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My Last Day
Written for: Poetics Aside #489 – “Write a death poem.” Flawless beach day. Amorous lover helps me erect a sensational turreted sandcastle. We amble along shoreline, enthusiastic as kids over fan-shaped and nacreous shells. A plaintive cry of seagulls echoes … Continue reading
Effects of Dreaming
Written for: Imaginary Gardens With Real Toads – April Poems – Day 9 The Tuesday Platform: “Understand That This is a Dream” (poem by Allen Ginsberg) (posted by Sanaa) “Greetings poets, wayfarers and friends. Welcome to the Tuesday Platform, the … Continue reading
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Tagged choice, dreams, exhaustion, party, refreshed, sex, terror
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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
Poof!
Written for: Poetic Asides November 2017 Chapbook Challenge – Day 3 Write a triangle poem. For today’s prompt, write a triangle poem. As a shape, the triangle is interesting with its three sides and three corners (that add up to 180 … Continue reading
A Sense of Urgency
Written for: The Sunday Whirl, Wordle #293 Words: base, near, garden, rise, reach, shame, place, while, follow, eyes, kiss, primal Am I off base to stand so near I could reach up, and touch your face? Let your eyes melt … Continue reading
Outlaws
Written for: The Sunday Whirl #228 Words: night, unravel, flight, visible, beg, fringe, file, exist, speak, current, terrain, already You know this night terrain. Do not take flight; I will not bite. Feel that current running through your body? File … Continue reading
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Tagged moon, senses, sex, Wordle
Afterglow
Written for The Mag #291 Scooping my hands together to hold in your warmth. You scent my sheets. Your indent on my pillow is like a sculpture that I wish I could cast in stone. Every time you leave, I … Continue reading
In Reckless Moments
Written for: The Sunday Whirl, Wordle #213 words: chiseled, luminous, puzzle, wine, winner, feckless, superior, lucid, dumb, foreign, hollow, stain Clandestine meetings chiseled from stone of life. Foreign concept to both, this stain of adultery. In lucid moments, they puzzle … Continue reading
Silk Stockings
Written for: Imaginary Gardens with Real Toads, “Last Legs” You (if like me) may also be on your last legs. And, hey, those are great legs you’ve got there too. So go with them! How about a poem about legs? … Continue reading
Shush!
Written for: The Mag, #258 Not another sound. You came to me because of that witchy magic with which I surround you, astound you. Maybe I am a witch, or maybe you just have an itch that no one else … Continue reading
