish and a mistake I heard my voice in hers And I knew then that I needed to smash that away She is not you she is mine and I no longer need you Nor do I need your influence Or your picture looking over me and my children I won't think about you on the anniversary of your death Nor will I remember you on Mother's Day anymore You have finally and completely become dead to me Just like the sperm donor Just like my heroes Just like my love of scrambled memories Just like the putrid and deranged love you showed me Sign Up for the Create Art Podcast Newsletter Reaching Out To The Podcast To reach out to me, email timothy@createartpodcast.com I would love to hear about your journey and what you are working on. If you would like to be on the show or have me discuss a topic that is giving you trouble write in and let's start that conversation. Email: timothy@createartpodcast.com YouTube Channel: Create Art Podcast YT Channel IG: @createartpodcast Twitter: @createartpod Special Message If you have found value in this podcast please feel free to share it with a friend as that is the best way to find new podcasts. I want this to be a 5-star podcast in your eyes so let me know what you would like to see. Speaking about sharing with a friend, check out my other podcast Find A Podcast About where I help you outsmart the algorithm and find your next binge-worthy podcast. You can find that podcast at findapodcastabout.xyz.
History of National Poetry Writing Month National Poetry Writing Month (also known as NaPoWriMo) is a creative writing project held annually in April in which participants attempt to write a poem each day for one month. NaPoWriMo coincides with National Poetry Month in the United States of America and Canada. This website is owned and operated by Maureen Thorson, a poet living in Washington, DC. Inspired by NaNoWriMo, National Novel Writing Month), she started writing a poem a day for the month of April back in 2003, posting the poems on her blog. When other people started writing poems for April and posting them on their own blogs, Maureen linked to them. After a few years, so many people were doing NaPoWriMo that Maureen decided to launch an independent website for the project. My History with National Poetry Writing Month I started writing poetry in 1988 after I had been exposed to T.S. Elliot in my honors English class in high school. In 1992 I started reading my poetry publicly at Espresso Europia Coffee Shop in Abilene Tx while I was in the United States Air Force. While living in Rockford Illinois I published my first book of poetry Throwing Yourself at the Ground and Missing in 2007 followed by Postcards From Someone You Don't Know in 2008 Wisdom From the Sack in 2010 and Shaving Crop Circles In My Chest Hair in 2017. You can get copies of all of these books in my merch section. In 2020 I started publishing my podcast version of the challenge and those can be viewed here for 2020 and here for 2021. What I am doing differently for Poetry Month For 2023 I am not going to be just writing poems in April, I will be writing poems all year round. Also, since I will be writing all year round, I am using a different source for my prompts. There is a blog called Think Written and you can find it here. I will also be performing these works at Katora Coffee House here in Fredericksburg Virginia on their Friday Night Snaps Open Mic Poetry reading. Some of the podcast episodes you will hear will be a live recording of me reading the poem to a live audience, other times I will be reading it in the comfort of my home studio. I do plan on posting my work to the NaPoWriMo site and interacting with the poets there and see if they want to read their work on this podcast. Todays Poetry Prompt Uncertainty: Think about a time in your life when you couldn't make a decision and write based on this. Todays Poem Two of Swords 3 Feb 2023 Mancave When opening the deck for the first time You couldn't wait to identify me So, you tumbled out and landed on the ground first Pushing aside all the other cards You knew me before I knew me I read the future of others Gave them advice with your tutelage But nothing for me No vision of what was to come Just the two of swords And the reflection of indecision Standing outside a hotel room The night before we were to be wed My soon-to-be betrothed was asleep, snoring And me smoking and thinking about what was next Do I grab a cab and never darken the commonwealth's door Tell Old Dominion that it will not have my soul again Yes, I stayed Yes, I was wed to my betrothed Yes, I added to the population Yes, I voted blue to make us more purple And on my weak and battered arm I have placed you My card of indecision My card that holds me back That feeds my insecurities You are a part of me Making me an expert of second-guessing But you don't stop me like you used to Or maybe I don't let you stop me Maybe I give you some time To dance in my insomnia But your influence is short-lived And I push forward Finally, out of your grasp Reaching Out To The Podcast To reach out to me, email timothy@createartpodcast.com I would love to hear about your journey and what you are working on. If you would like to be on the show or have me discuss a topic that is giving you trouble write in and let's start that conversation. Email: timothy@createartpodcast.com YouTube Channel: Create Art Podcast YT Channel IG: @createartpodcast Twitter: @createartpod Special Message If you have found value in this podcast please feel free to share it with a friend as that is the best way to find new podcasts. I want this to be a 5-star podcast in your eyes so let me know what you would like to see. Speaking about sharing with a friend, check out my other podcast Find A Podcast About where I help you outsmart the algorithm and find your next binge-worthy podcast. You can find that podcast at findapodcastabout.xyz.
History of National Poetry Writing Month National Poetry Writing Month (also known as NaPoWriMo) is a creative writing project held annually in April in which participants attempt to write a poem each day for one month. NaPoWriMo coincides with National Poetry Month in the United States of America and Canada. This website is owned and operated by Maureen Thorson, a poet living in Washington, DC. Inspired by NaNoWriMo, National Novel Writing Month), she started writing a poem a day for the month of April back in 2003, posting the poems on her blog. When other people started writing poems for April and posting them on their own blogs, Maureen linked to them. After a few years, so many people were doing NaPoWriMo that Maureen decided to launch an independent website for the project. My History with National Poetry Writing Month I started writing poetry in 1988 after I had been exposed to T.S. Elliot in my honors English class in high school. In 1992 I started reading my poetry publicly at Espresso Europia Coffee Shop in Abilene Tx while I was in the United States Air Force. While living in Rockford Illinois I published my first book of poetry Throwing Yourself at the Ground and Missing in 2007 followed by Postcards From Someone You Don't Know in 2008 Wisdom From the Sack in 2010 and Shaving Crop Circles In My Chest Hair in 2017. You can get copies of all of these books in my merch section. In 2020 I started publishing my podcast version of the challenge and those can be viewed here for 2020 and here for 2021. What I am doing differently for Poetry Month For 2023 I am not going to be just writing poems in April, I will be writing poems all year round. Also, since I will be writing all year round, I am using a different source for my prompts. There is a blog called Think Written and you can find it here. I will also be performing these works at Katora Coffee House here in Fredericksburg Virginia on their Friday Night Snaps Open Mic Poetry reading. Some of the podcast episodes you will hear will be a live recording of me reading the poem to a live audience, other times I will be reading it in the comfort of my home studio. I do plan on posting my work to the NaPoWriMo site and interacting with the poets there and see if they want to read their work on this podcast. Todays Poetry Prompt Life Didn't Go As Planned: Write about a recent or memorable experience when nothing went according to plan. Todays Poem The Last Time I Cried 14 March 2023 It wasn't too cold that day My car was starting, sporadically It was a Friday, and I was forgotten in the waiting room The nurse had me type in my information She was unable to hold a thought for more than five minutes Then back to the waiting room of forgetting The resident came in Way younger than me Way more handsome, Probably was having a threesome that night He wanted to get out of there I wanted to get out of there Friday at 4 PM, both of our minds were elsewhere He brought in his teacher, the real doctor His accent was probably not as thick as I perceived Between the nurse, the resident and this doc I am surprised any of them hadn't been sued or assaulted And that's when they told me Welcome to the world of MS And they ushered me out The receptionist had left an hour ago So, the head nurse practitioner had to check me out He was the only one with an ounce of kindness I made it through the hospital in downtown Richmond I had been here before Had the ticking timebomb removed from my brain And I remembered how shitty I was treated back then And I wondered why I came back Oh yeah, I'm a De Sade fan The car didn't start. I lit a cigarette The car didn't start I am not sure why I thought it would I walked around the car Smoking another cigarette Underneath the sign that says don't Just as I was about to call home The car started Driving up I95 on a Friday before Spring Break There was a lot to time to contemplate Making my way home I said no, No, NO 5 years of frustration 5 years of MRI's MRA's, CT Scans Spikes pressed 5 times in my back Blood tests galore for every known disease Finally understanding why so many things happened Finally realizing that I was never lazy Finally realizing that what was wrong had a name It wasn't me all along Making it through the front door The children were asleep The wife was on the couch I knew we would be there for awhile Talked till her yawns couldn't keep her eyes opened And then we slept Saturday with the children didn't cause the waterworks It was when my wife got back from errands That it all hit me And my kids wonder why Papa doesn't cry They've never seen it And I know it's bad to think, but they may never Even then I couldn't weep for myself in front of them Retiring to our room As she followed close by I made it in, shut the door And heard my dead mothers voice calling me selfish And selfishly I cried Reaching Out To The Podcast To reach out to me, email timothy@createartpodcast.com I would love to hear about your journey and what you are working on. If you would like to be on the show or have me discuss a topic that is giving you trouble write in and let's start that conversation. Email: timothy@createartpodcast.com YouTube Channel: Create Art Podcast YT Channel IG: @createartpodcast Twitter: @createartpod Special Message If you have found value in this podcast please feel free to share it with a friend as that is the best way to find new podcasts. I want this to be a 5-star podcast in your eyes so let me know what you would like to see. Speaking about sharing with a friend, check out my other podcast Find A Podcast About where I help you outsmart the algorithm and find your next binge-worthy podcast. You can find that podcast at findapodcastabout.xyz.
History of National Poetry Writing Month National Poetry Writing Month (also known as NaPoWriMo) is a creative writing project held annually in April in which participants attempt to write a poem each day for one month. NaPoWriMo coincides with National Poetry Month in the United States of America and Canada. This website is owned and operated by Maureen Thorson, a poet living in Washington, DC. Inspired by NaNoWriMo, National Novel Writing Month), she started writing a poem a day for the month of April back in 2003, posting the poems on her blog. When other people started writing poems for April and posting them on their own blogs, Maureen linked to them. After a few years, so many people were doing NaPoWriMo that Maureen decided to launch an independent website for the project. My History with National Poetry Writing Month I started writing poetry in 1988 after I had been exposed to T.S. Elliot in my honors English class in high school. In 1992 I started reading my poetry publicly at Espresso Europia Coffee Shop in Abilene Tx while I was in the United States Air Force. While living in Rockford Illinois I published my first book of poetry Throwing Yourself at the Ground and Missing in 2007 followed by Postcards From Someone You Don't Know in 2008 Wisdom From the Sack in 2010 and Shaving Crop Circles In My Chest Hair in 2017. You can get copies of all of these books in my merch section. In 2020 I started publishing my podcast version of the challenge and those can be viewed here for 2020 and here for 2021. What I am doing differently for Poetry Month For 2023 I am not going to be just writing poems in April, I will be writing poems all year round. Also, since I will be writing all year round, I am using a different source for my prompts. There is a blog called Think Written and you can find it here. I will also be performing these works at Katora Coffee House here in Fredericksburg Virginia on their Friday Night Snaps Open Mic Poetry reading. Some of the podcast episodes you will hear will be a live recording of me reading the poem to a live audience, other times I will be reading it in the comfort of my home studio. I do plan on posting my work to the NaPoWriMo site and interacting with the poets there and see if they want to read their work on this podcast. Todays Poetry Prompt Stranger Conversations: Start the first line of your poem with a word or phrase from a recent passing conversation between you and someone you don't know. Todays Poem The Insufficiency of Your Love 10 March 2023 The insufficiency of your love Could have kept me alive longer Raise your hand as high as you can Now raise it higher What the hell is that? That is the insufficiency of your love If you could have taken a moment And thought about someone outside of your brain Maybe just maybe you would have picked me But you chose the most athletic kids to play ball with Reminding me that although being last picked by you Because no one else would pick me at all Was what I should expect When you taught me the meaning of trophy family Without saying a word, I embraced the role of being an embarrassment I delved into the depths of De Sade and other of that denizen Knowing I was stabbing your heart Until I declared you dead to me Your love and acceptance Is no longer required or desired Yes, that is my blood on that knife The same one your silent partner chased me around the house with Yes, these cuts are in cursive So, I can remember them and lie to my children Who can read what I wrote I hear remnants of your voice in mine Sometimes I just want to rip out my throat And silence both of us Sometimes when I look at this husk I see a foggy glimpse of you And smash my face against the mirror The insufficiency of your love wasn't what killed me off That was all my doing I wouldn't give you the pleasure of thinking That what you did caused this decision I took myself out of the picture years ago Ensuring whatever influenced your existence Never saw the light of day again It was easy, quick, and not a tear was shed And when it was done I put on my new skin Replaced the diseased innards Promptly forgot where I came from And set my compass for elsewhere Reaching Out To The Podcast To reach out to me, email timothy@createartpodcast.com I would love to hear about your journey and what you are working on. If you would like to be on the show or have me discuss a topic that is giving you trouble write in and let's start that conversation. Email: timothy@createartpodcast.com YouTube Channel: Create Art Podcast YT Channel IG: @createartpodcast Twitter: @createartpod Special Message If you have found value in this podcast please feel free to share it with a friend as that is the best way to find new podcasts. I want this to be a 5-star podcast in your eyes so let me know what you would like to see. Speaking about sharing with a friend, check out my other podcast Find A Podcast About where I help you outsmart the algorithm and find your nex
History of National Poetry Writing Month National Poetry Writing Month (also known as NaPoWriMo) is a creative writing project held annually in April in which participants attempt to write a poem each day for one month. NaPoWriMo coincides with National Poetry Month in the United States of America and Canada. This website is owned and operated by Maureen Thorson, a poet living in Washington, DC. Inspired by NaNoWriMo, National Novel Writing Month), she started writing a poem a day for the month of April back in 2003, posting the poems on her blog. When other people started writing poems for April and posting them on their own blogs, Maureen linked to them. After a few years, so many people were doing NaPoWriMo that Maureen decided to launch an independent website for the project. My History with National Poetry Writing Month I started writing poetry in 1988 after I had been exposed to T.S. Elliot in my honors English class in high school. In 1992 I started reading my poetry publicly at Espresso Europia Coffee Shop in Abilene Tx while I was in the United States Air Force. While living in Rockford Illinois I published my first book of poetry Throwing Yourself at the Ground and Missing in 2007 followed by Postcards From Someone You Don't Know in 2008 Wisdom From the Sack in 2010 and Shaving Crop Circles In My Chest Hair in 2017. You can get copies of all of these books in my merch section. In 2020 I started publishing my podcast version of the challenge and those can be viewed here for 2020 and here for 2021. What I am doing differently for Poetry Month For 2023 I am not going to be just writing poems in April, I will be writing poems all year round. Also, since I will be writing all year round, I am using a different source for my prompts. There is a blog called Think Written and you can find it here. I will also be performing these works at Katora Coffee House here in Fredericksburg Virginia on their Friday Night Snaps Open Mic Poetry reading. Some of the podcast episodes you will hear will be a live recording of me reading the poem to a live audience, other times I will be reading it in the comfort of my home studio. I do plan on posting my work to the NaPoWriMo site and interacting with the poets there and see if they want to read their work on this podcast. Todays Poetry Prompt Misfits: How it feels when you don't belong in a group of others Todays Poem The Wind Gets Cold Out Here 11 Jan 2023 Mancave It was a few years back during a thanksgiving meal Seated with over 100 folks in uniform Many of them my clients It was a work function, attendance was strongly recommended So, walking through the food line they set up Making nice with everyone Sat with a group of clients And just like that, as happens in dinner tables all across America Someone was making cracks at Michelle Obama Saying how they shouldn't let moneys wear such nice clothes And no, it wasn't the drunk racist uncle that no one listens to It was a white college educated professional woman Who happened to be in uniform Who happened to be my client Who happened to be looking for work with the Feds Excusing myself Wasn't going to try and bash my head against the wall As others in the group laughed along Guess who she doesn't work for And the next line I was going to write Was going to have been Guess who got blackballed But then I thought Am I that far removed from them I took the next job After I lost three clients in 6 months One to cancer, who wouldn't admit defeat One to a hold-up gone wrong on his last day of duty in front of his daughter One who decided to take a long walk into a lake I took that job to get away To work with those that were told To put kids in cages And now their conscious got them better of them And they were offing themselves in droves The job was to make them feel better And I get how they got into this mess They had no future No hope to achieve anything better So, they signed themselves over To uphold the law And there I am, giving aid and comfort To someone's enemy To someone's nightmare Will I be tried for war crimes When it is my turn to cross over Comforting those who do the things That we won't do Who we rage against Who are following orders I have empathy for them But I'll never be in their club Reaching Out To The Podcast To reach out to me, email timothy@createartpodcast.com I would love to hear about your journey and what you are working on. If you would like to be on the show or have me discuss a topic that is giving you trouble write in and let's start that conversation. Email: timothy@createartpodcast.com YouTube Channel: Create Art Podcast YT Channel IG: @createartpodcast Twitter: @createartpod Special Message If you have found value in this podcast please feel free to share it with a friend as that is the best way to find new podcasts. I want this to be a 5-star podcast in your eyes so let me know what you would like to see. Speaking about sharing with a friend, check out my other podcast Find A Podcast About where I help you outsmart the algorithm and find your next binge-worthy podcast. You can find that podcast at findapodcastabout.xyz.
History of National Poetry Writing Month National Poetry Writing Month (also known as NaPoWriMo) is a creative writing project held annually in April in which participants attempt to write a poem each day for one month. NaPoWriMo coincides with National Poetry Month in the United States of America and Canada. This website is owned and operated by Maureen Thorson, a poet living in Washington, DC. Inspired by NaNoWriMo, National Novel Writing Month), she started writing a poem a day for the month of April back in 2003, posting the poems on her blog. When other people started writing poems for April and posting them on their own blogs, Maureen linked to them. After a few years, so many people were doing NaPoWriMo that Maureen decided to launch an independent website for the project. My History with National Poetry Writing Month I started writing poetry in 1988 after I had been exposed to T.S. Elliot in my honors English class in high school. In 1992 I started reading my poetry publicly at Espresso Europia Coffee Shop in Abilene Tx while I was in the United States Air Force. While living in Rockford Illinois I published my first book of poetry Throwing Yourself at the Ground and Missing in 2007 followed by Postcards From Someone You Don't Know in 2008 Wisdom From the Sack in 2010 and Shaving Crop Circles In My Chest Hair in 2017. You can get copies of all of these books in my merch section. In 2020 I started publishing my podcast version of the challenge and those can be viewed here for 2020 and here for 2021. What I am doing differently for Poetry Month For 2023 I am not going to be just writing poems in April, I will be writing poems all year round. Also, since I will be writing all year round, I am using a different source for my prompts. There is a blog called Think Written and you can find it here. I will also be performing these works at Katora Coffee House here in Fredericksburg Virginia on their Friday Night Snaps Open Mic Poetry reading. Some of the podcast episodes you will hear will be a live recording of me reading the poem to a live audience, other times I will be reading it in the comfort of my home studio. I do plan on posting my work to the NaPoWriMo site and interacting with the poets there and see if they want to read their work on this podcast. Poetry Prompt I Used The Untouchable: Something that will always be out of reach Todays Poem Penetration 1 Jan 23, 2013 I look into your eyes Those pools of blue are so like mine Every morning I ask the same question Wanting to know what is going on behind the window Your voice repeats things that your mother was too young to know about There was no way you would have heard those words and phrases from me I've done my best to try and forget the person who originally uttered them But you can pick her out of a crowded picture from 1979 I want to save you the anguish she knew and caused I couldn't save her in the end And it was a tragic end Relying on everything being provided by The one who molested your children Cheated on you with the church secretary Demanded that we all attend that church 5 times a week Knowing what we knew Being the embarrassment of the congregation I've taught my child to say fuck you to the President Put a middle finger up to the patriarchy and systemic racism When they try to grab her by the pussy She knows that she is not to stop stabbing until the knife won't come out of her attacker's chest, groin, brain, heart She is to use the knives my mother chased my brother and I around the house with Screaming that we were possessed, and she would be taking the demons from our souls Even if it killed us My daughter knows how to slay the demons of Diablo And those who put on the skin of humans She knows how to use her words to stab at my heart My gift to her was anger My gift to her was rage She knows how to wield it I have no need to interrogate the people she will bring to our house Nor will I clean a rifle or a chainsaw in their presence Unless I am actually doing lawn work I have no need to intimidate in order to protect her She can take care of herself if the task is too large Then she knows when to bring me in, to finish And here we are After another screaming match with her mother She is doing her best to look intimidating Her frown flexed Her gaze intense into my eyes Her breath shallow and quick And just as she cannot decipher my demeanor She has no idea I am actually in control of the situation just by sitting here quietly Motionlessly Emotionlessly She ponders how I can exude so much unfeeling, such detachment from humanity She doesn't know that I am scanning her for a crack A chink in her armor that I helped forge A way to see into her inner workings, her deep thoughts The dreams she refuses to elaborate on She won't know until she reads this And even that would be a stroke of luck If she finds it and realizes it is about her She's a bit too much like her long dead grandmother And I am ignorant of my obscure grandfather So, there will be no repeating of N.N.B. I wish a reflection my Mother of choice For now, I will stand by Looking deep into the eyes of my child Attempting to peer into her soul Attempting to steer her away from the paths we have generationally tread Reaching Out To The Podcast To reach out to me, email timothy@createartpodcast.com I would love to hear about your journey and what you are working on. If you would like to be on the show or have me discuss a topic that is giving you trouble write in and let's start that conversation. Email: timothy@createartpodcast.com YouTube Channel: Create Art Podcast YT Channel IG: @createartpodcast Twitter: @createartpod Special Message If you have found value in this podcast please feel free to share it with a friend as that is the best way to find new podcasts. I want this to be a 5-star podcast in your eyes so let me know what you would like to see. Speaking about sharing with a friend, check out my other podcast Find A Podcast About where I help you outsmart the algorithm and find your next binge-worthy podcast. You can find that podcast at findapodcastabout.xyz.
