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My One True Thing
Written for: The Sunday Muse #244 Not budging. There is nothing familiar around me anymore. You have taken it all, sold it all. No matter where we have to live, I must have this piano with me. If you take … Continue reading
The Hard Work of Adapting to Losses
Written for: November 2022 PAD Chapbook Challenge – Day 7 “Day 7 asks poets to adapt. Write an adaptation poem.” Marion was with us, from eight weeks to fifteen years. She left us in April. Dear family member–gone. Marion was … Continue reading
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Tagged emptiness, loss, pain, pantoum form, sorrow, Written for Challenge
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Discarded Bloom
Written for: Sunday Muse #213 Her beauty was too fragile for this world. At first, tightly curled inward, then a delicate opening of her heart. She would give her all, to anyone who cared. Bared her soul, but was tossed … Continue reading
A Countdown To Easing Grief
Written for: Poetic Bloomings2 – Prompt #385 The Final Countdown “Write of the anticipated something in your life in a countdown to that momentous occasion. That’s the theme, but you can word it however you wish to convey your thoughts. … Continue reading
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Tagged counting, ease, fibonacci form, loss, pain
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loss
Written for: April 2022 PAD Challenge – Day 30 “Write a moving on poem.” blue is loss of my heart. How do I move past? https://www.writersdigest.com/write-better-poetry/2022-april-pad-challenge-day-30
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Tagged broken, elfchen form, loss, pain, Written for Challenge
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The Last Pet Companion
Written for: April 2022 PAD Challenge – Day 29 You are my darling boy, issues throughout your life. Now your frame appears skeletal It’s time https://www.writersdigest.com/write-better-poetry/2022-april-pad-challenge-day-29
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Tagged cinquain form, companion, loss, Love, Written for Challenge
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Draped in Sadness
Written for: Poetic Bloomings2 – Prompt #382 “The End of a Hard Week” Sadness lingers, drapes over me like a black cape. No escape from reminders–little items around my house that belonged to my precious dog, Marion. My other dog … Continue reading
Losses
Written for: Go Dog Go Cafe – Tuesday Writing Prompt (posted by Devereaux and Beth) “Write a poem where you begin and end with the same word.” Lost many good people this year. Some we knew others, not. Many causes, … Continue reading
They Bring Us Joy
Written for: Miz Quickly – Day 14 “Today we do return to our five-line stanza. Maybe later a longer poem. Today: Some sort of plant (single or collective) OR animal OR a parent and child OR a pair of lovers—observed … Continue reading
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Tagged animals, extinction, loss, petting, saving
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Lost On A Sunday
Written for: Poetic Bloomings2 – Prompt #354 – Edward Hopper “It seems the paintings and works of artist Edward Hopper are great fodder to inspire other artists in their endeavors. We as poets have come across this from time to … Continue reading