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WELCOME TO: GEMINI RISING   UPDATED INTRO 28 MAY 2024: Just a little about me. I've been married for 32 years this past NOV and currently live in Southern California, but I grew up in New Hampshire. I've got 2 boys who are young adults. I work as a 911 dispatcher for LAPD. I enjoy my job a lot. Still. If you can believe that. I love to write. Thankfully both of my boys achieved Eagle Scout. My Scouting days are over and I'm back to focusing on my writing. I like to get out in nature, drink coffee and watch football. Here's a little bio about my zodiac. GEMINI: Gemini, the sign of the Twins, is dual-natured, elusive, complex and contradictory. On the one hand it produces the virtue of versatility, and on the other the vices of two-facedness and flightiness. The sign is linked with Mercury, the planet of childhood and youth, and its subjects tend to have the graces and faults of the young. When they are good, they are very attractive; when they are bad they are more the worse for being the charmers they are. Like children they are lively, and happy, if circumstances are right for them, or egocentric, imaginative and restless. Their good qualities are attractive and come easily to them. They are affectionate, courteous, kind, generous, and thoughtful towards the poor and suffering - provided none of the activities resulting from expressing these traits interferes too greatly with their own lives and comforts. Geminians can be successful in many walks of life though their general characteristics tend to make them unreliable. They are often skilled manipulators of language, in speech and writing, and may be: debaters, diplomats (though in politics they are more interested in theory than practice), orators, preachers (brilliant rather than profound), teachers, authors, poets, journalists, or lawyers. This is me. I am a Gemini. Pure, Raw, passionate. The NEW focus of this blog is to share my adventures, travels, random thoughts, book reviews, thoughts, opinions, and writing adventures from actual writing, writing/editing tips, marketing, research. I'll get there. BLOG ACCOMPLISHMENTS: SEPTEMBER 2024: I participated in the
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Congratulations on completing the 13 Poetic Days of Halloween.](https://images.Writing.Com/imgs/writing.com/writers/badges/group-Halloween-2026567.gif) Big Thanks to Lyn's a Witchy Woman  for hosting the contest!Find me at: WEBSITE: http://www.stephanieburkhart.com FACEBOOK: https://www.facebook.com/StephanieBurkhartAuthor GOOD READS: http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/4031660.Stephanie_Burkhart YOU TUBE CHANNEL: http://www.youtube.com/user/botrina?feature=mhee Previous GRATITIOUS Warning, that I decided to keep in case I post about something that might offend.  WARNING I intend to be open, honest, and forthright. No topic is off limits from religion to you name it, I'm going there. If you think you might be offended...back up now - this blog isn't for you. For those who "dare"  check out the "Gemini Rising..." 
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October was Lilli 🧿 ☕  WDC Anniversary month and since I love to give anniversary reviews, I started with her port, and honestly, I didn't want to leave it. What an amazing port she has!! There's so much to do, find, and read. Lilli is truly prolific!Lilli also hosts the Quill awards. As I was checking out her port and dropping reviews, I found her quill items. Honestly, I don't get many Quill awards during the year. Currently, my story
I'd like to ask you to check out some of items and see if they are worthy of Quill nominations. If so, it is very much appreciated. Here is where you can go to nominate items:
For your consideration: Flash Fiction:
Short Story, Medium Length:
Med length, structured poem
Med Length, free verse:
Best Contest:
Best Activity: For it's monthly/semi-monthly challenge
Best Group:
Best of the rest:
Again, I really appreciate you guys checking out the above items and considering them for a Quill Award! Smiles Steph |
| Goooood afternoon all -- here is Day 13 - Halloween Free Verse
Halloween Nineteen Sixty Three Classic – original A boy with secrets A boy haunted by abuse Death is macabre Death is chilling When it’s by knife Death is murder And murder is jail Escape is daunting Escape is another killing Of Another sister Doctor and patient Who hunts the haunted? What can stop the mystical? What can stop determined evil? Gun? Fear? Knife? Screams? Death destroys the evil that is Myers Or does it? ** Daily happenings and musings will be in a separate post. |
Goood afternoon all -- Here is my Day 12 entry: Ode to Chucky
An Ode is a poem praising and glorifying a person, place or thing. Voodoo, Voodoo all around Foul runs aground Murder, murder in the streets Resurrection in the sheets Chucky A doll with murderous intent Given life by a voodoo murderer Owned by a boy with no lament Chucky is no nurturer He torments, he teases, Poor Andy has no believers. In a home without his mother, The doll is still a cutter. Chucky despises the living And yet he wants to live He has no accomplishments Only death and destruction A doll above no others * Daily happenings and musing will be in a separate post. |
Gooood afternoon all -- Here is my Day 10 Entry - Rondeau
A Rondeau is a French form, 15 lines long, consisting of three stanzas: a quintet, a quatrain, and a sestet with a rhyme scheme as follows: aabba aabR aabbaR. Lines 9 and 15 are short - a refrain (R) consisting of a phrase taken from line one. The other lines are longer (but all of the same metrical length). Pennywise It hides in the dark Looking for a mark Disguised as your greatest fear It can hear your heartbeat near Hold open your palm, feel the spark Sludge and stench provides a home Vacant small streets it roams Autumn leaves thick in the park It hides in the dark It changes its face To four losers, a game, a race Losers hunt silver Hoping to find It, the killer There is no fairytale arc It hides in the dark *Author's Note: Daily happenings and musings will be in a separate post. |
Gooood afternoon all!! - Here is my Day 9 entry for Acrostic poetry.
