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Tag Archives: Dance
The Next Groove
Written for: dVerse Poets Pub – Quadrille #135 “Shake That Poem Groove Thang” (posted by WhimsyGizmo) “Tongue and groove. Groovy, baby. Grooving to the beat. Getting into the groove. Shake your groove thing. Noun it. Verb it. Adjective it within … Continue reading
Stages and Ages
Written for: dVerse Poets Pub (posted by Peter) Meeting The Bar: Coming full circle “Circles appear in nature: birth-death-rebirth; seed-plant-fruit-seed; day-night-day. Botanical, seasonal and astronomical, circles are everywhere (though if you look closer you’ll find change, a planet wobbles in … Continue reading
Spring Acrostic
Written for: One Woman’s Quest II VJ’s Weekly Challenge – An acrostic of Spring Do A dance For green shoots Filling the ground with hope Of yellow buds to follow. Delight In season of Spring Let’s dance! https://onewomansquest.org/
Teach Me
Written for: dVerse Poets Pub – Poetry Form: Seguidilla (posted by Grace) “The Seguidilla began as a popular dance song of Spain. The verse form was established and branched into variations by the 17th century. It has an alternating long … Continue reading
Love Blind in Dance
Written for: Poets and Storytellers United Weekly Scribblings #57: Let Us Write (together) (posted by Magaly) “For today’s prompt, I’m sharing three of my blackout poems and inviting you to write new prose or poetry which uses one (or all … Continue reading
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Tagged blacked out poetry, Dance, flower, inspired by another poet, Love, monster
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Worshipping Flower
Written for: dVerse Poets Pub-Meeting The Bar: Personification and Imagery (posted by Grace) “Personification A figure of speech in which the poet describes an abstraction, a thing, or a nonhuman form as if it were a person. When inanimate objects, … Continue reading
Water Woes
Written for: The Sunday Whirl, Wordle #468 Words: bend, gas, grass, books, dancing, meet, sight, Wednesday, flash, shift, fly, surprise Water-logged Wednesday bends blades of grass. Flash! In a weather shift, sight of zig-zag lightning flies across the sky. Pages … Continue reading
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Tagged cancellation, Dance, lightning, rain, Wordle, wrinkles
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won’t translate
Written for: The Twiglets #167 – “won’t translate” You cannot translate a dance, you can only interpret what you see. When my grandparents spoke Russian, no one translated. transformation difficult feat to perform butterfly leaves cocoon There once was a … Continue reading
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Tagged butterfly, Dance, dolly, Haiku, limerick, little girl, Micro-poetry, poor
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Ripping Years Away
Written for: The Sunday Whirl, Wordle #446 Words: sing, lift, rip, old, smooth, blessings, floor, view, enough, panic, virus, twenty Sing and dance with me on this old wood floor the way you did when we were twenty. Lift me … Continue reading
two beats
Written for: Carpe Diem #1807 – Two Hearts Become One “Love is the ultimate emotion. I think we all agree on that. Love is positive energy and uplifts our hearts. The ultimate energy of love is … “two hearts become … Continue reading
