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A Letter For The King (poem)
New Quadrille prompt at dVerse Poets this week comes from De Jackson/WhimsyGizmo and is of “Mything Poems” and for us to get to our 44 worders including some use of the word “MYTH” … ////////////////////////////////////////// A Letter for the King We wish to hasten a reign’s dying revealed it be of new old clothes wrapping,… Continue reading
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(belated) Memorial Day Weekend: Brothers, Buc-Ees and Car Trouble
We saw the first billboard about 130 miles out. Buc-Ee’s is coming, Buc-Ee’s is coming or something like that with maybe some exclamation points (I don’t remember) and a logo of a Beaver. I said to nephew Matt “Hey, isn’t that the place you were telling me of, the one you and Nick stopped at… Continue reading
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The Cat and Percy the Rat that Fell from the Flat … Earth (song)
(so do you have 3 and a half minutes? sure ya do) A week or so ago my pal Rick, a bestest of mine going on 40 years now, back to our WVU days, posted this to the Facebook: FB JUST INVITED ME TO JOIN NOT MY 1ST OR 2ND BUT 4TH FLAT EARTH… Continue reading
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But … There’s Still The Weather (poem)
At dVerse Poets Li brings us a new Quadrille prompt, the dVerse specialty, a 44 word poem (not including the title) with one word to be included. This time around the word is “Horn”. ///////////////////////////////////////// But … There’s Still the Weather Weather settled the kitchen table with cracked flowers water stained mail, returned and a… Continue reading
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The Girl At The Fair (poem)
Melissa prompted us this week with some Marc Chagall paintings at dVerse Poets, offering that we write a poem for one of the four choices she included. I went with La promenade (The Promenade) – 1918. The Girl At The Fair She arrived in a whirl and twirl of her own breeze made of silken… Continue reading
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A Very Fine Funny Fluffy Movie Friday With The Gang (a sort of movie review)
I leaned across my two nephews while the lights slowly came up and I said to my sis on the other side of them, “Hey Beck, how is it that this place is so dusty?” as I wiped the corner of my eye. Or maybe it was corners suddenly being in a round eye poking… Continue reading
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Digging to China (poem)
A Quadrille prompt this week at dVerse Poets, “Let’s get digging”, comes from Punam who asks that we use the word “dig” or some form of it or the D – I – G in other words (like digital for example) in the Quadrille, which is a 44 word dVerse Poets poem, not including the… Continue reading
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Cricket and the Bird Window (Zuihitsu poem)
A new prompt at dVerse Poets is of a poetry called Zuihitsu. The Prompt is here and explains with a number of fantastic examples. Now whether I’m on the right track with the style of this I’m not really sure, I could be completely off base, but it seems to me that this one does… Continue reading
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A Letter to Mom From the Floor (poem)
In a prompt at dVerse Poets this past Thursday Laura invited us to think of letters in a poem. ////////////////////////////////////////// Letter To Mom From the Floor They flew at your insistence in a uniformed stewardess’s winged pocket I thought my letters to the far off land of your other family with scrunch faced glue tongued… Continue reading
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Clouds (poem)
The theme for this prompt at dVerse Poets is from Grace and is of False Spring and here in Northern New York in the Capital Region we’ve been experiencing a Mother Nature who just can’t seem to make up her mind about which way to go with this whole change of season thing as temps… Continue reading
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