WITCH HAZEL Wordly Imhotep Tomb Carnahan Hunter Horus Ankh Zealot Egyptologist Lizards I some inspiration from the 1999 movie, "The Mummy" Authors note: Daily happenings and musings will be in a separate note. |
Goooood evening all !Here is my Day 9 entry - Quatrain
Norman Bates Nothing like the power of the mind, In the dark, makes one blind. Attractive man all alone Inside the mind a cyclone. Abuse undercover of the night, Secures a man’s plight. The first kill is forever The mind will never surrender. Tortured, terrible, mind racing His spirit in denial, his body shaking Sweat on the brow Evil in control now Killed his mother, killed his friend There is nothing to mend He’s a psycho A finely constructed killing maestro **Author's note: daily happenings and musings will be in a separate post. |
Gooooood afternoon all! Here is my Day 8 entry - Epitaph
An epitaph is a brief poem inscribed on a tombstone praising a deceased person, usually with rhyming lines. Maleficent Here lies the protector of the Moors Scorned, the land turned a dark door Bitter, she sought revenge Hoping to avenge Love’s light lost But there is always a cost When evil plays it’s heavy hand Across a beautiful decimated land *Authors note: Daily happenings and musings will be in a separate post. |
Gooood afternoon all - here is my day #7 entry for Sonnets
A Shakespearean (English) sonnet has three quatrains and a couplet, and rhymes abab cdcd efef gg. Ichabod Crane Early the years, a tale of Ichabod Crane In a sleepy town, full of legends old Potions, poultices, witches, ghosts, and hensbane Fortune favors the young and the bold Tall and lanky, keen to share a rumor He charmed a town with gossip, but not all Supernatural tales with vitreous humor The heart of a dear one put up a wall Denied and refused, he left in a fog Danger afoot, headless, dark, ruthless head Ichabod fled, over the wooden log Sneering, and cruel, pumpkin pitch posted dread Ichabod earned a dastardly ill fate Never to possess a beautiful mate **Author's note: Daily happenings and musings will be in a separate post. |
| I wanted to blog today, but my health post about Olive oil isn’t quite ready so I went online and searched blog topics. Needless to say, I was overwhelmed. There’s money topics, fashion topics, blog what you know, blog a day in your life, food topics, sport topics, I’m overwhelmed. Haha. A day in my life isn’t interesting to me but it might be to some people so here goes. First off, I’m on the night watch my day is your night and my night is your day. I usually get home at 7 am and if I’m lucky, I sleep until 2 pm. I told my husband that if I had to go to the night shift that sleep was a priority because if I don’t get enough sleep I turn into a bitch and I don’t want to be that person. Mind you, I don’t sleep until 2 every day. Mondays I wake up at 11 to take boy #2 to college. I’ll get up at 2, organize boy #2 schoolwork, do dishes, do laundry, run errands, get online check the email and then go powernap between 4-8 pm. From 8-9 I do personal hygiene, eat a light “dinner” pack up and drive to work. When I get to work, I prepare the coffee. We have roll call and then report to our assignments. For the last 8 months, I’ve been assisting the Training Coordinator Supervisor so I rarely get an assignment to answer the 911 phones. The assignment is a nice break from the phones, but it’s all about paperwork. I review Instructor dailies that they wrote on their trainees, hunt down signatures, make online folders, organize and file paperwork, make sure instructors and trainees have conferences and take assessments. On my lunch break, I usually power nap because I’m tired. It’s not easy working at night. I get off bet 615 and 630 and go home. If I have down time, which isn’t much, I’m reading or writing on hanging out on WDC. If anyone has any questions about answering 911 or dispatching calls to officers, I’m game to answer them. |
| Gooooood afternoon all -- Here is my Day 6 entry: Casper A Limerick is a rhymed humorous or nonsense poem of five lines which originated in Limerick, Ireland. The Limerick has a set rhyme scheme of : a-a-b-b-a with a syllable structure of: 9-9-6-6-9. for
Casper was a ghost that walked through walls He spooked all, old and young in the halls Some were dainty, some poor All folks lunged for the door After that, Casper smile like dolls I'll be honest, this one was tough. I don't have a knack for limericks. **Author's note: Daily happenings and musings will be in a separate post. |
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