Tag Archives: Miz Quickly

Commanding Clouds

Posted on November 2, 2022 by whimsygizmo

If you’re gonna poke a stick at the sky, you’d better chant a bit and sell a little of your soul. There’s a slow pre-thunder roll that says we asked for this,that bliss is just the other side of broken -open clouds. That rain bows to … Continue reading →

Posted in Miz Q Prompts, scribbling storms, storms | Tagged clouds, magic beans, making it rain, Miz Quickly, rain, rainbows, raindance, rainmaker, scribbling storms, storm poems, stormclouds, storms, thunder | 12 Comments

Quickly, Quickly Now.

Posted on November 1, 2022 by whimsygizmo

Come in, come in! We’ve got phrasal funand tasty bunsboth hai- and cinnamon. We’ve got windchimesand silly rhymesand muddy iambic feet, some words to spillsome space to fill,a whole fresh day to greet. Come with us down this rabbit hole(we’re … Continue reading →

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Quickly. Quickly now.

Posted on September 17, 2018 by whimsygizmo

.. Tell the sky she’s bold and beautiful and vast and strong. Tell the ocean she’s got someplace else to go. Tell the world we’ve got a song to sing to all these spaces, broken places stitched together with ash … Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged Miz Quickly, ocean, Quickly, sky, song, thrum, thunder, tryna write every day for Shawna, two words, two worlds | 7 Comments

When I Found the Poem at the Center

Posted on August 3, 2018 by whimsygizmo

… , I played it in a scribble and a song. . You played along, and the sky took the shape ………………………………….(escape) of my brightest tears. .. Playing around with yesterday’s words for Quickly. … Continue reading →

Posted in Miz Q Prompts | Tagged Miz Quickly, poeming softly so as not to make too much noise, Quickly in August | 1 Comment

Later: rinse, repeat.

Posted on August 2, 2018 by whimsygizmo

This is the first part of an exercise for Miz Quickly. Later, I hope to refine it into something shorter, sharper. .. I dreamed I wrote a poem in invisible ink. I dreamed I wrote a poem dot-to-dot, with … Continue reading →

Posted in Miz Q Prompts | Tagged as the sky took shape, I wrote a poem, lather rinse repeat, Miz Quickly, poems on poeming, Quickly in August, repetition, scribble and song, writing exercises | 3 Comments

Mast (Mask) and Sail

Posted on July 31, 2018 by whimsygizmo

I dreamed I was more than moored, but less than Lake. That the shaking of these limbs (this breeze) was about more than trees (and less than song.) I dreamed I belonged to the sea, and that she gave me … Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged Blue, dreaming in blue, dreams, Lake ache, landlocked mermaid poems, mermaid muses, Miz Quickly, more than trees and less than song, Quickly, sea, shades of blue, Tao of trees, twiglets | 11 Comments

suspended moment

Posted on March 16, 2017 by whimsygizmo

(a leaky bit of moonlight) under a dark-haired driven threadbare quilted sky, driven bursts of clawing breath and the muted cry of unglazed small -boned crows dreaming murder, death – muffled blooms and fretful sleep. .. Cool visual … Continue reading →

Posted in Miz Q Prompts, moon poems | Tagged crows, ekphrastic, fretful sleep, Miz Q weeklies, Miz Quickly, moonlight, muffled blooms, murder of crows, sky songs, visual prompts, word prompts | 4 Comments

Travels with Haircuts

Posted on March 2, 2017 by whimsygizmo

.. She trims the tresses of the masses, shears near ears and hears the stories in all their long (and short) glory. Shaves miles, time. Runs with scissors. .. Prompted by Miz Q.

Posted in Miz Q Prompts | Tagged hair poems, Miz Q, Miz Quickly | 2 Comments

downward

Posted on January 24, 2017 by whimsygizmo

.. she dreams in spiraled clouds, candy spun of nothing-dreams. she seems a wayward soul, a lost girl in dragon skin. she’s begin -ning to believe in something, anything, this thing that is her own dark soul. she knows the … Continue reading →