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The Hard Work of Adapting to Losses
Written for: November 2022 PAD Chapbook Challenge – Day 7 “Day 7 asks poets to adapt. Write an adaptation poem.” Marion was with us, from eight weeks to fifteen years. She left us in April. Dear family member–gone. Marion was … Continue reading
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Tagged emptiness, loss, pain, pantoum form, sorrow, Written for Challenge
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Old Man In Sorrow
Written for: Poets and Storytellers United Weekly Scribblings #74: Painted Tales (posted by Magaly) “Today’s prompt came to mind after I watched Girl with a Pearl Earring, a movie inspired by a novel which was inspired by a painting… Now, … Continue reading
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Tagged aging, family, Friends, POV of subject, sorrow, Written from Art
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For A Dear Friend
Written for: Sunday Muse #153 I hear a deafening roar of a firearm. In my gut I know you are no more. Two feathers are all I find. My brave, intelligent friend–you were taken from me, but I sit in … Continue reading
For The Lost and The Survivors
Written for: Poetic Asides PAD November 2020 Challenge – Day 30 “For today’s prompt, write an exit poem. Some exit gracefully; some make a scene. However you wish to exit, do so poetically now.” Chimera spaceship plagues people of earth. … Continue reading
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Tagged death, elegy, plague, sorrow, Written for Challenge
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Picturing Black
Written for: dVerse Poets Pub – Poetics: On Shades of Black (posted by Anmol) “This is Anmol (alias HA) and I welcome you to another week of dVerse Poetics. Today, I am prompting you to think of what comes to … Continue reading
Cold Ashes
Written for: Imaginary Gardens With Real Toads – Get Listed: January Edition “Choose any 3 words that fit best with mood/theme/personality of your poem on a topic of your choice:” carnation slightly … Continue reading
pooling
Written for: Poetic Asides #438 – Write a pool poem. a pooling of tears swept out to ocean depths saline sorrows
Floating Light Troiku
Written for: Carpe Diem Weekend-meditation #3 on the river And here is the haiku which you have to use for this Troiku-challenge: on the river lights float to the horizon the dead rejoice © Basho on the river reflection of lighthouse … Continue reading
White Lies
Written for: dVerse Poets: “Meeting The Bar With Expressionism” (Posted by Bjorn) Today we continue our journey into art and poetry, and the turn has come to Expressionism, and though notoriously defined, I think it’s easiest to start from art, … Continue reading