Tag Archives: True

Improvised Tales

Posted on February 14, 2020 by purplepeninportland

Written for:  dVerse Poets Pub – Meeting The Bar:  The Death Sentence (posted by Gospel Isosceles) “I’ve been reading Michael Simms’ blog Vox Populi – A Public Sphere for Poetry, Politics, and Nature for four years now and was recently … Continue reading →

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True or False

Posted on November 21, 2018 by purplepeninportland

Written for:  Poetic Asides 2018 November PAD – Day 20 “For today’s Two-for-Tuesday prompt: Write a love poem. Or… Write an anti-love poem.” Love Myriad of loves people, pets, blooming peonies Anti-Love If a love is false, all for show … Continue reading →

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A Girl’s Determination

Posted on April 25, 2016 by purplepeninportland

Written for:  Poetic Asides April 2016 Challenge – Day 24 For today’s prompt, write a poem in which something is lost and then regained. Maybe a relationship is lost and then regained, or a special keepsake. Maybe it was stolen … Continue reading →

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Three Rooms For One

Posted on September 6, 2014 by purplepeninportland

Written for:  Red Wolf Poems #220, “On The Road” Tourist Home, Motor Village, Travel Court, Bedbug Palace, Motel Hell Write about that room by the highway. When they said, budget motel, we never figured that they meant “extras.” Yet, the … Continue reading →

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Watermelon Slices

Posted on August 8, 2014 by purplepeninportland

Written for:  Red Wolf Poems #218, “Time Travel” This week we will use our memory to time travel…all the way back to childhood.  Writing about a memory captures it, much like a photograph does; but words also capture emotion, mood, … Continue reading →

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To A Sweetie

Posted on August 7, 2014 by purplepeninportland

Written for:  Creative Bloomings, InForm Poets:  Elegy An elegy is a song of sorrow or mourning–often for someone who has died. But, since poets exercise license, they can also write elegies for the ends of things: a life, a love … Continue reading →

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The “S” Word

Posted on July 22, 2014 by purplepeninportland

Written for:  The Daily Post at WordPress.com, “Can’t Watch This” When was the last time you watched something so scary, cringe-worthy, or unbelievably tacky — in a movie, on TV, or in real life — you had to cover your eyes? … Continue reading →

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Sweet Scents

Posted on July 15, 2014 by purplepeninportland

Written for:  The Daily Post at WordPress.com, “Now?  Later!” We all procrastinate. Website, magazine, knitting project, TV show, something else — what’s your favorite procrastination destination? Almost anything is an ample excuse for not cleaning. Even daydreaming on the outdoor … Continue reading →

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Boom!

Posted on June 12, 2014 by purplepeninportland

Written for Poetic Asides Write a poem of industry. Business is booming in the gun industry. The NRA is happy. School kids are dying every week here in the good old U.S.A. Deranged people can buy guns. What’s the bottom … Continue reading →

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You Mattered

Posted on June 5, 2014 by purplepeninportland

Written for Poetic Asides:  Write a tribute poem. So many names etched in glossy black walls at which we stand and stare appalled at the enormous number of fallen soldiers, hoping we will not see a name we know, a … Continue reading →

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