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Monthly Archives: November 2018
Creeping Sadness
Written for: Imaginary Gardens With Real Toads – “Mono no Aware” (posted by Toni) All of us are seeing the year slowly die. This brings me to a Japanese phrase – mono no aware (moh noh noh ah wah ray) … Continue reading
Leave It In My Hands
Written for: Poetics Aside 2018 November PAD Chapbook Challenge – Day 29 “For today’s prompt, write a remix poem. That is, take one of your poems from earlier in the month and remix it. If it was originally free verse, … Continue reading
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Tagged arrangements, Love, matches, Written for Challenge
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Burning Letters
Written for: dVerse Poets Pub – Poetics: “Fire Up That Creativity” (posted by Victoria) “Fire is destructive, that’s clear. But it also has other aspects. There can be purifying benefits, clearing the earth for new growth, or perhaps symbolizing the … Continue reading
How Are You Awakened?
Written for: Poets United Midweek Motif~Morning Poem (posted by Sumana) “Capture the time in your lines when the day is new and you are out of your slumber. Isn’t it always a good morning whether it’s bright, gray, cloudy or … Continue reading
Losing Patience
Written for: Poetic Asides 2018 November PAD Chapbook Challenge – Day 28 “For today’s prompt, write a mood poem. Your poem could set the mood. Or it could be about a mood. Maybe display someone in a mood, whether that’s … Continue reading
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Tagged drought, Englyn form, patience, rain, Written for Challenge
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Razor
Written for: The Twiglets #104 – “like a razor” A bright light has burned out. I feel like my heart has been cut with a razor. I tasted razor clams in Portland. They were not keen-edged. A man who was … Continue reading
Assurance of the Moon
Written for: Poetic Asides 2018 November PAD Chapbook Challenge – Day 27 Two-for-Tuesday – Write a shaky poem. Or . . . Write a sturdy poem. I want to be wrapped in moon glow, feel secure instead of astray. Your … Continue reading
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Tagged astray, moon, security, unease, villanelle, Written for Challenge
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Waiting for the Good Times
Written for: dVerse Poets Pub – Haibun Monday – “waiting” (posted by Imelda) “For this prompt, put yourself in waiting mode. Think of what you are waiting for. What’s happening? How are you as you wait?” She spent may years … Continue reading
Appreciation
Written for: The Sunday Muse #31 Dressed in tidy white she treads on land where nothing grows. People have lost all hope that earth will forgive. She comes upon a single perfect rose, freshly planted, she supposes, but by whom. … Continue reading
We Squat Upon The Beach of Love*
Written for: Poetic Asides 2018 November PAD Chapbook Challenge – Day 26 “For today’s prompt, write an ambitious poem. Maybe that means trying to write a poem in a complicated poetic form (sestina anyone?). Or maybe it means your poem … Continue reading
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Tagged Beach, driftwood, Golden Shovel form, Love, Written for Challenge
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