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New Adventure
Written for: dVerse Poets Pub Meeting The Bar: Let Your Words Ring Out (posted by Peter Franks) “Write a poem with focus on sounds.” She steps over jagged jewels fronting the sea. Climbs on clumsy feet, shaking the sails of … Continue reading
In Deepest Night
Written for: Imaginary Gardens With Real Toads – Art FLASH!/55 in October For this weekend’s art collaboration, I am introducing an illustrator in ink and purveyor of magic, McMonster, a perfect choice to set the tone for October. McMonster has … Continue reading
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Tagged boat, imagination, moon, Night, owls, Written from Art, written in a count of words
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Swept Away
Written for: Carpe Diem Weekend Meditation #89 – Extreme Haibun . . . Rain An extreme haibun is, as you maybe remember, a haibun is prose and poetry together, a kind of symbiosis so to say. I will give you … Continue reading
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Tagged boat, flowers, Haibun, neighborhood, rain, Spring
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Wayward Weather
Written for: The Sunday Whirl, Wordle #386 Words: glazed, wail, will, box, name, wheel, rain, snap, frame, white, depends, bait White sails snap at frame of boat. They are out too far. Weather quickly changes its mind, as it will. … Continue reading
Golden Blur
Written for: The Sunday Muse #19 “Girl on the Boat” by William Oxer Her face is blurred by late afternoon sun blazing stripes across wood strips of the boat. Gilded outline of her arms in pose of hope. He will … Continue reading
Written for: Carpe Diem honors Jane Reichhold (1937-2017) G.) whisper of rain Today to close this Theme Week I have chosen a few of her haiku from her “A Dictionary of Haiku” (the online version), the following series of haiku … Continue reading