Status: ~~Happy Writing to all~~~ (4 months ago)
| Name | Lisa Mitchell Parker |
| Location | not specified |
| Member Since | Jan 07, 2012 |
| Votes Received | 57 |
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I am a mom to three kids (one of whom directed me to Wattpad and is writing here already), four cats, and one Jack Russell Terrier who thinks she's a cat. I'm married to a great thinker and writer, Scott, who rarely shares his work but will always share his thoughts. I have a BA in Creative Writing so I do love to write (poetry, fiction, blog/articles--depending on what's best for the material) but I also enjoy editing for friends, reading, painting (oil), and singing ( music in general). I published writing in college often and enjoyed sharing work and gaining feedback while on MySpace long ago, but no longer use that forum. Feedback is always welcome! Since four of these already uploaded poems will be submitted as a whole 10 piece work to the 2012 Atty Awards, I may need to remove them soon--- looking into that. But I've labeled them for now so friends can see what I'm submitting. I'm also working on 6 more forms to complete the task. Those won't be uploaded, until they are a whole document with 10 poems total (including the 4 you see here). Stay tuned! Oh! And another version of Caged has been accepted for publication in a book! Look for Uno Kudo, Volume 2: Naked to be out on shelves and virtual shelving mid November 2012! Entered Silence into (the 1st Annual) 2012 Atty Awards in the Enthusiast Category. (Next year--Competitor category--10 poems from 10 separate poetic styles.) Check it out! My 10 (soon to be 11) year old son, Noah, and I are co-authoring the book Different during National Novel Writing Month this November. It is about our journey as a family, but his in particular, as we learned about and decided upon ways to look at Noah's Asperger's Syndrome. We see it as a Superpower, not a disability, and that has made an enormous difference. He owns this.
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 | Too Much 1 page, updated Nov 14, 2012   14 reads  1  1 |
 | Different 38 pages, updated Nov 01, 2012 396 reads 10 12 |
 | (Form: Dinggedicht) Wooden Spatula 1 page, updated Oct 30, 2012 67 reads 1 1 |
 | (Form: Poetic Closure) My Very Own Ghost Cat 1 page, updated Sep 20, 2012 Dedicated to Bogart Alexander, my newly acquired Ghost Cat. 98 reads 4 3 |
 | (Form: Terzanelle) Life's Sailing Lesson 1 page, updated Aug 25, 2012 A Terzanelle-- modified form of a villanelle, using interlocking rhyme pattern, iambic pentameter, five triplets and a quatrain. There is a specific form of line repetition to follow. It's a bit like figuring out a puzzle while writing it. 77 reads 3 7 |
 | (Form: Free Verse) Silence 1 page, updated Jul 15, 2012 Real events of childhood are sometimes funny, disgusting, alarming, and insightful all at once. Enjoy! 88 reads 1 4 |
 | Laughing Waters 1 page, updated Feb 06, 2012 Very early draft... edit, comment, suggest, please. Emotional piece for me dealing with my cousin's sudden diagnosis. Thinking of our laughter together all of our lives, and how I need it to continue. Free verse---no set form....on purpose. 236 reads 4 6 |
 | *Caged* 1 page, updated Jan 13, 2012 First draft of a free verse styled poem echoing the staccato style of seizures I endure too often. I have another draft that I like much better, and is finer crafted through more re... read more 1,148 reads 23 38 |
 | Envelopes of Leaves 1 page, updated Jan 10, 2012 This is a prose poem so be prepared for that type of expression. The idea is to condense as much as possible into a small space, but in a style similar to prose yet po... read more 654 reads 10 23 |
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LisaMitchellPar...
6 months ago
http://tinyurl.com/bm6eb58 Link to the Amazon purchasing page for anyone interested in such an interesting collection!
LisaMitchellPar...
6 months ago
My poem, a complete and hefty revision of Caged, which first appeared here on WattPad to such great support (and thousands of readers worldwide), was published today in the collaborative book of art, poetry and short fiction, called "Uno Kudo, Volume 2: Naked". It is available for purchase (all proceeds going to PEN International) on Amazon for a discounted price today. It's a lush collection of art, poetry and fiction that will grace any library. Although the theme was naked, few chose to write about actual nudity. Most was about nakedness of the soul or humanity and the artwork expresses each piece tremendously!
LisaMitchellPar...
7 months ago
Entered the Enthusiast category for the 2012 Atty Awards--- Look for Silence there! Although I wanted to enter the Competitor category, I didn't have time to complete 10 poems (to my standards) from 10 separate poetic forms. Next year! Still, the Atty process has been great, and I'm entered from some spectacular random drawings!
LisaMitchellPar...
8 months ago
Busily finishing entries for the Atty Awards. Then I'll combine the ones that I marked above (if they make the cut--some will for sure). I'm writing 12, but need 10 poems of different poetic forms. So no new entries on the page for awhile but later a 10 poem set labeled as Atty Awards will be entered. Wheee!!! A poetic decathlon!
LisaMitchellPar...
9 months ago
http://www.gryphonsmith.com/fileg/verse/Terzanelle.html Curious about the Terzanelle format? I was. It's a great brain game. But have your aspirin handy! The above link was the best that I found to describe and teach it. And, it contains a gorgeous example at the end.
jpenaloza
10 months ago
Lisa, I don't know too much about poetry forms. Have to confess my ignorance. Joseph
LisaMitchellPar...
1 year ago
Thank you, sweetie. That's really kind of you. I think these tests will be showing the doctors how to better take care of my brain, which is GREAT.
xcrysofthewolfx
1 year ago
I read you statues, I'm praying for you. I hope that you will be okay =]
LisaMitchellPar...
1 year ago
Ha. Just odd... because it's not even my best work posted on this site. And the subject matter is one that most people avoid heavily and don't want to talk about. Maybe a bunch of seizure prone writers have been reading....... It's my only explanation.
IronicInkwell
1 year ago
WOW. 1001 reads???????? I feel underaccomplished. GOOD WORK.
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Updated some of the first half of the book (unedited), minus several sections which Noah will be adding as he completes them which are from his...Different
Noah and I crossed the 50,000+ word mark inside of 30 days of the NaNoWriMo challenge! Noah still has some sections marked to write, which he...
Different
Thanks, Jenny. My rewrite follows the general idea and keeps the last two sections especially, as they sort of drive home the point. The rewrite...
*Caged*
Sent this one in to a Short Story publishing opportunity. Looked through it, and realized that it has all the elements of a short story, but it's...
Envelopes of Leaves
Thanks Jen! :-) It was a tricky thing to try. But I recommend trying one. It's a brain word puzzle because you have to keep track of beats,...
(Form: Terzanelle) Life's S...
