poetry
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The Moon Was in the News Again – Suspect #1 (poem)
There was a prompt at dVerse earlier in the week from Sanaa, a one for the spooky season, to write a poem based on one of a selection of thirteen “haunted” songs, Poetics: Thirteen songs – Thirteen haunting. Kudos to Sanaa for the great selection of tunes, including one from Echo & the Bunnymen (a… Continue reading
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The Girl With The Basket Of Moon (poem)
Earlier this week at dVerse Poets there was a poetics prompt from Sanaa that offered up a few paintings of John Atkinson Grimshaw to choose from for inspiration. I thought with this that I’d keep with a bit of a theme that came about with a couple of other responses of mine to recent poetics… Continue reading
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You Were The Best Of Company Miss Cricket (post)
It was just about this time 9 years ago that I moved from a little 2 bedroom 3rd floor place in Hyde Park, NY with really cool 2nd and 1st floor neighbors who said Hi, seemed to genuinely listen to “How are you?” responses and kept an eye for me and we bonded because I… Continue reading
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Hum With Me (poem)
A quadrille prompt this week came from De Jackson, asking that our latest dVerse Poets 44 worder include the word “Hum” ////////////////////////////////////////// Hum With Me He hummed a tune he didn’t know recognizable only for needs to hum beautiful discordant bright droning magical sharp pillowed angry measured even danceable… Continue reading
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The Sky Comes (prosery)
In a prosery prompt from Mish, a dVerse creation of 144 words of prose including a given line from a poem, she pays tribute to Gordon Downie, poet, songwriter, storyteller, activist and former lead singer for the Tragically Hip. From his poem “Starpainters” she has taken the line “The “Starpainters are taking over now” for… Continue reading
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Coloring the Pale (poem – quadrille)
Earlier this week protesting was in order (IS in order in this current orange cluster f climate of ours) with Punam at dVerse Poets and a very cool quadrille prompt inside a cool post, of yes, protest. So then to the latest dVerse Quadrille, a 44 worder (not counting the title) including here, the word… Continue reading
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Skywrite (pale blue dot)
From Laura, a prompt at dVerse Poets looking to follow the lead of a poetry form invented by Margaret R. Smith (source here): with some meter some rhyme and some compound words. It goes like this: Poem’s title includes the stem word 15 lines 5 stanzas 3 lines per stanza rhyme scheme a,a,b meter 8/8/3 last line… Continue reading
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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
