Thanks to Cassie Caverhill for an outstanding workshop at the Writers' Assembly yesterday. She brought a colour-coded emotion wheel into the prompt pool, and the inspiration was to use an emotion's 'contrasting' emotions to write a poem. The emotion I chose was 'sadness', and it's contrast is 'joy', so I used words in the joy… Continue reading POEM A DAY – APRIL 20
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POEM A DAY – January 14
Good morning lovelies! Today's poem is a three-fer! It is in response to a found poem (or found poetry book, in this case) written in the form of an abecedarian poem that is also an acrostic poem. I wrote this piece last year during a poetry marathon wherein myself and Cassie Caverhill wrote 12 poems… Continue reading POEM A DAY – January 14
LIFE UPDATE!
Friends, it's been a minute since I wrote a post about my life's happenings. Currently, I'm sprawled out on the sofa in our living room, laptop on my lap, fireplace crackling on Netflix (I'm loving all the fireplace options!), glancing at the blustering snowstorm outside between writing sentences. I have to venture out there soon… Continue reading LIFE UPDATE!
VANESSA SHIELDS 