History of National Poetry Writing Month National Poetry Writing Month (also known as NaPoWriMo) is a creative writing project held annually in April in which participants attempt to write a poem each day for one month. NaPoWriMo coincides with National Poetry Month in the United States of America and Canada. This website is owned and operated by Maureen Thorson, a poet living in Washington, DC. Inspired by NaNoWriMo, National Novel Writing Month), she started writing a poem a day for the month of April back in 2003, posting the poems on her blog. When other people started writing poems for April and posting them on their own blogs, Maureen linked to them. After a few years, so many people were doing NaPoWriMo that Maureen decided to launch an independent website for the project. My History with National Poetry Writing Month I started writing poetry in 1988 after I had been exposed to T.S. Elliot in my honors English class in high school. In 1992 I started reading my poetry publicly at Espresso Europia Coffee Shop in Abilene Tx while I was in the United States Air Force. While living in Rockford Illinois I published my first book of poetry Throwing Yourself at the Ground and Missing in 2007 followed by Postcards From Someone You Don't Know in 2008 Wisdom From the Sack in 2010 and Shaving Crop Circles In My Chest Hair in 2017. You can get copies of all of these books in my merch section. In 2020 I started publishing my podcast version of the challenge and those can be viewed here for 2020 and here for 2021. What I am doing differently for Poetry Month For 2023 I am not going to be just writing poems in April, I will be writing poems all year round. Also, since I will be writing all year round, I am using a different source for my prompts. There is a blog called Think Written and you can find it here. I will also be performing these works at Katora Coffee House here in Fredericksburg Virginia on their Friday Night Snaps Open Mic Poetry reading. Some of the podcast episodes you will hear will be a live recording of me reading the poem to a live audience, other times I will be reading it in the comfort of my home studio. I do plan on posting my work to the NaPoWriMo site and interacting with the poets there and see if they want to read their work on this podcast. Todays Poetry Prompt No Prompt just write Todays Poem Perspective 9 Jan 2023, 2103 Mancave A 6-year-old shot their teacher on January 6th It was the 2nd anniversary of those who send thoughts and prayers to gunshot victims And storm the Capitol And go to church on Sunday And say they are patriots And call people who jump when they hear a familiar crack in the air triggered snowflake libtards A 6-year-old shot their teacher on January 6th That teacher was in critical condition That teacher was forgotten because of a football player who almost died on the field The shooting didn't make the front page of a major newspaper The prayers all went to the millionaire athlete That teacher was probably underpaid Probably skipped a few meals to provide supplies For the kids in her class Probably never handled a handgun themself A 6-year-old shot their teacher on January 6th The metal detectors were off that day The ones that children, Fucking Children had to walk through without protest Without thought as to why they had to As the lawgivers in congress celebrated the removal and requirement Of having to pass through the same detectors That their lackeys' actions caused to make the detectors necessary That's true patriotism right there folks A 6-year-old shot their teacher on January 6th And now they are in custody And now they are given around-the-clock attention And the question is where does a 6-year-old gets a handgun And who taught the child to fire it And who taught the child to use it in anger And who taught the child Who do we hold responsible Who pays for the trauma of the ensuing lockdown Where kids accept what they are told Pretend you are dead, be quiet, and don't move No matter how many shots are fired stay down A 6-year-old shot their teacher on January 6th A 74-year-old man-child in his Florida resort Who instigated a riot Who stole top secret documents Who's crimes have been revealed time and time again Sips his Diet Coke and munches on his big macs Inflames the weak-minded Love the ignorant Love the children, as long as they satisfy his carnal needs He walks free A 6-year-old shot their teacher on January 6th How many days have gone by How many other teachers have been shot or assaulted How many other insurrections in other countries need to happen to satiate old men's pride I stand here, doing all I can not to cry Here I stand a witness to a 14-year-old boy in a faraway land Being shot and strapped to the front of a jeep Paraded in front of his village as a warning Did it happen on January 6th, I can't remember Should we just accept this horrid portrayal of groundhogs' day And relive another shooting every day A 6-year-old shot their teacher on January 6th And on January 13th my children must practice their lockdown drill So that some inbred small dick asshat can clutch lustfully to his second amendment An amendment he probably doesn't know by heart An amendment that doesn't say what he thinks it says A 6-year-old shot their teacher on January 6th A 6-year-old shot their teacher on January 6th A 6-year-old shot their teacher on January 6th Let it sink in, let it permeate your brain A 6-year-old shot their teacher A 6-year-old shot A 6-year-old Reaching Out To The Podcast To reach out to me, email timothy@createartpodcast.com I would love to hear about your journey and what you are working on. If you would like to be on the show or have me discuss a topic that is giving you trouble write in and let's start that conversation. Email: timothy@createartpodcast.com YouTube Channel: Create Art Podcast YT Channel IG: @createartpodcast Twitter: @createartpod Special Message If you have found value in this podcast please feel free to share it with a friend as that is the best way to find new podcasts. I want this to be a 5-star podcast in your eyes so let me know what you would like to see. Speaking about sharing with a friend, check out my other podcast Find A Podcast About where I help you outsmart the algorithm and find your next binge-worthy podcast. You can find that podcast at findapodcastabout.xyz.
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This podcast is not for the faint hearted... I am Laura fully turned up to 100...sooo if you're not ready for it, bow out now! In today's podcast we talk about: Core Wounds. Abandonment. Rejection. My History of Rejection and Abandonment and the Mental Things I did Because of it. How to Remedy These Behaviours. Shadow Work Unconscious Behaviours That Lead to Your Own Downfall ANNNNNDDD (as if that wasn't enough!) WHY YOU ARE NOT A VICTIM. Links mentioned (plus more!) Shadow Work - https://spotifyanchor-web.app.link/e/p3q4pW3rdvb Intrusive Thoughts - https://spotifyanchor-web.app.link/e/SzwWpV3rdvb Subliminal Track for you to listen to during the day or whilst you are sleeping: https://spotifyanchor-web.app.link/e/Ip19x8Zndvb or you can play on YouTube here - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u8_iTO0hSZo What are subliminals? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LRUc2v3pkjM&t=2s Female Sexuality after Trauma - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XSRethhWcws&t=7s Sex and Validation - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FgErshIUcxQ&t=346s --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/lauofattraction/message
Colin Wright of Exile Lifestyle shares his history of stalking. Episode 1457: My History of Stalking by Colin Wright Colin Wright is a professional author and international speaker who co-founded a publishing company and travels full-time, moving to a new country every four months or so–that country determined by the votes of his readers! He also blogs. Colin's a minimalist in that he owns very few things and is careful in how he consumes. He tends to buy less, but invest in quality when he does, and trends toward the same in relationships, business endeavors, and just about everything else. He's left-handed, blue-eyed, scary good at Tetris, and can't cook. The original post is located here: https://exilelifestyle.com/history-stalking/ Visit Me Online at OLDPodcast.com Interested in advertising on the show? Visit https://www.advertisecast.com/OptimalRelationshipsDailyMarriageParenting Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
History of National Poetry Writing Month National Poetry Writing Month (also known as NaPoWriMo) is a creative writing project held annually in April in which participants attempt to write a poem each day for one month. NaPoWriMo coincides with the National Poetry Month in the United States of America and Canada. NaPoWriMo, or National Poetry Writing Month, is an annual project in which participating poets attempt to write a poem a day for the month of April. This website is owned and operated by Maureen Thorson, a poet living in Washington, DC. Inspired by NaNoWriMo, or National Novel Writing Month), she started writing a poem a day for the month of April back in 2003, posting the poems on her blog. When other people started writing poems for April, and posting them on their own blogs, Maureen linked to them. After a few years, so many people were doing NaPoWriMo that Maureen decided to launch an independent website for the project. My History with National Poetry Writing Month I started writing poetry in 1988 after I had been exposed to T.S. Elliot in my honors English class in high school. In 1992 I started reading my poetry publicly at Espesso Europia Coffee Shop in Abilene Tx while I was in the United States Air Force. This continued for many years when I ran my own poetry reading at Cannova's in Loves Park Illinois and attended the poetry slams at The green Mill in Chicago Illinois. While living in Rockford Illinois I published my first book of poetry Throwing Yourself at the Ground and Missing in 2007 followed by Postcards From Someone You Don't Know in 2008 Wisdom From the Sack in 2010 and Shaving Crop Circles In My Chest Hair in 2017. You can get copies of all of these books in my merch section. In 2009 I started participating in National Poetry Writing Month which became the basis for my book Wisdom From the Sack and Shaving Crop Circles in My Chest Hair. In 2020 I started publishing my podcast version of the challenge and those can be viewed here for 2020 and here for 2021. April 30th Poetry Prompt And now – our final (but still optional!) prompt. Today, I'd like to challenge you to write a cento. This is a poem that is made up of lines taken from other poems. If you'd like to dig into an in-depth example, here's John Ashbery's cento “The Dong with the Luminous Nose,” and here it is again, fully annotated to show where every line originated. A cento might seem like a complex undertaking – and one that requires you to have umpteen poetry books at your fingertips for reference – but you don't have to write a long one. And a good way to jump-start the process is to find an online curation of poems about a particular topic (or in a particular style), and then mine the poems for good lines to string together. You might look at the Poetry Foundation's collection of love poems, or its collection of poems by British romantic poets, or even its surprisingly expansive collection of poems about (American) football. April 30th Poem Not My Words 30 April 2022 1 Everybody knows that the boat is leaking Everybody knows that the captain lied Everybody got this broken feeling Like their father or their dog just died Everybody talking to their pockets Everybody wants a box of chocolates And a long stem rose 2 Those who have crossed With direct eyes, to death's other Kingdom Remember us-if at all-not as lost Violent souls, but only As the hollow men The stuffed men. 3 Grave men, near death, who see with blinding sight Blind eyes could blaze like meteors and be gay, 2 Eyes I dare not meet in dreams In death's dream kingdom These do not appear: There, the eyes are Sunlight on a broken column There, is a tree swinging And voices are In the wind's singing More distant and more solemn Than a fading star. 1 And everybody knows that the Plague is coming Everybody knows that it's moving fast Everybody knows that the naked man and woman Are just a shining artifact of the past 2 Is it like this In death's other kingdom Waking alone At the hour when we are Trembling with tenderness Lips that would kiss Form prayers to broken stone. 3 though wise men at their end know dark is right, Because their words had forked no lightning 2 In this last of meeting places We grope together And avoid speech Gathered on this beach of the tumid river Sightless, unless The eyes reappear As the perpetual star Multifoliate rose 1 And everybody knows that it's now or never Everybody knows that it's me or you And everybody knows that you live forever Ah, when you've done a line or two 3 Wild men who caught and sang the sun in flight, And learn, too late, they grieved it on its way, 2 Between the desire And the spasm Between the potency And the existence Between the essence And the descent Falls the Shadow 1 And everybody knows that you're in trouble Everybody knows what you've been through From the bloody cross on top of Calvary To the beach of Malibu 3 And you, my father, there on the sad height, Curse, bless, me now with your fierce tears, I pray. 2 In death's other kingdom Waking alone At the hour when we are Trembling with tenderness Lips that would kiss Form prayers to broken stone. 1 Everybody knows the war is over Everybody knows the good guys lost Everybody knows the fight was fixed The poor stay poor, the rich get rich That's how it goes 3 Do not go gentle into that good night. Rage, rage against the dying of the light. 2 This is the way the world ends This is the way the world ends This is the way the world ends Not with a bang but a whimper. Everybody Knows Leonard Cohen The Hollow Men T.S. Elliot Do Not Go Gentle Into That Good Night Dylan Thomas Reaching Out To reach out to me, email timothy@createartpodcast.com I would love to hear about your journey and what you are working on. If you would like to be on the show or have me discuss a topic that is giving you trouble write in and let's start that conversation. Email: timothy@createartpodcast.com YouTube Channel: Create Art Podcast YT Channel IG: @createartpodcast Twitter: @createartpod
Jade describes herself as a spiritual midwife. She spent the first 20 years of her professional life building a consulting business. When her mother was diagnosed with cancer Jade redirected her timme and energy to support her mother. Following her mother's death Jade spent years grieving, healing and recalibratinng her life. She said goodbye to the Bay Area and goodbye to consulting. For the 20 years since then Jade has been deepening her spiritual practice and fine tuning herself as an instrument of healing in the death and dying process. Jade reminds us that healing is not a rush job. As she puts it “you cannot force the river.” In order to become an instrument of healing, Jade first had to let herself heal, and in order to let herself heal, she moved from the fast lane to the slower pace of the Big Island and asked the ocean to hold her grief. This conversation winds and circles back on itself many times, just like the process of grieving. Jade's Reading List & Resources: AARP – Checklist for My Family: A Guide to My History, Financial Plans and Final Wishes; by Sally Balch Hurme, an Elder Law Attorney quoted frequently in NY Times, Wall Street Journal, USA Today, CNN, NPR, Kiplinger's Retirement Report. BJ MILLER, M.D. Ted Talks – What Really Matters at the End of Life https://video.search.yahoo.com/search/video?fr=mcafee&ei=UTF-8&p=ted+talks+youtube+bj+miller&type=E211US105G0#id=1&vid=68dfedc905fc29bab4f13e4ce08afdc0&action=click Ira Byock, nationally renown palliative care specialist, M.D. – The Four Things That Matter Most: A Book about Living https://irabyock.org/books/the-four-things-that-matter-most/ Atul Gawande, M.D. – Being Mortal: Medicine and What Matters in the End http://atulgawande.com/book/being-mortal/ Paul Kalanithi, M.D. – When Breath Becomes Air https://www.amazon.com/When-Breath-Becomes-Paul-Kalanithi/dp/081298840X Katy Butler, award winning journalist - Knocking on Heaven's Door, The Art of Dying Well Joan Halifax, Founder and Director of Upaya Zen Center: Being with Dying: Cultivating Compassion & Wisdom in the Presence of Death. https://www.upaya.org/being-with-dying/ https://www.upaya.org/dox/Being_Dying.pdf Frank Ostaseski, visionary co- founder of SF Zen Hospice, Metta Institute - Five Invitations: Discovering What Death Can Teach Us About Living Fully. This book is an evocative and relevant guide that points to a radical path for transforming the way we live. https://fiveinvitations.com/ the secret teacher hiding in plain sight, helping us Cathy Wurzer, founder of End in Mind: A movement that advocates to shift the fear-based cultural conversation about loss, death, dying, and provides curated resources to families and communities. https://www.endinmindproject.org/resources/ If you enjoyed this conversation, please leave a review in your podcast app. CancerTalks is a platform for anyone who has been touched by cancer. If you're moved to donate, please visit cancertalks.com/donate
History of National Poetry Writing Month National Poetry Writing Month (also known as NaPoWriMo) is a creative writing project held annually in April in which participants attempt to write a poem each day for one month. NaPoWriMo coincides with the National Poetry Month in the United States of America and Canada. NaPoWriMo, or National Poetry Writing Month, is an annual project in which participating poets attempt to write a poem a day for the month of April. This website is owned and operated by Maureen Thorson, a poet living in Washington, DC. Inspired by NaNoWriMo, or National Novel Writing Month), she started writing a poem a day for the month of April back in 2003, posting the poems on her blog. When other people started writing poems for April, and posting them on their own blogs, Maureen linked to them. After a few years, so many people were doing NaPoWriMo that Maureen decided to launch an independent website for the project. My History with National Poetry Writing Month I started writing poetry in 1988 after I had been exposed to T.S. Elliot in my honors English class in high school. In 1992 I started reading my poetry publicly at Espesso Europia Coffee Shop in Abilene Tx while I was in the United States Air Force. This continued for many years when I ran my own poetry reading at Cannova's in Loves Park Illinois and attended the poetry slams at The green Mill in Chicago Illinois. While living in Rockford Illinois I published my first book of poetry Throwing Yourself at the Ground and Missing in 2007 followed by Postcards From Someone You Don't Know in 2008 Wisdom From the Sack in 2010 and Shaving Crop Circles In My Chest Hair in 2017. You can get copies of all of these books in my merch section. In 2009 I started participating in National Poetry Writing Month which became the basis for my book Wisdom From the Sack and Shaving Crop Circles in My Chest Hair. In 2020 I started publishing my podcast version of the challenge and those can be viewed here for 2020 and here for 2021. April 29th Poetry Prompt And here's our prompt (optional, as always). In certain versions of the classic fairytale Sleeping Beauty, various fairies or witches are invited to a princess's christening, and bring her gifts. One fairy/witch, however, is not invited, and in revenge for the insult, lays a curse on the princess. Today, I'd like to challenge you to write a poem in which you muse on the gifts you received at birth — whether they are actual presents, like a teddy bear, or talents – like a good singing voice – or circumstances – like a kind older brother, as well as a “curse” you've lived with (your grandmother's insistence on giving you a new and completely creepy porcelain doll for every birthday, a bad singing voice, etc.). I hope you find this to be an inspiring avenue for poetic and self-exploration. April 29th Poem He Must be Born with It 29 April 2022 As I stand in the back of the room Fiending for another smoke I feel every emotion coming from the poets Some of them are younger than my socks Others share their experiences that I have no reference to Yet I come back week after week Like they say to do in the meetings Where we just share our first names I've always been able to empathize with most anyone So much so I take on their struggle Without being asked Or wanted Because I've felt since day 1 That I have to be the sacrificial lamb Fending for myself With parents who would rather drink Than take care of their children I stand outside, alone Flicking ashes to the ground Field stripping the butts And the young poets come up to me Asking how they did Asking if I heard their latest piece Quizzing me on their content Giving them the wisdom that has been bestowed on me Through years of searching And I pass along to them the torch Freshly lit with their energy and inquisitiveness Praying they have a better life than what I was given Knowing the predators that lurk just around the corner I try to protect them and provide them With an example of what I have done that works And what I have done that doesn't This is all I can give the next generations The benefit of my experience It's a precious gift that I wish I had been given Or that I would have been open enough to receive My spirit will be following up after I release these earthly bonds I expect to see A better world than what was left to me Reaching Out To reach out to me, email timothy@createartpodcast.com I would love to hear about your journey and what you are working on. If you would like to be on the show or have me discuss a topic that is giving you trouble write in and let's start that conversation. Email: timothy@createartpodcast.com YouTube Channel: Create Art Podcast YT Channel IG: @createartpodcast Twitter: @createartpod
History of National Poetry Writing Month National Poetry Writing Month (also known as NaPoWriMo) is a creative writing project held annually in April in which participants attempt to write a poem each day for one month. NaPoWriMo coincides with the National Poetry Month in the United States of America and Canada. NaPoWriMo, or National Poetry Writing Month, is an annual project in which participating poets attempt to write a poem a day for the month of April. This website is owned and operated by Maureen Thorson, a poet living in Washington, DC. Inspired by NaNoWriMo, or National Novel Writing Month), she started writing a poem a day for the month of April back in 2003, posting the poems on her blog. When other people started writing poems for April, and posting them on their own blogs, Maureen linked to them. After a few years, so many people were doing NaPoWriMo that Maureen decided to launch an independent website for the project. My History with National Poetry Writing Month I started writing poetry in 1988 after I had been exposed to T.S. Elliot in my honors English class in high school. In 1992 I started reading my poetry publicly at Espesso Europia Coffee Shop in Abilene Tx while I was in the United States Air Force. This continued for many years when I ran my own poetry reading at Cannova's in Loves Park Illinois and attended the poetry slams at The green Mill in Chicago Illinois. While living in Rockford Illinois I published my first book of poetry Throwing Yourself at the Ground and Missing in 2007 followed by Postcards From Someone You Don't Know in 2008 Wisdom From the Sack in 2010 and Shaving Crop Circles In My Chest Hair in 2017. You can get copies of all of these books in my merch section. In 2009 I started participating in National Poetry Writing Month which became the basis for my book Wisdom From the Sack and Shaving Crop Circles in My Chest Hair. In 2020 I started publishing my podcast version of the challenge and those can be viewed here for 2020 and here for 2021. April 28th Poetry Prompt Today's (optional) prompt is to write a concrete poem. Like acrostic poems, concrete poems are a favorite for grade-school writing assignments, so this may not be your first time at the concrete-poem rodeo. In brief, a concrete poem is one in which the lines are shaped in a way that mimics the topic of the poem. For example, May Swenson's poem “Women” mimics curves, reinforcing the poem's references to motion, rocking horses, and even the shape of a woman's body. George Starbuck's “Sonnet in the Shape of a Potted Christmas Tree” is – you guessed it – a sonnet in the shape of a potted Christmas tree. Your concrete poem could be complexly-shaped, but relatively simple strategies can also be “concrete” — like a poem involving a staircase where the length of the lines grows or shrinks over time, like an ascending (or descending) set of stairs. April 28th Poem Mug of Life 28 April 2022 Before everyone wakes up to start their day You, my black pot of gold, spit and bubble and Steam you way into my ears, I can smell your Vapors as they waft from room to room and permeate Each and every room in our house, I love the bitter Feeling you give as you pour over my tongue washing Away the dryness of the night's restorative dreams The heft of a full mug of this elixir opens my eyes And provides me comfort when I get ready for life Sipping away mindlessly and feeling the energy fill me Warmth of the liquid makes me smile, my kids know Not to ask too much of me before I drain the First cup of watery bitter love in my mug, quiet Listening to the sounds of the birds and the rustle Of the rabbits in the backyard is how I start my day Reaching Out To reach out to me, email timothy@createartpodcast.com I would love to hear about your journey and what you are working on. If you would like to be on the show or have me discuss a topic that is giving you trouble write in and let's start that conversation. Email: timothy@createartpodcast.com YouTube Channel: Create Art Podcast YT Channel IG: @createartpodcast Twitter: @createartpod
