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Est. September 11, 2010
University of Florida, Gainesville & Florida Atlantic, Boca Raton, Fl. Graduate Degree, Secondary Education (English Teacher). Self-educated as a free-lance photographer. Sold work to Hallmark Greeting Card Company. Designed fabric dolls/patterns for international retail market. See Susanna Oroyan books: Anatomy of a Doll and Designing the Doll. See magazines: "The Cloth Doll", "Soft Dolls and Animals" and "Contemporary Doll Collector".

For Picture Perfect Poetry Contest   [E]   0.5 KB
Title: "A Feast of Flowers". Flowers must be a gift for the soul.

"The Rescue of Dryopteris II"  [E]   0.8 KB
they say you can talk to your plants...

"Pigs Cannot Fly!"  [E]   0.9 KB
...or another reason to become a vegetarian.

Florida  [E]   0.8 KB
Florida is a peninsula surrounded on 3 sides by water but so much more...

PAD "Lightning Bugs"  [E]   0.8 KB
Nove Otto poetic form.

Prompt 3, "Moon Rising"  [E]   0.5 KB
Does perspective change the romance?

Stormy Contest due June 4, 2012  [E]   0.8 KB
stormy contest

"An Elegy for the Sow on Mother's Day"  [E]   0.7 KB
See<Peta.org> and video: Nebraska Pig Farm Investigation. Pigs are as smart as dogs.

"Take Your Medicine"  [E]   0.7 KB
Fibonacci poem

"Intuition"  [E]   0.4 KB
Shadorma poetic form, 3/5/3/3/7/5

"Let it Rain!"  [E]   1.0 KB
A compound word verse poem using water as the filler...

Dark Victory  [E]   0.9 KB
Poetic response to an old Bette Davis film: "Dark Victory".

"Lilacs"  [E]   1.4 KB
The Civil War ended April 9, 1865. It was Spring and Lincoln could finally relax.

"For Lydia"  [E]   1.0 KB
A poem about a Civil War heroine, Lydia Hamilton Smith.

Morning, in my Garden  [E]   0.8 KB
There is nothing so delightful as a bright, shiny morning...

Why Are You So Silent, Jackleen?  [E]   0.8 KB
A song about death and dying.

The Rescue of *Dryopteris  [E]   1.0 KB
To rescue something from certain death is ennobling.

"The Tornado"   [E]   1.1 KB
A narrative poem based on a true story.

To Richard Wilbur, poet  [E]   1.2 KB
Honoring him...Richard born March 1, 1921.

PAD 18 April, "Corrie tenBoom"  [E]   0.4 KB
Cinquaino poem.

"A Conversation with Job"   [E]   3.1 KB
Satan made a wager with the Lord: "Bring him to his knees & Job will curse you, God!"

A Song for Trayvon  [E]   0.6 KB
The world should know about Trayvon...

Service Station Restroom Nonet  [E]   0.4 KB
Service station restroom; what a sight!

The Apology  [E]   0.8 KB
Alexander Pope (1688-1744) : "To err is human; to forgive; devine.

Jazzy Religion   [E]   1.2 KB
"Triple" Japanese Lanterne: 12341 pattern.( How's your sales resistance?)

Love Doesn't Happen That Way  [E]   1.2 KB
"Love is not Time's Fool" says Shakespeare.

Stormy Contest due 11 April, 2012  [E]   0.5 KB
Japanese poem, Tanka 5,7,5,7,7

"Sleepy Kisses"  [E]   0.9 KB
Monotetra, Poem a Day

NoPrompt "The Dragon Skin Coat" Sestina  [E]   3.2 KB
Ever wish for something fine, but when finally granted, it sickened you to take it?

The Forest of Discontent  [E]   1.0 KB
A celebration of trustworthy love.

Galileo Galilei (1564-1642)  [E]   1.3 KB
Creative thinkers not a favorite of any church doctrine...

Why Am I Not Surprised?  [E]   1.1 KB
To everything there is a season; even droopy pants...

Starlight  [E]   0.6 KB
Pleiades form of poetry

Beatrice of the Basement  [E]   1.3 KB
Four half-starved people found captive in a Philadelphia basement.

The Keys to Wisdom  [E]   1.0 KB
Wisdom for Man may lie hidden in the rippling of a pond.

Beware the Ides of March  [E]   1.0 KB
Betrayal can be an ugly thing...

Exhaustion   [E]   0.4 KB
Like the end of a great battle, the troops of winter lie fallen and quiet...

Stormy Contest due 9 March 2012  [E]   0.5 KB
Words to be used: bruises, challenges, rocky, turning points, change, destiny, life

Pad 16 march, balance poem,"Separation"  [E]   1.4 KB
A balance poem.

19 March PAD "A Story About Water"  [E]   1.1 KB
Prompt 2. Write about water. Prompt 3. Use the Abhanga Poem format.

Writer's Cramp entry 14 March  [E]   0.6 KB
Slicing the pi according to Archimedes

Mealtime at Momaw's   [E]   5.0 KB
Like little fishes brimming to the surface to nibble, we appeared.

Respect  [E]   0.5 KB
Honoring the opposition.

"Pride" (Prompt 3, Pyramid Poem)  [E]   1.2 KB
Failure comes with False Pride's visitation.

