My recipe, Chocolate Extreme Mug Cake, was a Top 50 finalists in this contest! Voting is over and now I am waiting to find out who the Top 4 Finalists are. Am I going to NYC in September? Keep your fingers crossed. Six days until the Final 4 are announced.

August 5, 2014  challenge word "detail"


The challenge word was detail, but this is what came out of my brain. The haiku started as "a dark detail" but that phrase would not align with anything else in my thoughts. My creative process is occasionally a mystery, even to myself. 

Black Matter

A dark mote of thought

Imploding inward into

A dark hole of grief


August 7, 2014 challenge word "make"


Growing a Poem


Fast fingers clicking

A staccato rhythm to

make a poem grow


August 9, 2014 challenge word "about"


Mixed Feelings - A Haiku Duo


Summer break is up,

Eight to three for pay, Oh Yay!

Tears about to fall


About to begin

Helping students on each day

Happy to be back


August 22, 2014 challenge word "climb"

A silent squirrel
hiding on a gray tree trunk
waiting to climb home

Summer break is about to end. I am going to miss being able to write for hours. Knowing that my time will soon be split between job and writing seems to have created a flood of creativity. I have written nine blog posts and eight poems in the last six days. I am going to savor this creative moment in time.

Organization and note taking are a must when I am working full time. A goal that I have set for myself is to write and schedule blog posts a week in advance. By scheduling posts to publish in advance, I am establishing an organized schedule that will enable me to deal with the occasional conflict. Conflicts are inevitable.

Writing ideas for each blog are written as notes in a draft post. For food blogging, I must also make a list of ingredients to buy at the grocery story. I carry a small notepad in my purse at all times. Then, I can write ideas, poem fragments, and random thought down. No matter where I happen to be. 

 

 
 

August 1, 2014  Challenge Word – teach


I started writing today for the daily haiku challenge. The first stanza of "Seeing Like a Child" is my haiku challenge poem. However,my thoughts and writing began to flow and I let my fingers follow the current to see where it would take me.. Love it when that happens! Today's offering for your reading enjoyment are two poems in haiku form.  Enjoy!


Seeing Like a Child

Children see beauty
in unexpected places
and teach me to see...

Baby cabbage plants
become flowers when planted
in dark, tilled soil

Clusters of tiny,
furry, purple blooms atop
tall weeds are pretty

The tiniest bloom
Is worth giving because size
doesn't affect beauty

Children see beauty
in the ordinary, THEN
ugliness is taught.



Children Taught Me

Wiggling toes are
Fighting pigs when held under
A stream of water

Baby powder will
Float when sprinkled on top of
Toilet bowl water

Drops of shampoo will
Make small craters in floating 
Baby powder hills

Sticks can be lines in
A kid picture placed upon 
A grassy canvas

A crater can be
Dug with a tablespoon and
A tractor will fall in

Imagination
ordinary life can be
entertaining fun



August 2, 2014 challenge word – break

Woohoo! Movie night!
Merge into the story line
A fantasy break


August 3, 2014 challenge word – always 

My hard heart is gone
Broken by my own choices
Forever, Always