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Marge & Henry Geese (flash fiction)
A Prosery challenge at dVerse poets. “… a very short piece of prose or flash fiction that tells a story … It can be in any genre of your choice, but it does have a limit of 144 words; an additional challenge is to hit 144 exactly. The special thing about Prosery is that we… Continue reading
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I Bella (me & steve) – (poem)
Yesterday at dVerse Poets Melissa presented us some artworks of Louis Wain and his famous cats as well as some of his story. So from Melissa was this, “the assignment”, choose one of the artworks of Wain’s that she included in her post (dVerse link above) and write a poem of it. The only stipulation… Continue reading
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Talk To The Wind (poem)
From dVerse and Sanaa inviting to write a poem in a Maggie Smith conversational style Talk to the Wind I talk to the wind that listens in selfish wispy drafts only to float away with other interests I watch it disappear away from my page personified remnants then in their seasons passed Cold clear… Continue reading
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Wall (poem)
In response to … Sammi Cox’s Weekend Writing Prompt: ‘temperature’ Write a poem of 37 words, not including the title, using the word “temperature” … no other stipulation. ///////////////////////////////////////// Wall The devil and an ordinary angel sat Reclining on Recalling a wall Their divide That bordered a stream running North and South East and West The… Continue reading
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Behind the Red Door (a poem – revisit)
This is from last year at Mother’s Day and a response now to a dVerse poets prompt about writing something of a building. The link explains the prompt. ////////////////////////////////////////// May 29, 2023 On my way into work early last week, driving my usual route, a few backroads through some pretty suburbia (one of the reasons… Continue reading
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Air (poem)
Air I’ve been here before In February When it tries change color Promising gold in a world of tin As air doesn’t color I’m always the fool Air is air It’s just there it hovers my eyes in the bleak but though with a wink sits on my lips like an imp waiting want halts… Continue reading
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Wings Of Spring (poem)
Wings In Spring I thought I could child’s tales imagined me believe a sprite beyond just that field’s last next flower lazing petal’s slumber shade with winking wry smile waking they would wary me just a fragile touch of wing shared proof with butterflies in my hand ////////////////////////////////////////// This from the latest prompt at dVerse… Continue reading
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Shaggy Attic Craft (poem)
So a new dVerse Poets prompt was this here in this link to the site and the latest challenge … to write something maybe imagined being written in stone, to write a poem, as Rita Dove was commissioned to do for the Folger in D.C. (again, check the link for explanation) for a walled entrance… Continue reading
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Flat Earth (poem – song revisited)
So, another poem prompt at dVerse Poets, this one from Merril, about boats and boating. “The prompt for today – write a poem about boats/ships, boating of any sort. You may write and ekphrastic poem using one of the given paintings for inspiration. There is no set form, write in free verse, write a haibun,… Continue reading
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Raven’s Night (poem)
(Note: August 28, 2025. I haven’t posted anything to an Open Link Night at dVerse Poets since I discovered the site a year and half ago, but I’ve been reading some of my older things recently, often just to reset myself a bit, get in the right frame, while working something new and was reminded… Continue reading
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