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Partaking of Life
Written for: November 2022 PAD Chapbook Challenge – Day 27 “For today’s prompt, write a resolution poem. Your poem could be about the kind of resolutions people make each new year, new month, new week, or new day. But it … Continue reading
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Tagged acceptance, affirming, change, Villanelle form, Written for Challenge
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Deserted
Written for: Poetic Bloomings2 – Prompt #412 – Animal Instinct “Write an animal poem.” My life is not the same, with both dogs gone my heart hurts. Sadness is quite a drain. My life is not the same. My smiles … Continue reading
Change Coming ‘Round
Written for: Friday Writings #34: Unsavory Topics “Create poetry or prose which includes one or all of the words:” freedom, choice, belief thought she had freedom regarding her own body– that was her firm belief https://poetsandstorytellersunited.blogspot.com/
Chameleon
Written for: Go Dog Go Cafe – Tuesday Writing Prompt “Use the words ghoul, blood, and infant in a piece of writing.” His appearance is that of an infant–sweet face, bouncy curls. When darkness sets in, his true self within … Continue reading
Sobbing In The Moonlight
Written for: dVerse Poets Pub – Poetics: Stepping Off The Sidewalk (posted by Laura Bloomsbury) “There is a place where the sidewalk ends And before the street begins, And there the grass grows soft and white…” Shel Silverstein “For this … Continue reading
Greyness Lifting
Written for: dVerse Poets Pub – Poetics: The Charms of Samuel Greenberg (posted by Laura Bloomsbury) “Searching for inspiration for this Poetics prompt, I first fell upon Rimbaud which led me to Hart Crane who surreptitiously resurrected an “impoverished, proto-surrealist … Continue reading
Making The Switch
Written for: Poets and Storytellers United Weekly Scribblings #40: Walking Away (posted by Rosemary) “Write about walking away.” Reluctantly releasing myself from warmth of Summer’s embrace. Green, pink, and yellow all had their place. Time has come to enmesh myself … Continue reading
Broken Shadows
Written for: dVerse Poets Prompt – Poetry: 9 Across For A Countdown (posted by Laura Bloomsbury) Use one of these lines: . It seems as though you are still summer (cite Merwin) . Broken shadows across the cracked ground (cite … Continue reading
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Tagged change, nonet, Seasons, shadows, written with line from another poet
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Innocents
Written for: Go Dog Go Cafe – Tuesday Writing Prompt (with Beth and Amanda) “Write a piece of poetry that ends with, ‘in the end, we were just a moment’.” Starting out fresh, we thought romance would last forever. Innocent, … Continue reading
In The Night
Written for: dVerse Poets Pub – Poetics: Flights of Fancy (posted by Laura Bloomsbury) . Pen a poem that is about FLYING/FLIGHT (NOT FLEEING) . Take ONE or MORE of our natural winged phenomena – bird, bat, insect, seed, flying … Continue reading
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