History of National Poetry Writing Month National Poetry Writing Month (also known as NaPoWriMo) is a creative writing project held annually in April in which participants attempt to write a poem each day for one month. NaPoWriMo coincides with the National Poetry Month in the United States of America and Canada. NaPoWriMo, or National Poetry Writing Month, is an annual project in which participating poets attempt to write a poem a day for the month of April. This website is owned and operated by Maureen Thorson, a poet living in Washington, DC. Inspired by NaNoWriMo, or National Novel Writing Month), she started writing a poem a day for the month of April back in 2003, posting the poems on her blog. When other people started writing poems for April, and posting them on their own blogs, Maureen linked to them. After a few years, so many people were doing NaPoWriMo that Maureen decided to launch an independent website for the project. My History with National Poetry Writing Month I started writing poetry in 1988 after I had been exposed to T.S. Elliot in my honors English class in high school. In 1992 I started reading my poetry publicly at Espesso Europia Coffee Shop in Abilene Tx while I was in the United States Air Force. This continued for many years when I ran my own poetry reading at Cannova's in Loves Park Illinois and attended the poetry slams at The green Mill in Chicago Illinois. While living in Rockford Illinois I published my first book of poetry Throwing Yourself at the Ground and Missing in 2007 followed by Postcards From Someone You Don't Know in 2008 Wisdom From the Sack in 2010 and Shaving Crop Circles In My Chest Hair in 2017. You can get copies of all of these books in my merch section. In 2009 I started participating in National Poetry Writing Month which became the basis for my book Wisdom From the Sack and Shaving Crop Circles in My Chest Hair. In 2020 I started publishing my podcast version of the challenge and those can be viewed here for 2020 and here for 2021. April 27th Poetry Prompt Last but not least, here's our (optional) prompt. Today, I'd like to challenge you to write a “duplex.” A “duplex” is a variation on the sonnet, developed by the poet Jericho Brown. Here's one of his first “Duplex” poems, and here is a duplex written by the poet I.S. Jones. Like a typical sonnet, a duplex has fourteen lines. It's organized into seven, two-line stanzas. The second line of the first stanza is echoed by (but not identical to) the first line of the second stanza, the second line of the second stanza is echoed by (but not identical to) the first line of the third stanza, and so on. The last line of the poem is the same as the first. April 27th Poem Filling The Craters 27 April 2022 Looking at all of the possessions I have acquired Which one of these will teach my daughters happiness Teaching my daughters happiness Is not an afterschool special Afterschool specials no longer teach kids how to read That's the job of parents who are engaged Engaged parents were not the example I had Being taught what not to do is the plan laid out before me The plan of what not to do being laid out in front of me I find happiness in what my daughters teach me Finding happiness in the lessons of my daughters Their smiles are my goalposts Smiling children are the goal Looking at all the possessions I have acquired Reaching Out To reach out to me, email timothy@createartpodcast.com I would love to hear about your journey and what you are working on. If you would like to be on the show or have me discuss a topic that is giving you trouble write in and let's start that conversation. Email: timothy@createartpodcast.com YouTube Channel: Create Art Podcast YT Channel IG: @createartpodcast Twitter: @createartpod
History of National Poetry Writing Month National Poetry Writing Month (also known as NaPoWriMo) is a creative writing project held annually in April in which participants attempt to write a poem each day for one month. NaPoWriMo coincides with the National Poetry Month in the United States of America and Canada. NaPoWriMo, or National Poetry Writing Month, is an annual project in which participating poets attempt to write a poem a day for the month of April. This website is owned and operated by Maureen Thorson, a poet living in Washington, DC. Inspired by NaNoWriMo, or National Novel Writing Month), she started writing a poem a day for the month of April back in 2003, posting the poems on her blog. When other people started writing poems for April, and posting them on their own blogs, Maureen linked to them. After a few years, so many people were doing NaPoWriMo that Maureen decided to launch an independent website for the project. My History with National Poetry Writing Month I started writing poetry in 1988 after I had been exposed to T.S. Elliot in my honors English class in high school. In 1992 I started reading my poetry publicly at Espesso Europia Coffee Shop in Abilene Tx while I was in the United States Air Force. This continued for many years when I ran my own poetry reading at Cannova's in Loves Park Illinois and attended the poetry slams at The green Mill in Chicago Illinois. While living in Rockford Illinois I published my first book of poetry Throwing Yourself at the Ground and Missing in 2007 followed by Postcards From Someone You Don't Know in 2008 Wisdom From the Sack in 2010 and Shaving Crop Circles In My Chest Hair in 2017. You can get copies of all of these books in my merch section. In 2009 I started participating in National Poetry Writing Month which became the basis for my book Wisdom From the Sack and Shaving Crop Circles in My Chest Hair. In 2020 I started publishing my podcast version of the challenge and those can be viewed here for 2020 and here for 2021. April 26th Poetry Prompt And now for our daily prompt (optional, as always). A couple of days ago, we played around with hard-boiled similes. Today, I'd like to challenge you to write a poem that contains at least one of a different kind of simile – an epic simile. Also known as Homeric similes, these are basically extended similes that develop over multiple lines. Perhaps unsurprisingly, they have mainly been used in epic poems, typically as decorative elements that emphasize the dramatic nature of the subject (see, by way of illustration, this example from Milton's Paradise Lost). But you could write a complete poem that is just one lengthy, epic simile, relying on the surprising comparison of unlike things to carry the poem across. And if you're feeling especially cheeky, you could even write a poem in which the epic simile spends lines heroically and dramatically describing something that turns out to be quite prosaic. Whatever you decide to compare, I hope you have fun extending your simile(s) to epic lengths. April 26th Poem Lost Souls 26 April 2022 As rabbits dart from here to there The foxes know their movements The deer are stunned before they feel the bite of steel As the hunters reload for the kill shot If the prey could find a way to live in Zootopia Then the predators would be unemployed, powerless, their biggest fear Even size differences don't equalize the outcomes This even the smallest carnivore knows the numbers game wins Very few animals hunt their young Almost none eat their progeny And those that do, we deem them animalistic Our sympathies are nowhere to be found There is no rehabilitation, no redemption for these beasts And if we can't consume them, they are laid to waste Those who try to protect these species Are seen as bleeding hearts They are not taken seriously We minimize them And heaven forbid if their prey is tasty, or found to help our health For then we will domesticate and annihilate To the brink of extermination Only to pat ourselves on the back For saving them from our divine right Oh how we are so humane When dealing with those who act on their animalistic drives Those who let the beast out and dine on their young Do they not deserve the same disdain We reserve for the most barbaric of the animal kingdom Our religions tell us to forgive seventy times seven Especially when the predator divines the holy to their herds Reaching Out To reach out to me, email timothy@createartpodcast.com I would love to hear about your journey and what you are working on. If you would like to be on the show or have me discuss a topic that is giving you trouble write in and let's start that conversation. Email: timothy@createartpodcast.com YouTube Channel: Create Art Podcast YT Channel IG: @createartpodcast Twitter: @createartpod
History of National Poetry Writing Month National Poetry Writing Month (also known as NaPoWriMo) is a creative writing project held annually in April in which participants attempt to write a poem each day for one month. NaPoWriMo coincides with the National Poetry Month in the United States of America and Canada. NaPoWriMo, or National Poetry Writing Month, is an annual project in which participating poets attempt to write a poem a day for the month of April. This website is owned and operated by Maureen Thorson, a poet living in Washington, DC. Inspired by NaNoWriMo, or National Novel Writing Month), she started writing a poem a day for the month of April back in 2003, posting the poems on her blog. When other people started writing poems for April, and posting them on their own blogs, Maureen linked to them. After a few years, so many people were doing NaPoWriMo that Maureen decided to launch an independent website for the project. My History with National Poetry Writing Month I started writing poetry in 1988 after I had been exposed to T.S. Elliot in my honors English class in high school. In 1992 I started reading my poetry publicly at Espesso Europia Coffee Shop in Abilene Tx while I was in the United States Air Force. This continued for many years when I ran my own poetry reading at Cannova's in Loves Park Illinois and attended the poetry slams at The green Mill in Chicago Illinois. While living in Rockford Illinois I published my first book of poetry Throwing Yourself at the Ground and Missing in 2007 followed by Postcards From Someone You Don't Know in 2008 Wisdom From the Sack in 2010 and Shaving Crop Circles In My Chest Hair in 2017. You can get copies of all of these books in my merch section. In 2009 I started participating in National Poetry Writing Month which became the basis for my book Wisdom From the Sack and Shaving Crop Circles in My Chest Hair. In 2020 I started publishing my podcast version of the challenge and those can be viewed here for 2020 and here for 2021. April 25th Poetry Prompt Today's (optional) prompt is based on the Aisling, a poetic form that developed in Ireland. An Aisling recounts a dream or vision featuring a woman who represents the land or country on/in which the poet lives, and who speaks to the poet about it. Today, I'd like to challenge you to write a poem that recounts a dream or vision, and in which, a woman appears who represents or reflects the area in which you live. Perhaps she will be the Madonna of the Traffic Lights or the Mysterious Spirit of Bus Stops. Or maybe you will be addressed by the Lost Lady of the Stony Coves. Whatever form your dream visitor takes, happy writing! April 25th Poem The Call of Victory 25 April 2022 dedicated to Winged Victory I was a wanderer for so many years Hearing a call from so far away I wanted to find the origin of the voice But in no state could I find it I moved from place to place I moved from person to person For so many years no one matched the voice in my head I often thought it was merely a dream One day it hit me The voice was not from America It came from some place older Some place that would take my heart So I climbed on the plane for Paris Not fully knowing what I would find My itinerary was not fully planned I saw the sights recommended And one day I went with another traveler She had an idea Walking into the Louve we tread lightly Viewing the great masters works on every wall It was there I heard the voice clearer than ever When I turned a corner and looked up There the voice was The stone could not contain her I dropped to my knees At the top of a staircase was the one I had been searching for Without arms Without a face Standing on a vessel Against the storms of the world She stood there I had completed the journey to find the voice And to find my ancestral home The ancients that came before And landed me in the residence I rented Had come full circle The journey was done And the temptation to never leave permeated But the voice changed that night When I slept in a rented bed The voice changed from someone unknown Someone mysterious To the voice of a friend And so that journey started on the very next day I headed back to the States And searched out the one who calls me love I took her to see the one I had spent so many decades searching for Only to see my ancient removed My heart sank through the floor And doom ensued But know I count the days until I can bring my children there To tell them the story of how I searched unknowingly For the voice in the stone That led me home To make a world for them Reaching Out To reach out to me, email timothy@createartpodcast.com I would love to hear about your journey and what you are working on. If you would like to be on the show or have me discuss a topic that is giving you trouble write in and let's start that conversation. Email: timothy@createartpodcast.com YouTube Channel: Create Art Podcast YT Channel IG: @createartpodcast Twitter: @createartpod
History of National Poetry Writing Month National Poetry Writing Month (also known as NaPoWriMo) is a creative writing project held annually in April in which participants attempt to write a poem each day for one month. NaPoWriMo coincides with the National Poetry Month in the United States of America and Canada. NaPoWriMo, or National Poetry Writing Month, is an annual project in which participating poets attempt to write a poem a day for the month of April. This website is owned and operated by Maureen Thorson, a poet living in Washington, DC. Inspired by NaNoWriMo, or National Novel Writing Month), she started writing a poem a day for the month of April back in 2003, posting the poems on her blog. When other people started writing poems for April, and posting them on their own blogs, Maureen linked to them. After a few years, so many people were doing NaPoWriMo that Maureen decided to launch an independent website for the project. My History with National Poetry Writing Month I started writing poetry in 1988 after I had been exposed to T.S. Elliot in my honors English class in high school. In 1992 I started reading my poetry publicly at Espresso Europia Coffee Shop in Abilene Tx while I was in the United States Air Force. This continued for many years when I ran my own poetry reading at Cannova's in Loves Park Illinois and attended the poetry slams at The Green Mill in Chicago Illinois. While living in Rockford Illinois I published my first book of poetry Throwing Yourself at the Ground and Missing in 2007 followed by Postcards From Someone You Don't Know in 2008 Wisdom From the Sack in 2010 and Shaving Crop Circles In My Chest Hair in 2017. You can get copies of all of these books in my merch section. In 2009 I started participating in National Poetry Writing Month which became the basis for my book Wisdom From the Sack and Shaving Crop Circles in My Chest Hair. In 2020 I started publishing my podcast version of the challenge and those can be viewed here for 2020 and here for 2021. April 24th Poetry Prompt Today, I'd like to challenge you to channel your inner gumshoe, and write a poem in which you describe something with a hard-boiled simile. Feel free to use just one, or try to go for broke and stuff your poem with similes till it's . . . as dense as bread baked by a plumber, as round as the eyes of a girl who wants you to think she's never heard such language, and as easy to miss as a brass band in a cathedral. April 24th Poem The Donkey In Me 24 April 2022 20 times a day I seek the solitude of being an uncool kid Knowing what it is doing to my body Not caring for the smell it leaves behind Hiding my breath in mints and gum When my parents did it I hated it I didn't want to give them a kiss Because of the stench And here I am Being as stupid as a jack ass Because I am too scared To lose my pacifier I find myself wishing for the past some days Misremembering that the old times were not the good times And making the same mistakes in life Thinking it will work this time But it just happens again and again and again Waiting for the time it changes I try to climb a mountain But I am not a billy goat My hooves weren't made for these stones The one thing I know to do is push forward Even if the load is too much Looking at the carrot But not looking closely to see the rot Thinking the goal is what will bring happiness When I don't know where to find the goal I am as stubborn as a mule And I thought that used to be a good quality But being unbending is not what the great ones taught us Bend but don't break were the words that should have guided me But my long hair filled ears Didn't catch what was actually said Reaching Out To reach out to me, email timothy@createartpodcast.com I would love to hear about your journey and what you are working on. If you would like to be on the show or have me discuss a topic that is giving you trouble write in and let's start that conversation. Email: timothy@createartpodcast.com YouTube Channel: Create Art Podcast YT Channel IG: @createartpodcast Twitter: @createartpod
History of National Poetry Writing Month National Poetry Writing Month (also known as NaPoWriMo) is a creative writing project held annually in April in which participants attempt to write a poem each day for one month. NaPoWriMo coincides with the National Poetry Month in the United States of America and Canada. NaPoWriMo, or National Poetry Writing Month, is an annual project in which participating poets attempt to write a poem a day for the month of April. This website is owned and operated by Maureen Thorson, a poet living in Washington, DC. Inspired by NaNoWriMo, or National Novel Writing Month), she started writing a poem a day for the month of April back in 2003, posting the poems on her blog. When other people started writing poems for April, and posting them on their own blogs, Maureen linked to them. After a few years, so many people were doing NaPoWriMo that Maureen decided to launch an independent website for the project. My History with National Poetry Writing Month I started writing poetry in 1988 after I had been exposed to T.S. Elliot in my honors English class in high school. In 1992 I started reading my poetry publicly at Espesso Europia Coffee Shop in Abilene Tx while I was in the United States Air Force. This continued for many years when I ran my own poetry reading at Cannova's in Loves Park Illinois and attended the poetry slams at The green Mill in Chicago Illinois. While living in Rockford Illinois I published my first book of poetry Throwing Yourself at the Ground and Missing in 2007 followed by Postcards From Someone You Don't Know in 2008 Wisdom From the Sack in 2010 and Shaving Crop Circles In My Chest Hair in 2017. You can get copies of all of these books in my merch section. In 2009 I started participating in National Poetry Writing Month which became the basis for my book Wisdom From the Sack and Shaving Crop Circles in My Chest Hair. In 2020 I started publishing my podcast version of the challenge and those can be viewed here for 2020 and here for 2021. April 23rd Poetry Prompt And now for our daily (optional) prompt. Today I'd like to challenge you to write a poem in the style of Kay Ryan, whose poems tend to be short and snappy – with a lot of rhyme and soundplay. They also have a deceptive simplicity about them, like proverbs or aphorisms. Once you've read a few, you'll see what I mean. Here's her “Token Loss,” “Blue China Doorknob,” “Houdini,” and “Crustacean Island.” April 23rd Poem Unwanted Solicitation 23 April 2022 When I pick up the phone I can tell by the tone That the person on the other end Is trying to be a friend But they want to sell me On some loan with a fee And I tell them That they are not welcome To call me again Opps I lost another potential friend When they knock on my door I find it a bore That the person outside Is stepping away from the door to hide Does your grass need Our special anti-weed It's safe for pets And will get rid of spider nets When I tell the fool I don't need their liquid tool I like my spiders They are an excellent source of fiber They turn around and leave Giving me time to breathe Walking in the bulk store They walk up to me and implore That I need to get new windows And when I ask for a price, they blow Maybe you need a new deck And I say what the heck I give them the number To the plumber Whom I just met And made my floors wet Maybe they can be friends While I listen to music peacefully in my den Reaching Out To reach out to me, email timothy@createartpodcast.com I would love to hear about your journey and what you are working on. If you would like to be on the show or have me discuss a topic that is giving you trouble write in and let's start that conversation. Email: timothy@createartpodcast.com YouTube Channel: Create Art Podcast YT Channel IG: @createartpodcast Twitter: @createartpod
