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If You
Written for: dVerse Poets Pub – Poetics: Echo … echo … echo (posted by Merrill) “We usually think of an echo as a sound, but thoughts and memories echo, too. Christina Rossetti’s poem, “Echo,” is about memories echoing. She also … Continue reading
“tails like banners”
Written for: The Twiglets #156 – “tails like banners” The skunk’s tail swished like a banner of odor. Banners hung from walls of Town Hall rally, like yellow tails of New Year’s Eve noisemakers. fanned out like banners … Continue reading
Landai
Written for: Imaginary Gardens With Real Toads – Write a Landay (or a series of Landai) – (posted by Sanaa) “Landay” is a traditional Afghan form which consists of a single couplet. There are nine syllables in the first line … Continue reading
Mama, Will Things Get Better?
Written for: dVerse Poets Pub – Prosery #7: Jim Harrison (posted by Linda Lee Lyberg) “Hello Everyone and welcome to our 7th episode of Prosery, where poetry and flash fiction collide. Write a story of 144 words or less (not … Continue reading
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Tagged animals, child, drought, fright, inspired by a line from another poem, prosery, questions
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In The Front Window
Written for: Poetic Bloomings2 – Prompt #272 – Stopping to Window Shop “We’ve all found ourselves caught up in the practice of window shopping at least once in our lives. It is more apparent at this time of year, with … Continue reading
In The Air . . . For An Instant
Written for: Sunday Whirl #433 Words: choke, jump, open, sin, fly, grounds, hunger, story, filling, try, fire, line Jump as high off the ground as you wish, but just try to fly. There is a fine line between wishing and … Continue reading
The Adopted Kitten
Written for: Sunday Muse #85 I am glad he adopted me, falling for my cuteness. I’m not a picky kitten– but dude, those tattoos! http://thesundaymuse.blogspot.com/
winter trees
Written for: Carpe Diem #1789 – The Winter Trees (Crossroads) The task is to create a “fusion-ku” from the two given haiku and create a Troiku with it, so this episode is a “Crossroads” episode. Here are the two haiku … Continue reading
