Tag Archives: poetry

Iquitos

Posted on 24th October 2026 by NomadWarMachine

Iquitos flickr photo by NomadWarMachine shared under a Creative Commons (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0) license Today’s TDC says: Research how a specific location has changed over time using historical photos online. One such tool is Google’s Timelapse Google Earth Engine. Write … Continue reading →

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Haikomic

Posted on 23rd October 2026 by NomadWarMachine

Haikomic flickr photo by NomadWarMachine shared under a Creative Commons (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0) license Today’s TDC says Comic creator Grant Snider has long used comics for expression and he periodically goes through periods where he turns his poetry into comics. … Continue reading →

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Observational Haiku

Posted on 18th October 2026 by NomadWarMachine

291/365 Frost flickr photo by NomadWarMachine shared under a Creative Commons (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0) license Today’s TDC says Take a moment to observe nature and write a haiku inspired by your experience. Here’s mine Frost on the garden Like icing … Continue reading →

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Anarchist calisthenics

Posted on 9th October 2026 by NomadWarMachine

Today’s TDC says A suggestion linked by Austin Kleon in his newsletter “Every day or so break some trivial law that makes no sense, even if it’s only jaywalking. Use your own head to judge whether a law is just … Continue reading →

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A random word poem

Posted on 29th September 2026 by NomadWarMachine

Autumn Morning flickr photo by NomadWarMachine shared under a Creative Commons (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0) license Today’s TDC says: Use this random word generator and write a haiku (5, 7, 5 syllables) about the first word you generate! The word I got was … Continue reading →

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Sestetle

Posted on 16th August 2026 by NomadWarMachine

During the month of August I will be participating in Blaugust, a month long blogging challenge. Sestetle flickr photo by NomadWarMachine shared under a Creative Commons (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0) license Today’s TDC is a familiar one, though not a remix. The … Continue reading →

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Silly Solage

Posted on 4th August 2026 by NomadWarMachine

During the month of August I will be participating in Blaugust, a month long blogging challenge. Today’s TDC asks us to Make a silly solage A silly solage is a happy poem of three lines, two of them as long as … Continue reading →

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How do I complete thee (the TDC)?

Posted on 30th July 2026 by NomadWarMachine

A great TDC today – to write or change a poem so it contains instructions about how to do it. I don’t think I quite did that, but I had a lot of fun changing the words to Elizabeth Barrett … Continue reading →

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Cinquain

Posted on 23rd July 2026 by NomadWarMachine

A cinquain is a five-line poem. Line one has one word and is the title. Line two describes the title in two words. Line three uses three words to express action. Line four uses four words to express a feeling. … Continue reading →

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Sock in a loch

Posted on 9th May 2026 by NomadWarMachine

For today’s TDC There once was a little striped sock Who went for a swim in a loch It swam and it swam To the edge of the dam That brave little sock in a loch Oona socks flickr photo … Continue reading →

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