- Follow purplepeninportland on WordPress.com
My Interview at Poets United
Interview by Sherry Marr of Poets United http://poetryblogroll.blogspot.com/2015/04/life-of-poet-sara-mcnulty.html
Poems for Each Month
WD
inourbooks.com
Blogs I Follow
Top Posts & Pages
Inkblots from the purple pen
Chiaroscuro
Tag Archives: True
Improvised Tales
Written for: dVerse Poets Pub – Meeting The Bar: The Death Sentence (posted by Gospel Isosceles) “I’ve been reading Michael Simms’ blog Vox Populi – A Public Sphere for Poetry, Politics, and Nature for four years now and was recently … Continue reading
Posted in Purple's Home
Tagged bus trip, friend, improvising, opinions, plastic, story in one sentence, True, turkeys, urinating
18 Comments
True or False
Written for: Poetic Asides 2018 November PAD – Day 20 “For today’s Two-for-Tuesday prompt: Write a love poem. Or… Write an anti-love poem.” Love Myriad of loves people, pets, blooming peonies Anti-Love If a love is false, all for show … Continue reading
Posted in Purple's Home
Tagged false, Love, Lunes, True, Written for Challenge
A Girl’s Determination
Written for: Poetic Asides April 2016 Challenge – Day 24 For today’s prompt, write a poem in which something is lost and then regained. Maybe a relationship is lost and then regained, or a special keepsake. Maybe it was stolen … Continue reading
Posted in Purple's Home
Tagged courage, girl, rubaiyat stanza, True, Written for Challenge
Three Rooms For One
Written for: Red Wolf Poems #220, “On The Road” Tourist Home, Motor Village, Travel Court, Bedbug Palace, Motel Hell Write about that room by the highway. When they said, budget motel, we never figured that they meant “extras.” Yet, the … Continue reading
Watermelon Slices
Written for: Red Wolf Poems #218, “Time Travel” This week we will use our memory to time travel…all the way back to childhood. Writing about a memory captures it, much like a photograph does; but words also capture emotion, mood, … Continue reading
To A Sweetie
Written for: Creative Bloomings, InForm Poets: Elegy An elegy is a song of sorrow or mourning–often for someone who has died. But, since poets exercise license, they can also write elegies for the ends of things: a life, a love … Continue reading
Posted in Purple's Home
Tagged animals, Love, relationships, Sad, True
The “S” Word
Written for: The Daily Post at WordPress.com, “Can’t Watch This” When was the last time you watched something so scary, cringe-worthy, or unbelievably tacky — in a movie, on TV, or in real life — you had to cover your eyes? … Continue reading
Posted in Purple's Home
Tagged animals, Funny, outdoors, True
Sweet Scents
Written for: The Daily Post at WordPress.com, “Now? Later!” We all procrastinate. Website, magazine, knitting project, TV show, something else — what’s your favorite procrastination destination? Almost anything is an ample excuse for not cleaning. Even daydreaming on the outdoor … Continue reading
Boom!
Written for Poetic Asides Write a poem of industry. Business is booming in the gun industry. The NRA is happy. School kids are dying every week here in the good old U.S.A. Deranged people can buy guns. What’s the bottom … Continue reading
You Mattered
Written for Poetic Asides: Write a tribute poem. So many names etched in glossy black walls at which we stand and stare appalled at the enormous number of fallen soldiers, hoping we will not see a name we know, a … Continue reading
