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Written for: dVerse Poets Pub – Meeting The Bar: Repetition (posted by Jilly) “Repetition is all around us; in music, in advertising, in our everyday conversation. We use it for emphasis, to drive home our meaning, to get the reader/listener’s … Continue reading
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Tagged Fears, imagination, painting, repetition, villanelle, writing
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The Royal Chair
Written for: the Sunday Muse #23 How dare they leave me outdoors where floating fog threatens to dampen my demeanor. The Czarina would never have treated me to so callously. Ah, but those days of royalty are past. Although times … Continue reading
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Tagged Another POV, furniture, imagination, quality, Written from Art
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Incantation
Written for: Poetic Asides #455 Write a magic poem. Hocus Pocus I’ve lost my focus You have me under your spell. Abracadabra I’m a candelabra You have me under your spell. Alakazam I am still what I am No longer … Continue reading
“clouds and waves”
Written for: Carpe Diem’s Weekend Meditation #49 – “clouds and waves” by Rabindranath Tagore Welcome at a new CDHK Weekend Meditation. As you know this month all the Weekend Meditations are a kind of “distillations”. What does that mean? Well I … Continue reading
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Tagged distillation, haiga, imagination, Inspired by another poem, wings
Imagining Who You Are
Written for: Quickly Warm up with a list. I am _______. I am not _______. I am _______. I am not _______. Be both real and wild. Be serious and silly. Go so far from the way YOU see YOURSELF … Continue reading
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Tagged Emotions, imagination, insect, Weather
Chucky Takes Flight
Written for: Imaginary Gardens With Real Toads – Going Going Gone! (Midweek Prompt!) (posted by Karin) “When I was thinking through these old favorites, I was struck by how often they began with a “going.” (Not necessarily a leave-taking, but simply … Continue reading
What Would Your Dog Say?
Written for: Poets United Midweek Motif~What if . . . ? (posted by Susan) What if dogs could speak to you, tell you things like, I prefer wet food, no more chicken, please. Treats are a given; I should not … Continue reading
Creation on Sand
Written for: The Sunday Whirl, Wordle #363 Words: weight, stones, bones, sea, shells, skein, wig, shade, refrain, twine, bend, shame Indigo twine bent ’round shaded shells of pink-orange, small white stones, bones of washed up sea creatures stands weighted on … Continue reading
Spirit Gods In Flight
Written for: The Sunday Whirl, Wordle #358 Words: ever, cycle, lessons, passions, place, spirit, flitting, home, gods, flight, spiral, essence Whenever passions in flight flit, then spiral into spirit- gods, their essence forms cycles homing in on places of star-sprinkled … Continue reading
