#The Friday Poem

[martyncrucefix]

A Run of Readings in October/November

Talk to whomsoever (among the poets you may know) and a common theme is just how hard it can be to get invitations to read. It really is hard going and for those of us – most of us – who have an aversion to the push and flaunt that is required – it can even feel quite painful. But do it we must. So it’s really nice when it produces a few results. This, by way of saying that I have a few…

[annemunson]

[thoughtkick]

You can blame yourself for anything if you think about it long enough

Friday Night Lights (TV Series 2006–2011)

[plu-mo]

[ww2yaoi]

"Animals" by Frank O'Hara / The Pacific / The Pacific Part V Script

[stygianturtle]

October 5: This one’s a play off a prompt from last year AND it’s a writing prompt! Take any famous character from a horror film, and create a nursery rhyme about them. You can make it completely innocent, or, like many nursery rhymes, remain dark but disguised in pretty language.

I think my character is pretty obvious, and as an added bonus I made 2 haiku (apparently the plural is the same) between Mother and son.

[perfectfeelings]

You can blame yourself for anything if you think about it long enough

Friday Night Lights (TV Series 2006–2011)

[martyncrucefix]

My Three Desert Island Poems

As mentioned in a post earlier in June, I spent a few days around that time trying to choose just 3 poems that I might take with me to a speculative desert island. I was asked to do this by The Friday Poem website and they have now posted the results of my labours. In the end I chose work by Coleridge, Edward Thomas and Rainer Maria Rilke. Of course, the latter has been on my mind a great deal…

[sunb0tss]

to be trans is to be loved!

[wavesoutbeingtossed]

“Ok in the original error message on Grammy night there’s the the code that says DPT which obviously now is the acronym for Tortured Poets Department but backwards and it’s counting down 3-2-1 from back to front IT’S LIKE IT’S STARTING FROM THE END INSTEAD OF THE BEGINNING or from the last page instead of the first chapter and the word scramble is literally a red herring and the original error is web speak for the system crashing BECAUSE THERE’S BEEN A GLITCH THE SYSTEM IS OVERLOADED so she has to go back to basics with a typewriter instead in the latest tease but also the betting Swifties are saying the Apple Music scramble is spelling out Glitch backwards too and the original error message is a black page with white font but the NEW error message is white with black font they’re like TWO SIDES OF THE SAME COIN and now she’s teasing 13– THIRTEEN WHAT?!—“

[perfeqt]

You can blame yourself for anything if you think about it long enough

Friday Night Lights (TV Series 2006–2011)

[martyncrucefix]

Edward Thomas, Tellisford, and a poem of my own

I have recently been writing a piece for the excellent site, The Friday Poem, or the FRIP as it styles itself, edited by Hilary Menos. I’d had a poem accepted by the FRIP earlier this year and Hilary had asked if I’d like to contribute something in prose, perhaps choosing 3 ‘desert island’ poems. An impossible challenge, of course – only three!!?? – but an interesting exercise to be sure. I’ll…

[elycwinters]

Stuff of Legends

Words: 143 Tagging: @flashfictionfridayofficial

You are the stuff of legends.

Please, do not ever let anyone tell you otherwise. You are brave and strong, kind and loving. So what if you get angry sometimes? Do you not think, that those whose names echo in history did not get angry too?

You are the stuff of legends.

You are a star that is shinning, bright and mighty upon earthly firmament. So, please, do not dismiss yourself. Do not make yourself to be less, because you are magnificent.

You are the stuff of legends.

But some people forget, that not all legends names are written down, some names are passed down by word. Because the legend they left behind is kindness in an unkind word. So, please. Be the stuff of legend: loving and kind, fierce and bold when needed. And wise enough to know how to be each.

~ Ely C. Winters.

[perfectquote]

You can blame yourself for anything if you think about it long enough

Friday Night Lights (TV Series 2006–2011)