I’d like to share my and hear your thoughts on acceptance — Wow, the contents of that feature image have thrown me for a bit of a loop. As I embarked on the journey to create this prompt, I knew that the word acceptance has several definitions and can mean many different things to many people and that even one person can…

Two poems and a short essay together answering that souls miss being human — This piece starts with a rondeau. The title of a rondeau forms part of the poem. The title serves as a non-rhyming refrain in the approximate octet end-rhyming scheme of AABBA AABR AABBAR and I like how it allows me to use the title/refrain to ask a question, which I…

Ricky Gervais’s “After Life” displays much spirituality through the eyes and words of atheists — It intrigued me when my dear friend and non-romantic (at least in this lifecycle) soulmate LM suggested that I watch the series After Life because LL (not a typo — an inside reference) said it displays much well written spirituality from the atheist perspective, which I most assuredly am not…

Prompt 1 courtesy of Rudyard Kipling and the 2nd prompt takes the format of some of Ravyne’s daily specials of yesteryear — I find that Rudyard Kipling’s poem If, which I recall hearing for the first time three years ago when my brother-in-law read it to his twin son and daughter at their achieving B'nai Mitzvah in Israel in March 2019 (because his father had hung it in their finished basement growing…

I won’t but I attempt to convey my understanding of God in response to that question from a KTHT reader and writer — I think I shall start this post with a poem that as I type I have barely begun to create beyond the notion that Cendrine Marrouat’s vardhaku form, which I discovered as an editor in Ravyne Hawke’s pub Promptly Written, lends itself nicely to what we have in mind, but…

A follicle raising haiku — Goosebump raising surge kinetic energy says God present for all Note: “present” is a double entendre In 1996, during my first and mostly forgotten foray into the 12-Stepverse, the rehab took us to a “meeting.” The speaker told the story of his suicidal ideation. He had terrible insomnia along with…

A new prompted tanka plus a few older poems reflected therein and a discussion of the form — I can see past me Me only has eyes for self I am confident Me is an arrogant fuck I make love with all my heart Thank you Diana C. for inspiring me to write my first poem since I celebrated Claire Kelly’s and my shared birthday. February 15th, 2022 An acrostic poem birthday card to myself and Claire Kellymedium.com

Spiritual prompt to inspire our fantasy and fiction writers — The Prompt: Write a fiction, poem, essay, or creative nonfiction based on this passage of mine from my essays, Cosmic Strings of Time and No Physicist Has Yet To Understand the Concept of Time: “I believe that souls are time travelers in that we can choose to improv-script our masterclasses…