The Wordsmith's Forge

The following poems from the April 6, 2021 Poetry Fishbowl are currently available. Poems may be sponsored via PayPal -- there's a permanent donation button on my Dreamwidth profile page -- or you can write to me and discuss other methods. There are still verses left in the linkback poems "The Arc of the Mental Universe," "Everything That Blooms," "In the Shade of the Mighty Oak," "Let the Children Lead Us," "Autumn's Palette," "Pumpkin Spice Prosperity," "Delight in Another," and "A Sense of Weather Changes."

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Today is partly sunny, windy, and cool.

I fed the birds.  Today I've seen a large flock of grackles, a house finch, and a few doves.

We trimmed brush in the forest  yard, behind the row we'd been working from the driveway side, and cleared a wheelbarrow full of trimmings. 

EDIT 4/19/21 -- I trimmed more brush in the forest yard to clear mow paths.

EDIT 4/19/21 -- I picked up sticks in the south lot as far as the birdgift tree.  Progress!

EDIT 4/19/21 --  I trimmed more brush in the forest yard to clear mow paths.

These are some posts from the later part of last week in case you missed them:
Poem: "The Transmigration of Soulmarks"
Poem: "Breathing Through Eternity"
Poem: "Empty Like a Bowl"
Birdfeeding
Read "Humans Are Weird"
Recipe: "Mango Chicken with Baby Corn Stir-Fry"
Birdfeeding
Monkeydactyl
Poem: "Flood Gifts"
How to Lower Your Property Value
Birdfeeding
American Infrastructure
California Homes (42 comments)
Deflecting Asteroids
Godzilla vs. Kong
Birdfeeding
Luxury as Slavery
Coping Skills: Bath
Birdfeeding
Photographs
Cuddle Party


There will be a Bonus Fishbowl on Tuesday, April 20 with a theme of "Daughters of the Apocalypse." Start thinking about prompts, and I hope to see you all then!

The 100th crowdfunding Creative Jam on Good vs. Bad this past weekend was quite a success! :D See what I have written. At least one other writer contributed, and I've got someone else writing a piece for me too.


Poetry in Microfunding:

There are two open epics at present.

"The Hobbomak" launches the Bear Tunnels series. Emma and Jesse discover an unusual chamber underground.

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


The weather has been mostly mild and blustery. We got some rain here and there. We're doing lots of yardwork. Seen at the birdfeeders this week: a large flock of sparrows, a large flock of mourning doves (including courtship behavior), a large flock of grackles, a few robins, several house finches who are draining the thistle sock, a pair of cardinals, a Bewick's wren, a brown thrasher, a squirrel, and two rabbits.  I also saw a single red-winged blackbird in the yard.  Currently blooming: daffodils, blue grape hyacinths, forsythia, violets, tulips, cherries, gold currants, bluebells, lilacs, yellow bellflower, white trillium.

Tyrannosaurs may have hunted in packs, like wolves.  So the velociraptors may have been more fact than fiction.

Thinking about it, many tyrannosaur species were huge, but they lived alongside even more gigantic herbivores.  So a pack of pack of tyrannosaurs may have been comparable in size to their prey as a pack of wolves attacking a moose.  The prey has to be small enough for the predator(s) to bring down, but big enough to feed all of them.  A pack can reliably bring down bigger prey than a solitary predator.

Also I'm totally up for writing this if anyone wants to ask for it during a relevant prompt call. :D

Based on an audience poll, this is the free epic from the April 6, 2021 Poetry Fishbowl making its $200 goal. It was spillover from the March 6, 2021 Poetry Fishbowl. It was inspired by a prompt from fuzzyred. It also fills the "Let's Misbehave" square in my 2-1-21 "Romance Book Titles" card for the Valentine's Bingo fest.

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This poem came out of the 100th crowdfunding Creative Jam in April 2021. It was inspired and sponsored by nsfwords. It also fills the "Soulbond AU" square in my 4-4-21 "Genderplay AU" card for the Genderplay Bingo fest. This poem belongs to the series Eloquent Souls.

Warning: This poem contains intense and controversial topics. Highlight to read the warnings, some of which are spoilers. It includes transgender issues, relationship problems, soulmarks fading as people become less compatible, transition-driven breakup, struggling to learn a new skill, meeting a new soulmate under unusual circumstances, 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 came out of the 100th crowdfunding Creative Jam in April 2021. It was inspired and sponsored by nsfwords. It also fills the "Children / birth" square in my 4-4-21 "Aspects" card for the Genderplay Bingo fest.

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The free epic poll is now live on Dreamwidth.

This was the perk poem for the April 6, 2021 Poetry Fishbowl, originally hosted by dialecticdreamer. It fills the "Acacia (blossom) - Chaste Love" square in my 2-1-21 "The Language of Flowers" card for the Valentines Bingo fest.

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Today started out partly cloudy, then drizzled briefly.

I fed the birds.  I've seen house finches and doves today.

I planted grass seed in a bare patch by the prairie garden.  Doug got the ritual meadow, prairie garden paths, along the south edge of the driveway, and yard by the house mowed before it rained. 

The spruce cones are fascinating.  It turns out that the yellowish ones are male (producing clouds of golden pollen) and the bright pink ones are female (catching pollen), soft and fleshy now, also quite sticky with resin.  :D  Tree pr0n!

Yellow bellflower and white trillium are blooming.

EDIT 4/18/21 -- I pulled some weeds in the yard by the house.

EDIT 4/18/21 -- I started picking up sticks in the south lot.  I didn't get very far, past the contorta willow but not to the purple-and-white garden.