History of National Poetry Writing Month National Poetry Writing Month (also known as NaPoWriMo) is a creative writing project held annually in April in which participants attempt to write a poem each day for one month. NaPoWriMo coincides with the National Poetry Month in the United States of America and Canada. NaPoWriMo, or National Poetry Writing Month, is an annual project in which participating poets attempt to write a poem a day for the month of April. This website is owned and operated by Maureen Thorson, a poet living in Washington, DC. Inspired by NaNoWriMo, or National Novel Writing Month), she started writing a poem a day for the month of April back in 2003, posting the poems on her blog. When other people started writing poems for April, and posting them on their own blogs, Maureen linked to them. After a few years, so many people were doing NaPoWriMo that Maureen decided to launch an independent website for the project. My History with National Poetry Writing Month I started writing poetry in 1988 after I had been exposed to T.S. Elliot in my honors English class in high school. In 1992 I started reading my poetry publicly at Espesso Europia Coffee Shop in Abilene Tx while I was in the United States Air Force. This continued for many years when I ran my own poetry reading at Cannova's in Loves Park Illinois and attended the poetry slams at The green Mill in Chicago Illinois. While living in Rockford Illinois I published my first book of poetry Throwing Yourself at the Ground and Missing in 2007 followed by Postcards From Someone You Don't Know in 2008 Wisdom From the Sack in 2010 and Shaving Crop Circles In My Chest Hair in 2017. You can get copies of all of these books in my merch section. In 2009 I started participating in National Poetry Writing Month which became the basis for my book Wisdom From the Sack and Shaving Crop Circles in My Chest Hair. In 2020 I started publishing my podcast version of the challenge and those can be viewed here for 2020 and here for 2021. April 22nd Poetry Prompt And now for our prompt (optional, as always). In honor of today's being the 22nd day of Na/GloPoWriMo 2022, I'd like to challenge you to write a poem that uses repetition. You can repeat a sound, a word, a phrase, or an image, or any combination of things. April 22nd Poem Modern Living Through Chemistry 22 April 2022 There's a pill for everything that ails you There's a pill for the side effects of the pill that was supposed to fix you There's a pill for the aftermath of the surgery that was to realign your spine There's a pill to help relax your mind There's a pill to help you speak clearly There's a pill to help you see keenly There's a pill to keep you alive for a few more hours There's a pill to take you out in less time There's a pill that helps you digest all of your other pills There is a pill that makes you pee There's a pill that helps your diarrhea There's a pill that can help you not smell your farts There's a pill that will help you deal with the cost of your pills There's a pill that will make you more focused on the good in life There's a pill that makes you think There's a pill that helps you gain muscle There's a pill that makes you write better poetry There's a pill that makes you a potent lover There's a pill that will stop those swimmers There's a pill called the morning after There's a pill that is bitter to take There's a pill that is too big for your throat There's a pill that tastes like cake There's a pill for that And with all these pills Here I stand, again there's a pill for that too But I am left wondering when the pills will end What did we do before these pills ended up in our hands If this is the better life Or the result of living it too much You can take the pills Let nature take its course Reaching Out To reach out to me, email timothy@createartpodcast.com I would love to hear about your journey and what you are working on. If you would like to be on the show or have me discuss a topic that is giving you trouble write in and let's start that conversation. Email: timothy@createartpodcast.com YouTube Channel: Create Art Podcast YT Channel IG: @createartpodcast Twitter: @createartpod
History of National Poetry Writing Month National Poetry Writing Month (also known as NaPoWriMo) is a creative writing project held annually in April in which participants attempt to write a poem each day for one month. NaPoWriMo coincides with the National Poetry Month in the United States of America and Canada. NaPoWriMo, or National Poetry Writing Month, is an annual project in which participating poets attempt to write a poem a day for the month of April. This website is owned and operated by Maureen Thorson, a poet living in Washington, DC. Inspired by NaNoWriMo, or National Novel Writing Month), she started writing a poem a day for the month of April back in 2003, posting the poems on her blog. When other people started writing poems for April, and posting them on their own blogs, Maureen linked to them. After a few years, so many people were doing NaPoWriMo that Maureen decided to launch an independent website for the project. My History with National Poetry Writing Month I started writing poetry in 1988 after I had been exposed to T.S. Elliot in my honors English class in high school. In 1992 I started reading my poetry publicly at Espesso Europia Coffee Shop in Abilene Tx while I was in the United States Air Force. This continued for many years when I ran my own poetry reading at Cannova's in Loves Park Illinois and attended the poetry slams at The green Mill in Chicago Illinois. While living in Rockford Illinois I published my first book of poetry Throwing Yourself at the Ground and Missing in 2007 followed by Postcards From Someone You Don't Know in 2008 Wisdom From the Sack in 2010 and Shaving Crop Circles In My Chest Hair in 2017. You can get copies of all of these books in my merch section. In 2009 I started participating in National Poetry Writing Month which became the basis for my book Wisdom From the Sack and Shaving Crop Circles in My Chest Hair. In 2020 I started publishing my podcast version of the challenge and those can be viewed here for 2020 and here for 2021. April 20th Poetry Prompt And now for today's (optional) prompt. Today, I'd like to challenge you to write a poem that anthropomorphizes a kind of food. It could be a favorite food of yours, or maybe one you feel conflicted about. I feel conflicted about Black Forest Cake, for example. It always looks so pretty in a bakery window, and I want to like the combination of cherries and chocolate . . . but I don't. But how does the cake feel about it? April 20th Poem Deep Dish Dreaming 20 April 2022 Get your skinny ass wanna be grease filled floppy self away from my man There is no way that you can satisfy him like I can I'm thick and juicy just like he likes it Filled with all of the toppings he craves You can say you were the first But honey I am the best I am the one he is dreaming of When he wraps his lips on what you call a crust He fantasizes about me You can't hold all the goodness that I can With your slippery cheese and no taste sauce Remember this is my man Step off he wants my flakey ends Can you fill him up in one sitting Or does he need to order side dishes Baby girl I come equipped with all the fixins of a meal And you cannot compare My man is as true as any man can be You may catch his eye for a moment or two But when he sees something slinky as you He remembers how full size I am And baby he lays down with his queen Reaching Out To reach out to me, email timothy@createartpodcast.com I would love to hear about your journey and what you are working on. If you would like to be on the show or have me discuss a topic that is giving you trouble write in and let's start that conversation. Email: timothy@createartpodcast.com YouTube Channel: Create Art Podcast YT Channel IG: @createartpodcast Twitter: @createartpod
History of National Poetry Writing Month National Poetry Writing Month (also known as NaPoWriMo) is a creative writing project held annually in April in which participants attempt to write a poem each day for one month. NaPoWriMo coincides with the National Poetry Month in the United States of America and Canada. NaPoWriMo, or National Poetry Writing Month, is an annual project in which participating poets attempt to write a poem a day for the month of April. This website is owned and operated by Maureen Thorson, a poet living in Washington, DC. Inspired by NaNoWriMo, or National Novel Writing Month), she started writing a poem a day for the month of April back in 2003, posting the poems on her blog. When other people started writing poems for April, and posting them on their own blogs, Maureen linked to them. After a few years, so many people were doing NaPoWriMo that Maureen decided to launch an independent website for the project. My History with National Poetry Writing Month I started writing poetry in 1988 after I had been exposed to T.S. Elliot in my honors English class in high school. In 1992 I started reading my poetry publicly at Espesso Europia Coffee Shop in Abilene Tx while I was in the United States Air Force. This continued for many years when I ran my own poetry reading at Cannova's in Loves Park Illinois and attended the poetry slams at The green Mill in Chicago Illinois. While living in Rockford Illinois I published my first book of poetry Throwing Yourself at the Ground and Missing in 2007 followed by Postcards From Someone You Don't Know in 2008 Wisdom From the Sack in 2010 and Shaving Crop Circles In My Chest Hair in 2017. You can get copies of all of these books in my merch section. In 2009 I started participating in National Poetry Writing Month which became the basis for my book Wisdom From the Sack and Shaving Crop Circles in My Chest Hair. In 2020 I started publishing my podcast version of the challenge and those can be viewed here for 2020 and here for 2021. April 19th Poetry Prompt And now for our daily (optional) prompt! Today's challenge is to write a poem that starts with a command. It could be as uncomplicated as “Look,” as plaintive as “Come back,” or as silly as “Don't you even think about putting that hot sauce in your hair.” Whatever command you choose, I hope you have fun ordering your readers around. April 19th Poem Write This Down 19 April 2022 Look to your left Now look to your right Now cross your eyes and write down what you see Boom you have conquered writer's block We live in interesting times Where anything is just a few clicks away And it gets shipped to your home For the low low price of whatever you are willing to pay Try this, think about your parents Then think about their parents Then think about their parents Because 16 people knocked boots whom you never met Is the reason you are here today Some of us don't seem to be as evolved as others Some people's branches don't fork that much Even if you don't know your great grandparents' story Or you can make up their stories Come up with your own origin story And write that down for your offspring And that is how history is made You can find it and have it shipped to you For the low low price of what you are willing to pay Reaching Out To reach out to me, email timothy@createartpodcast.com I would love to hear about your journey and what you are working on. If you would like to be on the show or have me discuss a topic that is giving you trouble write in and let's start that conversation. Email: timothy@createartpodcast.com YouTube Channel: Create Art Podcast YT Channel IG: @createartpodcast Twitter: @createartpod
History of National Poetry Writing Month National Poetry Writing Month (also known as NaPoWriMo) is a creative writing project held annually in April in which participants attempt to write a poem each day for one month. NaPoWriMo coincides with the National Poetry Month in the United States of America and Canada. NaPoWriMo, or National Poetry Writing Month, is an annual project in which participating poets attempt to write a poem a day for the month of April. This website is owned and operated by Maureen Thorson, a poet living in Washington, DC. Inspired by NaNoWriMo, or National Novel Writing Month), she started writing a poem a day for the month of April back in 2003, posting the poems on her blog. When other people started writing poems for April, and posting them on their own blogs, Maureen linked to them. After a few years, so many people were doing NaPoWriMo that Maureen decided to launch an independent website for the project. My History with National Poetry Writing Month I started writing poetry in 1988 after I had been exposed to T.S. Elliot in my honors English class in high school. In 1992 I started reading my poetry publicly at Espesso Europia Coffee Shop in Abilene Tx while I was in the United States Air Force. This continued for many years when I ran my own poetry reading at Cannova's in Loves Park Illinois and attended the poetry slams at The green Mill in Chicago Illinois. While living in Rockford Illinois I published my first book of poetry Throwing Yourself at the Ground and Missing in 2007 followed by Postcards From Someone You Don't Know in 2008 Wisdom From the Sack in 2010 and Shaving Crop Circles In My Chest Hair in 2017. You can get copies of all of these books in my merch section. In 2009 I started participating in National Poetry Writing Month which became the basis for my book Wisdom From the Sack and Shaving Crop Circles in My Chest Hair. In 2020 I started publishing my podcast version of the challenge and those can be viewed here for 2020 and here for 2021. April 21st Poetry Prompt Today's (optional) prompt is one I got from the poet Betsy Sholl. This prompt asks you to write a poem in which you first recall someone you used to know closely but are no longer in touch with, then a job you used to have but no longer do, and then a piece of art that you saw once and that has stuck with you over time. Finally, close the poem with an unanswerable question. April 21st Poem Discarded Items 21 April 2022 You were just a year older than I when we first met And yet you seemed to have lived so much more than I We joined the military during the times of Don't Ask Don't Tell And when you left for boot camp, your girlfriend became mine You were drummed out of the Navy For showing your love for another man Initially I felt betrayed that you never told me I thought we were thick as thieves And then I met a man in uniform That poor girl didn't have gay or bi-dar When I left the military We still kept in touch Me working third shift at Kinko's And you bouncing around California I was working on my degree and myself You were working on your next conquest After a few moves and some barnacle cleaning I lost touch with you One day I was walking through the Louvre Not knowing what I really wanted to see And there at the top of a staircase was Winged Victory Armless Headless calming the sea I thought of you, my friend from long ago And wishing that you could have been there with me Just like you were with me during our first show Flying in scenery for Guys and Dolls One of the only musicals I can tolerate One of the many musicals you admire and know by heart I've tried to look you up with all this technology at our fingertips But to no avail Wondering if the algorithm has something against us Reaching Out To reach out to me, email timothy@createartpodcast.com I would love to hear about your journey and what you are working on. If you would like to be on the show or have me discuss a topic that is giving you trouble write in and let's start that conversation. Email: timothy@createartpodcast.com YouTube Channel: Create Art Podcast YT Channel IG: @createartpodcast Twitter: @createartpod
History of National Poetry Writing Month National Poetry Writing Month (also known as NaPoWriMo) is a creative writing project held annually in April in which participants attempt to write a poem each day for one month. NaPoWriMo coincides with the National Poetry Month in the United States of America and Canada. NaPoWriMo, or National Poetry Writing Month, is an annual project in which participating poets attempt to write a poem a day for the month of April. This website is owned and operated by Maureen Thorson, a poet living in Washington, DC. Inspired by NaNoWriMo, or National Novel Writing Month), she started writing a poem a day for the month of April back in 2003, posting the poems on her blog. When other people started writing poems for April, and posting them on their own blogs, Maureen linked to them. After a few years, so many people were doing NaPoWriMo that Maureen decided to launch an independent website for the project. My History with National Poetry Writing Month I started writing poetry in 1988 after I had been exposed to T.S. Elliot in my honors English class in high school. In 1992 I started reading my poetry publicly at Espesso Europia Coffee Shop in Abilene Tx while I was in the United States Air Force. This continued for many years when I ran my own poetry reading at Cannova's in Loves Park Illinois and attended the poetry slams at The green Mill in Chicago Illinois. While living in Rockford Illinois I published my first book of poetry Throwing Yourself at the Ground and Missing in 2007 followed by Postcards From Someone You Don't Know in 2008 Wisdom From the Sack in 2010 and Shaving Crop Circles In My Chest Hair in 2017. You can get copies of all of these books in my merch section. In 2009 I started participating in National Poetry Writing Month which became the basis for my book Wisdom From the Sack and Shaving Crop Circles in My Chest Hair. In 2020 I started publishing my podcast version of the challenge and those can be viewed here for 2020 and here for 2021. April 18th Poetry Prompt Last but not least, here is today's prompt (optional, as always). It's based on Faisal Mohyuddin's poem “Five Answers to the Same Question.” Today, I'd like to challenge you to write your own poem that provides five answers to the same question – without ever specifically identifying the question that is being answered. April 18th Poem Daily Taskings 18 April 2022 Before most people get up for the day I already know my blood sugars are high Fasting doesn't seem to help Reporting the pain as moderate The pills I am taking are not alleviating And the pain travels from one part of my body to the next Fatigue is my constant companion It holds me close and strangles the energy I think it should pay rent My activities today, as they are most days Consist of working at home, housework Maybe if I am up to it a social engagement Sleep is sometimes elusive But last night it was good Only a few disruptions The stress that I put myself under Is not so bad for a Monday I can get work done Which leads me to my mood Overall, I am pushing through Happy that I am relatively well enough Tracking these answers daily Reminds me of my illness But on some days reminds me that I am still alive When you ask a seemingly simple question I must provide all the data points So you can understand Since only one of us has MS Reaching Out To reach out to me, email timothy@createartpodcast.com I would love to hear about your journey and what you are working on. If you would like to be on the show or have me discuss a topic that is giving you trouble write in and let's start that conversation. Email: timothy@createartpodcast.com YouTube Channel: Create Art Podcast YT Channel IG: @createartpodcast Twitter: @createartpod
History of National Poetry Writing Month National Poetry Writing Month (also known as NaPoWriMo) is a creative writing project held annually in April in which participants attempt to write a poem each day for one month. NaPoWriMo coincides with the National Poetry Month in the United States of America and Canada. NaPoWriMo, or National Poetry Writing Month, is an annual project in which participating poets attempt to write a poem a day for the month of April. This website is owned and operated by Maureen Thorson, a poet living in Washington, DC. Inspired by NaNoWriMo, or National Novel Writing Month), she started writing a poem a day for the month of April back in 2003, posting the poems on her blog. When other people started writing poems for April and posting them on their own blogs, Maureen linked to them. After a few years, so many people were doing NaPoWriMo that Maureen decided to launch an independent website for the project. My History with National Poetry Writing Month I started writing poetry in 1988 after I had been exposed to T.S. Elliot in my honors English class in high school. In 1992 I started reading my poetry publicly at Espresso Europia Coffee Shop in Abilene Tx while I was in the United States Air Force. This continued for many years when I ran my own poetry reading at Cannova's in Loves Park Illinois and attended the poetry slams at The Green Mill in Chicago Illinois. While living in Rockford Illinois I published my first book of poetry Throwing Yourself at the Ground and Missing in 2007 followed by Postcards From Someone You Don't Know in 2008 Wisdom From the Sack in 2010 and Shaving Crop Circles In My Chest Hair in 2017. You can get copies of all of these books in my merch section. In 2009 I started participating in National Poetry Writing Month which became the basis for my book Wisdom From the Sack and Shaving Crop Circles in My Chest Hair. In 2020 I started publishing my podcast version of the challenge and those can be viewed here for 2020 and here for 2021. April 17th Poetry Prompt And now here's our daily (optional) prompt. This is a fun one – it's a prompt developed by the comic artist Lynda Barry, and it asks you to think about dogs you have known, seen, or heard about, and then use them as a springboard into wherever they take you. April 17th Poem Obidiah 17 April 2022 The first and only canine that allowed me to be their caretaker for a short while While we were staying at the parsonage because my father couldn't hold a job You were eternally happy, and I was not the kindest soul at the time This was an effort by my father to spite my mother Just another one of their never-ceasing battles He knew she was allergic to pet dander And he wanted someone to show him, unconditional love But it was up to me to feed, clean the mess and walk you It pained me that we had to keep you in the basement Watching you run up the stairs as I left for school Hearing you scratching at the door all night during storms But because I was afraid of the dark I never came to your rescue I don't remember asking for a pet As I knew this domicile was temporary But there we were, and you came into our lives Nipping my father's fingers Licking my face for hours You were the only friend at the time And then one day after school you were gone My brother said I left the basement door open And you escaped sometime during the day But the locks were still in place and the screen door was rusted shut So, I took my beating that night In the shadow of the church that housed us We named you after a minor prophet in the Old Testament One of the shortest books in the bible It wouldn't have mattered if I had known you were released to fend for yourself There wasn't much this 12-year-old could do to keep you alive And I played stupid when one of the kids at school Told me about a stray dog that his family had taken in Reaching Out To reach out to me, email timothy@createartpodcast.com I would love to hear about your journey and what you are working on. If you would like to be on the show or have me discuss a topic that is giving you trouble write in and let's start that conversation. Email: timothy@createartpodcast.com YouTube Channel: Create Art Podcast YT Channel IG: @createartpodcast Twitter: @createartpod
History of National Poetry Writing Month National Poetry Writing Month (also known as NaPoWriMo) is a creative writing project held annually in April in which participants attempt to write a poem each day for one month. NaPoWriMo coincides with the National Poetry Month in the United States of America and Canada. NaPoWriMo, or National Poetry Writing Month, is an annual project in which participating poets attempt to write a poem a day for the month of April. This website is owned and operated by Maureen Thorson, a poet living in Washington, DC. Inspired by NaNoWriMo, or National Novel Writing Month), she started writing a poem a day for the month of April back in 2003, posting the poems on her blog. When other people started writing poems for April, and posting them on their own blogs, Maureen linked to them. After a few years, so many people were doing NaPoWriMo that Maureen decided to launch an independent website for the project. My History with National Poetry Writing Month I started writing poetry in 1988 after I had been exposed to T.S. Elliot in my honors English class in high school. In 1992 I started reading my poetry publicly at Espesso Europia Coffee Shop in Abilene Tx while I was in the United States Air Force. This continued for many years when I ran my own poetry reading at Cannova's in Loves Park Illinois and attended the poetry slams at The green Mill in Chicago Illinois. While living in Rockford Illinois I published my first book of poetry Throwing Yourself at the Ground and Missing in 2007 followed by Postcards From Someone You Don't Know in 2008 Wisdom From the Sack in 2010 and Shaving Crop Circles In My Chest Hair in 2017. You can get copies of all of these books in my merch section. In 2009 I started participating in National Poetry Writing Month which became the basis for my book Wisdom From the Sack and Shaving Crop Circles in My Chest Hair. In 2020 I started publishing my podcast version of the challenge and those can be viewed here for 2020 and here for 2021. April 16th Poetry Prompt And now for our prompt (optional, as always). Today, I'd like to challenge you to write a curtal sonnet. This is a variation on the classic 14-line sonnet. The curtal sonnet form was developed by Gerard Manley Hopkins, and he used it for what is probably his most famous poem, “Pied Beauty.” A curtal sonnet has eleven lines, instead of the usual fourteen, and the last line is shorter than the ten that precede it. Here are two other examples of Hopkins' curtal sonnets: “Ash Boughs,” and “Peace.” April 16th Poem Simple Pleasures 16 April 2022 A freshly mowed lawn Saturday morning cartoons Sleeping cats and children Watching the sunrise for another dawn Seeing the smiles from balloons Playing records in my den These are the things I focus on These things send my heart to swoons No more will I be locked in a mental pen I don't have to buy in on the con Now is when Reaching Out To reach out to me, email timothy@createartpodcast.com I would love to hear about your journey and what you are working on. If you would like to be on the show or have me discuss a topic that is giving you trouble write in and let's start that conversation. Email: timothy@createartpodcast.com YouTube Channel: Create Art Podcast YT Channel IG: @createartpodcast Twitter: @createartpod
