“Everything in the universe has a rhythm, everything dances”.
-Maya Angelou
Haiku inspired by this quote:
rain through wind
drops upon tin roof
one rhythm
Pat R
9/14/16
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Life
I took this photo during a brutal winter, last year I think in my friends back yard. A frozen pipe broke and spewed onto the garden furniture and created this..that is a regular bench.
life
hard as hell
but it can still be
a beauty
“Life is never what you expect, it’s how you deal with what comes that makes a man or a woman out of you”
It’s a realization that dawns
After you managed to live through
That punch in the gut
You were sure you would
never get over
First, it’s “why me!”
But, why not you!! What makes you so darn special?
This is life, and everybody’s got to go through it. If you’re lucky.
Afterall, what is the alternative?
Pat R
4/08/16
Writers Quote Wednesday Writing Challenge ( #WQWWC)
That quote is something I came up with. I’m sure I’m not the first to come up with this group of words.
https://silverthreading.com/2016/04/06/wqwwc-writers-quote-wednesday-writing-challenge-survival/
Writer’s Quote Wednesday
Today I am sharing on Writers Quote Wednesday over at SilverThreading.com. It’s in collaboration with RonovanWrites.com where writers share quotes by writers that are inspiratoonal..or not. Anyway, it’s a fun event. All are welcome to join in. I am a little late this week, but here is mine:
Great is the art of beginning, but greater is the art of ending.
– Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
A poet can survive everything but a misprint.
– Oscar Wilde
“If I had not existed, someone else would have written me, Hemingway, Dostoyevsky, all of us.”
—William Faulkner
Wow! I am still thinking about the meaning of this last one:)
Pat R
1/21/16
HAPPY NEW YEAR
To all who stopped by, left a comment and showed some appreciation for my scribbles, I thank you.
May the New Year bring you more of what you want, and all of what you need.
To you and yours I wish you a healthy, happy, prosperous and PEACEFUL New Year!!!!!
Pat R
12/30/15
Year & New
RonovanWrites #Weekly #Haiku #Poetry Prompt #Challenge #77 Year&New
Took this photo of the full moon over Christmas! Only to hear that this won’t happen again during Christmas for another 36 years!!!
coming to an end
this year’s trips around the sun
chances for new start
coming to an end
this year’s trips around the sun
a new moon rises
Pat R
12/28/15
For a read of other entries follow link to
Ronovan Writes Haiku Poetry prompt
Writer’s Quote Wednesday
My quote this week is:
“An artist’s only concern is to shoot for some kind of perfection, and on his own terms, not anyone else’s”.
J. D. Salinger (1919 – 2010)
Raised in Manhattan, in his early life he wrote the great American novel -The Catcher in the Rye, 1951. I guess he was overwhelmed by its success. This drove him into seclusion, or he mounted a pitch battle to preserve his privacy. Depends on your perspective.
His depiction of adolescent alienation and loss of innocence in the protagonist Holden Caulfield was influential, especially among adolescent readers.The novel remains widely read and controversial, selling around 250,000 copies a year. (Wiki)
A few years back I was facinated by his reaction to his fame and did some digging. At the time I was familiarizing myself with different forms of poetry and the following was the results.
TETRACTYS POEM: WRITER
his
readers
passionate
about his work
would climb onto its pages and live it
his unrequited love left him broken
recluse from fame
not published
for years
writes
PR
1/27/2014
TETRACTYS POEM: WRITER 2
mad
writes on
disciplined
released demons
closer to characters than family
chased immortality through young lovers
wrote everyday
unpublished
by choice
famed
PR
1/27/2014
NONET POEM: WRITER 3
normal boundaries was not for him
he held himself above his peers
and completely believed it
owned it made it happen
self-aggrandizing
if not him who
controlling
distant
writes
PR
1/31/2014
HAIKU:WRITER 4
Notoriety
From overwhelming success
Sanity threatened
PR
1/27/2014
LIST POEM: WRITER 5
publication short story shelved
took it to war
wrote during active deployment
wrote amidst atrocities
wrote to save his soul
the book was born in battle
did his own editing
no changes allowed
at liberation of Dachau
maddened by war
work came first
DO NOT DISTURB
disconnect with lovers abrupt
writing was his permanent Mistress
PR
2/03/2014
HAIKU: WRITER 6
promos book tours none
autographs interviews none
It’s all in the work
PR
2/10/2014
FREE VERSE POEM: WRITER 7
Fan consolation
All that was of him
Poured from pen to paper
Fiercely protective of his work
It was as it originally emerged
PR
2/12/14
Writer’s Quote Wednesday
I am participating in Writer’s Quote Wednesday, a collaboration between Ronovan Writes and SilverThreading.com also on twitter #BeWow
- “It begins with a character, usually, and once he stands up on his feet and begins to move, all I can do is trot along behind him with a paper and pencil trying to keep up long enough to put down what he says and does”.
- “The author must keep his mouth shut when his work starts to speak”.
- “A person who publishes a book willfully appears before the populace with his pants down…If it is a good book nothing can hurt him. If it is a bad book, nothing can help him”.
This one made me laugh out loud while being more that a little scary.
http://silverthreading.com/2015/11/11/mark-twain-quote-on-character/
For a little further reading on each writer click the link on their names. It will lead you to their biography.
Pat R
11/14/15
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Writer’s Quote Wednesday
Here are my contributions for today. I love these. Feels more like it’s about the art of writing.
“Don’t tell me the moon is shining; show me the glint of light on broken glass”
When that happens…it’s magic! Don’t you agree?
“You never have to change anything you got up in the middle of the night to write”.
I relate more to this one. When it so happens that I do have to get up in the middle of the night to get something out of my head. I make a conscious effort not to edit it out of existence. Sometimes I succeed.
PR
10/28/15
Writer’s Quote Wednesday is a colloboration between
Silverthreading & RonovanWrites
All are invited to participate:)
