Book Title: The Twelve Dancing Princesses*Author: Marianna MayerGenre: FairytalePrompt from Charis Cotter (so, it's the line she gave me, not corresponding to the date!) Warm, fragrant breezes scented with jasmine filled the air, and under the moonlight pure silver leaves sparkled and danced like musical chimes. Shargeza felt her skin rise to meet the falling… Continue reading Prompt 3 – The Twelve Dancing Princesses & January Yin Link
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Poem 349 – #everyonecanpoem & YIN writing link
everyonecanpoem #everyonecanpoem For Natalie Gather all ye literary citizens!Take up your pens & slice intothe grace of glorious ambiguity With a bit of death clinging toour skins the poem livesto genuflect before us or toggleoff our backs or lick our lipsor yell vagina from mountainswe write into Being – preciouswith our being All hail the… Continue reading Poem 349 – #everyonecanpoem & YIN writing link
Poem 342 – I Burned My Tongue & YIN Link & Open House tonight!
I Burned My Tongue hot gravy oozing over meatscorched the centrenow it’s rough with tender pain sometimes hunger does that –brings a biting, hasty excitementscarring a song of sorenesson a body part for further harkening I roll my tongue under myfront teeth, try to lift the tantrummed tissuewill my speech be different today –smouldering in… Continue reading Poem 342 – I Burned My Tongue & YIN Link & Open House tonight!
Poem 335 – Tell Each Other & Yin Writing
Tell Each Other The following things: If there’s a rice-looking snot in a nostril (or any shape of snot, actually)If there’s a dark chunk of food between teeth (or any coloured chunk of food, actually) If breathe is deathlyIf a bra shows throughIf ear wax is showingIf one smells like poo If you need an… Continue reading Poem 335 – Tell Each Other & Yin Writing
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