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Napowrimo Day 6, Pocahontas
Today’s poem is another response to a prompt from Richard at Poetic Asides. This prompt was to write and ekphrastic poem. John Drury’s Poetry Dictionary, defines ekphrastic poetry as “Poetry that imitates, describes, critiques, dramatizes, reflects upon, or otherwise responds to a work of nonliterary art, especially the visual.” Of the two works provided (I…
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Napowrimo Easter Poem
Running a bit late wit this! Yikes, I should be caught up shortly. I hope your Easter was as peaceful as it should be. Egg Versus Cross The Calvanist is hard on the Easter egg– “Fickle colored distraction, keeping children happily numb to sin and terrors of crucifixion.” But if the stories are true, Friday…
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NaPoWriMo, Day 3
Yes, I know, I’m running a bit late here. I had the idea for this on Saturday (and to me it’s still Sunday night, as I have not yet gone to bed), but working at the Station went late so here it is. I’ll hopefully be back on track after classes tomorrow. Here is Day…
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National Poetry Writing Month
Well there is a National Ice Cream Month (July, thanks to Ronny Reagan), National Blood Donor Month (though that seems like it would be draining), National Soup Month, and a National Hemorrhoid Prevention Month (OK, OK, so I made that one up), so why not National Poetry Month? Great idea, right? Well, too late, the…
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Two Original Poems Read by DJB
This has been a busy two weeks. Midterm exams, papers, enough reading to overload Carl Sagan’s brain, and six nights of work. Ugh! But I’m sitting here now with my baby, listening to Michael Buble and Josh Groban, soothing my soul after the American Idol travesties of the evening. A glass of wine in my…
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A Few Thoughts About Interpretation
Context, Inspiration, Culture and Science This is the next installment of my discussion regarding homosexuality and the Bible. The introduction can be found several posts back or by clicking here. Leading up to this series are these two posts and videos: 1. And 2. Be careful about interpreting the Bible too literally, otherwise you will…
