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Snapshots Out of Order
Written for: The Sunday Whirl, Wordle #310 Words: surrender, follow, heat, scan, trip, archaic, bend, stitch, scent, sail, shine, sliver Slivers of shimmering heat shine and bend like archaic fun-house mirrors. Scan horizon where sails gleam, surrendering to flow of … Continue reading
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Evolution
Written for Imaginary Gardens With Real Toads: A Glance at Narrative Think of some story in writing your poem. It could be the story of a moment or of a lifetime, and it need not be fully detailed. (imagined … Continue reading
Mind Painting
Written for: Poets United Midweek Motif~Sanctuary In the din and bustle of daily life all need a little sanctuary to rest, heal and revive; a space to de-clutter stressful thoughts; a moment to usher in a glimmer of hope; a … Continue reading
Mount Hood Before Me
Written for dVerse Poets Pub – Poetics: Flexing your verbs (posted by Kim) It has become quite a thing to turn nouns and adjectives into verbs – we’ve all done it here at dVerse. But how about using verbs in … Continue reading
Pipe Cleaners
Written for: Poetic Asides #403 – Write a poem about a useful item, though seemingly innocuous. On occasion, Dad smoke a pipe. I discovered that the white, ropey stick could be coerced into stick figures or strange animal shapes. Later … Continue reading
Dog Conference
Written for: The Twiglets #34, “not at all human” The dogs agreed. Better off not being a human. https://thetwiglets.wordpress.com/
Respect
Written for: dVerse Poets Pub – Haibun Monday: Free For All (posted by hayesspencer) Today is Free For All – meaning, you can choose your subject for the haibun. However there are still some rules: The haibun must be one … Continue reading
‘spot’
Written for: Haiku Horizons – “Spot” red with black spots alights for brief moment ladybug on my arm https://haikuhorizons.wordpress.com/
The Open Sea
Written for: The Sunday Whirl, Wordle #309 Words: carry, sea, mean, shake, born, post, pick, trigger, string, beam, nothing, poor They carried his ashes out to sea, that sailor born with nothing but dreams. A Navy man, retired, drawn to … Continue reading
Patience
Written for: Carpe Diem Writing and Enjoying Haiku #3 classical haiku In the last episode of “Writing and Enjoying Haiku” you had to create haiku without rules, this time, I love to challenge you to create haiku following the rules, … Continue reading
