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“tangled thread”
Written for: The Twiglets #271 – tangled thread His long hair, thinner and silvered, looks like tangles of fine thread. Lost the thread of the story as it tangled into twisted plots. sits darning socks sudden pull on spool of … Continue reading
Grandmother’s Hair
Written for: Sunday Muse #202 – Women’s History Month “Hello Musers! This week we are celebrating Woman’s History Month, and featuring several images along that theme. You can pick the photo that speaks to you, or if they all do, … Continue reading
“a snip of smoke”
Written for: The Twiglets #258 – “a snip of smoke” Headline belied wide scope of tragedy by reading, A Snip of Smoke. Silver snips of smoke curled like a spiral of ribbon. poised with scissors smoky haze fading to light … Continue reading
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Tagged Haiku, hair, haze, headline, limerick, Micro-poetry, smoking
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Long Silvered Locks
Written for: Sunday Muse #177 Ach, it is becoming too difficult to braid the hair I have stubbornly sought to keep. Deep veins and liver-spotted, arthritic hands, are gnarled like an old tree. Honey, would you please help me finish … Continue reading
“god’s white hair”
Written for: The Twiglets #234 – “god’s white hair” Pure white ocean waves– snowy hair of a god I do not have the white hair of a god, said the hare. Better get new glasses. crowd of clouds sails by … Continue reading
Panoramic View
Written for: Poetic Bloomings2 – For Your Consideration – Now See Hair “What does a strand of hair see?” I am a wavy lock, you would be shocked to see light the way I do. You afford me a panoramic … Continue reading
In The Air . . . For An Instant
Written for: Sunday Whirl #433 Words: choke, jump, open, sin, fly, grounds, hunger, story, filling, try, fire, line Jump as high off the ground as you wish, but just try to fly. There is a fine line between wishing and … Continue reading
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Tagged confinement, flight, hair, space, Wordle
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Trolls On A Shelf
Written for: dVerse Poets Pub – Quadrille – “Troll” (posted by Frank) A troll can be all kinds of things, some are bad, some are really bad. Sometimes they are funny and maybe there are some good trolls out there … Continue reading
Spike Heels Spiking
Written for: dVerse Poets Pub – Quadrille #75: “Spike up a Poem” (posted by De) In the game of volleyball, a spike is simply a precise, hard, one-handed hit directly over the net. Today, I want us to employ that … Continue reading
Hair Powers
Written for: Imaginary Gardens With Real Toads Camera FLASH! Are you ready for the flashbulbs to go off? Here is our photographic challenge for November. They used to burn witches at the stake. This is all a mistake, darling. They … Continue reading
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