Category Archives: April PAD 2024

Dragon Food 

Posted on May 3, 2024 by whimsygizmo

Turns out, they enjoy a big ol’ slice of cake as much as the rest of us (extra frosting, please).  And when they’re in the mood: fish tacos, garlic fries and peppermints.  Sometimes at midnightthey get the munchies, and that’s when they feast on the occasional rude … Continue reading →

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The (Morning) Glories of Getting Up Before the Sun

Posted on May 2, 2024 by whimsygizmo

The pounding of feet, the call of the trail.  A ruffle of breeze, a kerfuffle of quail.  ::Unprompted. (In May she poems just because.)

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Factory Settings & Other Fiction 

Posted on May 1, 2024 by whimsygizmo

This poem doesn’t have a reset button.  She’s a glutton for punishment phraseology graffiti and grace.  She’s coming over to your place with some fingerpaints and a smile.  She’ll walk 1,000 miles and then cha-cha-change things up a little and ska her way home. She’s roam-ing about the country in bare … Continue reading →

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Ever After (The Inevitable Consequences of Lonely Dragons) 

Posted on April 30, 2024 by whimsygizmo

They were just minding their own fiery business, see, and we were sort of waiting in the wings, wee faeries and       (wayward)princesses with bare feet and no further need to please the king.  If it please the court (and you judgmental sorts),they’re cuter up close than … Continue reading →

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full stop?

Posted on April 30, 2024 by whimsygizmo

we plop down our pens.           {breathe}  believe.begin again.  ::In April, she poems.

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until the ache of april 

Posted on April 29, 2024 by whimsygizmo

, the poems gather small,in tiny syllable soirees.  on bar napkins and scribbled notebooks in parking lots far and near. dear diaries and journals in the dark.  they’ve got their places,but no traces of migrationtoward the sun. no buzz of chaos and camaraderie,community and the care-free spill … Continue reading →

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Until the Storm 

Posted on April 29, 2024 by whimsygizmo

Before the rain,the thunder was just a rum-bled echo in her chest.  She pressed the sky against her brow and filled her heart with borrowed songs.  She took her stanceand watched the others dance ,believed it would be enough, somehow.                   Until now.  ::In April, she poems.

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On Arrival

Posted on April 28, 2024 by whimsygizmo

It’s survival of the fittest, see?  Last one in’s a rotten egg, a fallen tree.          (Do you hear it?)  We fear it. Draw near it. Make much of this fading;the shrinking, the thinking through the final days.  We will it, distill it to so many … Continue reading →

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The One That Isn’t Going To Happen This Year 

Posted on April 27, 2024 by whimsygizmo

 (The one with ALMOST all the titles)  This is the one that usually holds all the titles. From the whole month.  Okay, okay, it’s a little over the top,                    but(hungry like a wolf) she usually pulls it off,  living large on old haunts … Continue reading →

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Okay, Okay 

Posted on April 27, 2024 by whimsygizmo

, so we diddle diddled,          so what?  The cat ate Fiddle Faddle and Moon Pies the whole time       while the cow disguised  herself as a nun. On the run:  Dish. Spoon. Plate. No debate – everybody was in the pool there for awhile, running amok.                   Even Scissors.  … Continue reading →

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