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Summer Begins
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
Sounds of a Summer Evening
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
A Child In Summer
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
“rustling cotton”
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
Special Times
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
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
Music
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
The Days of Lemonade
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
Sweetness
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
“summertime”
Written for: Carpe Diem Haiku Kai #1845 Troiku Challenge: Summertime “I have chosen the theme Summertime for this Troiku Challenge, because here in The Netherlands we have a very warm, say hot, time with temperatures rising above 30 degrees Celsius, … Continue reading
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