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The Affects
Written for: Poetic Bloomings2 – Prompt #288 – “Charting A New Course” “We’ve been sequestered, isolated, quarantined and separated. I can tell you from first hand experience that our lives have been changed. I’m sure many of us can. What … Continue reading
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Tagged changes, feelings, hugs, sadness, strangeness
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World View
Written for: Go Dog Go Café – Tuesday Writing Prompt – “My World” A deep feeling of sadness permeates my world. Why does it feel overwhelming all at once, I wonder. Deaths of family, and friends, changes in relationships, dreaded … Continue reading
Pondering Moon
Written for: The Sunday Whirl, Wordle #450 Words: battle, spread, moon, orange, curve, carve, sad, home, free, lives, lies, states As an opulent orange sun sets, a lemon-drop moon spreads light across the sky. Inside the curve, face of moon … Continue reading
Hypnotic Eyes
Written for: Sunday Muse #98 – Eyes Without A Face The light and dark- colored eyes seem to move, to follow me as I sit studying them. Each one is teary, weary of the world. One has golden tear drops, … Continue reading
Landai
Written for: Imaginary Gardens With Real Toads – Write a Landay (or a series of Landai) – (posted by Sanaa) “Landay” is a traditional Afghan form which consists of a single couplet. There are nine syllables in the first line … Continue reading
What If I Had Been Normal?
Written for: Imaginary Gardens With Real Toads – Words To Live By (posted by Rommy) “I think anyone who has participated here is well aware of the power that words can have at just the right moment. I reflected a … Continue reading
D.U.I.
Written for: Sunday Whirl, Wordle #432 Words: middle, hope, divide, rally, reign, resign, villain, disguise, shade, chain, shoot, shame One afternoon in November when clouds reigned over sun, middle divider on highway was slammed by a villainous drunk driver. Shame … Continue reading
A Hole of Hurt
Written for: Poetic Asides 2019 PAD November Chapbook Challenge – Day 17 “For today’s prompt, write a health poem. It can be about any sort of health: mental, physical, psychological, emotional, etc. Or the health of your stock portfolio or … Continue reading
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Tagged drugs, mental illness, pain, sadness, Sonnet, Written for Challenge
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Children’s Treasures
Written for: dVerse Poets Pub – Prosery: Memories with the trees (posted by Merrill) “Prosery is our latest addition to the dVerse universe. This will be our fourth prosery prompt. If you’re not yet acquainted with the dVerse term, let … Continue reading
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Tagged change, children, flash fiction, in an instant, prosery, sadness, tree
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Witness, Survivor
Written for: Poetic Bloomings2 – Remembering September 11, 2001 “Post a remembrance poem for 9-11. Whether it’s an old poem you had written then, or a new tribute written for this prompt, post it or as many as you’d wish. … Continue reading
