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After The End
Written for: dVerse Poets Pub Poetics: Beginning at the End (posted by Laura B.) “For this Poetics prompt I’ve selected some final lines of poetry. Choose ONE and write your poem as continuation where the poet left off, thematically, in … Continue reading
“looking for light”
Written for: The Twiglets #206 – “looking for light” looking for light in all the wrong places Hey man, I’m lookin’ for a light . . . oh, and a cigarette. Can you help me out? they look out window … Continue reading
No Price
Written for: Poets and Storytellers United Weekly Scribblings #41: What’s The Price (posted by Rommy) Write your interpretation of the question: What is it worth? A comfortable home, warm and cozy. Pets of your choice to cuddle Food in the … Continue reading
Gingerbread Cottage
Written for: Sunday Whirl, Wordle #475 Words: hypocrisy, lunch, foil, cat, why, fox, trust, sad, hoax, miss, liars, cottage Mrs. Fox lives in a gingerbread cottage. She takes considerable comfort in her calico cat, Cosmo. Distrusting store-bought pet food, she … Continue reading
Three Chapters of Me
Written for: Poetic Bloomings2 – Prompt #304 My Life In Words “Your auto-biography begins here. Break up your life (up to this point in time) into three chapters. Give each chapter a title. Write three brief poems (one for each … Continue reading
2105
Written for: Poetic Bloomings2 – Prompt #299 – A House Is Not A Home We are writing about a house or a home. It could be a house we live(d) in, a house we wished was ours, a supposed haunted … Continue reading
Hardened at Nine
Written for: Go Dog Go Cafe – Tuesday Writing Prompt “Write a piece of prose or poetry around the phrase, ‘nine years old, and she never had a chance.’ “ She did whatever she could not to go home. Mama … Continue reading
Reminds Me Of . . .
Written for: dVerse Poets Pub – Poetics: “Comfort Smells” (posted by Gina) “Today I ask that you write a poem about a smell that takes you to a time when you would just collapse into a safe place especially when … Continue reading
Moving Aftershocks
Begins with chip on squared corner of television table. Next, we discover top of bookcase has vanished, leaving naked slats of wood laddered over double glass doors of mahogany frame. Bottom door gapes open like a toothless jack-o- lantern. Crooked face of grandfather clock dangles in peril, its … Continue reading
Sunflower House
Written for: Imaginary Gardens With Real Toads – Fashion Your Words~Let’s Build Houses; as some parts of planet earth remain storm-ravished, some parts have weathered the storms. Yet some parts remain near-paradise. Poets: wherever we find ourselves, here is a call … Continue reading
