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A Boy And His Cat In A Cone Plastic Hat – (poem re-visit with audio read)
Ok, so a re-post in the Attic here for a dVerse Poets open link night, where you can contribute/link any poem of yours that you would like or you can choose to write something new to whatever that week’s open link prompt may be. Now, I’ve never written anything new in response to that night’s… Continue reading
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Can We Whistle? (solidarity) – (poem)
From Grace at dVerse Poets this week she prompted of poems of questions. “Today, we shift the focus from poetry form to craft style. Specifically: poems built around questions that remain unanswered.” So, one here then with just one overriding question. ////////////////////////////////////////// Can We Whistle? (solidarity) Can we all whistle while they work at whistling… Continue reading
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The 3:05a to Somewhen (prosery)
A “prosery” prompt at dVerse Poets from Mish. The Prosery is to write a short, 144 word piece of prose (not including the title) while including a line of poetry. The line here? “Lips forget what they have kissed” from Toni Morrison and “Eve Remembering”. ////////////////////////////////////////// The 3:05a to Somewhen “Are you sure you want… Continue reading
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The Flower (poem)
A new Quadrille prompt at dVerse Poets from De (WhimsyGizmo) earlier this week. The 44 word poem to include some use of one word from the prompt, in this case, “Flower”. ////////////////////////////////////////// The Flower The flower did not ask be miracle or mourner epiphany or eulogy congratulator or apologist be poem, painting, song just… Continue reading
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The Snow Was 17 Feet (poem)
For a prompt of “Snow” from Kim at dVerse Poets and a now new poem version of a little remembrance I wrote a number of years ago of when I was a kid, after a big snow, and got my first scars, and a piece that I just recently re-posted. ////////////////////////////////////////// The Snow Was 17… Continue reading
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Pre Order Your Today (poem)
On an out front sign at a garden center that I pass in my daily travels, missing an “s” as well as any item(s) in particular for this pre-order. ////////////////////////////////////////// Pre-Order Your Today A garden center sign proclaimed “Pre-Order Your Today” a missing ‘s’ offering something totally new on my way yesterday to a regular… Continue reading
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2026 is here and a post revisit – The Snow Was 17 Feet
Well, we’re all good for another holiday season, we’ve celebrated surviving 2025 (definitely considered “survival” of a year that will not be remembered well in the annals of history, actual history – hopefully we’ve been charitable and compassionate and thoughtful and truthful and dare I say, human, to counteract that … so far) we’ve added… Continue reading
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(extinction of useless lights) … Night Approaches Then (poem)
Just before Christmas there was one last Open Link Night for 2025 at dVerse Poets and it was hosted by Grace. At open link night you can link any poem you would like or you can respond to a mini prompt offered. The mini prompt for this night was for the image below, “Extinction of… Continue reading
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I Opened My Mouth And The Devil’s Voice Fell Out (There’s Somethin’ Goin’ Around)
Note/Warning: Overwriting fun So on a recent Monday I got up with a reluctant sigh, a more reluctant sigh than the usual as I hadn’t slept all that well all weekend, more not “all that well” than said usual, whispered (grunted) my normals to Cricket and Bella and stood up (yay, I did it again,… Continue reading
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Words of the Year (poem)
A bit of a stream to some of the latest words of the year … Mirriam Webster – Slop Oxford – Rage bait Dictionary dot com – 6-7 ////////////////////////////////////////// Words of the Year The words of the year explain themselves clear according to dictionaries that steer you in direction backwards to remind forward of the… Continue reading
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