Author Archive: Wendie Donabie
How I Became an Art Gallery Owner
For the past couple of years, I’ve been writing art-related articles for an online summer-focused magazine. Here’s a link to the latest issue to introduce you to MuskokaStyle, a magazine bringing the best of life and leisure in one of Ontario’s premier vacation areas – Muskoka! You can read my essay on how I started …
NaPoWriMo 2022 Day #10
A place as seen by a woman in love Fluid as mercury, yet hard as steel Powerful as the birth of a new star deep in the heavens Thunderous as a herd of stampeding horses. Dazzling as it played dodge ball with rays of sun. Mesmerizing, drawing her into its welcoming embrace. Pure as liquid …
NaPoWriMo2022 Day#6
Today’s challenge: write a poem that reproduces a phrase with the first words of each line. Perhaps you could write a poem in which the first words of each line, read together, reproduce a treasured line of poetry? You could even try using a newspaper headline or something from a magazine article. I chose, Once …
NaPoWriMo 2022 Day #9
Today’s challenge was to write a Nonet. A nonet is a nine-line poem. In the nonet form, each line contains specific, descending syllable counts. The first line contains nine syllables, the second line contains eight, the third line contains seven, and so on. Day #9 Nonet Sleep-filled eyes gaze at the blazing sun flashing hot hues ‘tween …
NaPoWrMo 2022 – Day #3
A Glosa to Robert Frost’s STOPPING BY WOODS ON A SNOWY EVENING A Glosa or Glose is literally a poem that glosses, or explains, or in some way responds to another poem. The idea is to take a quatrain from a poem that you like, and then write a four-stanza poem that explains or responds …
NaPoWrMo 2022 – Day #2
In Pursuit of Weird Words I spent far too long searching for words, ones weird or slightly off. Wabbit I was by the end of it all I’d even developed a cough The words acted as a sternutator my sneezes heard near and far. I cannot go on This must come to an end This …
THE CONTENTMENT OF TREES
NaPoWrMo2022 Day #1 Inspired by this quote by John Muir: “I never saw a discontented tree. They grip the ground as though they liked it, and though fast rooted they travel about as far as we do. They go wandering forth in all directions with every wind, going and coming like ourselves, traveling with us …
ART AUCTION IN SUPPORT OF UKRAINE
People of the Sunflower (Acrylic on Canvas, 16 x 20 inches, unframed) Recently, my friend and fellow artist, Janice Feist, created a powerful painting imaging the vicious attack on Ukraine and auctioned it to raise money to support the Ukrainian people. Inspired by her, my painting, People of the Sunflower, depicts fields of sunflowers in …
An Attitude of Gratitude
2021 – Wake Up Call It’s been a year.Just that . . . a year.When I’m asked how I’m doing,I’ve replied, ‘okay’. But why? Why just okay?What have I to complain about?I’ve stayed healthy, and all my basic needs met.No disasters have befallen me personally. Yes, a pandemic shut down the worldrestricted our activities and …
Blue Heron Writes 
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