writing
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Clouds (poem)
The theme for this prompt at dVerse Poets is from Grace and is of False Spring and here in Northern New York in the Capital Region we’ve been experiencing a Mother Nature who just can’t seem to make up her mind about which way to go with this whole change of season thing as temps… Continue reading
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The Black Hole – continued (prosery)
Been in a bit of a writing lull lately and feeling a bit under hasn’t helped, just a couple of recent things, but Merril ered up a prosery prompt this week that I liked though a bit of a challenge. Now prosery at dVerese is a 144 word piece of fiction that includes one line… Continue reading
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Bella Dreams in Catscope? (poem)
We had Laura, at the end of the week at dVerse Poets, with a prompt: MTB: Two and a Half Rhyme where she asks for us to write a 12 line (at least) poem consisting of couplets. And so, for today’s MTB prompt we are writing in two lines stanzas as rhyming couplets thus: Poetry Rules:… Continue reading
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Refrigerator Finger Gallery Art (poem)
Heading home day’s light lights a little later now its painting horizon’s short wall and stops considering tired winter encroaching where it had endlessly coldly seemed always to quickly bundle and blow out nightstand candles but begins to allow day’s lighter jacketed child to implore Mom for just a little more time to paint… Continue reading
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A Boy And His Cat In A Cone Plastic Hat – (poem re-visit with audio read)
Ok, so a re-post in the Attic here for a dVerse Poets open link night, where you can contribute/link any poem of yours that you would like or you can choose to write something new to whatever that week’s open link prompt may be. Now, I’ve never written anything new in response to that night’s… Continue reading
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Can We Whistle? (solidarity) – (poem)
From Grace at dVerse Poets this week she prompted of poems of questions. “Today, we shift the focus from poetry form to craft style. Specifically: poems built around questions that remain unanswered.” So, one here then with just one overriding question. ////////////////////////////////////////// Can We Whistle? (solidarity) Can we all whistle while they work at whistling… Continue reading
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The 3:05a to Somewhen (prosery)
A “prosery” prompt at dVerse Poets from Mish. The Prosery is to write a short, 144 word piece of prose (not including the title) while including a line of poetry. The line here? “Lips forget what they have kissed” from Toni Morrison and “Eve Remembering”. ////////////////////////////////////////// The 3:05a to Somewhen “Are you sure you want… Continue reading
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The Flower (poem)
A new Quadrille prompt at dVerse Poets from De (WhimsyGizmo) earlier this week. The 44 word poem to include some use of one word from the prompt, in this case, “Flower”. ////////////////////////////////////////// The Flower The flower did not ask be miracle or mourner epiphany or eulogy congratulator or apologist be poem, painting, song just… Continue reading
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The Snow Was 17 Feet (poem)
For a prompt of “Snow” from Kim at dVerse Poets and a now new poem version of a little remembrance I wrote a number of years ago of when I was a kid, after a big snow, and got my first scars, and a piece that I just recently re-posted. ////////////////////////////////////////// The Snow Was 17… Continue reading
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Pre Order Your Today (poem)
On an out front sign at a garden center that I pass in my daily travels, missing an “s” as well as any item(s) in particular for this pre-order. ////////////////////////////////////////// Pre-Order Your Today A garden center sign proclaimed “Pre-Order Your Today” a missing ‘s’ offering something totally new on my way yesterday to a regular… Continue reading
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