http://slow.writerscafe.org/edleonard The original writings of author papaed en-us Copyright 2026 WritersCafe.org 1775982383 WritersCafe.org RSS Generator 15 Response to a challenge to use ten words http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/edleonard/1495475/ A sad Observation about many youth http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/edleonard/1397454/ A meditative discipline I habitually invoke when beginning a drive or during it when traffic is tight or I feel the macrocosm is in distress and affecting other's driving emotionally. http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/edleonard/1213119/ Two precious moments with my granddaughter http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/edleonard/1212949/ Contest entry for Tovli's ten. On the brevity of our lives. http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/edleonard/1043128/ Rumination on man's place on this planet http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/edleonard/1019685/ writing in a tight format. Looking at a Gibbous Fall moon over an old cemetery. http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/edleonard/968761/ Beginning of a much longer story I'm considering. http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/edleonard/968759/ Written to my son after breaking 27 bones in a vehicle accident 5 months ago. He just started walking again. http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/edleonard/968753/ With apologies to Dylan Thomas, I wrote this to my mother one week before she passed. http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/edleonard/949985/ ruminations on genetic drive to form relationships on line and in person. http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/edleonard/949983/ Answer to a challenge to use a specific line from a William Wordsworth poem. http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/edleonard/635193/ Response to phrase challenge http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/edleonard/619641/ Internal dialogue is often best expressed. http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/edleonard/556254/ two answers to an AmeriKu challenge http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/edleonard/503493/ A Tovli's 10 Challenge prose poem http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/edleonard/500869/ 8 lines about the Distance between us http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/edleonard/488702/ reminiscent story http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/edleonard/488375/ ten specific words within forty for a challenge http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/edleonard/487076/ a denial of destiny's power http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/edleonard/487072/ an attempt to use fall imagery and gratitude as a metaphor http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/edleonard/483071/ Nature in its glory http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/edleonard/481461/ a lonely Thanksgiving story http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/edleonard/481459/ Peace and Love must start within ourselves, then move out to the world to be properly motivated. http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/edleonard/464243/ 250 word bio with given beginning and end http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/edleonard/459385/ waving through a double etheree http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/edleonard/456189/ double etheree investigation of a chosen path http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/edleonard/455834/ a form and subject exercise http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/edleonard/455126/ answer to a challenge to use a specific dozen words. http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/edleonard/450801/ a self explanatory rant. http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/edleonard/447745/ A 55 word story challenge response. http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/edleonard/447373/ A Tovli ten word challenge http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/edleonard/447320/ Using one dozen words for Tovli http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/edleonard/447309/ answer to a 12 word challenge http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/edleonard/446900/ answer to a challenge to write a fifty five word story http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/edleonard/446699/ An acrostic using "I am a man in love with the setting stars," a line from Robert Bly's "The Night Abraham Called to the Stars." http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/edleonard/443567/ Answer to an Albert's Poetry Cafe Challenge http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/edleonard/443169/ Story of a Painful First Marriage. http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/edleonard/435459/ Answer to a challenge to write an acrostic short story. http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/edleonard/434404/ behold the mysterious goldfish http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/edleonard/431682/ truth not often shared, but needing telling. It was 1970. http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/edleonard/431653/ an essay resulting from pages of notes on this subject http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/edleonard/431441/ Answer to a challenge to create a 'Kimo' form. http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/edleonard/428727/ Challenge Cameo Form http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/edleonard/427286/ Two versions of an Alfred Dorn Sonnet... A linked sestet, a rhyming couplet, and an alternating sestet. First in ABCABC DD AEAEAE rhyming format and the second in ABABAB CC ADADAD rhyming format http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/edleonard/427205/ A common confusion http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/edleonard/426602/ the essence of beauty - a picture interpretation challenge response http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/edleonard/421408/ ruminations on an aging relationship. http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/edleonard/421261/ Answer to a Paradise Challenge to show the yin/yang of my closest relationship. http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/edleonard/421254/ Answer to a short story challenge... 200 words with a starting phrase. http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/edleonard/420078/