WRITER’S WORKSHOP I, Week 2, Batting Practice
Something to think about: “When you write a story, you’re telling yourself the story. When you rewrite, your main job is taking out all the things…
Boy Dips His Foot in the River and Finds It Cold, of the one where this weeks prompt from Sadje to wrap up a trilogy of poems
These days of handless shakes, one footprint Closer to the dark river We all seem to be looking across I walk among my oldest friends: Frost’s…
Hello! The one where I say I have been stocking up on TP
Hello friends, readers and guests of Fullbeard Lit. Had to take a couple of days away from writing/blogging to make sure I was stocked up and…
Song By a Boy, or the Response to Eugi’s Weekly Prompt, Song.
The poem that tumbled from my thumbs Typed in iNotes like many before, sounded… Like many before, trees and breezes and leaves. I needed a different…
March Gratitude 3/11/20 “Stopping By Woods on a Snowy Evening,” by Robert Frost or the One Where I Thank My Fourth Grade Teacher and Explain How I Found My Spiritual Strength.
Today, I thank Ms. McManus my 4th Grade teacher for introduced our class to Robert Frost’s Stopping By Woods on a Snowy Evening and for being…
The Silence Rumbled, or the poem written in response to the Go Dog Go Tuesday prompt written while eating a chocolate croissant.
The silence that rumbled in my heart Seeks solace, concocts words in verse For a layered pastry filled with bitter-sweet Chocolate. I am the butter spread…
March Gratitude 3/10/20 “The Giving Tree” by Shel Silverstein or the One Where I Talk About the First Poetry I Loved and How it Defined not Just My Passion for Verse, but My Faith.
To become a poet, it seems to me obvious that one must have fallen in love with a poem at some stage in those young formative…
A Fine Cider Toast 3/9/20, The One Where I Talk About What’s Happening This Week At Fullbeard Lit
Good evening, friends, guests, and readers of Fullbeard Lit. Lots of excitement over at the Go Dog Go Cafe, so thank you for paying a short…
“Here, the Wings I Took,” or upon Listening to Bebe Rexha a Poem in Apology to Women Harmed by a Thief, in Honor of International Women’s Day
Here, the wings I took, have them back. You, brave like an angel, took flight, Unstoppable. The thief I was thought He deserved more to fly…
Stephen’s Sunday Chat 3/8/20: The One Where We Say Thank You to the Women of the Cafe in Honor of International Women’s Day with a Thank You to Toni …
“How bleak, unlivable, insufferable existence becomes when we are deprived of artwork. That the life and work of writers facing peril must be … Stephen’s Sunday…