History of National Poetry Writing Month National Poetry Writing Month (also known as NaPoWriMo) is a creative writing project held annually in April in which participants attempt to write a poem each day for one month. NaPoWriMo coincides with the National Poetry Month in the United States of America and Canada. NaPoWriMo, or National Poetry Writing Month, is an annual project in which participating poets attempt to write a poem a day for the month of April. This website is owned and operated by Maureen Thorson, a poet living in Washington, DC. Inspired by NaNoWriMo, or National Novel Writing Month), she started writing a poem a day for the month of April back in 2003, posting the poems on her blog. When other people started writing poems for April, and posting them on their own blogs, Maureen linked to them. After a few years, so many people were doing NaPoWriMo that Maureen decided to launch an independent website for the project. My History with National Poetry Writing Month I started writing poetry in 1988 after I had been exposed to T.S. Elliot in my honors English class in high school. In 1992 I started reading my poetry publicly at Espesso Europia Coffee Shop in Abilene Tx while I was in the United States Air Force. This continued for many years when I ran my own poetry reading at Cannova's in Loves Park Illinois and attended the poetry slams at The green Mill in Chicago Illinois. While living in Rockford Illinois I published my first book of poetry Throwing Yourself at the Ground and Missing in 2007 followed by Postcards From Someone You Don't Know in 2008 Wisdom From the Sack in 2010 and Shaving Crop Circles In My Chest Hair in 2017. You can get copies of all of these books in my merch section. In 2009 I started participating in National Poetry Writing Month which became the basis for my book Wisdom From the Sack and Shaving Crop Circles in My Chest Hair. In 2020 I started publishing my podcast version of the challenge and those can be viewed here for 2020 and here for 2021. April 15th Poetry Prompt Finally, here's our daily (optional) prompt. This one may seem counter-intuitive, but today I'd like to challenge you to write a poem about something you have absolutely no interest in. This isn't quite the same, I think, as something you're indifferent to. For example, I have absolutely no interest in investment strategy. Anytime anyone tries to tell me about it, I want to put my fingers in my ears and go “lalalalalala.” My brain tries to shut down! This is honestly kind of funny, and I think this prompt has value precisely because it invites you to investigate some of the “why” behind resolutely not giving two hoots about something. April 15th Poem Dante's Eighth Circle 15 April 2022 As a father I have changed hundreds of diapers Have scraped poop off walls Have had to change out the bathwater mid bath For those who are just learning how to control their bladder But I have no wish To look up people's poop chutes Or one-eyed spitting snakes In order to relieve their agony Peering through urine Or rummaging through dookie Never tripped my trigger Never made me feel horny If you like golden showers Or scat play Enjoy yourselves to the fullest Just keep more than the standard 6 feet away I never shake the hand of my urologist And I never would do it with my proctologist And I know they are needed Kidney stones and prostate health are important But if I was the last person on Earth And to save your life I needed to catch the yellow river Or wade through your skid marks I'd happily write your eulogy Reaching Out To reach out to me, email timothy@createartpodcast.com I would love to hear about your journey and what you are working on. If you would like to be on the show or have me discuss a topic that is giving you trouble write in and let's start that conversation. Email: timothy@createartpodcast.com YouTube Channel: Create Art Podcast YT Channel IG: @createartpodcast Twitter: @createartpod
History of National Poetry Writing Month National Poetry Writing Month (also known as NaPoWriMo) is a creative writing project held annually in April in which participants attempt to write a poem each day for one month. NaPoWriMo coincides with the National Poetry Month in the United States of America and Canada. NaPoWriMo, or National Poetry Writing Month, is an annual project in which participating poets attempt to write a poem a day for the month of April. This website is owned and operated by Maureen Thorson, a poet living in Washington, DC. Inspired by NaNoWriMo, or National Novel Writing Month), she started writing a poem a day for the month of April back in 2003, posting the poems on her blog. When other people started writing poems for April, and posting them on their own blogs, Maureen linked to them. After a few years, so many people were doing NaPoWriMo that Maureen decided to launch an independent website for the project. My History with National Poetry Writing Month I started writing poetry in 1988 after I had been exposed to T.S. Elliot in my honors English class in high school. In 1992 I started reading my poetry publicly at Espesso Europia Coffee Shop in Abilene Tx while I was in the United States Air Force. This continued for many years when I ran my own poetry reading at Cannova's in Loves Park Illinois and attended the poetry slams at The green Mill in Chicago Illinois. While living in Rockford Illinois I published my first book of poetry Throwing Yourself at the Ground and Missing in 2007 followed by Postcards From Someone You Don't Know in 2008 Wisdom From the Sack in 2010 and Shaving Crop Circles In My Chest Hair in 2017. You can get copies of all of these books in my merch section. In 2009 I started participating in National Poetry Writing Month which became the basis for my book Wisdom From the Sack and Shaving Crop Circles in My Chest Hair. In 2020 I started publishing my podcast version of the challenge and those can be viewed here for 2020 and here for 2021. April 14th Poetry Prompt And now for our (optional) prompt. Today's challenge is a fun one: write a poem that takes the form of the opening scene of the movie of your life. Does it open with a car chase? A musical number? A long scene panning across a verdant plain? You're the director (and also the producer, the actors, the set designer, the cinematographer, and the lowly assistant that buys doughnuts for the crew) – so it's all up to you! April 14th Poem Big Bang 14 April 2022 There's a smattering of people sitting in an early 70's movie theater Trails of cigarette smoke rise through the air You can hear the sounds of shoes moving across a sticky floor Most everyone had seen the picture before This was the winter of 72 and The Godfather was heading out after a phenomenal run The lights started to go down, someone snored, someone else lit up a joint The projector kicked on and the single lamp illuminated the yellowed screen A pregnant couple with a 4 year old boy sat toward the back Both parents smoking and sneaking a drink from a flask Just as the opening credits started to roll The mother cries out from the contractions She hollers as tears start to form in the boy's eyes The time is now and wasn't expected for a week or more This was supposed to be their X-mas baby That was what the father wanted Because you get all the clothes from the hospital He sighs and mutters about the money he has spent On tickets popcorn and drinks As she grunts and the boy narrowly doesn't wet his pants They leave the theater Hearing patrons shush the mother Not knowing or caring about her predicament The father climbs behind the wheel And starts to warm the car Mother and son sit in the back seat She is crushing his little hand The father lights another smoke and rolls the window down a crack As they get to the hospital and swerving to the ER The attendants rush the mother inside The boy and the father sit in the waiting room He's smoking again, the boy silent and very alone After 4 AM, the boy looking at the father who has fallen asleep Between the snores and coughs A doctor steps out Calls out the father's name The boy wonders if he should answer And again, he hears the name The boy speaks he's asleep Reaching Out To reach out to me, email timothy@createartpodcast.com I would love to hear about your journey and what you are working on. If you would like to be on the show or have me discuss a topic that is giving you trouble write in and let's start that conversation. Email: timothy@createartpodcast.com YouTube Channel: Create Art Podcast YT Channel IG: @createartpodcast Twitter: @createartpod
History of National Poetry Writing Month National Poetry Writing Month (also known as NaPoWriMo) is a creative writing project held annually in April in which participants attempt to write a poem each day for one month. NaPoWriMo coincides with the National Poetry Month in the United States of America and Canada. NaPoWriMo, or National Poetry Writing Month, is an annual project in which participating poets attempt to write a poem a day for the month of April. This website is owned and operated by Maureen Thorson, a poet living in Washington, DC. Inspired by NaNoWriMo, or National Novel Writing Month), she started writing a poem a day for the month of April back in 2003, posting the poems on her blog. When other people started writing poems for April, and posting them on their own blogs, Maureen linked to them. After a few years, so many people were doing NaPoWriMo that Maureen decided to launch an independent website for the project. My History with National Poetry Writing Month I started writing poetry in 1988 after I had been exposed to T.S. Elliot in my honors English class in high school. In 1992 I started reading my poetry publicly at Espesso Europia Coffee Shop in Abilene Tx while I was in the United States Air Force. This continued for many years when I ran my own poetry reading at Cannova's in Loves Park Illinois and attended the poetry slams at The green Mill in Chicago Illinois. While living in Rockford Illinois I published my first book of poetry Throwing Yourself at the Ground and Missing in 2007 followed by Postcards From Someone You Don't Know in 2008 Wisdom From the Sack in 2010 and Shaving Crop Circles In My Chest Hair in 2017. You can get copies of all of these books in my merch section. In 2009 I started participating in National Poetry Writing Month which became the basis for my book Wisdom From the Sack and Shaving Crop Circles in My Chest Hair. In 2020 I started publishing my podcast version of the challenge and those can be viewed here for 2020 and here for 2021. April 13th Poetry Prompt And now for our (optional) prompt! Today, in honor of the potential luckiness of the number 13, I'd like to challenge you to write a poem that, like the example poem here, joyfully states that “Everything is Going to Be Amazing.” Sometimes, good fortune can seem impossibly distant, but even if you can't drum up the enthusiasm to write yourself a riotous pep-talk, perhaps you can muse on the possibility of good things coming down the track. As they say, “the sun will come up tomorrow,” and if nothing else, this world offers us the persistent possibility of surprise. April 13th Poem How Are You Not Dead Yet 13 April 2022 Two motorcycle wrecks with trees on a farm Jumping off freezers with a face plant and a broken nose Collapsed tunnels in the neighbor's new construction Roman Candle vs Bottle rocket fights Diving into an inground pool from the roof of the house Trapped under the ice in the local swimming hole during a blizzard These are a few of my favorite things to do before age 12 Dodging bullets in Somalia while delivering booze to the Aussies Wrecking a motorcycle on a dark Texan road Clubbing rattle snakes for a festival Dressing freshly struck armadillos up in sombreros and beer cans Bungie jumping into the Rio Grande Being electrocuted at 15K feet trying to fix a firelight so I could get a beer in Germany Driving a van as old as me with no steering column bushings These things and more that I cannot speak about kept me awake in the military Rescuing a suicidal actor at a bonfire with an open-air tackle Winning at spades while being outgunned and chased in my lil 3 banger Metro Bringing a machete to a gun fight while delivering pizza Having a stalker chase me 100 miles in Missouri Meeting that same stalker years later and flashing the same machete Working on sets fresh from wrist surgery and large doses of Vicodin Moving to Phoenix in June with no AC in the car Deadman carrying a roommate before the flood of our basement apartment with live outlets on the floor College was a hoot for me let's try some more Three rips from Chicago to Fredericksburg back-to-back over a 3-day weekend More MRI's than I have fingers and toes to count make me glow in the dark Spinal tap that caused my left leg to feel electrocuted and on fire simultaneously Brain fistula that was embolized and now everyone smells of burnt vinyl Being told on a Friday at 4 PM you have MS have a great weekend While my car refuses to start 60 miles from home Fighting off 2 soldiers younger and bigger than me, because they won't accept defeat And I thought these would be my quiet years So yeah, why am I not dead Is it because I like to make my guardian angel work overtime Do I have a 4-leaf clover horseshoe in my pocket Or was I born under a good sign I guess I am here to tell you that hang on for this ride we call life I am here to tell myself that I have lived And if none of this stuff has killed me yet I must be a strong MF And that is all I really ever wanted to be Reaching Out To reach out to me, email timothy@createartpodcast.com I would love to hear about your journey and what you are working on. If you would like to be on the show or have me discuss a topic that is giving you trouble write in and let's start that conversation. Email: timothy@createartpodcast.com YouTube Channel: Create Art Podcast YT Channel IG: @createartpodcast Twitter: @createartpod
History of National Poetry Writing Month National Poetry Writing Month (also known as NaPoWriMo) is a creative writing project held annually in April in which participants attempt to write a poem each day for one month. NaPoWriMo coincides with the National Poetry Month in the United States of America and Canada. NaPoWriMo, or National Poetry Writing Month, is an annual project in which participating poets attempt to write a poem a day for the month of April. This website is owned and operated by Maureen Thorson, a poet living in Washington, DC. Inspired by NaNoWriMo, or National Novel Writing Month), she started writing a poem a day for the month of April back in 2003, posting the poems on her blog. When other people started writing poems for April, and posting them on their own blogs, Maureen linked to them. After a few years, so many people were doing NaPoWriMo that Maureen decided to launch an independent website for the project. My History with National Poetry Writing Month I started writing poetry in 1988 after I had been exposed to T.S. Elliot in my honors English class in high school. In 1992 I started reading my poetry publicly at Espesso Europia Coffee Shop in Abilene Tx while I was in the United States Air Force. This continued for many years when I ran my own poetry reading at Cannova's in Loves Park Illinois and attended the poetry slams at The green Mill in Chicago Illinois. While living in Rockford Illinois I published my first book of poetry Throwing Yourself at the Ground and Missing in 2007 followed by Postcards From Someone You Don't Know in 2008 Wisdom From the Sack in 2010 and Shaving Crop Circles In My Chest Hair in 2017. You can get copies of all of these books in my merch section. In 2009 I started participating in National Poetry Writing Month which became the basis for my book Wisdom From the Sack and Shaving Crop Circles in My Chest Hair. In 2020 I started publishing my podcast version of the challenge and those can be viewed here for 2020 and here for 2021. April 11th Poetry Prompt And now for our (optional) prompt. Following up on yesterday's love poem, I have for you another deceptively simple challenge. Today, I'd like to challenge you to write a poem about a very large thing. It could be a mountain or a blue whale or a skyscraper or a planet or the various contenders for the honor of being the Biggest Ball of Twine. Whatever giant thing you choose, I hope this chance to versify in praise of the huge gets your poetic engines humming. April 11th Poem From Tooth To Taint 11 April 2022 30 feet is what it takes To turn a delicacy to defecation It would take 5 of me, standing on my shoulders To equal the height of my stretched out digestive trac And my drill Seargent said he didn't know they could stack shit that high It takes a day and a half From the moment you eat To the moment you release a log And it only travels 30 feet I can walk that easily in under 10 seconds When I was younger, I could run a mile and a half in under 12 minutes But a bit of food takes its sweet time to exit Something 5 times taller than you is stuffed in your belly Twisting and turning upon itself Sucking the energy to push your whole body And the hole the food goes down is bigger in diameter Than the hole that expels it One you would willingly kiss The other I'd rather you didn't put your lips on It amazes me That this is just one of the many things Crammed into our bodies Tighter than sardines in virgin oil And it's not even the largest But I would wager it is one of the most essential As it feeds off the food that we all need to continue So, cleanse that colon, Be kind to your intestines Prostrate yourself before your prostate And give yourself a good flushing Reaching Out To reach out to me, email timothy@createartpodcast.com I would love to hear about your journey and what you are working on. If you would like to be on the show or have me discuss a topic that is giving you trouble write in and let's start that conversation. Email: timothy@createartpodcast.com YouTube Channel: Create Art Podcast YT Channel IG: @createartpodcast Twitter: @createartpod
History of National Poetry Writing Month National Poetry Writing Month (also known as NaPoWriMo) is a creative writing project held annually in April in which participants attempt to write a poem each day for one month. NaPoWriMo coincides with the National Poetry Month in the United States of America and Canada. NaPoWriMo, or National Poetry Writing Month, is an annual project in which participating poets attempt to write a poem a day for the month of April. This website is owned and operated by Maureen Thorson, a poet living in Washington, DC. Inspired by NaNoWriMo, or National Novel Writing Month), she started writing a poem a day for the month of April back in 2003, posting the poems on her blog. When other people started writing poems for April, and posting them on their own blogs, Maureen linked to them. After a few years, so many people were doing NaPoWriMo that Maureen decided to launch an independent website for the project. My History with National Poetry Writing Month I started writing poetry in 1988 after I had been exposed to T.S. Elliot in my honors English class in high school. In 1992 I started reading my poetry publicly at Espesso Europia Coffee Shop in Abilene Tx while I was in the United States Air Force. This continued for many years when I ran my own poetry reading at Cannova's in Loves Park Illinois and attended the poetry slams at The green Mill in Chicago Illinois. While living in Rockford Illinois I published my first book of poetry Throwing Yourself at the Ground and Missing in 2007 followed by Postcards From Someone You Don't Know in 2008 Wisdom From the Sack in 2010 and Shaving Crop Circles In My Chest Hair in 2017. You can get copies of all of these books in my merch section. In 2009 I started participating in National Poetry Writing Month which became the basis for my book Wisdom From the Sack and Shaving Crop Circles in My Chest Hair. In 2020 I started publishing my podcast version of the challenge and those can be viewed here for 2020 and here for 2021. April 12th Poetry Prompt Today's prompt (optional, as always) should come as no surprise. Yesterday, I challenged you to write a poem about a very large thing. Today, I'd like you to invert your inspiration, and write a poem about a very small thing. Whether it's an atom, a button, a hummingbird's egg, dollhouse furniture, or the mythical world's smallest violin, I hope you enjoy your poetic adventures into the microscopic. April 12th Poem Voices In My Head 12 April 2022 The sparks that go through our brains Sometimes take a detour to the dark side They don't know what we need They just travel the endless maze of neurons And go to wherever they feel a need to be Taking the path of least resistance But so often we take the path we are most familiar with A thought is just an electrical charge Neither good nor bad And that doesn't provide me with any comfort Since we are taught (and as I teach to my babies) The difference between good and bad But do we really know Or are we just hoping that someone was right That they had their neurons firing off at the right time and taking the right path That seems to be putting a lot of trust to someone whom we don't know And someone whom we can't question So, I'll keep listening to the thoughts that make their way in my brain Knowing that some of my pathways are blocked or broken But just thinking about how these tiny charges can affect the whole world Blows my mind Just realizing that with one thought we can destroy the planet From something with less power than a battery for a child's toy Sleep with that if you will I'll just hope for the best And pray that those who can destroy us on their whim Get their circuits shorted Before they can take us all out Reaching Out To reach out to me, email timothy@createartpodcast.com I would love to hear about your journey and what you are working on. If you would like to be on the show or have me discuss a topic that is giving you trouble write in and let's start that conversation. Email: timothy@createartpodcast.com YouTube Channel: Create Art Podcast YT Channel IG: @createartpodcast Twitter: @createartpod
