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Tableaus and Nightstands
Something for a latest dverse poets prompt. ////////////////////////////////////////// I was all a reach with tableau which sounds like table but wasn’t as it don’t hold no lamps or knicks instead real tried light and knacks to table tableau’s nightstand sleep wishes to reach when night comes hard unforgiving dreams of cold monsters that scream for… Continue reading
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The Scrapbook And The Man In The Black Fedora (flash fiction)
So another prompt at dVerse Poets … It’s Monday and, at the dVerse Poets Pub, we are writing Prosery, the very short piece of prose or flash fiction that tells a story with a beginning, middle and end. It can be in any genre of your choice, but it does have a limit of 144… Continue reading
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The Miscellaneous Jar – (poem)
So De Jackson, aka WhimsyGizmo, brought the latest “Quadrille” idea to us at dVerse Poets, that dVerse invention 44 word poem that asks just that you include a particular word. This time around from De? That word was “Jar”. . The Miscellaneous Jar I tapped the lid with a butter knife in evenly spaced indents… Continue reading
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“Hi, I’m Joe Frankenberry From New York” (a post/poem revisit)
A new prompt at dVerse Poets comes from Punam of paeansunpluggedblog and concerns grief and writing of it, if you are able to do so and share such. It made me think of a post I wrote back in June of 2020, during the pandemic, a post about heroes and about my Father, something I… Continue reading
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At The Edge Of The Surf (and dreaming) – (poem)
So the latest prompt at dVerse Poets asked to take into consideration Pablo Neruda’s poem “The Wide Ocean” and the line … “Ocean, if you were to give, a measure, a ferment, a fruit of your gifts and destructions …” . At The Edge Of The Surf (and dreaming) I sat at the edge of… Continue reading
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Reason? (flash fiction)
From a dVerse Prosery flash fiction prompt that asked to use the line “every day unfurls as it must” but top out at 144 words ////////////////////////////////////////// Reason? The student asked the teacher why everything was so cryptic, so much the riddle, why couldn’t he be more straightforward, forthcoming? The teacher said nothing They sat … Continue reading
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Are All Accounted For In the Moon? (into dream) – (poem)
So returning to the art of Catrin Welz-Stein in a latest prompt at dVerse Poets, four paintings to choose from and then write away as you will on one or more. Are All Accounted For In the Moon? (to dream) The Captain called us all aboard at eyes shut wide Déjà vu? aboard captain, again… Continue reading
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Headstone (flash fiction)
Another prosery challenge at dVerse Poets. Their prosery? A very short piece of poetry or flash fiction that tells a story with a beginning, a middle, and an end. It can be any genre you choose, but it does have a limit of 144 words. Somewhere within your story, you must include given lines without… Continue reading
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Trains Pass (poem)
When seeing this prompt from Bjorn at dVerse Poets “Today I want you to use Onomatopoeia in your poem, to strengthen the imagery through its sound” I thought back to a poem I had written a number of years ago (2016) that had use of such, though briefly, and that I included as part of… Continue reading
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A Village Of Box (poem – cento)
So Tuesday’s dVerse Poets prompt, “April Poems Bring May Centos”, was of two possibilities. Choose any line from any poem from those provided and write a poem including the line or inspired by it or, you could instead, try your hand at a “cento” (a poetic work wholly composed of verses or passages taken from… Continue reading
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