poetry
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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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Bits & Pieces – 03-14-25
When we all received our first Covid checks, 12 hundred bucks I think it was, back around the time we started mainlining cleaning products and shining ultra violet lights up our asses according to the expert who knew all the sciency shit we needed to know to try and combat this new scourge of the… 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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Crazy Cat Lady Guy Cat Tips Guide – Tip #354
Crazy Cat Lady Guy Cat Tips Guide – Tip #354 Scene set: Back in August of last year I moved out of a roommate situation that I had moved into out of a solo living situation that I moved out of into that roommate situation that I then needed to move out of, quickly, with… 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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This Valentine’s Day Mom (poem)
This Valentines Day Mom In lieu of penny cards and cartoon hearts and scribbles for the girls in class I give pews and prayers, psalms and songs hymned thoughts of you as we kneel and stand and kneel again by rote but not this time . For this Valentines Day Mom a visit’s miss of… 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
