Dandelion wishes and golden light shape a 44-word quadrille, inspired by a perfect grandparent day and the enduring, ever-growing bloom of love across generations.

A dVerse Quadrille prompt on the word coax sent me down a path of wondering—about rumor, belief, outrage, and whether wisdom can still be persuaded to show up.

A dVerse Poets Pub “catalog verse” prompt that began with seeming randomness evovled into a poem about regrets, loss, grief, forgiveness and finally, hopefulness.

A poem expressing sadness about what the drought and excessive heat are doing to our world, in both macro and micro ways.

I’m killing the writer’s block beast with brusque, intentional keyboard strokes and this short confessional post.

A whimsical poem about writer’s block and an elusive paragraph.

The list referenced here from the All Nine blog by Kelly Belmonte is a wonderful and persuasive set of arguments in favor of writing poetry.