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Written for: Poetic Bloomings2 – Prompt #275 – “What’s New?” “We stand on the crest of a new year, in a new decade. Both causes to celebrate. Everything becomes a fresh new start to everything you aspire to! So we … Continue reading
creatures
Written for: Carpe Diem #1769 – free choice of prompt, and make it a soliloquy no renga As you (maybe) know the “solo-renga” has at least six (6) stanza. You start with the “hokku” (starting verse) and end with the … Continue reading
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Tagged creatures, earth, habits, soliloquy no Renga
Soundless in Sadness
Written for: Sunday Whirl, Wordle #408 Words: cut, stars, water, dogwood, quiver, granite, earth, pill, rough, bell, dearth, garland This poem is a bell that no longer rings. Dogwoods shiver-quiver as they are roughly ripped from the earth where a … Continue reading
The “rest” of the Time
Written for: The Wednesday Muse #4 – Busy Body (posted by Toni) “Speaking of which, what do you all do to rest? do you sleep, take naps, take walks, ride a bike, got to the beach, climb a tree? This … Continue reading
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Tagged birds, earth, outdoors, reading, Time, variations, walking, water
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A Monk Ponders
Written for: The Sunday Whirl, Wordle #395 Words: fires, three, garment, find, bowing, writing, silence, wave, year, earth, rain, beam The monk bows, having taken a vow of silence. He possesses three saffron garments– all the same–pleasing for his needs. … Continue reading
Questions to Ponder
Weekend Mini-Challenge: Strange News (posted by Magaly) For today’s prompt, I invite you to be inspired by the following questions, out of the Strange News section of Live Science: 1. What if the moon disappeared tomorrow? 2. Can humans smell … Continue reading
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Tagged earth, flowers, imagination, Micro-poetry, moon, shadorma, sunset, trees
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Appreciation
Written for: The Sunday Muse #31 Dressed in tidy white she treads on land where nothing grows. People have lost all hope that earth will forgive. She comes upon a single perfect rose, freshly planted, she supposes, but by whom. … Continue reading
Earth’s Plight
Written for: Poetic Bloomings2, InForm Poet – Elegy “Today we re-visit the Elegy. An elegy is a song or poem of sorrow or mourning–often for someone who has died. But, since poets exercise our license, we can also write elegies … Continue reading
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Tagged earth, elegy, endings, People
Self-Blame
Written for: Imaginary Gardens With Real Toads – Wordy Thursday with Wild Woman~Earth Grief “The topic of climate change is on our minds and on the news these days as never before. Floods, hurricanes, wildfires, a heating planet, melting poles: … Continue reading
Earthly Wonders
Written for: dVerse Poets Pub – Quadrille #63, “Feel The Earth Move” (posted by Kim) “The Oxford English Dictionary has a range of definitions for the word ‘earth’ (from the Old English eorðan), as well as interesting phrases and compound … Continue reading
