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I’m Ready (part one & two – poems)
Dora of Dreams from a Pilgrimage has a new prompt this week at dVerse Poets to write a dialogue poem so I thought to a second part of something recent, the first part of which I included. I’m Ready (part one) I steal steely crazed glances between the blinds through goggle glasses with cool blinder… Continue reading
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The Cul-De-Sac (fiction)
This started as a haibun response to a prompt from Merril at dVerse poets this week and began with a remembrance of a time once spent on a Spring break from college to visit a Joanie and where we were, indeed, laid out hand in hand on a blanket in a darkening cul-de-sac whispering the… Continue reading
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I Was A Mountain Once (poem)
A dVerse Poets prompt, this one from Mish, to personifying the abstract . I Was A Mountain Once I was a mountain once that held pathed treks to enlightenment I was (a) small mound (s) wearying those trek steps footed steep heavy minded way . I was a sky’s wind once that carried gale words… Continue reading
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Rings (poem)
A new Quadrille prompt this week (44 word poem not including the title) from Kim at dVerse Poets. The word to include this time around? “Engrave”. Rings They were inside A set Of rings Initials Engraved Ribboned to a pillow In a church held by ponytails with cherub cheeks and cautious feet In front of… Continue reading
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Last Pot Luck (144 word story)
Bjorn at dVerse Poets has a prose challenge this week to write prose of 144 words including the line ‘There’s a lullaby for suffering‘ from Leonard Cohen’s tune “You Want It Darker”. Last Pot Luck Maggie brought a faux beef stew, she had an extra provision card she’d nicked, Selina brought chicken though she was… Continue reading
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Bloody Paradise & Death Becomes Us (call and response – poems)
Have this friend that I met through dVerse Poets, Paul (and a thank you to dVerse for such) an absolutely wondrous writer/poet whose work just astounds me and he recently wrote this at his site, Parallax Bloody Paradise – a poem by Paul Vincent Cannon Note: I wrote this in response to GP at Pacific Paratrooper following… Continue reading
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Elements (poem)
I couldn’t as Master tasked decide on earth or fire, water or air which was I his ask for our studies surely test of his best pupil I thought he said once . I said … . Earth is of dirt where life begins in leaves to breathe, breads to eat where to build upon… Continue reading
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The Crow & The Winter Witch (poem)
So at dVerse Poets this week Kim had an eye check-up for a new prescription and part of the check-up was to read from laminated test cards of different size fonts in sentences and below each of the sentences were sets of four words. She thought these sets of four words would make a cool… Continue reading
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To Cliche Or Not To Cliche, That Is … The Cliche? (poem)
So there was a prompt from Bjorn at dVerse Poets earlier this week and it was this, Meet the bar positively through negation (though I did miss the window of submission to this one … I am often late to the party on a lot of these but still a prompt). Now, I’m sure, I… Continue reading
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Maybe This Christmas (poem)
A prompt from Dora at dVerse Poets to write a poem, with a holiday tint, using “Despite” and “Still” and so many well worked and wondrous examples of Dora’s inspiration and intent. ////////////////////////////////////////// Maybe this Christmas Maybe this Christmas will find what was left behind (in one small sock lost back under tree in a… Continue reading
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