Tips for Great Stats

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How do you improve your stats? Do you want more followers? Or hits? Continue reading

Celebrating Women

Sunflower

Here is a cheery sunflower MicroSonnet for International Women’s Day.

So much depends
on having good friends.
Unlike the sunflower,
we women need to build,
bubbling with superpower,
yet yearning to feel fulfilled. Continue reading

Ribbon for #50PreciousWords

#50PreciousWords

Vivian Kirkfield’s 2018 Writing Challenge began in celebration of Dr. Seuss’s birthday, March 2. If you participate, you can potentially win prizes. Click on Vivian’s name to find the challenge. Here’s my story:

Ribbon’s Adventure (50 Words)

Ribbon’s home is a drawer.
Squashed, she imagines adventures:
parties, parades and presents. Continue reading

Ingenue

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Photograph of Auguste Rodin Statue Used With Permission of Kip Rechea

fluid stillness
goddess strength
rising

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Keep it Short

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“Bend like the grass
that you do not break.”
Kamala Markandaya

Blogging Tip: Keep posts short. Microfiction, micropoetry, quotes and tweets are popular for that very reason. They’re short. Break longer ideas into a series of shorter posts. Continue reading

Inspiring Color

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Ideas last,
stick barnacle-fast,
and even dance
when asked.

So I write,
dawn to night,
just an idea
acolyte.

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Lights in a Storm

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When storms churn surf
and flood waters rise,
beacons of light
are as vital as breath.

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Purple is a Choice

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Choose Purple —
celebrate your mistakes,
own your struggle,
and honor your choices,
because that’s how we become
who we are meant to be:
victors.

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Bee Patient

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towering salvia stalk,
every tiny purple trumpet
is tenderly touched Continue reading

Sister Blue

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Brother new, sister blue, I miss you.
Both lost at age four. Pain is evermore. Continue reading

Poem Published

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If I was a rooster, I’d be crowing from the rooftop to announce the publication of the Best of Today’s Little Ditty Anthology: 2014-2015 (Volume 1).

I’m honored to have my poem, Seed for Thought, selected out of hundreds written in response to challenges by established authors and editors including Lee Bennett Hopkins, J. Patrick Lewis, Bob Raczka, and Rebecca M. Davis. Continue reading

To Know Much

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I never know as much as when I don’t know anything. Continue reading