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Once Proud
Written for: dVerse Poets Pub – Meeting The Bar: Middles and Turns (posted by Peter Frankis) “For those of you with good memories, we’ve recently covered ‘endings’ and ‘beginnings’, as well as Grace’s post on setting for poems. So tonight … Continue reading
What of Beauty
Written for: Poetic Bloomings2 – InForm Poet: Quatern A Quatern is a sixteen-line French form composed of four quatrains. – It is similar to the Kyrielle and the Retourne. – It has a refrain that revolves to a different place … Continue reading
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Tagged beauty, fish, ignorance, mother nature, Quatern form, sky, trees
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Eyes Open
Written for: dVerse Poets Pub – Meeting The Bar-Critique and Craft: Polypoton (posted by Frank Hubeny) “The challenge for the next two days is to use a polyptoton somewhere in your poem. Outside of keeping the poem under 200 words, … Continue reading
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Tagged abuse, arrogance, country, mother nature, Polypoton, power
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Warm Embrace
Written for: Helene Vaillant – Willow Poetry Sun is Mother Nature’s warmth giving freely to all beings. Embracing each other brings glorious color to the land of the sun. https://helenevaillant.com/category/what-do-you-see/
A Field of Sunflowers (pantoum 2)
Written for: dVerse Poets Pub – Poetry: a Piece of Written Art (posted by Victoria) In our current form challenge, the Pantoum, we are working with both structure and repetition—techniques much like pattern in visual art. This form, and others … Continue reading
Into The Future
Written for: The Twiglets #59 – “those future folk” Get wise to global warning, or there will be no future, folks. To those future folk, I say, I am sorry we did not take care of your planet. Those future … Continue reading
To Those Who Should Care
Written for: Poetic Asides November 2017 Chapbook Challenge – Day 16 Write a poem to the world. Maybe all of your poems are already directed at the world, but for me, this is a first person poem directed at a group … Continue reading
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Tagged animals, change, Kyrielle form, mother nature, Plants, warning, Written for Challenge
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Power Unleashed
Written for: Imaginary Gardens With Real Toads – Weekend Mini-Challenge: Juice (posted by Brendan MacOdrum) For this challenge, write a poem about power in your life and the world. Write about family or creativity or instinct, plugging in or playing … Continue reading
Suffering and Beauty
Written for: dVerse – “Rein ’em in!” (posted by Lillian) “We’re all ready to rein in Mother Nature….say whoa there…slow down!! Bring her to a stand still and let the sun shine, the winds calm to a gentle breeze and … Continue reading
Washed Out
Written for: Poetic Asides #383 For today’s prompt, write an “it can’t be” poem. That is, a poem about something that just can’t be true. For some, this might mean a heart-broken love poem at the end of a relationship. … Continue reading
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