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Carry Your Burdens
Written for: Poetic Asides 2018 April PAD Challenge – Day 30! “Write a closing time poem. Another way of coming at this prompt is to write a poem in which something is coming to an end.” This poem is based … Continue reading
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Tagged closings, Golden Shovel form, retirement, sharing, Written for Challenge
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Public Scrutiny
Written for: Poetic Asides 2018 April PAD Challenge Day 29 Write a response poem. My thought is that you should respond to one of your poems from earlier in challenge. In response to my 4/14 poem, Star: Once again, The … Continue reading
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Tagged death, media, reputation, starlet, Written for Challenge
Crashing Wave
Written for: Poetics Aside 2018 April PAD Challenge – Day 28 Take the phrase (blank) Wave, replace blank with word or phrase, make new phrase title of your poem, and the, write your poem. Looking out at the water, I … Continue reading
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Tagged Love, ocean, Peace, Tritina, Written for Challenge
Trust
Written for: Poetics Aside 2018 April PAD Challenge – Day 27 Write a story poem. Start falling, I will catch you. No worries, it’s a trust thing. She lets go, hits head on ground. Catches him flirting.
Best Buds
Written for: Poetics Aside 2018 April PAD Challenge – Day 26 Write a relationship poem. Of course, there are human relationships, but there are also plant-animal relationships, animal-animal relationships, and even mathematical relationships. Good, bad, healthy, and not-so-much. Dive deep today. … Continue reading
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Tagged animals, colors, Englyn cyrch form, Friends, Written for Challenge
Lace-Curtain
Written for: Poetics Aside 2018 April PAD Challenge – Day 25 Pick an intriguing and/or seldom used word, make it the title of your poem, and then write your poem. In windows she hangs lace curtains, tries to fit in. … Continue reading
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Tagged curtains, determination, lace, Ovillejo form, refugee, war, woman, Written for Challenge
Before Humans Ruled The Earth
Written for: Poetics Aside 2018 April PAD Challenge – Day 24 Two-For-Tuesday – Write a Roundelay or an anti-form poem. Once upon a time, long ago before humans ruled the earth, animals roamed freely you know. Each four-legged creature had … Continue reading
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Tagged animals, earth, imagination, Roundelay form, Written for Challenge
Writing With My Left Hand
Written for: Poetics Aside 2018 April PAD Challenge – Day 23 Write an action poem. Oh, the discipline one has to maintain to form letters that do not look inane, when due to injury, your other hand must be utilized, … Continue reading
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Tagged acrobatics, injury, rubaiyat form, writing, Written for Challenge
Irish Heather Bells
Written for: Poetic Asides 2018 April PAD Challenge – Day 22 Pick a plant, make it the title of your poem, and write your poem. My Irish heather bells, hope they are being well cared for. Their flowers I adore, … Continue reading
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Tagged bells, color, Luc bat form, plant, Written for Challenge
Danger Lurks
Written for: Poetic Asides 2018 April PAD Challenge – Day 21 Write a danger poem. Are you hearing alarms in your head Before you go to bed? Cannot close your eyes because Dragons are drooling in the closet? Every night … Continue reading
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Tagged Abecedarian form, Fears, imagination, possibilities, remedies, Written for Challenge
