poetry
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The Girl With The Umbrella (poem)
At the end of last month Melissa offered a prompt at dVerse poets with some paintings for inspiration as she has done before, including back in May with some paintings of Marc Chagall, to which I responded with a recent favorite poem of mine “The Girl at the Fair” for a Chagall painting entitled “La… Continue reading
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Both Feet (poem)
Quadrille prompt at dVerse Poets this week from De Jackson, whimsygizmo, was to use the word “Jump” in our latest 44 worder. Thanks De ////////////////////////////////////////// Both Feet I try not to gun or conclude Not on command or through hoops But might in a lake leaving no foot behind if minding bikinis and bones soon… Continue reading
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They Thought Themselves a Play of Some Renown (poetics – poem)
Earlier this week there was a prompt from Merril where she wrote of butterflies, Poetics: But no, a butterfly, and provided a list of butterfly names for us to possibly work a poem around, asking for 3 or more of the names to be included. Well, it’s been pretty busy for me of late and I… Continue reading
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Air Them Out (poem – quadrille)
Earlier this week Sanaa presented to us a new Quadrille prompt for our latest in 44 word poems. The prompts always come with a word to include in your Quadrille and here that word was “Care” with a great post from Sanaa to explain how she came about choosing it. Now, the window to get… Continue reading
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Rapt Attention (prosery)
Merril at dVerse Poets prompted us earlier this week with Prosery Monday. Prosery, like the Quadrille is, as Merril notes, a dVerse form. Where the Quadrille is a 44 word poem with a single word to include, Prosery is 144 words of prose with a line from a poem to include. In this case the… Continue reading
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Mirrors (poem)
A Quadrille prompt this week at dVerse Poets comes from Lisa who asks us to fashion our latest 44 word poem including the word “puff”. (photo: pixabay – fun_lucky-rain-6180565) Mirrors The wall’s mirror asked why I didn’t lean breathlessly to examine closely or stand puffed back admiringly and I asked would it sit … Continue reading
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The Poem And The Pen (poem)
A prompt at dVerse earlier this week was from Grace, MTB: Ars Poetica Revisited – “traditionally, an Ars Poetica is a poem about poetry itself: why we write, what poems do, how language works upon us, and what we hope our words might accomplish” ////////////////////////////////////////// The Poem And The Pen The poem looked at the pen… Continue reading
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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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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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