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A Cento of Nature
Written for: April 2021 PAD Challenge – Day 22 “Write a nature poem.” Hope is the thing with feathers who moves his soft velvety head. Meanwhile the wild geese, high in the clean blue air call to you, harsh and … Continue reading
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Tagged birds, Cento form, flowers, trees, waterfalls, Written for Challenge
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In The Garden
Written for: Poetic Bloomings2 Prompt #329 – Head In A Cloud “Today we offer this flower cloud of words. And no better topic to explore in this garden than tending our garden. Use whatever words that move you and write … Continue reading
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Tagged flowers, garden, hope, Spring, written from words
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Complimenting Violet and Yellow
Written for: Poetic Asides PAD November 2020 Challenge – Day 11 Autumn, while beautiful, means death for all those purple petunias, while lavender lessens in color, and eating plucots comes to an end. On a table yellow and violet candles … Continue reading
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Tagged candles, colors, flowers, Golden Shovel form, Written for Challenge
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Lemon
Written for: dVerse Poets Pub – Meeting The Bar: Haiku sequence (posted by Frank Tassone) “Did you know that you could write multiple haiku that express a similar theme or montage of images? That haikai form is known as the … Continue reading
“get messy”
Written for: The Twiglets #180 – “get messy” Fun of finger painting is that you were encouraged to get messy. so many ways to get messy. I would not like to be a mud wrestler. flowers of plant droop in … Continue reading
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Tagged American Sentence, cleaning, flowers, Haiku, limerick, Micro-poetry, mud
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Where Calmness is Found
Written for: Poetic Asides Prompt #525 – “Write a calm poem.” Gazing at garden flowers, watching ocean waves peak. I can spend countless hours to gain the calmness I seek. Jasmine incense burns soothing music plays I close my eyes … Continue reading
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Tagged calmness, flowers, jasmine, meditation, music, ocean waves
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Sevenling . . . three robins
Written for: Poetic Asides Countdown to Challenge: T-minus 7 – Write a short poem. For: Poetic Bloomings2 – InForm Poet – Sevenling “The first three lines should contain an element of three. It could be three connected or contrasting statements, … Continue reading
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Tagged animals, flowers, hope, Sevenling, short poems, Spring, trees
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renga with beach diamonds
Written for: Carpe Diem Weekend Meditation #114 Renga With … beach diamonds “This weekend I love to challenge you to create a Renga with several haiku poets. Your task is to add the two-lined stanza towards it. You can choose … Continue reading
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Tagged Beach, diamonds, flowers, light, music, ocean, renga with other poets, sun
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“first sunray”
Written for: Carpe Diem #1796 – New Beginnings . . . First Sunray scents of Ume blossoms– the sun rises like a marvel ah, this mountain pass ~ Basho ~ sleepy daffodils petaled eyelids open under sweep of first light … Continue reading
shepherd’s purse
Written for: Carpe Diem #1755 Sheperd’s Purse (1st anniversary prompt) “Happy anniversary to you all … today the celebration of Carpe Diem’s 7th anniversary … starts. What a joy to bring this first episode of our 7th anniversary. As I … Continue reading
