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A Child’s Questions
Written for: Go Dog Go Cafe – Tuesday Writing Prompt (posted by Devereaux and Beth) “Use the words, ‘for reasons they don’t understand’ in a poem.” But, where are we going? Why do we have to leave? I won’t see … Continue reading
Halves
Written for: Miz Quickly – Day 15 – Mid-November “Write about a half.” Half a pie is healthier than whole. Half moons– not as bright as full. Half the time I enter a room and wonder why. Half for you … Continue reading
Unwilling To Question
Written for: dVerse Poets Pub – Prosery (posted by Merrill) “Of Houses, Walls, and Whistling Winds” “I was browsing through Brainpickings, and I came across a poem by Liesel Mueller. I’ve selected this sentence: “there is nothing behind the wall … Continue reading
Mama, Will Things Get Better?
Written for: dVerse Poets Pub – Prosery #7: Jim Harrison (posted by Linda Lee Lyberg) “Hello Everyone and welcome to our 7th episode of Prosery, where poetry and flash fiction collide. Write a story of 144 words or less (not … Continue reading
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Tagged animals, child, drought, fright, inspired by a line from another poem, prosery, questions
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Some Questions
Written for: Imaginary Gardens With Real Toads – April Poems – Day 29 “Asking Questions” (posted by Bjorn) “I think especially open questions leads us to think, where answers leads blocks our thinking often in a dividing manner. So the … Continue reading
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Tagged allergies, confidence, dreams, harmless, nightmares, questions, test, unicorns
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Are You Game?
Written for: Poetic Asides #452 – Write a game poem. Come on chance it– a coffee small chat in public. What can happen in a café? Okay no personal questions. A simple request. Let us talk books and movies. We … Continue reading
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Tagged commonalities, compatibility, Fibonacci, meeting, questions, turnoff
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What Is the Future?
Written for: Imaginary Gardens With Real Toads “What the? (posted by ManicDDaily) It’s about whats! As in,”[A] child said what is the grass” that opens Whitman’s poem. Yes, it is very much about grass, but it also winds from and … Continue reading
Star
Written for: Poetic Asides 2018 April PAD Challenge – Day 14 “For today’s prompt, write a report poem. I know, I know: Writing a report sounds about as far away from poetry as flying is to a penguin, but many … Continue reading
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Tagged famous, questions, suicide, tercet, woman, Written for Challenge
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