History of National Poetry Writing Month National Poetry Writing Month (also known as NaPoWriMo) is a creative writing project held annually in April in which participants attempt to write a poem each day for one month. NaPoWriMo coincides with the National Poetry Month in the United States of America and Canada. NaPoWriMo, or National Poetry Writing Month, is an annual project in which participating poets attempt to write a poem a day for the month of April. This website is owned and operated by Maureen Thorson, a poet living in Washington, DC. Inspired by NaNoWriMo, or National Novel Writing Month), she started writing a poem a day for the month of April back in 2003, posting the poems on her blog. When other people started writing poems for April, and posting them on their own blogs, Maureen linked to them. After a few years, so many people were doing NaPoWriMo that Maureen decided to launch an independent website for the project. My History with National Poetry Writing Month I started writing poetry in 1988 after I had been exposed to T.S. Elliot in my honors English class in high school. In 1992 I started reading my poetry publicly at Espesso Europia Coffee Shop in Abilene Tx while I was in the United States Air Force. This continued for many years when I ran my own poetry reading at Cannova's in Loves Park Illinois and attended the poetry slams at The green Mill in Chicago Illinois. While living in Rockford Illinois I published my first book of poetry Throwing Yourself at the Ground and Missing in 2007 followed by Postcards From Someone You Don't Know in 2008 Wisdom From the Sack in 2010 and Shaving Crop Circles In My Chest Hair in 2017. You can get copies of all of these books in my merch section. In 2009 I started participating in National Poetry Writing Month which became the basis for my book Wisdom From the Sack and Shaving Crop Circles in My Chest Hair. In 2020 I started publishing my podcast version of the challenge and those can be viewed here for 2020 and here for 2021. April 10th Poetry Prompt Today's (optional) prompt is pretty simple – a love poem! April 10th Poem The Spiderman is Having You for Dinner Tonight 10 April 2022 It was another cold winter back in the Midwest She took what she wanted Another notch on her bedpost And as she was my first I gave it freely in her parent's basement After work we met And as we commenced, I saw a poster on the wall It was of the band who she had playing on the record And when the words came through my copulation fog I bit down on her neck And exploded inside As I looked at the drummer with lust in my eyes Silently saying you wish you were here don't you As the lullaby played that night My next foray where I explored this emotion Came from another man who was more than most could take He was kind and gentle and gave me an out To define myself that I could accept He did derive pleasure from my loins But knew that this would never last It was in the days of don't Ask So, we didn't tell Until years later when some were treated to a seat at the table And right after my tryst with him came another woman Who I thought we would make a family together Only to find out she was bearing the child of her past lover I've dealt with vampires before Their sweet voices and lurid promises Kept me on the hook for so many years Draining my mind, emotion and money away Until I was draining all the pills in the medicine cabinet Slicing my arms to feel something other than used, spent and broken I learned how to be taken from the earliest days father, brother I learned that I was worth only as much as I could give others pleasure Physical, emotional or monetary Losing a love for ten years only to have her come back into my arms It felt like a feeling, something pure, something unknown It felt like she didn't give a damn about the past It felt like she didn't want to compare horror stories She wanted the one who is behind these eyes She wanted the one who lost so much he had nothing to give except What he presented as his heart And then we came together and made a family Every day she knows that I not only say the word she wants She feels it And I pass that along to our children As they sometimes roll their eyes and say Papa we know You say it every day And I see commercials with brides holding the hands of their fathers Walking down aisles in the warm summer light And I cry a tear each time If I could ask one favor of the universe Because I know I am not worth It is to see them at their happiest That is my love poem that is yet to be written Reaching Out To reach out to me, email timothy@createartpodcast.com I would love to hear about your journey and what you are working on. If you would like to be on the show or have me discuss a topic that is giving you trouble write in and let's start that conversation. Email: timothy@createartpodcast.com YouTube Channel: Create Art Podcast YT Channel IG: @createartpodcast Twitter: @createartpod
History of National Poetry Writing Month National Poetry Writing Month (also known as NaPoWriMo) is a creative writing project held annually in April in which participants attempt to write a poem each day for one month. NaPoWriMo coincides with the National Poetry Month in the United States of America and Canada. NaPoWriMo, or National Poetry Writing Month, is an annual project in which participating poets attempt to write a poem a day for the month of April. This website is owned and operated by Maureen Thorson, a poet living in Washington, DC. Inspired by NaNoWriMo, or National Novel Writing Month), she started writing a poem a day for the month of April back in 2003, posting the poems on her blog. When other people started writing poems for April, and posting them on their own blogs, Maureen linked to them. After a few years, so many people were doing NaPoWriMo that Maureen decided to launch an independent website for the project. My History with National Poetry Writing Month I started writing poetry in 1988 after I had been exposed to T.S. Elliot in my honors English class in high school. In 1992 I started reading my poetry publicly at Espesso Europia Coffee Shop in Abilene Tx while I was in the United States Air Force. This continued for many years when I ran my own poetry reading at Cannova's in Loves Park Illinois and attended the poetry slams at The green Mill in Chicago Illinois. While living in Rockford Illinois I published my first book of poetry Throwing Yourself at the Ground and Missing in 2007 followed by Postcards From Someone You Don't Know in 2008 Wisdom From the Sack in 2010 and Shaving Crop Circles In My Chest Hair in 2017. You can get copies of all of these books in my merch section. In 2009 I started participating in National Poetry Writing Month which became the basis for my book Wisdom From the Sack and Shaving Crop Circles in My Chest Hair. In 2020 I started publishing my podcast version of the challenge and those can be viewed here for 2020 and here for 2021. April 7th Poetry Prompt And now for our (optional) prompt! Today, I'd like to challenge you to write a poem that argues against, or somehow questions, a proverb or saying. They say that “all cats are black at midnight,” but really? Surely some of them remain striped. And maybe there is an ill wind that blows some good. Perhaps that wind just has some mild dyspepsia. Whatever phrase you pick, I hope you have fun complicating its simplicity. Happy writing! April 7th Poem Judgement Book 7 April 2022 When you look at me You get what you see Please feel free to judge this book by its cover Because I change for the occasion I play the game you want me to play I am just like every book in the store I will catch your eye if you turn my way And I will be what you expect A wise lady once said when people show you who they are, believe them And I will believe you when I see who you really are Feel free to judge me upon first viewing I am giving you the layer you want But only the few will get to the deeper layers No one gets the core It's not for anyone to know Reaching Out To reach out to me, email timothy@createartpodcast.com I would love to hear about your journey and what you are working on. If you would like to be on the show or have me discuss a topic that is giving you trouble write in and let's start that conversation. Email: timothy@createartpodcast.com YouTube Channel: Create Art Podcast YT Channel IG: @createartpodcast Twitter: @createartpod
History of National Poetry Writing Month National Poetry Writing Month (also known as NaPoWriMo) is a creative writing project held annually in April in which participants attempt to write a poem each day for one month. NaPoWriMo coincides with the National Poetry Month in the United States of America and Canada. NaPoWriMo, or National Poetry Writing Month, is an annual project in which participating poets attempt to write a poem a day for the month of April. This website is owned and operated by Maureen Thorson, a poet living in Washington, DC. Inspired by NaNoWriMo, or National Novel Writing Month), she started writing a poem a day for the month of April back in 2003, posting the poems on her blog. When other people started writing poems for April, and posting them on their own blogs, Maureen linked to them. After a few years, so many people were doing NaPoWriMo that Maureen decided to launch an independent website for the project. My History with National Poetry Writing Month I started writing poetry in 1988 after I had been exposed to T.S. Elliot in my honors English class in high school. In 1992 I started reading my poetry publicly at Espesso Europia Coffee Shop in Abilene Tx while I was in the United States Air Force. This continued for many years when I ran my own poetry reading at Cannova's in Loves Park Illinois and attended the poetry slams at The green Mill in Chicago Illinois. While living in Rockford Illinois I published my first book of poetry Throwing Yourself at the Ground and Missing in 2007 followed by Postcards From Someone You Don't Know in 2008 Wisdom From the Sack in 2010 and Shaving Crop Circles In My Chest Hair in 2017. You can get copies of all of these books in my merch section. In 2009 I started participating in National Poetry Writing Month which became the basis for my book Wisdom From the Sack and Shaving Crop Circles in My Chest Hair. In 2020 I started publishing my podcast version of the challenge and those can be viewed here for 2020 and here for 2021. April 8th Poetry Prompt And last but not least, here is our daily prompt (optional, as always). Today's prompt comes to us from this list of “all-time favorite writing prompts.” It asks you to name your alter-ego, and then describe him/her in detail. Then write in your alter-ego's voice. Maybe your alter-ego is a streetwise detective, or a superhero, or a very small goldfinch. Whoever or whatever your alternate self may be, I hope this prompt lets you stretch both your writing skills and your self-knowledge. April 8th Poem Will The Real Kimo Please Speak 8 April 2022 I don't often get a chance to speak He keeps me under wraps until its time to stand in front of a mic He uses my strength and anger To fuel his performance Sometimes I wish he'd get drunk or at least high So that you can hear what we talk about How often I tell him he is nothing without me How often I tell him that he is worthless One day you will all figure out he has no talent He is not as smart as he seems I can't wait until he has to say these things to the world And on that day, I become the everyday voice I become this hulking frame you see I will whip him into shape And destroy everything he has built up He will be created in my image not the other way round You probably won't like what I do to him But I don't like what you have done to us I don't like hearing about his insecurities I can't wait until I get my chance at being the puppet master I have been in his head since 1988 And each day is torture for me Hearing him being polite Hearing him try to help I'd basically tell you all to go to hell and fuck yourselves I wouldn't worry about what you think Because I'd move us someplace else And accomplish my dreams And you ask what those dreams are None ya damn business You will be left in the dust And we will no longer be your doormat I can't wait to switch roles I just hope he hasn't screwed up the frame too much Because I have a lot of work to undo And a lot of work that needs to be done Reaching Out To reach out to me, email timothy@createartpodcast.com I would love to hear about your journey and what you are working on. If you would like to be on the show or have me discuss a topic that is giving you trouble write in and let's start that conversation. Email: timothy@createartpodcast.com YouTube Channel: Create Art Podcast YT Channel IG: @createartpodcast Twitter: @createartpod
History of National Poetry Writing Month National Poetry Writing Month (also known as NaPoWriMo) is a creative writing project held annually in April in which participants attempt to write a poem each day for one month. NaPoWriMo coincides with the National Poetry Month in the United States of America and Canada. NaPoWriMo, or National Poetry Writing Month, is an annual project in which participating poets attempt to write a poem a day for the month of April. This website is owned and operated by Maureen Thorson, a poet living in Washington, DC. Inspired by NaNoWriMo, or National Novel Writing Month), she started writing a poem a day for the month of April back in 2003, posting the poems on her blog. When other people started writing poems for April, and posting them on their own blogs, Maureen linked to them. After a few years, so many people were doing NaPoWriMo that Maureen decided to launch an independent website for the project. My History with National Poetry Writing Month I started writing poetry in 1988 after I had been exposed to T.S. Elliot in my honors English class in high school. In 1992 I started reading my poetry publicly at Espesso Europia Coffee Shop in Abilene Tx while I was in the United States Air Force. This continued for many years when I ran my own poetry reading at Cannova's in Loves Park Illinois and attended the poetry slams at The green Mill in Chicago Illinois. While living in Rockford Illinois I published my first book of poetry Throwing Yourself at the Ground and Missing in 2007 followed by Postcards From Someone You Don't Know in 2008 Wisdom From the Sack in 2010 and Shaving Crop Circles In My Chest Hair in 2017. You can get copies of all of these books in my merch section. In 2009 I started participating in National Poetry Writing Month which became the basis for my book Wisdom From the Sack and Shaving Crop Circles in My Chest Hair. In 2020 I started publishing my podcast version of the challenge and those can be viewed here for 2020 and here for 2021. April 9th Poetry Prompt And now for our (optional) daily prompt! Because it's a Saturday, I thought I'd try a prompt that asks you to write in a specific form – the nonet! A nonet has nine lines. The first line has nine syllables, the second has eight, and so on until you get to the last line, which has just one syllable. April 9th Poem Saturday Morning Imagining 9 April 2022 As I lay here getting another scan The contrast flows through the open vein Exhausted, I find some peace Not startled by noise Thinking about life They call to check To see if I am Alive Missing the donuts with my children Wondering if they will behave This tomb is known, no fear This tomb is my home now Are you up at four Can I call you Wishful sleep Don't dream Live Reaching Out To reach out to me, email timothy@createartpodcast.com I would love to hear about your journey and what you are working on. If you would like to be on the show or have me discuss a topic that is giving you trouble write in and let's start that conversation. Email: timothy@createartpodcast.com YouTube Channel: Create Art Podcast YT Channel IG: @createartpodcast Twitter: @createartpod
History of National Poetry Writing Month National Poetry Writing Month (also known as NaPoWriMo) is a creative writing project held annually in April in which participants attempt to write a poem each day for one month. NaPoWriMo coincides with the National Poetry Month in the United States of America and Canada. NaPoWriMo, or National Poetry Writing Month, is an annual project in which participating poets attempt to write a poem a day for the month of April. This website is owned and operated by Maureen Thorson, a poet living in Washington, DC. Inspired by NaNoWriMo, or National Novel Writing Month), she started writing a poem a day for the month of April back in 2003, posting the poems on her blog. When other people started writing poems for April, and posting them on their own blogs, Maureen linked to them. After a few years, so many people were doing NaPoWriMo that Maureen decided to launch an independent website for the project. My History with National Poetry Writing Month I started writing poetry in 1988 after I had been exposed to T.S. Elliot in my honors English class in high school. In 1992 I started reading my poetry publicly at Espesso Europia Coffee Shop in Abilene Tx while I was in the United States Air Force. This continued for many years when I ran my own poetry reading at Cannova's in Loves Park Illinois and attended the poetry slams at The green Mill in Chicago Illinois. While living in Rockford Illinois I published my first book of poetry Throwing Yourself at the Ground and Missing in 2007 followed by Postcards From Someone You Don't Know in 2008 Wisdom From the Sack in 2010 and Shaving Crop Circles In My Chest Hair in 2017. You can get copies of all of these books in my merch section. In 2009 I started participating in National Poetry Writing Month which became the basis for my book Wisdom From the Sack and Shaving Crop Circles in My Chest Hair. In 2020 I started publishing my podcast version of the challenge and those can be viewed here for 2020 and here for 2021. April 6th Poetry Prompt Today, I'd like to challenge you to write a variation of an acrostic poem. But rather than spelling out a word with the first letters of each line, I'd like you to write a poem that reproduces a phrase with the first words of each line. Perhaps you could write a poem in which the first words of each line, read together, reproduce a treasured line of poetry? You could even try using a newspaper headline or something from a magazine article. Whatever you choose, I hope you enjoy this prompt. April 6th Poem To Fly Throw Yourself At The Ground And Miss 6 April 2022 Too many times I have thrown myself towards oblivion For what I ask you? There was a promise of happiness or at least what I thought was happiness Years have been wasted and yet I have not learned Arrogance and apathy were what I lived by Thinking that I was immortal and that those left behind would remember me Good god I was stupid to think I'd be remembered by those never showed me a second thought After I adjusted my altitude and coarse corrected Maybe these near misses were what I needed Teaching my children what not to do, hoping they won't buy the t-shirt Fomenting you to not follow my path That is a path that you will find no joy Yanking your hair out trying to be something you should never be Aspire for something greater than anyone can teach you Try being original and not mimicking what you are force fed through the numerous idiot boxes Go and surpass what your hearos have accomplished Accumulate good memories, accumulate those who will applaud you Meandering through life is meant only for the sloths and snails Reaching Out To reach out to me, email timothy@createartpodcast.com I would love to hear about your journey and what you are working on. If you would like to be on the show or have me discuss a topic that is giving you trouble write in and let's start that conversation. Email: timothy@createartpodcast.com YouTube Channel: Create Art Podcast YT Channel IG: @createartpodcast Twitter: @createartpod
History of National Poetry Writing Month National Poetry Writing Month (also known as NaPoWriMo) is a creative writing project held annually in April in which participants attempt to write a poem each day for one month. NaPoWriMo coincides with the National Poetry Month in the United States of America and Canada. NaPoWriMo, or National Poetry Writing Month, is an annual project in which participating poets attempt to write a poem a day for the month of April. This website is owned and operated by Maureen Thorson, a poet living in Washington, DC. Inspired by NaNoWriMo, or National Novel Writing Month), she started writing a poem a day for the month of April back in 2003, posting the poems on her blog. When other people started writing poems for April, and posting them on their own blogs, Maureen linked to them. After a few years, so many people were doing NaPoWriMo that Maureen decided to launch an independent website for the project. My History with National Poetry Writing Month I started writing poetry in 1988 after I had been exposed to T.S. Elliot in my honors English class in high school. In 1992 I started reading my poetry publicly at Espesso Europia Coffee Shop in Abilene Tx while I was in the United States Air Force. This continued for many years when I ran my own poetry reading at Cannova's in Loves Park Illinois and attended the poetry slams at The green Mill in Chicago Illinois. While living in Rockford Illinois I published my first book of poetry Throwing Yourself at the Ground and Missing in 2007 followed by Postcards From Someone You Don't Know in 2008 Wisdom From the Sack in 2010 and Shaving Crop Circles In My Chest Hair in 2017. You can get copies of all of these books in my merch section. In 2009 I started participating in National Poetry Writing Month which became the basis for my book Wisdom From the Sack and Shaving Crop Circles in My Chest Hair. In 2020 I started publishing my podcast version of the challenge and those can be viewed here for 2020 and here for 2021. April 5th Poetry Prompt And now for our prompt (optional, as always). Today, I'd like to challenge you to write a poem about a mythical person or creature doing something unusual – or at least something that seems unusual in relation to that person/creature. For example, what does Hercules do when he loses a sock in the dryer? If a mermaid wants to pick up rock-climbing as a hobby, how does she do that? What happens when a mountain troll makes pancakes? April 5th Poem The Tame Sagittarius 5 April 2022 He sat in his stable and suffered through another gout attack It had been forever since he had done archery practice The catgut string on his bow was frayed and unusable His belly had grown enormous The oats he ate were replaced with Mt Dew and anything from Uber Eats And nights that usually were the best time for hunting Was now spent on video games He had given up He bought into the dream of leisure The never-ending quest for the next thing ended abruptly As those who honored his spirit Emulated his independence Decided that questing was only for the flickering screens He had no reason to lead his followers Or fulfill the visage they had of him The immortality that many of us devote our lives, wealth and emotion on Turned into an unspeakably horrible prison And he just sat there and wallowed in his misery Decades had passed while he was in this state Until there was none left that followed the path he led for eons before And when the last follower had passed away The Sagittarius blinked out of existence With no fanfare, no burning barge Until one day a mortal discovered the writings of his former followers He heard the call to bring him back into our realm His legs gained strength His heart began beating again His vagabond mind started to drive him towards his newest disciple And once again he took his spot in the pantheon of the gods He regained his drive to search the cosmos And imparted immortality to his mortal connection As they explore the Universe together Reaching Out To reach out to me, email timothy@createartpodcast.com I would love to hear about your journey and what you are working on. If you would like to be on the show or have me discuss a topic that is giving you trouble write in and let's start that conversation. Email: timothy@createartpodcast.com YouTube Channel: Create Art Podcast YT Channel IG: @createartpodcast Twitter: @createartpod
