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Monthly Archives: January 2023
How To Train A Puppy
Written for: Poetic Bloomings2 – Prompt #423: How To ____________ “We’ve all seen or heard of the series of instructional books “For Dummies.” They even seek to provide a “Complete Idiot’s Guide” to nearly every endeavor known to humankind. They … Continue reading
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Shredded Flowers of Peace
Written for: The Sunday Whirl, Wordle #590 Words: floods, barns, faded, walked, peace, drumming, clung, hunt, thick, blooms, topped, spread Outside the barns, homes, and shelters we have walked past, thick blooms that once clung to peace have faded– spread … Continue reading
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Tagged blooms, destruction, Peace, Wordle
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My One True Thing
Written for: The Sunday Muse #244 Not budging. There is nothing familiar around me anymore. You have taken it all, sold it all. No matter where we have to live, I must have this piano with me. If you take … Continue reading
Music and Murder
Written for: Friday Writings #61: Such Inspiring Titles “I’m always curious about what other people are reading. So, for today’s optional prompt—which I am not using to fatten my to-be-read pile, really—I invite you to write poetry or prose inspired … Continue reading
Stopping to Think
Written for: Poetic Asides #640 “Write a pursuit poem.” It is always out of reach. Thinking things through before acting impulsively. You would think, after so many disastrous decisions, I would learn. Burn your bridges, and keep looking for the … Continue reading
“the weight of water”
Written for: The Twiglets #309 – the weight of water You cannot measure the weight of my tears. Floating in the pool, weightless she watches stillness of blue-black glass curtain of lake water A man lifting weights at poolside showed … Continue reading
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Tagged floating, Haiku, lake, limerick, Micro-poetry, tears, weights
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A Crush on Cherry
Written for: dVerse Poets Pub – Quadrille #168 – Ice (posted by Mish) Going to the movies as a child was a treat. Cartoons, double feature, and those soda machines that spewed forth crushed ice. Nothing like those clunky cubes. … Continue reading
At The Clinic
Written for: Poetic Bloomings2 #422: That Said . . . “Words said to children may be healing, or harmful. Inspiring or spirit-squelching. Today, we have three options to inspire our poems: 1. A memory of something said to you when … Continue reading
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Bridge Lockdown
Written for: The Sunday Whirl, Wordle #589 Words: disrupt, hunt, watch, cut, lockdown, glass, flesh, craft, danger, gathering, challenge, murder Traffic was murder. A lockdown gathering of autos made more of a challenge for drivers stuck on the top ramp … Continue reading
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