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Monday
Written for: Miz Quickly – Day 11 – Monday Monday’s color is blue as a bad mood. Begins a week of school or work. Even though I am retired, I stay stuck in the mire of Monday. I wonder why … Continue reading
Ground and Sky Trade Places
Written for: Miz Quickly – Day 10 “What if basement condos were prime real estate and penthouses were low rent? What if life actually did begin at forty? Writers of alternative fiction often begin by changing one thing in their … Continue reading
August Days
Written for: dVerse Poets Pub, Haibun Monday 8-2-21: August (posted by Frank J. Tassone) “Whatever inspires you about this month—the namesake of Augustus, the solemn memorials to inhumanity and survival, madcap vacationing in sultry weather, or traditional Autumn—write a haibun … Continue reading
Fading Rainbows
Written for: The Sunday Whirl, Wordle #507 Words: beam, virtual, spectrum, time, bundle, box, tweak breathe, bruise, bit, torn, lost A broad- spectrum rainbow’s beams are virtually bundled colors, seen after rain. They cannot be tweaked or placed in a … Continue reading
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Tagged air, color, fading, fibonacci form, rainbows, Wordle
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Small Flies and Other Wings
Written for: dVerse Poets Pub (posted by Laura) Poetics: The Poet as Painter “The practice of using words to comment on a piece of visual art is an ancient one. One of the earliest and most commonly cited forms of … Continue reading
Glow for the Imagination
Written for: Poetic Bloomings2 Prompt #327 – “I’ll Be Out Of The Office . . .” “Choose an item in your “office” and wax poetic about its purpose. Could be a pair of slippers, a soup ladle, the remote control, … Continue reading
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Tagged color, glow, salt lamp, shadorma
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Blue Diamond Eyes
Written for: dVerse Poets Pub – Poetics: Look into my eyes (posted by Mish) “Pen a poem about eyes or choose a photo where the eyes speak to you.” Blue diamonds shine under bushy brows, usually furrowed, forehead needing an … Continue reading
Bird Woman
Written for: Poets and Storytellers United Weekly Scribblings #45: Artistic Interpretations (posted by Magaly) Soft whisper of white smoke turns to hearts, your love flows from depths of brilliantly colored robes– wings on a woman’s body. https://poetsandstorytellersunited.blogspot.com/
Cereal Breakdowns
Written for: Poets and Storytellers United Writers’ Pantry #43: Sunday Morning Cereal (posted by Rommy) “Hello, Word Artists and Admirers! It may be something in the weather (or just the crazy that is 2020) but I’ve been finding myself reaching … Continue reading
“cherry red sky”
Written for: The Twiglets #198 – “cherry red sky” When the sky cleared, it turned maraschino cherry red. against the cherry sky, silhouette of seagulls on her drawing she crayons sky carefully strokes of cherry red Her cherry red lipstick … Continue reading
