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Evening Tercets
Written for: dVerse Poets Pub – Meeting The Bar: Triplets (posted by Frank H.) “Today the challenge is to write three-line poems or poems having mainly three-line stanzas. In other words the focus is on tercets or as I titled … Continue reading
I Gather Misery
Written for: Poetic Bloomings2 – For Your Consideration – The Walls Have Eyes “Write from the point of view of a portrait on the wall.” Some of you stare intently at my image while others gently tip-toe by. It’s that … Continue reading
“pale distance”
Written for: The Twiglets #152 – “pale distance” In pale distance/outline of horse is befogged/in the early dawn. smoke pales in distance houses and mountains visible wild fires abate There was a young lady from Memphis whose voice, she thought, … Continue reading
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My Words
Written for: dVerse Poets Pub – Quadrille #85 (posted by whimsyGizmo) “Raising our Poetic Voices”. “Voice” “Listen to the voice inside you. Voice your opinion. Give voice to a new thought. Whether you let your inner siren loose, or stick … Continue reading
Pearl of a Girl
Written for: Imaginary Gardens With Real Toads – Out of Standard – This is the end??? (posted by Isadora) “This is the end???? From time to time we fall in love with a great story, but the ending just doesn’t … Continue reading
Nap
Written for: Poetic Bloomings2 – InForm Poet – Reikiku For Inform starters, I offer a form that I had developed a while back. I consider it a Japanese form, molded after a haiku. Read below for its discovery and presentation. … Continue reading
“a great silence”
Written for: Carpe Diem #1391 – A Great Silence (Taken from a poem of Rumi’s) birds sing leaves rustle no human sound © Chèvrefeuille Here is my attempt: sad silence one voice less that makes me smile a good friend is … Continue reading
Change Comes Slowly
Written for: Imaginary Gardens With Real Toads – Wordy Thursday With Wild Woman: Being The Change “Marjory Stoneman Douglas, (1890 – 1998), was a feminist, an activist, a journalist and an environmentalist, known especially for her defense of the Everglades, when … Continue reading
Painting Voices
Written for: Poets United Midweek Motif~Voice In this motif, voice is not a literary technique, but the willingness to speak from a specific point of view despite fear of consequences. That is today’s theme: the bravery or bravado of insisting … Continue reading
A Threatening Triolet
Written for: Imaginary Gardens With Real Toads – Fireblossom Friday: “I Put A Spell On You” Sometimes, a duplicate of a living person takes form, called a Doppelganger. The double does things the original person is unaware of, but others … Continue reading
