Author Archives: rosecappelli

Poetry Friday: Writing Small and the Power of Punctuation

It’s Poetry Friday! This month I’ve been using prompts from Georgia Heard from her newsletter Heartbeats. You can find out more here. Georgia encourages readers to write small daily. Here’s my tanka from Thursday’s prompt “what the wind carries.” Wind … Continue reading

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Poetry Friday: Bluebird Hatchlings

It’s Poetry Friday! I’ve been excited to welcome back the bluebirds and to watch them form a family. I don’t know if the male is my original friend, Fred, but I like to think he is. Just this week the … Continue reading

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Poetry Friday: A Final Few

It’s Poetry Friday, and already May! If you’ve read some of my recent posts, you know I’ve been writing cheritas using word prompts from Verse of Ages for my April Poetry Project. It’s been fun seeing where those prompts take … Continue reading

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Poetry Friday: More Cheritas

It’s Poetry Friday and today I’m sharing a couple of the cheritas I’ve been writing during April. Last week I was taking care of my grandkids, but I did manage to write each evening before the exhaustion of the day … Continue reading

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Progressive Poem: Day 22

I’m honored to have another turn at the 2025 Kidlit Progressive Poem, and happy to help out Patricia who is in the midst of a family crisis. Last week I was busy caring for my grandchildren and missed seeing a … Continue reading

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