Hourglass Poem "The Hours"  [E]   0.4 KB
the hourglass poem

Sabotage in the Garden   [E]   0.5 KB
It wasn't her fault; the snake did it.

The Challenge   [E]   0.8 KB
Life can be a challenge at times...

Rehab  [E]   0.4 KB
Some choices are hard to make...

"Flowers for Whitney"  [E]   0.4 KB
We have lost a kind soul.

"Loneliness"  [E]   0.4 KB
Accepting the state of being alone with good humor...

Stormy Contest due 13 Feb  [E]   0.9 KB
loneliness flame senses sky hearts prison youth seasons

PAD 28 Dec "Backyard Musical"  [E]   0.7 KB
Making music with pots and pans is child's play

The Orchestra  [E]   0.8 KB
Prompt #1, write about an orchestra; #3, Use Double Etheree form

A 1940's Christmas   [E]   0.5 KB
The combination of a fresh fir, popcorn and new crepe paper left a memorable odor...

"Once You Loved Me" Triolet Dec18  [E]   0.5 KB
Triolet; only 2 rhymes: line one repeats in line 4 and 7. Line 2 repeats in line 8.

"The Burning"   [E]   1.3 KB
A narrative poem about Joan of Arc, written in iambic pentameter.

Prompt: "Santa's Lost"   [E]   0.4 KB
Somebody better start digging...

PAD, "Metamorphosis", Prompt 3, Dec 7  [E]   1.1 KB
From egg to caterpillar to butterfly is quite a journey...

"Pig-Out"  [E]   0.4 KB
It's Holiday Time!: go ahead and put on those extra pounds.

Fire 'n Brimstone Prompt 1 & 3, 13 lines  [E]   0.8 KB
Satan knows how to work a room...

My Travels with Frost and Whitman  [E]   0.6 KB
A dodoitsu poem: For Stormy's Contest

Time is a Lady   [E]   0.8 KB
Take care with Time; once you waste her, she is gone forever...

The Haunted  [E]   0.6 KB
The search is never over for a lost child...

A Matter of Chance  [E]   0.4 KB
Clogyrnach Poem for 24 Nov PAD contest

"Tempting Fate" (Dodoitsu Poem) 5 lines  [E]   0.3 KB
We know it is going to hurt, but we do it anyway...Why?

"My Secret " PAD Contest 19 Nov 18 lines  [E]   0.6 KB
Sometimes things are better left unsaid... (18 lines)

Mono-rhyme for Nov 9, er 10  [E]   0.2 KB
Life, strife. Prompt Number 3. It's free.

"The Journey" (28 lines)  [E]   1.7 KB
Pride and Greed may lead to corruption...

Putting out the Fire  [E]   0.7 KB
Pad contest: compare beauty of your lover with nature

A Child's Vision of Christmas   [E]   1.3 KB
Do you have childhood memories of Christmas?

"Imaginings"  [E]   0.5 KB
Practicing the "Pleiades form of poetry.

Poetry  [E]   0.7 KB
Learning to write a particular poetic form: the "Pleiades"

A Frozen Farewell  [E]   0.4 KB
Matters of the heart

Gotta Git Back To My Gypsy!  [E]   1.2 KB
A song about a man in a hurry...

The Salesman  [E]   0.9 KB
No need to buy more of the same.

And Old Fashioned Valentine   [E]   0.8 KB
For Valentine's Day 14 February, 2011

Valentine Vent  [E]   0.6 KB
A Valentine to my Lying Lover

Storm Warning  [E]   1.3 KB
A storm is both frightening and fascinating...

Crazy Cramp Affair  [E]   0.8 KB
And a good time was had by all...

Remembrance of Things Past  [E]   0.6 KB
Nothing gold can stay; things are always changing, like my weight!

"Departure"   [E]   1.1 KB
Pond Poetry Contest # 35

Equality  [E]   1.3 KB
The dream of equality: a difficult balance.

Magical Gardens  [E]   1.1 KB
Don't buy that plant unless you plan to water it...

New Beginnings  [E]   1.0 KB
A new beginning is when the whistle blows...

Alone on Christmas Day!  [E]   0.8 KB
My branches are bent but unbowed

Personal   [E]   46 Items
currently working

Creaky Bones (Lanterne Form)  [E]   0.6 KB
Body's orchestra: violins squawk and cymbals clang

The Deserted Cottage (Terza Rima)  [E]   0.7 KB
A cottage deserted, the memories remain... Terza Rima form

"Up at the Crack of Sundown"  [E]   4.2 KB
An old married couple enjoy practical jokes on one another.

Regeneration  [E]   0.4 KB
Little will change unless we change ourselves...

Prompt 3 for PAD  [E]   0.3 KB
Hexaduad poem

Sat , 3 March Tyburn poem   [E]   0.4 KB
the subject is grandfather

Balassi poem  [E]   0.2 KB
Balassi poem

Pug  [E]   12.0 KB
picture of the family pug

Bette Davis  [E]   15.0 KB
Bette Davis in Dark Victory

Lydia  [E]   55.0 KB
Lydia Hamilton Smith

Flower  [E]   0.0 KB
Flowers and more flowers