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A Cento of Nature
Written for: April 2021 PAD Challenge – Day 22 “Write a nature poem.” Hope is the thing with feathers who moves his soft velvety head. Meanwhile the wild geese, high in the clean blue air call to you, harsh and … Continue reading
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Tagged birds, Cento form, flowers, trees, waterfalls, Written for Challenge
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One With Nature
Written for: Sunday Muse #138 I am a facelost in a cloudwhose mist befogstops of evergreenslike white smokemountains. http://thesundaymuse.blogspot.com/
Revisiting A Childhood Memory
Written for: Sunday Muse #137 That old cabin of his childhood– now an ashy frame of forgotten time. Without windows, he could see clear through to the back. Trees were twisted as if they had given up. A pale sun … Continue reading
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Tagged cabin, childhood home, owl, rundown, trees, Written from Art
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Endless Beauty
Written for: dVerse Poets Pub – Three Little Words (posted by (sarahsouthwest) “Choose one of the 3-word combinations, and write a poem 3-12 lines long.” field, memory, magic In my memory I slow-stepped fields, meandered meadows of magic color, trees … Continue reading
What of Beauty
Written for: Poetic Bloomings2 – InForm Poet: Quatern A Quatern is a sixteen-line French form composed of four quatrains. – It is similar to the Kyrielle and the Retourne. – It has a refrain that revolves to a different place … Continue reading
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Tagged beauty, fish, ignorance, mother nature, Quatern form, sky, trees
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Oh My Aching Knees
Written for: Go Dog Go Cafe – Tuesday Writing Prompt: “Write a pieces of prose or poetry around the phrase, “on our knees”. On our knees we searched for my keys increasingly displeased by the wide hem of trees from … Continue reading
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Tagged knees, silly, trees, written from words
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“gossiping trees”
Written for: The Twiglets #176 – “gossiping trees” Keep away from me, Elm. That Dutch disease may arise again. Would you just look at that cherry, always weeping. Japanese maple burgundy feathers sway looks like an umbrella There once was … Continue reading
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Tagged Haiku, limerick, Micro-poetry, self-respect, talk, trees, weeping
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Autumn’s Gold
Poetics Aside April 2020 PAD Challenge – Day 9 Write an ekphrastic poem. Gold of autumn shines through trees Tell me who walks these woods, please, in whose outer limits, dwell dark seas. A light beckons me to follow its … Continue reading
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Tagged autumn, being, gold, monorhyme, trees, Written for Challenge
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Sevenling . . . three robins
Written for: Poetic Asides Countdown to Challenge: T-minus 7 – Write a short poem. For: Poetic Bloomings2 – InForm Poet – Sevenling “The first three lines should contain an element of three. It could be three connected or contrasting statements, … Continue reading
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Tagged animals, flowers, hope, Sevenling, short poems, Spring, trees
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Hypophora*
Written for: Poets and Storytellers United – Weekly Scribblings #11 “Hypophora and all that” (posted by Sanaa) *a writer raises questions and immediately provides an answer. The major purpose of using hypophora is to create curiosity among the readers, while … Continue reading
