The Wordsmith's Forge

This poem is spillover from the April 20, 2021 Bonus Fishbowl. It was inspired by a prompt from librarygeek. It also fills the "technology" square in my 4-4-21 "Aspects" card for the Genderplay Bingo fest, and the "disability not erased by killing or curing" square in my 9-1-20 card for the Fries Test Bingo fest. This poem has been sponsored by fuzzyred. It belongs to the Daughters of the Apocalypse series.

Warning: This poem contains intense and controversial topics. Highlight to read the warnings, some of which are spoilers. It includes the apocalypse, the Grunge, mass casualties, refugees, death in childbirth, birth defects, fisticuffs over rudeness about disability, and other challenges. If these are sensitive issues for you, please consider your tastes and headspace before reading onward.

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These are the notes for "Kokopelli Returns."

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This poem is spillover from the April 20, 2021 Bonus Fishbowl. It was inspired by a prompt from freshbakedlady. It also fills the "Taking on a new role" square in my 1-3-21 card for the Fresh Starts Bingo fest. This poem has been sponsored by fuzzyred. It belongs to the Daughters of the Apocalypse series.

Warning: This poem contains intense and controversial topics. Highlight to read the warnings, some of which are spoilers. It includes personal difficulties, two unplanned pregnancies despite using protection, the apocalypse, the Grunge, mass casualties, refugees, environmental casualties, the Mescalero Apache shooting refugees, dangerous contamination of goods scavenged from cities, food issues, Navajo expansionism, and other challenges. If these are sensitive issues for you, please consider your tastes and headspace before reading onward.

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Today is sunny and warm.

I fed the birds.  I've seen a large flock of doves, a flock of house finches, goldfinches, and a squirrel at the hopper feeder.  In the yard I saw an indigo bunting.  :D  Like the finches, they prefer small seeds.  Sometimes they hang around here in the summer.  They have very complex songs. 

EDIT 5/24/21 -- My partner Doug reports the first fireflies of the season.  \o/

Yesterday a new iris bloomed, so I went out in the evening and took a few pictures, hence the odd lighting. Today there's another, gold and white, that I've seen before.

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These are some posts from the later part of last week in case you missed them:
Poem: "Rainbow Hills"
Poem: "Half-understood and Half-remembered"
Birdfeeding
Community Building Tip: Tactical Urbanism
Birdfeeding
Photographs
Birdfeeding
Poetry Fishbowl Report for May 4, 2021
Unsold Poems for the May 4, 2021 Poetry Fishbowl
Birdfeeding
Coping Skills: Games
Poem: "Ever Evolving, Changing, and Becoming"
Birdfeeding
Hard Things


The half-price sale in the Daughters of the Apocalypse went all right. I still have poems to post from that.


Poetry in Microfunding:

There are two open epics at present, and "Rainshadow Road" is also open but I haven't posted it yet.

"The Hobbomak" launches the Bear Tunnels series. Emma and Jesse explore the images on the walls.

"A Celebration and a Consolation" belongs to Polychrome Heroics. Keira comforts her mother after the breakup.


The weather has been warmer, and it rained enough to flood the fields. Seen at the birdfeeders this week: a flock of mourning doves (including courtship behavior), a flock of sparrows, a flock of goldfinches, a few robins, several house finches, a pair of cardinals, a rabbit, and a squirrel. Currently blooming: purple allium, white allium, honeysuckle, wood hyacinth, wild strawberries, blackberries, chives, bergamot, iris, peonies.  Mulberries and black raspberries have green fruit.

dialecticdreamer is hosting Feathering the Nest for nonsexual intimacies.  Leave prompts, get ficlets!

These are the notes for "Nature's Great Masterpiece."

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This poem is spillover from the April 20, 2021 Bonus Fishbowl. It was inspired by prompts from readera, wyld_dandelyon, and Anonymous. It also fills the "imprinting" square in my 1-3-21 card for the Fresh Starts Bingo fest. This poem has been sponsored by fuzzyred. It belongs to the Daughters of the Apocalypse series.

Warning: This poem contains intense and controversial topics. Highlight to read the warnings, some of which are spoilers. It includes the apocalypse, the Grunge, mass casualties, adults dying and leaving teens and elephants to fend for themselves, teens running away, a girl adopted by elephants, and other challenges. If these are sensitive issues for you, please consider your tastes and headspace before reading onward.

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This poem is spillover from the April 20, 2021 Bonus Fishbowl. It was inspired by prompts from readera and Anonymous. It also fills the "taboo subjects" square in my 4-4-21 "Aspects" card for the Genderplay Bingo fest. This poem belongs to the Daughters of the Apocalypse series.

Warning: This poem contains intense and controversial topics. Highlight to read the warnings, some of which are spoilers. It includes the apocalypse, the Grunge, mass casualties, adults dying and leaving children and teens to fend for themselves, abandonment of an intersex infant, varying levels of respect for nonbinary identities, normalization of lesbian relationships, reference to pestering lesbians to have procreative sex, gay men viewed as selfish by outsiders, and other challenges. On the whole, though, Rainbow Hills is a successful commune and a good place for QUILTBAG people. If these are sensitive issues for you, please consider your tastes and headspace before reading onward.

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