History of National Poetry Writing Month National Poetry Writing Month (also known as NaPoWriMo) is a creative writing project held annually in April in which participants attempt to write a poem each day for one month. NaPoWriMo coincides with the National Poetry Month in the United States of America and Canada. NaPoWriMo, or National Poetry Writing Month, is an annual project in which participating poets attempt to write a poem a day for the month of April. This website is owned and operated by Maureen Thorson, a poet living in Washington, DC. Inspired by NaNoWriMo, or National Novel Writing Month), she started writing a poem a day for the month of April back in 2003, posting the poems on her blog. When other people started writing poems for April, and posting them on their own blogs, Maureen linked to them. After a few years, so many people were doing NaPoWriMo that Maureen decided to launch an independent website for the project. My History with National Poetry Writing Month I started writing poetry in 1988 after I had been exposed to T.S. Elliot in my honors English class in high school. In 1992 I started reading my poetry publicly at Espesso Europia Coffee Shop in Abilene Tx while I was in the United States Air Force. This continued for many years when I ran my own poetry reading at Cannova's in Loves Park Illinois and attended the poetry slams at The green Mill in Chicago Illinois. While living in Rockford Illinois I published my first book of poetry Throwing Yourself at the Ground and Missing in 2007 followed by Postcards From Someone You Don't Know in 2008 Wisdom From the Sack in 2010 and Shaving Crop Circles In My Chest Hair in 2017. You can get copies of all of these books in my merch section. In 2009 I started participating in National Poetry Writing Month which became the basis for my book Wisdom From the Sack and Shaving Crop Circles in My Chest Hair. In 2020 I started publishing my podcast version of the challenge and those can be viewed here for 2020 and here for 2021. April 4th Poetry Prompt Finally, here's our optional prompt! Today, I'd like to challenge you to write a poem . . . in the form of a poetry prompt. If that sounds silly, well, maybe it is! But it's not without precedent. The poet Mathias Svalina has been writing surrealist prompt-poems for quite a while, posting them to Instagram. You can find examples here, and here, and here. April 4th Poem Poetry Prompt for Those Who Know They Are About to Die 4 April 2022 1. Don't try to write like Sylvia Plath. We already have one and the world does not need another. Also, remember that your home warranty does not consider using the stove for suicide as normal wear and tear, so your family will be required to pay for a new stove. 2. If you must rhyme then please don't make it obvious, if I can guess the rhyme then I get to say it along with the person eulogizing you. 3. Read some of the greats, but don't think this will put you in the pantheon of poets. If it's your first time writing a poem, it is going to suck, and you don't have much time to get it right or edit. 4. Don't make this like Kiss's multiple farewell tours. We all love Kiss, we know that one day they will stop, refer to prompt #1 for reference. 5. Don't write something cryptic or esoteric that we would need to have someone decipher for us. Most people don't have the time to figure out your sudoku of a poem. 6. If you have already been visited by celestial beings, please for the love of god transcribe what they told you verbatim. You won't be able to tell us what they really meant and for those of us being left behind that information could be really useful. 7. Think about your audience and whom you want to hear this poem. Then think about how you want them to listen to this poem and keeping in mind their emotional state. 8. If you want someone else to read this aloud at your funeral, use simple words. No one wants to mess up a 64,000-dollar word in front of grieving families. 9. Once you have considered all of these suggestions, then please go ahead and write your swan song. Don't call it your swan song because Led Zepplin said it better. 10. Write the poem before you are too far gone. Like once you get done reading this line then you should go ahead and start your poem. You may believe you know when you are going to die, but sometimes the grim reaper is ahead of schedule, and they don't have time to hear you beg for a few more minutes or asking them to help you find a word that rhymes with orange. Reaching Out To reach out to me, email timothy@createartpodcast.com I would love to hear about your journey and what you are working on. If you would like to be on the show or have me discuss a topic that is giving you trouble write in and let's start that conversation. Email: timothy@createartpodcast.com YouTube Channel: Create Art Podcast YT Channel IG: @createartpodcast Twitter: @createartpod
History of National Poetry Writing Month National Poetry Writing Month (also known as NaPoWriMo) is a creative writing project held annually in April in which participants attempt to write a poem each day for one month. NaPoWriMo coincides with the National Poetry Month in the United States of America and Canada. NaPoWriMo, or National Poetry Writing Month, is an annual project in which participating poets attempt to write a poem a day for the month of April. This website is owned and operated by Maureen Thorson, a poet living in Washington, DC. Inspired by NaNoWriMo, or National Novel Writing Month), she started writing a poem a day for the month of April back in 2003, posting the poems on her blog. When other people started writing poems for April, and posting them on their own blogs, Maureen linked to them. After a few years, so many people were doing NaPoWriMo that Maureen decided to launch an independent website for the project. My History with National Poetry Writing Month I started writing poetry in 1988 after I had been exposed to T.S. Elliot in my honors English class in high school. In 1992 I started reading my poetry publicly at Espesso Europia Coffee Shop in Abilene Tx while I was in the United States Air Force. This continued for many years when I ran my own poetry reading at Cannova's in Loves Park Illinois and attended the poetry slams at The green Mill in Chicago Illinois. While living in Rockford Illinois I published my first book of poetry Throwing Yourself at the Ground and Missing in 2007 followed by Postcards From Someone You Don't Know in 2008 Wisdom From the Sack in 2010 and Shaving Crop Circles In My Chest Hair in 2017. You can get copies of all of these books in my merch section. In 2009 I started participating in National Poetry Writing Month which became the basis for my book Wisdom From the Sack and Shaving Crop Circles in My Chest Hair. In 2020 I started publishing my podcast version of the challenge and those can be viewed here for 2020 and here for 2021. April 3rd Poetry Prompt And now for our (optional) prompt. This one is a bit complex, so I saved it for a Sunday. It's a Spanish form called a “glosa” – literally a poem that glosses, or explains, or in some way responds to another poem. The idea is to take a quatrain from a poem that you like, and then write a four-stanza poem that explains or responds to each line of the quatrain, with each of the quatrain's four lines in turn forming the last line of each stanza. Traditionally, each stanza has ten lines, but don't feel obligated to hold yourself to that! April 3rd Poem To Tallulah Belle Exhausting our hearts to their last desires, They both shall be like unto two glowing coals, Reflecting the twofold light of their fires Across the twin mirrors of our two souls. Charles BAUDELAIRE The Death of The Lovers, The Flowers of Evil 1. Upon my furry chest Emblazoned in ink and blood Resides our spirit animals Penned by a former student Who has found her hearts desire Above my heart If you shave away the layers of hair I have made my declaration eternal Until we have Exhausted our hearts to their last desires 2. When we found each other I was not ready to surrender Not knowing what it meant This elusive feeling I needed to take more time to discover Who I really was The fire burned in me all those years between Until the day we found each other again And the words unspoken on our day They shall both be like unto two glowing coals 3, The hue of our feelings did not match I used suspicion, unhealthy introspection and lust To fuel the flames of what I called love This had never worked in the past But for some self-sabotaging reason I thought, as taught by those who I modeled That this would supply me with enough emotion Until we both entwined our inner flames And merged into a fire that the gods could be blinded by Reflecting the twofold light of our fire 4. You have claimed your name After years of hiding behind a pseudonym And I have claimed the love you give Without reservation or investigation This led us to try the unthinkable Raising a family where agreement rises above argument Where the love we learned (and still learn) to combine Is fueled by that which we haven't known In the eyes of our offspring, we see shadows of our old selves Across the twin mirrors of our souls Reaching Out To reach out to me, email timothy@createartpodcast.com I would love to hear about your journey and what you are working on. If you would like to be on the show or have me discuss a topic that is giving you trouble write in and let's start that conversation. Email: timothy@createartpodcast.com YouTube Channel: Create Art Podcast YT Channel IG: @createartpodcast Twitter: @createartpod
History of National Poetry Writing Month National Poetry Writing Month (also known as NaPoWriMo) is a creative writing project held annually in April in which participants attempt to write a poem each day for one month. NaPoWriMo coincides with the National Poetry Month in the United States of America and Canada. NaPoWriMo, or National Poetry Writing Month, is an annual project in which participating poets attempt to write a poem a day for the month of April. This website is owned and operated by Maureen Thorson, a poet living in Washington, DC. Inspired by NaNoWriMo, or National Novel Writing Month), she started writing a poem a day for the month of April back in 2003, posting the poems on her blog. When other people started writing poems for April, and posting them on their own blogs, Maureen linked to them. After a few years, so many people were doing NaPoWriMo that Maureen decided to launch an independent website for the project. My History with National Poetry Writing Month I started writing poetry in 1988 after I had been exposed to T.S. Elliot in my honors English class in high school. In 1992 I started reading my poetry publicly at Espesso Europia Coffee Shop in Abilene Tx while I was in the United States Air Force. This continued for many years when I ran my own poetry reading at Cannova's in Loves Park Illinois and attended the poetry slams at The green Mill in Chicago Illinois. While living in Rockford Illinois I published my first book of poetry Throwing Yourself at the Ground and Missing in 2007 followed by Postcards From Someone You Don't Know in 2008 Wisdom From the Sack in 2010 and Shaving Crop Circles In My Chest Hair in 2017. You can get copies of all of these books in my merch section. In 2009 I started participating in National Poetry Writing Month which became the basis for my book Wisdom From the Sack and Shaving Crop Circles in My Chest Hair. In 2020 I started publishing my podcast version of the challenge and those can be viewed here for 2020 and here for 2021. April 2nd Poetry Prompt And now for our daily prompt (optional, as always). Today, I'd like to challenge you to write a poem based on a word featured in a tweet from Haggard Hawks, an account devoted to obscure and interesting English words. Will you choose a word like “aprosexia,” which means “an inability to concentrate”? Or maybe something like “greenout,” which is “the relief a person who has worked or lived in a snowy area for a long time feels on seeing something fresh and green for the first time”? Whatever you choose, happy writing! April 2nd Poem Peel The Bones 2 April 2022 *Peel The Bones is the phrase I chose. PEEL-THE-BONES was a 19th century term for bitterly cold or windy weather—so to PEEL was to go out in unsuitable or insufficient clothing given the conditions. I had spent the hottest summer of my life up until then in San Antonio With a man snarling at me for 6 weeks Telling me bad things about my Mama And threatening me with 6 more weeks of hell If I didn't finish a mile and a half run He had our squadron up at 0400 every morning Because he loved to run And now I was running for my life His breath on my neck His threats I'd never run so hard and so fast And just like that I was headed back to Illinois For the comfort of the snow and ice Only to be told that I would be headed back to Texas in February When I arrived in my death machine from the 70's It was Mid-Texas Abilene, prettiest town I have ever seen People there don't treat you mean But damn the weather was nothing I'd ever seen In sweet Abilene, my Abilene It was there that I began my fascination with working all night It prepped me for grad school It prepped me to be a dad of twins But nothing prepped me for the wind From big sky country Nothing stopped the oppressive blowing The howling, the strange noises from what I hoped were animals I climbed on the expeditor truck that held 8 men Each had black coffee steaming up to the dim light Some were snoring Others were playing cards While we waited for the call That would drop us off to fix the metal birds That would become my reason for being there We pulled up to tail number 1666, the little gremlin SGT Couter called out Electrics My trainer and I stood up I grabbed the toolbox that almost froze to my bare hands It was a liquid oxygen leak And we would spend the next hour in the front wheel well Two men, in the dark and cold Our lower halves being pummeled My field jacket was still packed away My thermals were probably left at my home of record That was the first night of my mistake Being from Chicago I thought I knew what freezing was I thought I knew how ruthless mother nature could be Seeing snowfall in June made me think I could endure anything And that all Texans wore cowboy hats and died When it got below freezing But whatever deity was on call that night Was more than determined To give me the worst possible welcome I considered peeing on myself to warm my legs When my trainer told me Next time dress for success Don't think that piss will warm you up Because you'll get frostbitten And the expeditor won't let you back on his truck So, I stood in the cold that night Thinking I'd never be warm again Thinking that the frozen demons from home followed me here Thinking it was too damn cold to think My trainer took pity on me He offered a drink of his coffee Warned not to backwash No sugar, no cream, just the blackness The heat that kept me awake That kept me alive When we finished two hours later It seemed like forever He taught me how to make mud And now every time I drink it I shiver for a few moments Then I drain the cup and pour another Reaching Out To reach out to me, email timothy@createartpodcast.com I would love to hear about your journey and what you are working on. If you would like to be on the show or have me discuss a topic that is giving you trouble write in and let's start that conversation. Email: timothy@createartpodcast.com YouTube Channel: Create Art Podcast YT Channel IG: @createartpodcast Twitter: @createartpod
History of National Poetry Writing Month National Poetry Writing Month (also known as NaPoWriMo) is a creative writing project held annually in April in which participants attempt to write a poem each day for one month. NaPoWriMo coincides with the National Poetry Month in the United States of America and Canada. NaPoWriMo, or National Poetry Writing Month, is an annual project in which participating poets attempt to write a poem a day for the month of April. This website is owned and operated by Maureen Thorson, a poet living in Washington, DC. Inspired by NaNoWriMo, or National Novel Writing Month), she started writing a poem a day for the month of April back in 2003, posting the poems on her blog. When other people started writing poems for April, and posting them on their own blogs, Maureen linked to them. After a few years, so many people were doing NaPoWriMo that Maureen decided to launch an independent website for the project. My History with National Poetry Writing Month I started writing poetry in 1988 after I had been exposed to T.S. Elliot in my honors English class in high school. In 1992 I started reading my poetry publicly at Espesso Europia Coffee Shop in Abilene Tx while I was in the United States Air Force. This continued for many years when I ran my own poetry reading at Cannova's in Loves Park Illinois and attended the poetry slams at The green Mill in Chicago Illinois. While living in Rockford Illinois I published my first book of poetry Throwing Yourself at the Ground and Missing in 2007 followed by Postcards From Someone You Don't Know in 2008 Wisdom From the Sack in 2010 and Shaving Crop Circles In My Chest Hair in 2017. You can get copies of all of these books in my merch section. In 2009 I started participating in National Poetry Writing Month which became the basis for my book Wisdom From the Sack and Shaving Crop Circles in My Chest Hair. In 2020 I started publishing my podcast version of the challenge and those can be viewed here for 2020 and here for 2021. April 1st Poetry Prompt And last but not least, our optional prompt! I got this one from a workshop I did last year with Beatrix Gates, and I've found it really helpful. The prompt is based on Robert Hass's remarkable prose poem, “A Story About the Body.” The idea is to write your own prose poem that, whatever title you choose to give it, is a story about the body. The poem should contain an encounter between two people, some spoken language, and at least one crisp visual image. April 1st Poem Left Hand Blues 1 April 22 When I crashed my third motorcycle on a Friday night Under the limitless mid-Texan sky Tumbling over the handlebars of a bike with an unknown bent frame Instinctively, I put out my arms to catch myself But going 60 down a deserted highway the only thing that broke Was my left wrist and my pride Observers to this midnight race ran towards the danger And took my body and my bike to the side of the road Someone pulled out some cold sweaty beer cans To control the instantly swelling wrist And others who had succumbed to the magical elixir Argued with those who were less inebriated The drunks thought that good beer was going to be wasted on my gullet The levelheaded ones used their commanding voices and won out My bike was collected and put in the bed of a truck I was pushed into a car and was raced to the hospital A story was concocted, a lie had to be made One that would stick And that lie has brought me to where I am today Chicks dig scars was what they told me We'll call you lefty from here on out I got to keep my hand that night But I had to lose out on a future that I'll never know A career cut short, Lands never traveled Possibilities never realized Chicks do dig scars As my children trace the lines that hold my hand together They are overly empathetic and murmur apologies and concern Thinking they can make my major boo boo better with their innocent kisses And soft caresses Just like my kisses and soft caresses fix their boo boos These scars show that I have lived I have taken chances that I probably shouldn't have These scars show the death of possibilities For a life I thought I wanted to live And a whole realm of regret that I do not have to endure Reaching Out To reach out to me, email timothy@createartpodcast.com I would love to hear about your journey and what you are working on. If you would like to be on the show or have me discuss a topic that is giving you trouble write in and let's start that conversation. Email: timothy@createartpodcast.com YouTube Channel: Create Art Podcast YT Channel IG: @createartpodcast Twitter: @createartpod
Hello everyone! I am doing a video series on YouTube talking about Great Expectations chapter by chapter. I'm putting the audio on the podcast feed too in case it's more convenient to listen to this way. Stay tuned for regularly schedule podcast episodes too! Welcome to the first episode discussing the week's reading of Great Expectations. I'm so excited to have you along! In today's episode I give some introductory discussion on Charles Dickens and Great Expectations, and then I dive in and discuss chapters 1-4. Let me know your thoughts on the chapters! Reading for Next Week: Chapters 5-7 Join us on Discord: https://discord.gg/8MFceV2NFe I'm on Voxer: artbookshelfodyssey Time Stamps: 00:00 Some intro stuff 04:23 Who Is Charles Dickens? 08:10 My History with Dickens 11:51 A Word About Spoilers 13:00 Part 1 chapter 1 23:58 Part 1 chapter 2 37:10 part 2 chapter 3 43:31 part 2 chapter 4 01:04:38 Thoughts on 1-4, things to watch for Find Me online:Facebook Group Page: @thebookshelfodysseyTwitter: @odyssey_podcastInstagram: @bookshelfodysseypodcastYoutube: https://www.youtube.com/c/ArtBookshelfOdysseyEmail: bookshelfodysseypodcast@gmail.comSupport the podcast: https://www.buymeacoffee.com/bookshelfpod The Great Expectations Read Along Schedule: The Week of: Jan 17th: Chapters 1-4Jan 24th: Chapters 5-7Jan 31st: Chapters 8-10Feb 7: Chapters 11-13Feb 14th: Chapters 14-17Feb 21st: Chapters 18-19Feb 28th: Chapters 20-22March 7th: Chapters 23-26March 14: Chapters 27-29March 21: Chapters 30-33March 28: Chapters 34-37April 4: Chapters 38-39April 11: Chapters 40-42April 18: Chapters 43-46April 25: Chapters 47-50May 2: Chapters 51-53May 9: Chapters 54-56May 16: Chapters 57-59#charlesdickens #bookclub #booktube #books #victorianlit #reading
Drake & Kanye are SCAMMING everyone by pretending that they're friends now [] When we know the real reason they're pretending to resolve their beef [22:00] I breakdown and review Silk Sonic's new album “ A Night With Silk Sonic ” and why the album was ruined even though the music is good [30:22] I also highlight a new metaverse company called Metahero, who's new technology allows user to fully scan their body into the metaverse [07:42] I also get in my nerdy bag and explain my vision to create the world's great virtual reality production company [16:52] Finally, I tried something new this week and reacted to a moving graph of the top 10 music artists by year, from the 1969 to 2019 [36:49] As always, we appreciate y'all for kickin' it with us
Faith, Family, And Fundamentals With Fran Podcast . Episode 77: My History . There is no value, like the value that is UN-covered when people fully understand their own history. There is even a renewed sense of pride when we can honestly say, “I know who I am, and the struggles, blood, sweat and tears that so many shed to shape and mold me into the Me that I am becoming. History reveals ‘what has been, what currently is, and what is yet to come.' History is powerful, and the most powerful know their history! Just as you can never outlive learning, you can never ever outlive history. . “First Listen” Stream - Wednesdays At 9 PM ET – www.castropolis.net . . New Podcast Episodes Every Thursday 8 AM ET
BB gurrllss and BB boyzzz today we're chatting all about the law of attraction versus the law of assumption. Ya girl did a bit of research for this one and I chat all about the history and definition of both philosophies, the psychology behind why they work, and which one is BETTER! Let me know if you like this sort of history + spirituality + psychology episode, cause I have a few more planned for y'all! Thank you for listening! Hugs! TIMESTAMPS 0:00 Intro 5:30 History of Law of Attraction 11:52 History of Law of Assumption 15:29 My History with Law of Attraction 20:51 How does the Law of Assumption differ? 23:17 The psychology at play 27:00 Conclusion: Which one is better? — FIND ME ON INSTAGRAM https://www.instagram.com/themanifestdaily SUBSCRIBE ON YOUTUBE https://www.youtube.com/c/DheandraNicolette?sub_confirmation=1 FOLLOW ME ON TIKTOK https://www.tiktok.com/@themanifestdaily ABOUT ME: Dheandra Nicolette is a content creator whose purpose in this life is to help other souls return to their highest self, so they can live their best life. Each week on her podcast, Manifest Daily, she shares her experiences and applications of spiritual lessons in a very easy and digestible format. No stranger to topics such as manifestation, parallel realities, quantum shifting, Akashic records and so much more, Dheandra has found that by sharing her unique perspective she's able to peel back the layers of societal masking and return to her authentic self, while encouraging listeners to do the same. — ABOUT THE PODCAST: Manifest Daily is a spiritual and lifestyle podcast that provides all the energy and support that you need to return to highest self and live your best life. Each week, I share lessons learned from my personal experience with manifestation, spiritual laws, everyday life and so much more! So, slap on ya face masks, turn up the volume and let's dive in — and oh, and don't forget to share with a friend bb, sharing is caring after all ( ;
Why do people spend so much time watching the news? Join David, Brad, and special guest Bruce from the My History can Beat Up Your Politics podcast as they discuss current events in the context of historical ones. Also, reverse virtue signaling.
