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Shredded Flowers of Peace
Written for: The Sunday Whirl, Wordle #590 Words: floods, barns, faded, walked, peace, drumming, clung, hunt, thick, blooms, topped, spread Outside the barns, homes, and shelters we have walked past, thick blooms that once clung to peace have faded– spread … Continue reading
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Tagged blooms, destruction, Peace, Wordle
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Seasonal Gifts
Written for: Poetic Bloomings2 – Prompt #417 – Gift “As we enter Hanukkah and Christmas week, many are scrambling to find just the right gifts for their special loved ones. Maybe you celebrate another of the many holidays that come … Continue reading
A Break in the Clouds
Written for: Friday Writings #53 – Ordinary “I’m taking a beat to enjoy the small stretch of ordinariness between the frenzy of the US election season and the beginning of the hectic holiday season. To honor that, I’ve decided to … Continue reading
John and Yoko
Written for: Sunday Muse #231 Faces fair, innocent, believing. Imagine if John were still here with us. Would solutions to peace seem as simple as John and Yoko thought in the days when love could conquer all. Imagine. http://thesundaymuse.blogspot.com/
Loopies
Written for: dVerse Poetry Pub – Poetry Form: Loop Poetry (posted by Grace) “Loop Poetry is a poetry form created by Hellon. There are no restrictions on the number of stanzas nor on the syllable count for each line. In … Continue reading
Dark Winter’s End
Written for: dVerse Poets Pub – Poetics: Opening Sentences of Famous Novels (posted by Lynda Lee Lyberg) “Below are the sentences, with the Author and book title. Please reference which sentence you chose, either as an epigraph or author’s note.” … Continue reading
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Tagged country, destruction, Inspired by a first line quote, Peace, sun, Winter
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Written for: Carpe Diem Haiku Kai #1359: The Beautitudes For this episode I have chosen to share The Beatitudes as described in Matthew 5: 1-12 with you all for your inspiration. It fits really our central theme for April, Peace … Continue reading
Sliding Water
Written for: dVerse Poets Pub – Poetry Form: Sparrowlet (posted by Grace) “The elements of the Sparrowlet are: . stanzaic, written in any number of sixains. (A stanza of 6 lines). . syllabic, lines of 8 syllables each. (Often written … Continue reading
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Tagged comfort, movement, Peace, Sparrowlet form, trickling water, wandering
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Evening Peace
Written for: November 2021 PAD – Day 30! “Write a The End and/or The Beginning poem.” When darkness falls, I feel at peace, with one dog curled up fast asleep beside me on his blanket, warm. It’s after nine; my … Continue reading
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Tagged cuddling, dog, drifting, evening, Interlocking rubaiyat form, Peace, Written for Challenge
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Scattered
Written for: dVerse Poets Pub (posted by Bjorn) Meet the bar with the Cadralor & Nobel Prize “The cadralor is a poem of 5, unrelated, numbered stanzaic images, each of which can stand alone as a poem, is fewer than … Continue reading
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