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Written for: Poets and Storytellers United Weekly Scribblings #30: Writing as a metaphor for living. (posted by Magaly) How have you and your muse been spending your days? My muse and I have been reading and revising and such… hence … Continue reading
How We Remember
Written for: Poets and Storytellers United Weekly Scribblings #27: “Things Were Different Back Then” (posted by Magaly) “If you’ve ever been in the presence of a vintage soul (AKA someone who has lived more than a few decades and who … Continue reading
Expectations
Written for: Go Dog Go Café – Tuesday Writing Prompt “Write a poem that begins and ends with the same word.” How can we bear the changes life has hurled at us? Memorize imperfections on a wall until we no … Continue reading
Posted in Purple's Home
Tagged anticipation, bearing, cabin fever, changes, same word at start and finish
The Affects
Written for: Poetic Bloomings2 – Prompt #288 – “Charting A New Course” “We’ve been sequestered, isolated, quarantined and separated. I can tell you from first hand experience that our lives have been changed. I’m sure many of us can. What … Continue reading
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Tagged changes, feelings, hugs, sadness, strangeness
What Does The World Look Like
Written for: Go Dog Go Café – Tuesday Prompt: Write a piece of prose around the question: What does a return to “normal” look like for you? You run into a friend. The impulse to hug will no longer seem … Continue reading
Posted in Purple's Home
Tagged changes, hesitation, new, normal, prose, reminders, world
Never Try To Change Another Person
Written for: Poetics Aside April 2020 PAD Challenge – Day 26 Write a change poem. Do not marry someone drawn to their allure, sunny face thinking you’d not replace or change a single quirk they have. Later you start to … Continue reading
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Tagged changes, likeness, Luc bat form, Written for Challenge
Bagels and Cream Cheese
Written for: Poetics Aside April 2020 PAD Challenge – Day 22 Write a quirk poem. He walks a mile for exercise to get his bagel and chive cream cheese. In this way breakfast is justified. With his routine, he is … Continue reading
Melting Ice
Written for: Poetic Bloomings2 – For Your Consideration – Character Study (Challenges) “CHARACTER STUDY: JOSH AVERY IS A 21 YEAR OLD MALE WITH ANGER ISSUES HELPING A SEVERELY PHYSICALLY CHALLENGED PERSON ACROSS THE STREET. WRITE THIS POETIC EPISODE!” Josh Avery … Continue reading
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Tagged anger, changes, character study, handicapped, young man
Bye-Bye 2019
Written for: Poets United Midweek Motif~Year’s End “This year’s end full of trouble and joy, suspense and uncertainty. Let’s write to each other in this new poem about the end of 2019.” (posted by Susan) If this year has brought … Continue reading
We Have A Winner
Written for: Poetic Asides Prompt #505 “Write a possible poem.” If your best friend wins Lotto and you are sipping macchiatos would you see a change in ego? You might, you know. You might, you know. If your friend should … Continue reading
