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Sobbing In The Moonlight

Posted on December 10, 2020 by purplepeninportland

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 →

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deluge

Posted on September 21, 2018 by purplepeninportland

Written for:  Carpe Diem’s Brainteaser #1 Introduction and first challenge In this new feature I love to explore other “special” haiku forms like “Pi-ku” and for example the “Acrostic haiku”. For this first episode of “Carpe Diem’s Brainteaser” I love to … Continue reading →

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Drafts of Change

Posted on March 12, 2018 by purplepeninportland

Written for:  The Sunday Whirl, Wordle #342 Words:  stormy, charge, star, gift, fry, wired, mar, draft, sand, silence, manner, guilt Stormy Daniels, a star with a gift, but not for silence. Wired ego, no guilty manner. She is a sand flea … Continue reading →

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Lost and Found

Posted on February 16, 2017 by purplepeninportland

Written for:  dVerse Poets  “Have a Heart!”  (posted by Lillian) Include the word “heart” somewhere in your poem. Perhaps some will be clever and we’ll have to search for it: the art is divine; she art thine; hear thy self. Or … Continue reading →

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