Month: December 2022

Re-wilding the mundane day 23

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Jane Dougherty's avatarJane Dougherty Writes

For Paul Brookes’ December challenge. On target today.

Wardrobe

Wardrobe was once a tree,
fashioned and crafted,
full of hiding places

and doors that opened
onto other worlds.

All trees are wardrobes,
homes where hundreds hide
in warm safety.

Each breathes its own air,
tasting of leaf and blossom,
foundations deep-dug,

towering high,
bird-roost, crow’s nest,
each one a galleon,

a tower, a jungle,
a rocket to whichever star
we choose.

Walking among trees
upon deep loam and leaf-carpet
we push open the portal
to another side. Listen.
Snow is falling.

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Join me every day this December. #RewildTheMundane and/or #ReMundaneTheWild Twenty Third Day. NOTE: NO WILD THINGS MUST DIE IN THESE SCENARIOS. I look forward to your draft poetry/short fiction/visual images. Go leftfield and imagine a wardrobe as a wild animal or plant, imagine a wild animal or plant as a wardrobe, or other domestic object, or task. Email me or add your contribution to this link.

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Leftfield Questions

How is a Falcon like a wardrobe ?

What mundane task would a living Falcon do in a home?

How would a wardrobe be rewilded?

Re-mundaning the wild day 22

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Jane Dougherty's avatarJane Dougherty Writes

A short poem for Paul Brookes’ December challenge.

Fallow deer

Deer among the trees
summer-leafed
drift between sun-shafts
and the shadow of tree pillars
tidying up the dapples
wearing them as trophies.

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Join me every day this December. #RewildTheMundane and/or #ReMundaneTheWild. Twenty-second Day. NOTE: NO WILD THINGS MUST DIE IN THESE SCENARIOS. I look forward to your draft poetry/short fiction/visual images. Go leftfield and imagine kitchen roll as a wild animal or plant, imagine a wild animal or plant as kitchen roll, or other domestic object, or task. Email me or add your contribution to this link.

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Leftfield Questions

How is a fallow deer like kitchen roll?

What mundane task would a living fallow deer do in a home?

How would kitchen roll be rewilded?

Re-wilding the mundane day 20

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Jane Dougherty's avatarJane Dougherty Writes

Catching up on Paul Brookes’ December challenge.

House centipede

We’ve always called them toothbrushes,
the zippy, bristle-legged insects
that clean out the cracks and crevices
in the walls, night workers,

scuttlers and scavengers,
killers of beetles and spiders,
picking their way through
the minutiae of house debris,

toothbrushes, tabby-brindled,
bottle brushed hunters,
yet I would rather the beetles
and toothless unseen mites.

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Join me every day this December. #RewildTheMundane and/or #ReMundaneTheWild. Twenty First Day. NOTE: NO WILD THINGS MUST DIE IN THESE SCENARIOS. I look forward to your draft poetry/short fiction/visual images. Go leftfield and imagine outside rubbish bins as a wild animal or plant, imagine a wild animal or plant as outside rubbish bins, or other domestic object, or task. Email me or add your contribution to this link.

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Leftfield Questions

How is a shrew like outside rubbish bins?

What would a living shrew do in a home?

How would outside rubbish bins be rewilded?

Join me every day this December. #RewildTheMundane and/or #ReMundaneTheWild. Twentieth Day. NOTE: NO WILD THINGS MUST DIE IN THESE SCENARIOS. I look forward to your draft poetry/short fiction/visual images. Go leftfield and imagine a toothbrush as a wild animal or plant, imagine a wild animal or plant as a toothbrush, or other domestic object, or task. Email me or add your contribution to this link.

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Leftfield Questions

How is a nettle like a toothbrush ?

What mundane task would a living nettle do in a home?

How would a toothbrush be rewilded?

“Created Responses To This Day” Kerry Darbishire responds to Day 77 of my This Day images. I would love to feature your responses too.

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Winter Landscape

Is this where Monet stood
with his palette of dawn, the slow mix
of rose madder and cadmium yellow rising
and sinking into the lead-grey
and burnt-umber river –
a gliding current brushing bare trees
and waterfowl from town to town
on a winter’s day like this.

Kerry Darbishire

#TheWombwellRainbow #PoeticFormsChallenge. It is weekly. Fourteen form is a Welsh form a #Rhupunt. I will post the challenge to create a first draft of a poetic form by the following late Sunday. Please email your first draft to me, including an updated short, third person bio and a short prose piece about the challenges you faced and how you overcame them. Except when I’m working at the supermarket I am always ready to help those that get stuck. I will blog my progress throughout the week. Hopefully it may help the stumped. Also below please find links to helpful websites.

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Here are the guidelines for the #Rhupunt:

The form can be broken down into lines or stanzas

Each line or stanza contains 3 to 5 sections

Each section has 4 syllables

All but the final section rhyme with each other

The final section of each line or stanza rhymes with the final section of the other lines or stanzas

Helpful Links

https://www.writersdigest.com/write-better-poetry/rhupunt-poetic-form

https://classicalpoets.org/2017/03/23/how-to-write-a-rhupunt-with-example/#/

Rhupunt

Guest Feature – Lynette Creswell

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Patricia M Osborne's avatarPatricia M Osborne

It gives me great delight today to welcome back, children’s author, Lynette Creswell, to Patricia’s Pen. This time Lynette has come along to tell my readers all about her brand-new hoglet book Hoglets’ Birthday Surprise. Without further ado, it’s over to Lynette.

Hoglets’ Birthday Surprise

Lynette Creswell

It’s almost Christmas and a busy time of year for everyone. For some it’s getting those presents wrapped and Christmas cards written but for me it’s an extra special time. Last December I published my first ever children’s book, Hoglets’ Christmas Magic and introduced two cute hoglets, Prickles and Primrose. The hoglets were a magical success and I earned myself a new following of young hogleteers.

As a writer I wanted to continue engaging with my readers and leave a lasting impression. The positive feedback I received for Hoglets’ Christmas Magic far exceeded anything I had imagined.

Teachers, grandparents…

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