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“tangled thread”
Written for: The Twiglets #271 – tangled thread His long hair, thinner and silvered, looks like tangles of fine thread. Lost the thread of the story as it tangled into twisted plots. sits darning socks sudden pull on spool of … Continue reading
Who Was She?
Written for: dVerse Poets Pub – Poetics: “You Want It Darker” (posted by Lucy) “We will write a poem about the transient notion of life to death, or topics germane to the theme. With a twist. We are going to … Continue reading
Indigo Glow
Written for: dVerse Poets Pub – Meeting The Bar: Critique and Craft “Descriptive Detail” – (Posted by Frank H.) “The topic today is descriptive detail. This is the part that tells the reader what the poem is about. It is … Continue reading
Listen To The Rain Grow
Written for: The Sunday Whirl, Wordle #412 Words: rain, grow, listen, seven, humility, change, plate, still, stories, string, where, sits I have heard stories that if you sit perfectly still, count to seven, and listen, you can hear rain growing, changing … Continue reading
The Determined Dachshund
Written for: Imaginary Gardens With Real Toads: Fussy Little Forms – “Cherita” (posted by Marian) Cherita builds on haiku and tanka, and was inspired by the six-word story, which was inspired by Hemingway, so hey, there is a rich history … Continue reading
Once Upon A Country
Written for: dVerse Poets Pub – “Stock Phrases” (posted by Lillian) Once upon a time . . . “. . . that phrase begins many a tale. According to the Oxford English Dictionary, the phrase has been used in some … Continue reading
A Little Madness
Written for: Imaginary Gardens With Real Toads – “Of Angels and Monsters:(Imagined by Rommy) “For today’s prompt I’ve gathered seven pop culture quotes that have to do with angels, monsters or both. Your mission is to pick one and create … Continue reading
Blue Spirit Rising
Written for: The Sunday Whirl, Wordle #298 Words: born, stories, rings, snapped, ash, origins, radiates, spirits, limb, rain, cave, thin She was a spirit born to tell stories. Documentation of her origins is incomplete. She blue vapored out of a cave … Continue reading
Wonderland Day
Written for: dVerse Poets – Poetic Tuesdays: “A Cause For Celebration” (posted by Walt) Life can come at you with a heavy hand, and we end up dealing with it the best we can. With this in mind, I have … Continue reading
Wonderland Wildness
Written for: Phoenix Rising, The Reason for Rhyme So, what are rhymes? Rhymes generally are words that differ only on their initial sounds. Sounds like true and blue, or leg and beg. Looking at that, we find that some words … Continue reading
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