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They Call It Love
Written for: April 2021 PAD – Day 20 “Write a love and/or anti-love poem.” this idea of love their eyes fixed on each other heartbeats like bass drum tune often heard together now they have a secret song https://www.writersdigest.com/write-better-poetry/2021-april-pad-challenge-day-20
Birds’ World
Written for: Poets and Storytellers United Weekly Scribblings #65: Bird is the word Shape your words around a particular bird or birds in general. (posted by Rommy) To wake to sounds of bird chatter you know it must be Spring. … Continue reading
“o solo mio”
Written for: The Twiglets #204 – o solo mio “o solo mio,” I said in best Italian accent. No answer. Ask Stevie Wonder for deeper understanding. o solo mio echoes from a gondola a kiss in Venice A gondolier sang … Continue reading
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Tagged feud, Haiku, kiss, limerick, Micro-poetry, song, sunshine, unreciprocated
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“hanging on an echo”
Written for: The Twiglets #199 – “hanging on an echo” On hot summer nights corner a cappella groups kept me hanging on an echo. Was that a scream he heard, reverberating through the woods? He cupped his hands trying to … Continue reading
Moon Music
Written for: dVerse Poets Pub – Haibun Monday – 09.28.20 to the Moon! (posted by Frank Tassone) “Let’s celebrate the Moon! Additionally, the Moon is a traditional Autumn kigo, those seasonal words so important to haiku. There are kigo for … Continue reading
Off Trail
Written for: The Sunday Whirl, Wordle #461 Words: smoke, yearning, current, birdsong, trail, camp, chop, vapor, monarch, mountain, twist, chill Off trail. We set up camp, yearning for crackling sounds of a fire burning. Chill in the air, as we look … Continue reading
Notes of a Nightingale
Written for: Blogging From A to Z – “N” A warm brown hue, ringed dark eyes, the nightingale will seeing to you in loud, whistling crescendo. Single males tend to sing during night, in hopes of attracting a mate. Nightingales … Continue reading
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Tagged males, nightingale, song, whistling
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Tercets
Written for: dVerse Poets Pub – Poetics: Three from the Welsh speaking sea based on a poem of Raymond Garlick – (posted by Laura) “For today’s prompt the challenge is to choose AT LEAST THREE RHYME SETS which I’ve taken … Continue reading
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Tagged Beach, raven, seagulls, song, tercets, testing, Written from another poem
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Rainy Day Thoughts
Written for: The Sunday Whirl, Wordle #447 Words: ping, meet, trend, phrase, flake, sigh, turn, fall, twist, press, break, wheel Ping, ping, ping. First drops of rain meet the window. Happy it is not snowflakes falling. She sighs, presses her … Continue reading
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Tagged break-dance, cat, rainy, song, Sounds, Wordle
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Ripping Years Away
Written for: The Sunday Whirl, Wordle #446 Words: sing, lift, rip, old, smooth, blessings, floor, view, enough, panic, virus, twenty Sing and dance with me on this old wood floor the way you did when we were twenty. Lift me … Continue reading
