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Crest Of A Wave
Written for: One Woman’s Quest II VJ’s Weekly Challenge – Contemplating Waves When you wave to someone from afar, you wait a beat. Maybe they do not recognize you. Chances are they will wave back anyway–polite response. Sometimes I feel … Continue reading
“we lie close”
Written for: The Twiglets #212 – “we lie close” A lie is not close to the truth Lying close we each dream our own dreams lying close to ocean waves silver crest in noon day sun A powerful man bent … Continue reading
Blue-eyed Ocean
Written for: Poetic Bloomings2 – Prompt #322 Bits and Pieces “Think of your situation as bits and pieces and how they had influenced you. To take Hampton’s quote, what places have you been, who have you loved? What song best … Continue reading
Trickle of Water
Written for: Poetic Bloomings2 – Prompt #300 It Still Starts With A Seed Small stream bubbles over rocks and stones– peaceful movement. Water stirs and wakes picking up steam, merging into a long lake. Lazily, lake lounges and flows, reaching … Continue reading
Serenity In Blue
Written for: Poetic Bloomings2 – InForm Poet: Endecha The endecha is a 16th-century Spanish poetic form with the following guidelines: Quatrain (or four-line) poem (or stanzas). Rhyme scheme: abcb Seven syllables per line for lines one, two, and three. Line … Continue reading
A Crescent
Written for: Go Dog Go Cafè – Tuesday Prompt – “over the horizon” Just over the horizon a crescent smile of purple is slowing sinking, rippling the ocean in dark shadows. https://godoggocafe.com/Tuesday Prompt
renga with beach diamonds
Written for: Carpe Diem Weekend Meditation #114 Renga With … beach diamonds “This weekend I love to challenge you to create a Renga with several haiku poets. Your task is to add the two-lined stanza towards it. You can choose … Continue reading
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Creature of The Sea
Written for: Sunday Whirl, Wordle #426 Words: laugh, rue, spiral, sham, dense, signal, craft, draft, shell, shallow, send, sop I am a laughing spiral, thin-shelled, sometimes dense. From shallow waters I send you signals to join me on this drafty … Continue reading
I Hear The Ocean
Written for: Sunday Muse #68 Finally I saw the ocean. It was huge, loved the waves. Found this shell, pearl pink inside They call it a conch. Now I can listen to the roar of the ocean whenever I want … Continue reading
Thoughts of Slipping Away
Written for: dVerse Poets Prompt – MTB: Critique and Craft (posted by Frank) “More Dizain” How inviting, the ocean blue water as she stands at railing in reverie not surprised where her aimlessness brought her. What would it feel like … Continue reading