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To Holiday Cookies!
Written for: Poetic Bloomings2 – InForm Poet Christmas Cookie Pantoum “As we begin preparations (I know of a guy who is twenty-four days away from one hundred poems to Christmas) for the big season, we see the staple of most … Continue reading
Nature’s Gifts
Written for: Poetics Aside PAD November 2020 Challenge – Day 13 “For today’s prompt, write a luck poem. Good luck, bad luck, a mixed bag. You decide and then write it.” Lucky penny, heads up reflected in the sun. I … Continue reading
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Tagged lake, lucky, pantoum form, penny, rainbow, swans, Written for Challenge
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Bagels and Cream Cheese
Written for: Poetics Aside April 2020 PAD Challenge – Day 22 Write a quirk poem. He walks a mile for exercise to get his bagel and chive cream cheese. In this way breakfast is justified. With his routine, he is … Continue reading
Physical Fun Times
Written for: Poetic Asides 2019 PAD November Chapbook Challenge – Day 21 “For today’s prompt, write a travel poem. There are so many ways a person can travel–by train, plane, automobile; by horse, roller skates, rickshaw; by trolley, hot air … Continue reading
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Tagged pantoum form, physical illness, psychological illness, vaccines, Written for Challenge
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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
Love At Midnight
Written for: Poetics Aside 2018 November PAD Chapbook Challenge – Day 2 For today’s prompt, write a darkest hour poem. Some people may think of midnight or the witching hour. Still others may picture those moments right before the sun … Continue reading
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Tagged garments, midnight, pantoum form, sex, stars, Written for Challenge
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On A Cold Autumn Night
Written for: Poetic Asides November 2017 Chapbook Challenge – Day 26 Write a shine poem. The blue in the black of his hair, like an ice floe in a dark sea. Luminance under light of moon on Autumn night with … Continue reading
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Tagged endings, glare, moonlight, pantoum form, relationships, Written for Challenge
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So What Did We Learn?
Written for: Poetics Aside April 2017 Challenge – Day 9 “So –––––” So tell me, what did we learn from history? People slaughtered in religious wars, carnage repeated again and again. Greed rules rulers on a chessboard of pawns. People … Continue reading
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Tagged blood, lessons, pantoum form, power, war, Written for Challenge
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Stargaze
Written for: Poetic Asides April 2016 Challenge – Day 22 “Star ____” Replace the blank with a word or phrase, make the new phrase the title of your poem, and then write your poem. A beautiful night to stargaze, early … Continue reading
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Tagged autumn, pantoum form, stars, Written for Challenge
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