Tag Archives: Summer

Myrna Celebrates Herself

Posted on July 14, 2022 by purplepeninportland

Written for: dVerse Poets Pub – Quadrille #155 Let’s Celebrate (posted by Merril) “Hello dVerse Poets! It’s Merril welcoming you back to our poetic pub after the break. We’re going to jump right in with a celebratory Q.” Today—and this … Continue reading →

Posted in Purple's Home | Tagged book, party, quadrille, Summer | 12 Comments

Summer Begins

Posted on June 22, 2022 by purplepeninportland

Written for: dVerse Poets Pub – Haibun Monday: Solstice (posted by Frank J. Tassone) Write an original haibun that alludes to the Solstice, whether Summer or Winter According to calendar events, today is the first day of Summer. The meaning … Continue reading →

Posted in Purple's Home | Tagged growth, Haibun, solstice, Summer | 4 Comments

Sounds of a Summer Evening

Posted on June 3, 2022 by purplepeninportland

Written for: dVerse Poets Pub – MTB with dissonance (posted by Bjorn) “Poets usually strive to make a poem easy and pleasant to read, and often those tools are based on vocal harmonies, through the meter, rhyme, assonance, or consonance. … Continue reading →

Posted in Purple's Home | Tagged dissonance, storm, Summer, surprise | 11 Comments

A Child In Summer

Posted on May 25, 2022 by purplepeninportland

Written for: dVerse Poets Pub – Haibun Monday: Summer (posted by Frank J. Tassone) “Let’s join in the celebration of Summer! Write a haibun that alludes to this hottest of seasons.” When I think of Summer, I am apt to … Continue reading →

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“rustling cotton”

Posted on March 9, 2022 by purplepeninportland

Written for: The Twiglets #269 – rustling cotton Rustling cotton is not the same as rustling cattle. Dressed in freshly laundered white cotton dress, she can hear rustling of material through eyelets in her sleeves. summer breeze there is a … Continue reading →

Posted in Purple's Home | Tagged bad boy, breezes, Haiku, limerick, Micro-poetry, Summer | 10 Comments

Special Times

Posted on November 6, 2021 by purplepeninportland

Written for; November 2021 PAD – Day 5 Write a special poem. Reading a thick paperback on lounge chair in bathing suit. Our cabin is up a hill. You look peaceful on this vacation. Spending a week in Montauk. At … Continue reading →

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Near Summer’s End

Posted on September 13, 2021 by purplepeninportland

Written for: The Sunday Whirl, Wordle #518 Words: carpets, lining, candlelight, land, tears, touching line, kneeling, down, flowers, late, wheels Wheels of summer spin rain and heat. Late living flowers drop petals on land forming carpets at base of trees. … Continue reading →

Posted in Purple's Home | Tagged heat, power, Summer, Weather, Wordle | 2 Comments

Music

Posted on August 14, 2021 by purplepeninportland

Written for: dVerse Poets Pub – Poetry Form: Mirrored Refrain (posted by Grace) “The Mirrored Refrain is rhyming verse form constructed by Stephanie Repnyek. The poem is formed by three or more quatrains where two lines within the quatrain are … Continue reading →

Posted in Purple's Home | Tagged blues, mirrored refrain form, music, Summer, unity | 14 Comments

The Days of Lemonade

Posted on June 23, 2021 by purplepeninportland

Written for: Go Dog Go Cafe Tuesday Writing Prompt (posted by Devereaux and Beth) “Write a poem using “lemonade days”. Children set up a stand selling lemonade in days of Summer. Friends lent them a helping hand, dependent of course … Continue reading →

Posted in Purple's Home | Tagged birdsong, children, lemonade, Summer, written from words | 2 Comments

Sweetness

Posted on June 21, 2021 by purplepeninportland

Written for: Poetic Bloomings – Prompt #339, Makes Sense “Today, we are addressing the idea of sense. There are the five senses and the organs that put them to work. There is dollars and “cents.” There are different scents in … Continue reading →