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“soft fruit”
Written for: The Twiglets #303 – soft fruit If original color is spotted with black, if you squeeze it, and it spurts out mush, don’t eat it–rotten banana. My grandparents stewed prunes. Went beyond soft. bite into ripe plum juices … Continue reading
Bananas
Written for: Miz Quickly – Day 27 “You have written some five-line stanzas, and some poems with two stanzas related only by proximity. Like families moved into a pre-fab neighborhood or posters in a dorm room. I want you to … Continue reading
Mango Madness
Written for: dVerse Poets Pub Poetics: How to Cut a Pomegranate (posted by Kim) “The challenge is to think of a fruit, how it looks before and after it has been cut open, and how it tastes. Think about where … Continue reading
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
Sweet Summer
Written for: Poets and Storytellers United Weekly Scribblings #29: “Writing About Food” Salivate in Summer for juicy fruit of plums, peaches, watermelon, cherries, berries, and grapes. Ice cream would do nicely for dinners–I would love chocolate-mint chip, coffee, butter pecan, … Continue reading
flower/fruit
Written for: Carpe Diem Tan Renga Wednesday #14 – Wisteria Beans wisteria beans let’s make that a theme for haikai a flower fruit … Continue reading
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Horror–Truth or Imagination
Written for: Poets and Storytellers United – (posted by Sanaa) Weekly Scribblings #1: January is here, with winds that blow kisses ~ For this Weekly Scribblings edition, I want you to pick any three words from the given word list … Continue reading
Summer Softens
Written for: Poetic Bloomings2 – Exercise in Poetic Thought #3 “The third step in our poem building exercise is upon us. Today, we put some parts together. Choose one of your titles written in exercise #2. Now, starting with that … Continue reading
Juicy Kisses
Written for: dVerse Poets Pub – Quadrille #73 “A Prelude to a Kiss” (Posted by De) “I want you to blow some kisses into your poems today. A prelude to a kiss. A goodnight kiss on a baby’s cheek. K-I-S-S-I-N-G … Continue reading
Watermelon Basket
Written for: Imaginary Gardens With Real Toads: Just One Word – “Hollow” (posted by Marian) “With the new year, let’s try a new weekend challenge here in the Garden. Let’s try allowing just one word to provide a springboard for … Continue reading
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