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Winter Play (solo renga)

Posted on January 7, 2020 by

Written for:  Poetic Asides – Renga Poems At its most basic, the renga is a tanka written by two or more poets. This Japanese form preceded (and inspired) haiku, and its common for poets to link several renga into a … Continue reading →

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Forward Fall!

Posted on September 2, 2019 by

Written for Poetic Bloomings2 – Prompt #258 – “Getting Back To It” “Write a poem about getting back to something (or getting back something).” I dis Summer what a bummer. Time for feeling Fall– gold, red, orange, and all. Won’t … Continue reading →

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Cat Lives

Posted on May 13, 2019 by

Written for:  The Sunday Whirl, Wordle #403 Words:  insight, blocks, shift, shoot, clues, style, alley, siren, lights, live,  tracks, permit Alley cats live on scraps. Feral cats prefer outdoors, so if you permit them a warm place, be sure to … Continue reading →

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The “rest” of the Time

Posted on April 18, 2019 by

Written for:  The Wednesday Muse #4 – Busy Body  (posted by Toni) “Speaking of which, what do you all do to rest? do you sleep, take naps, take walks, ride a bike, got to the beach, climb a tree? This … Continue reading →

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Picnic Day

Posted on July 17, 2018 by

Written for:  The Sunday Whirl, Wordle #360 Words:  simple, gravel, edge, low, tight, path, climb, knots, trim, spread, spray, pattern She wears a simple, lace-edged shirt, patterned with sprays of violets scattered across collar and cuffs, knotted at her trim … Continue reading →

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Lover Of Books On A Summer Morning

Posted on November 28, 2017 by

Written for:  Poetic Asides November 2017 Chapbook Challenge – Day  27 For today’s prompt, take the phrase “(blank) Of (blank),” replace the blanks with a word or phrase, make the new phrase the title of your poem, and then, write … Continue reading →

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Absence Of

Posted on November 9, 2017 by

Written for:  Poets United Midweek Motif~Silence  (posted by Sumana) Where to find that soundlessness? Is Silence merely absence of sound or more than that? “In the End, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of … Continue reading →

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“A Cool Verandah

Posted on June 28, 2017 by

  Written for:  The Twiglets #30 – “a cool verandah” On a sultry summer night What could be cooler than sleeping out on a verandah     https://thetwiglets.wordpress.com/2017/06/27/twiglet-30/#comments  

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Posted on January 19, 2017 by

Written for Quickly #18 – Whole Cloth Begin with a lie. At some point mention a specific date. Include one small animal and one large one (names will suffice). Before you finish, correct the lie in such a way that … Continue reading →

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Beyond

Posted on December 13, 2016 by

Written for:  Carpe Diem #1092, Fantasy in g-moll for Cello by Fanny Mendelssohn fantasy world unfolds while the wind tears clouds apart in sunny colors clouds moving, changing everlasting fantasy world unfolds © Chèvrefeuille (our host) Here is my attempt: … Continue reading →

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