Tag Archives: nostalgia

In the Middle Years

Posted on November 4, 2022 by purplepeninportland

Written for: November 2022 PAD Chapbook Challenge – Day 4 Fill-in-the-blank title poem. In the (blank) We loved to see plays performed on Broadway. Once, near the stage of ‘Death of a Salesman’ your eyes welled up at the pathos … Continue reading →

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Every Now and Then

Posted on July 17, 2022 by purplepeninportland

Written for: dVerse Poets Pub – Poetics: Breakfast at Tiffany’s (posted by Linda Lee Lyberg) Nostalgia creeps in every now and then. I recall with fondness, my growing up home–a housing project in Brooklyn. Look at it now. Instead of … Continue reading →

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Rooftop Passion

Posted on February 7, 2022 by purplepeninportland

Written for: The Sunday Whirl, Wordle #539 Words: smells, shots, nailing, body, vibrating, facts, hesitation, brushed, miss, rain, leak, cut She still misses smells of cooking in her apartment building–robust scents of stuffed cabbage, Italian sauce bubbling in a tall … Continue reading →

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candy apples

Posted on August 9, 2019 by purplepeninportland

Written for:  Carpe Diem Weekend Meditation #96 Little Ones … Sedoka Sedoka: A Sedoka is an unrhymed poem composed of two katauta. A katauta has three lines with the syllable pattern 5-7-7 and is complete in itself and able to … Continue reading →

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Carefree Days

Posted on May 13, 2019 by purplepeninportland

Written for:  Poetic Bloomings2, Prompt #247 – “Take Me Back to Chicago” “If there was any music I could consider the soundtrack of my life, it would be the music of Chicago. When they first came onto the scene, they … Continue reading →

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Lou

Posted on March 24, 2019 by purplepeninportland

Written for:  The Muse #48 They called her Lou. She sang, performed on stage at times. Great -Grandma Eloise, an unforgettable character. Liked her liquor, jewelry, and dance. This is her old Victrola, a book of poems of which she … Continue reading →

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