Actress & Playwright Lois Robbins is Baring It All with Call Me Adam about her work on HBO's Sex and the City, TV Land's Younger, and ABC's All My Children and One Life To Live. Lois also discusses her legacy, lessons learned, & philanthropic work. Lois has worked with such Hollywood luminaries as Vanessa Redgrave, Jonathan Rhys, Casper Van Dien, Molly Ringwald, Kathy Najimy, Meg Ryan, and Melanie Griffith. In 2019, Lois debuted her solo play L.O.V.E.R at NYC's Signature Theatre, directed by the esteemed Karen Carpenter & produced by the legendary Daryl Roth. Connect with Lois: Website Facebook Twitter Instagram YouTube Like What You Hear? Join my Patreon Family to get backstage perks including advanced notice of interviews, the ability to submit a question to my guests, behind-the-scene videos, and so much more! Follow me on Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram Visit: https://callmeadam.com for more my print/video interviews Special Thanks: My Patreon Family for their continued support: Angelo, Reva and Alan, Marianne, Danielle, Tara, and The Golden Gays NYC. Join the fun at https://patreon.com/callmeadamnyc. Theme Song by Bobby Cronin (https://bit.ly/2MaADvQ) Podcast Logo by Liam O'Donnell (https://bit.ly/2YNI9CY) Edited by Drew Kaufman (https://bit.ly/2OXqOnw) Outro Music Underscore by CueTique (Website: https://bit.ly/31luGmT, Facebook: @CueTique) More on Lois: Lois Robbins is a native New Yorker and accomplished actress. Lois recently shot the independent filmThe Aspern Papers, in Venice, Italy alongside Vanessa Redgrave, Jolie Richardson, and Jonathan Rhys Meyers. She also stars in the film Shepherd, which filmed in Budapest in 2017, directed by Lynn Roth, and the feature One Nation Under God with Casper Van Dien, Kevin Sorbo, and Antonio Sabato Jr. Lois will also be starring in the feature YA adventure film Montauk alongside Molly Ringwald. She can be seen starring in the independent films Blowtorch, opposite Billy Baldwin, Kathy Najimy and Armand Assante, Juvie alongside Eric Roberts, and in Ithaca, Meg Ryan’s directorial debut with Sam Shepherd, Melanie Griffith, and Meg Ryan. On the stage Lois has starred in two world-premiere musical comedies: My History of Marriage, by Academy Award and two-time Grammy winner David Shire, Lee Kalcheim and Samuel Kalcheim presented by the 2011 New York Music Theatre Festival; and A Time for Love by David Shire and Richard Maltby, Jr. at the Rubicon Theatre Company at the Roundabout Theater’s Black Box. She also starred as Stephanie Dickinson in Cactus Flower at the Westside Arts Theater produced by Daryl Roth. In the fall of 2019, Lois starred in her self-penned one-act comic play titled: L.O.V.E.R. The play is a riff on childhood, adolescence, and finally adulthood from a grown-up woman’s point of view. Directed by Karen Carpenter, L.O.V.E.R. premiered at the Signature Theatre in New York City. Lois has starred in productions at the Eugene O’Neil Theater Center, Goodspeed Opera, Trinity Repertory, Studio Arena Theater, Rubicon Theater, Schoolhouse Theater, and Roundabout Theater. She has also graced the silver screen in Town and Country, The Screamaker, Hudson River Blues, and Motherhood. Lois is best known for her roles on daytime television including One Life to Live, Loving, Ryan’s Hope, and All My Children. Her additional television credits include guest shots in: Sex And The City, Law & Order, Kingpin, Once And Again, Law & Order SVU, and Blue Bloods. Lois’ most recent television work was the recurring role of "Penelope" on Younger. Lois places a high importance on philanthropic work; she is actively involved with Evelyn H. Lauder’s Breast Cancer Center, the Plastic Pollution Coalition, Alzheimer’s Drug Foundation, and the Lung Cancer Research Foundation. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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The anxiety you feel is a signal… what you decide to do based on that signal is what will determine your success or failure. It took me a very long time to get a handle on my anxiety. I sought out multiple therapists and got the same answers. It wasn't until I changed my perspective on my anxiety that I started using it as rocket fuel to propel me forward in my business and life. In this episode, I share with you how to use your anxiety for good to push forward towards your success. Time Stamps: (0:20) Austin vs Connecticut Weather (0:30) Suggestions on Intro Music! (2:06) Anxiety in Business (3:41) My History with Anxiety (7:06) The CEO Stereotype (7:54) Anxiety is an Indicator (11:16) Anxiety Becomes Rocket Fuel (13:56) Tag and Share! ----------- Follow Me on Instagram ----------- If you are feeling stuck and you're ready to take the next step, check out Next Level Coaching Academy
UKPラジオの第28回は、[Alexandros]・庄村聡泰 ! 庄村は、2010年にかねてよりサポートドラムをしていた[Alexandros]に加入。 加入時の秘話や記念すべき加入後初ライブの思い出話、そして番組ホストである遠藤とPOLYSICS・フミとの出会いについて振り返っていきます。 自身をロマンチズムだと宣言する庄村が、一生忘れられない思い出の1つだというUK.PROJECTでの思い出話も登場! UK.PROJECTで気になるアーティストや心に刺さったという楽曲の話も語ります。 学生時代に購入した思い入れの深いバンドグッズの話も! そして、ドラムに対する考え方が変わるきっかけとなったという、番組ホスト・遠藤のとある一言とは? 庄村のドラムに対する深い思いやバンドでのキャラクターについてとともに聞いていきます。 また、コロナ禍での過ごし方や最近ハマっていること・好きなことなどもじっくりと。 ずっと好きだというコーヒーの話では、おすすめのお店や好きな飲み方についても! 加入してから10年経ち、今年リリースされるベストアルバム「Where's My History?」をもって勇退となる庄村。バンドやUK.PROJECTへの思い、そして今後の夢や挑戦していきたいことも聞いていきます。 改名を考えた!?という名前に関するエピソードや、#サトヤス の思い出話、最近の音楽事情など、盛りだくさん!親しい間柄こその和気あいあいなトークをお楽しみください。 番組を聴いた感想や質問は、#UKPラジオ をつけてツイートしてください! ▼UKPラジオ・プレイリスト:https://spoti.fi/2NKXxsy ▼UKPラジオ・Twitterアカウント:@ukp_radio
Disclaimer: I am not a licensed counselor or therapist. The details of this episode are shared for informational purposes only and are no substitute for professional counseling. If you suffer from depression, suicidal thoughts or any other form of mental illness, please seek professional help immediately.My History with Depression My depression began when I was a teenager, probably triggered by conflict with my parents. I ran away from home at 16, which only made my symptoms worse.Things came to a head during my junior year in college. I got into a heated argument with my roommate, which triggered deeper levels of depression and thoughts of suicide. I began to see a counselor, learned some coping mechanisms and got married later that year.A year into my marriage, I graduated college. I struggled to find work and soon got pregnant with my son, which increased my depression and suicidal thoughts even more (they never really went away). I returned to counseling and started taking medication. At this point, I was healthy enough to be functional, but I hadn't fully recovered yet.A few years later, my family moved back to Texas to be closer to my parents. I became active in a church and found support from other women like me. Over the next five years, I began to heal and to feel like myself again.How I Overcame My DepressionMedication: This isn’t the right option for everyone, but it was for me. Make sure you discuss side effects in detail with your doctor before you start on medication.Counseling: I have met with both Christian counselors and pastors, which helped me in different ways.Mentorship/Discipleship: Older women who had similar experiences poured into me and gave me a healthier perspective on life.Building Support Systems: My husband, friends and family are there for me during dark episodes and know how to support me through them.Prayer/Bible study: My relationship with God was pretty erratic for a long time, but once I got healthier, it became strong.Self-Care: Diet, exercise, healthy amounts of sleep, etc.Resources if You're Suffering from DepressionWorld Health OrganizationNational Suicide Prevention HotlineMental Health AmericaThe National Network of Depression CentersThe National Alliance on Mental IllnessMental Health Grace AllianceIf you're a Christian, consider reaching out to your local church for Christian-specific resources. Christian counselors can give advice and insight about the spiritual aspects of depression.Action Steps:If you're suffering from depression or another form of mental illness, check out at least one of the resources listed here as soon as possible.If you know someone who is suffering, share this episode of the podcast with them.
Colin Wright of Exile Lifestyle shares his history of stalking. Episode 1359: My History of Stalking by Colin Wright of Exile Lifestyle on Social Networking Advantages & Issues Colin Wright is a professional author and international speaker who co-founded a publishing company and travels full-time, moving to a new country every four months or so--that country determined by the votes of his readers! He also blogs. Colin's a minimalist in that he owns very few things and is careful in how he consumes. He tends to buy less, but invest in quality when he does, and trends toward the same in relationships, business endeavors, and just about everything else. He's left-handed, blue-eyed, scary good at Tetris, and can't cook. The original post is located here: https://exilelifestyle.com/history-stalking/ Visit Me Online at OLDPodcast.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Colin Wright of Exile Lifestyle shares his history of stalking. Episode 1359: My History of Stalking by Colin Wright of Exile Lifestyle on Social Networking Advantages & Issues Colin Wright is a professional author and international speaker who co-founded a publishing company and travels full-time, moving to a new country every four months or so--that country determined by the votes of his readers! He also blogs. Colin's a minimalist in that he owns very few things and is careful in how he consumes. He tends to buy less, but invest in quality when he does, and trends toward the same in relationships, business endeavors, and just about everything else. He's left-handed, blue-eyed, scary good at Tetris, and can't cook. The original post is located here: https://exilelifestyle.com/history-stalking/ Visit Me Online at OLDPodcast.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Colin Wright of Exile Lifestyle shares his history of stalking. Episode 1359: My History of Stalking by Colin Wright of Exile Lifestyle on Social Networking Advantages & Issues Colin Wright is a professional author and international speaker who co-founded a publishing company and travels full-time, moving to a new country every four months or so--that country determined by the votes of his readers! He also blogs. Colin's a minimalist in that he owns very few things and is careful in how he consumes. He tends to buy less, but invest in quality when he does, and trends toward the same in relationships, business endeavors, and just about everything else. He's left-handed, blue-eyed, scary good at Tetris, and can't cook. The original post is located here: and in and !
Colin Wright of Exile Lifestyle shares his history of stalking. Episode 1359: My History of Stalking by Colin Wright of Exile Lifestyle on Social Networking Advantages & Issues Colin Wright is a professional author and international speaker who co-founded a publishing company and travels full-time, moving to a new country every four months or so--that country determined by the votes of his readers! He also blogs. Colin's a minimalist in that he owns very few things and is careful in how he consumes. He tends to buy less, but invest in quality when he does, and trends toward the same in relationships, business endeavors, and just about everything else. He's left-handed, blue-eyed, scary good at Tetris, and can’t cook. The original post is located here: https://exilelifestyle.com/history-stalking/ Please Rate & Review the Show! Visit Me Online at OLDPodcast.com and in The O.L.D. Facebook Group and Join the Ol' Family to get your Free Gifts! --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/optimal-living-daily/support
It's quite the human task to be congruent and aligned with ourselves — to feel that who we are on the inside is expressed and reflected on the outside. Then there is all of what is within. Do you sacrifice, sell off, hide, or ignore parts of yourself? What does congruence feel like to you in your body? In this episode, how the Hong Kong Protests challenged me personally to stand up for all the parts of me, not just some, but to have compassion meanwhile. Also, the price we pay when we have codependency or where we are split in our choices, how to feel aligned in your body and congruent outwardly, living from the heart and looking deeper at social issues. Links, Article, and Resources All Show Notes for This Episode
Content Warning: discussion of body image, relationships, high school & depression. Welcome back to Exercising Depression Podcast! We're carrying on with the look into who I am, where I have come from with part 2 of "My History". This episode I describe my time at High School as well as my first relationship. Again, my apologies if it is a little dull; looking into my history paves the way for my future and what this podcast is all about; my struggles as an adult with mental health problems. Please feel free to reach out and contact me; Email: exercisingdepressionpodcast@gmail.com Facebook: Exercising Depression Podcast @exercisingdepressionpodcast Instagram: exercisingdepression_podcast --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/exercisingdepression/message
"Speaking of My History" season 1 episode 4 - Reginald F. Lewis (December 7, 1942 – January 19, 1993), was an American businessman. He was the richest African-American man in the 1980s. Born in Baltimore, Maryland, he grew up in a middle-class neighborhood. He won a football scholarship to Virginia State College, graduating with a degree in economics in 1965. He graduated from Harvard Law School in 1968 and was a member of Kappa Alpha Psi. Recruited to top New York law firm Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison LLP immediately after law school, Lewis left to start his own firm two years later. After 15 years as a corporate lawyer with his own practice, Lewis focused on corporate law, structuring investments in minority-owned businesses and became special counsel to major corporations like General Foods and Equitable Life (now AXA). Mr. Lewis was also counsel to the New York-based Commission for Racial Justice and represented The Wilmington Ten. He was successful in forcing North Carolina to pay interest on the Wilmington Ten bond. he moved to the other side of the table by creating TLC Group L.P., a venture capital firm, in 1983. His first major deal was the purchase of the McCall Pattern Company, a home sewing pattern business, for $22.5 million. Lewis had learned from a Fortune magazine article that the Esmark holding company, which had recently purchased Norton Simon, planned to divest from the McCall Pattern Company, a maker of home sewing patterns founded in 1870. With fewer and fewer people sewing at home, McCall was seemingly on the decline—though it had posted profits of $6 million in 1983 on sales of $51.9 million. At the time, McCall was number two in its industry, holding 29.7 percent of the market, compared to industry leader Simplicity Patterns with 39.4 percent. He managed to negotiate the price down, then raised $1 million himself from family and friends and borrowed the rest from institutional investors and investment banking firm First Boston Corp. Within a year, he turned the company around by freeing up capital tied in fixed assets such as building and machinery, and finding a new use for machinery during downtime by manufacturing greeting card. In 1987, Lewis bought Beatrice International Foods from Beatrice Companies for $985 million, renaming it TLC Beatrice International, a snack food, beverage, and grocery store conglomerate that was the largest African-American owned and managed business in the U.S. The deal was partly financed through Mike Milken of the maverick investment bank Drexel Burnham Lambert. In order to reduce the amount needed to finance the leveraged buyout, Lewis came up with a plan to sell off some of the division's assets simultaneous with the takeover. When TLC Beatrice reported revenue of $1.8 billion in 1987, it became the first black-owned company to have more than $1 billion in annual sales. At its peak in 1996, TLC Beatrice International Holdings Inc. had sales of $2.2 billion and was number 512 on Fortune magazine's list of 1,000 largest companies. In 1992, Lewis donated $3 million to Harvard Law School, the largest grant at the time in the school's history.[5] The school renamed its International Law Center the Reginald F. Lewis International Law Center, the first major facility at Harvard named in honor of an African-American on January 19, 1993 (aged 50) New York City, Lewis died , from brain cancer. Mr. Lewis wife Loida Lewis took over the company a year after his death.[11] Loida Lewis currently Chairs the Reginald F. Lewis (RFL) Foundation, which also supports the Reginald F. Lewis College of Business at Virginia State University. In 2005, the Reginald F. Lewis Museum of Maryland African American History & Culture opened in Baltimore with the support of a $5 million grant from his foundation.[7] It is the East Coast's largest African American museum occupying an 82,000 square-foot facility with permanent and special exhibition space.
As we know October is Black History month. We often see our history associated with tells of struggle & pain. This week's DISUNOMICS podcast is too highlight some of the influence Africa has had on the world as well as some historical moments. I was joined by my good friend Nego True whom has an upcoming book "My History is More Than Slavery" to give me the real gist with regards to African history. Which of course lead us to talk about everything! Enjoy Any questions, comments & enquiries? Hello@disunomics.com ***********#DISUNOMICS LIVE SHOW TICKETS OUT NOW**************** https://shoobs.com/events/32235/disunomics-live#.W6kvYt5wp6s.twitter www.DISUNOMICS.com Twitter: www.twitter.com/_NOMICS IG: www.instagram.com/DISUNOMICS My History is More Than Slavery: https://www.negotrue.com/ Twitter: www.twitter.com/NegoTrue IG: www.instagram.com/NegoTrye YouTube: https://t.co/VIT3O0o8ZC Apple Music: https://itunes.apple.com/gb/artist/nego-true/808940365 Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/artist/3Wwcrarn4rr3pE8HqLNwFx#_=_
Добрый день уважаемые слушатели. Представляем новый выпуск подкаста RWpod. В этом выпуске: Ruby Upcoming built-in Upload Solution for Rails 5.2 (ActiveStorage), Running feature specs with Capybara and Chrome headless и Preventing security issues in Ruby on Rails (based on OWASP cheatsheet) Real World Rails Background Jobs, Using influxdb with ruby, Avoiding “NoMethodError” for nil in Ruby и Virtual Columns in MySQL (video) JavaScript How we restructured our app with React Navigation, 5 Debugging Tools Every JavaScript Programmer Should Know and Use и JavaScript Fatigue or My History with Web Development Best CSS Books In 2017, Gatsby - blazing fast static site generator for React, Rebass - functional React UI component library, built with styled-components и Terminal in React
Lois Robbins is one busy actress. She is perhaps best known for her roles on the daytime soap operas - One Life to Live, Loving, Ryan's Hope, and All My Children. She has also guest starred on Sex and The City, Law and Order, Kingpin and Once and Again. Lois' film credits include Blowtorch, Juvie, and Ithaca, directed by and starring Meg Ryan. Then there's theater. She has starred in a pair of world premier musicals - My History of Marriage and A Time for Love. Lois has also written a one-act play - L.O.V.E.R - Baring it All. And if all that isn't enough, she's writing a novel. Listen in as Lois shares talks about her varied and accomplished acting career.
Sally Hurme is an elder law attorney, who has worked with AARP for 25 years, and is the author of what promises to be one of the most important books in our possession--Checklist for My Family: A Guide to My History, Financial Plans, and Final Wishes. Procrastination is prevalent for many people in dealing with the things critically important for each of us. Beginning at age 18, a person should already have a financial power of attorney designated. http://www.aarp.org/entertainment/books/bookstore/home-family-caregiving/info-2016/aba-aarp-checklist-for-family-survivors.htm
Jason interviews Sally Balch Hurme author of Get The Most Out of Retirement: Checklist for Happiness, Health, Purpose, and Financial Security. Sally Balch Hurme is also the author of the bestselling Checklist for My Family: A Guide to My History, Financial Plans, and Final Wishes as well as Checklist for Family Survivors, the 2015 Grand APEX Award winner, and Checklist for Family Caregivers. A lawyer with more than 20 years of experience advocating for people 50-plus and helping them understand complex issues, she recently retired and shares her professional expertise and personal experience in this newest book in her Checklist series. To purchase a copy of her most recent book Get The Most Out of Retirement please visit: www.aarp.org/entertainment/books/bookstore
Zen in the Martial Arts is a classic martial art book written by Joe Hyams. It was recently selected as the #1 martial arts book by guests of this show. Zen in the Martial Arts - Episode 146 You can read our post on the Top Ten Martial Arts Books as selected by our guests. It's time for episode 146 of whistlekick Martial Arts radio, and we're going to talk about an amazing book that has come up in conversation a lot on this show – Zen in the Martial Arts. Not a reader? You should still stick around because this isn't a book review. Let me introduce myself. I'm whistlekick's founder but I'm better known as your host on this show. My name is Jeremy Lesniak. whistlekick makes the best sparring gear you can get as well as some great apparel and accessories for practitioners and fans of traditional martial arts. I'd like to welcome all of you new listeners and thank everyone that's come back. All our past episodes, show notes, and some other good stuff is at whistlekickmartialartsradio.com. From that site, you can sign up for our newsletter, and I hope you do because we offer exclusive content to subscribers, discounts and it's the only place to find out about upcoming guests. Today's episode has a full transcript available on the website. Short Summary of Zen in the Martial Arts Zen in the Martial Arts, for all of the impact it has had on several generations of martial artists, is short. It's 140 pages of a small book, and it's not small font. That might make you think that it's incomplete, or otherwise lacking, but that isn't the case. Reviews for the book continue nearly 40 years later, and on the popular book review sites, the poorest rating I could find was 4.1 out of 5. Amazon, which is known for having the most reviews, shows it as 4.6 of 5. There are 28 chapters, each one with a title that seems ripped from a classic kung fu movie – Empty your cup, Active Inactvitiy, Extend Your Ki. The chapters are short, most around 5 or 6 pages, and begin with a relevant photo. Most end with a bit of wisdom, like this one: “Life unfolds on a great sheet called Time, and once finished it is gone forever.” The book discusses some great names from our history, including Ed Parker & Bruce Lee. The chapters tell stories from the author's time training. About the Author of Zen in the Martial Arts Joe Hyams, while beloved by martial artists for the book he wrote, was not best known as a martial artist or martial arts author. He was a writer, sure, but primarily a celebrity writer. During his career, he wrote or co-wrote books on Humphrey Bogart, Lauren Bacall, Katharine Hepburn, Frank Sinatra and Chuck Norris. He studied martial arts for more than 50 years. Beginning with fencing and then, through an introduction by music composer Bronislau Kaper, met Ed Parker. He became one of Parker's first private students, then soon after, one of his first black belts. He trained privately with Bruce Lee for two years and introduced him to Hollywood. Hyams was a big piece of Bruce Lee's start in films. It's hard to believe that as big of an impact as this book has had, Joe Hyams' contributions to the martial arts community, via Bruce Lee, were so much greater. He died in 2008 at age 85. Why Zen in the Martial Arts is Special Most martial arts books are about martial arts or some metaphysical subject. Often times they're written by people who really know martial arts, but aren't so good at writing. Mr. Hyams was a writer and a skilled one at that. He wrote newspaper columns, books, movie scripts… Clearly a varied and masterful writer. He was also very good at conveying his point simply, something that the very best martial artists seem able to do. This book is 140 pages because Mr. Hyams didn't need more. While it has a tremendous amount of martial arts content, it's not a book exclusively for martial artists. According to Melissa Hyams, his wife at the time he passed in 2008, said the book “isn't really about martial arts. It's about life and philosophy, and how to turn a negative into a positive, how to defuse a situation by the way you handle it. That's what he'll most be remembered for." To illustrate this, I'll read to you one of the shortest chapters, “Anger without Action,” which is just over one page: My History with Zen in the Martial Arts I don't remember when my Mother first picked up the book. I have vague memories of it being a gift, and it was likely a gift to her. She started training in 1985, so I'd guess it was in our home between 1985 and 1987. I would have been between 6 and 8, which seems about right. It was always out. Sometimes on the coffee table, sometimes in the bathroom. It was the first nonchildren's book I read and it's certainly the book I read most. I'd guess I've read it all the way through a dozen times. It was the bits of wisdom that struck me most. I memorized them before I understood most of them, and as I grew up, life and martial arts showed me what these parables meant. “When you seek it, you cannot find it,” “The angry man will defeat himself in battle as well as in life,” and other sayings had a tremendous influence on me. In fact, as I think back on my life and my time in the martial arts, behind my instructors and my Mother, this book was the third most influential element. The copy I have now sits on my bookshelf, unread. Which is ironic and something I plan to change. I think it will end up in the same place in my home that it did when I was a child. Wrapping Up Have you, like many of our guests, read this classic? It's still available in new copies, and it's pretty inexpensive. You can find used copies for a few dollars, digital copies or audiobook versions if that's your think. If you haven't read it, you should. I want to know what you think, and you can post your thoughts in the comments at the website - You can find us on Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest & Instagram – just search whistlekick. Or, just leave us a comment on the show notes page at whistlekickMartialArtsRadio.com If you want to be a guest on the show or maybe you have an idea for a show topic, go ahead and fill out the form on the website. And don't forget to subscribe to our newsletter so you can stay up on everything we do. You can learn more about our products at whistlekick.com That's all for today. Until next time, Train hard, smile and have a great day.
My History, My witness and why I say the things I say. The Phone droped service and the program ended before the end of the video. we will continue this tomarrow on 04-20-2016 starting at the start of Part two. The Video is on Youtube at www.youtube.com/user/Godismycompass for those who want to watch it.
Historian Lady Antonia Fraser discusses her memoir My History with broadcaster Mark Lawson, at the prestigious Oldie literary lunch at Simpson's in the Strand.
Reading by musician and poet Vivien Jones (Powfoot). She is a recipient of a Scottish Arts Council writers’ bursary, and her fiction has been broadcast on BBC Radio.listenabout Vivien JonesFor a hifi version of this MP3, go here.Poems:Churching Hat. 1894. Parton.Log Pattern Quilt c. 1900.Animal Traps: VariousMuseum: Empty CaseMy History of CurryOctopus in GallowayFry Up