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Pain of Loss
Written for: Poetic Asides 2018 April PAD Challenge – Day 12 Write a lament poem. Her soft voice has left my ears empty of sound. I miss her, my friend of forty years. Must resort to photographs for her smile. … Continue reading
About Annabel Lee
Written for: Imaginary Gardens With Real Toads – Weekend Mini-Challenge “The Heroic Couplet” (posted by Kim) “A heroic couplet is a rhyming pair of lines that can be built up with further couplets to create a poem of any … Continue reading
Another Day
Written for: Poetic Asides #428 – Another ________ Another day, another shooting another casket, another child lost. More time wasting, leaders sit disputing. Another day, another shooting in blood and grief the country is stewing. No action taken, look what … Continue reading
last day
Written for: Carpe Diem #1314 – “The Nightingale” (from Omar Khayyam) “We have seen the Rose and Spring earlier here in one of the quatrains. This time it seems to tell us something more about the fading of time, or the … Continue reading
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Tagged Haiku, Inspired by another poem, loss
When Holidays Change
Written for: dVerse Poets Pub – MTB–How to Write a Villanelle (posted by Frank) Hello, this is Frank Hubeny. Today’s form is the villanelle. Colin Lee used this form in a poem last month which gave me the idea to focus … Continue reading
A Woman Speaks Out
Written for: The Sunday Whirl, Wordle #294 Words: single, grin, slack, trim, shell, handle, strap, can, undo, live, vent, cheer She is venting, a trim single woman, a mother, orating to loud cheers at the band shell. Concert For Peace … Continue reading
A Friend Grieves
Written for: Imaginary Gardens With Real Toads: Poetry sharing A friend grieves for a loss-a lone leaf of a fully blossomed maple at onset of Autumn. A friend grieves- one tear in a pool overflowing with salted waters of sorrow. … Continue reading
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Tagged Grief, loss
Loss
Written for: dVerse Poets Pub: Meeting The Bar~Prose Poetry (posted by Frank Hubeny) “I assume, perhaps naively, that a prose poem uses fewer line breaks than one would use in free verse. I assume its content is less like a … Continue reading
Holidays Through The Years
Written for: Poetic Bloomings2-In-Form: Pantun The basic pantun consists of a quatrain (4-line verse). Commonly, each line contains between 8 and 12 syllables, and employs an abab rhyme scheme. A pantun traditionally follows a fixed rhythm. Per Wikipedia, “The first … Continue reading
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Tagged family, holiday, loss, pantun, traditions
Pick Up The Phone
Written for: Poetic Bloomings2 – “Something’s Missing” Sometimes things end up looking like a gap-toothed smile because something is missing. It could be a vital something or just a thing that makes you feel a bit uncomfortable. Write that something. … Continue reading
