Category: dVerse

  • Read more: Leaf Cycle

    I wrote this in 2020 for the dVerse Poet’s Pub. Today it is being repurposed for Fandango’s Flashback Friday. Vibrant autumn leaves decorating the lawn warm-spicing the air. 2. Wintertime’s leaves scrape and scratch along the sidewalk crunch beneath my…

    Leaf Cycle
  • Read more: What Nobody Knew

    From that first night I wanted to keep you. Then, in the dirty light of day it became clear: you already had a home. What nobody knew (not even you!) is that I kept you anyway safely in the tenderest…

    What Nobody Knew
  • Read more: Devastation

    It’s Fandango’s Flashback Friday! Four years ago, it was Haibun Monday over at the dVerse Poets Pub. That time, our mission was to take a walk down Memory Lane: “…Force yourself into memories not in photographs; not already written down…

    Devastation
  • Read more: Among the Hazelwood

    It’s Prosery Monday over at the dVerse Poets Pub. This week, our prompt comes from a Yeats poem, The Song of the Wandering Aengus: I went out to the hazel wood,Because a fire was in my head’. 144 words. It…

    Among the Hazelwood
  • Read more: Mulberry Silk

    It’s Quadrille Monday over at the dVerse Poets Pub. Today our writing prompt is the word, embrace. 44 words. I’ve wondered about it often — How it would feel To be wrapped in your embrace. Decorated in Fancy Red diamonds…

    Mulberry Silk
  • Read more: Perpetual Camouflage

    It’s Fandango’s Flashback Friday! Wouldn’t you like to expose your newer readers to some of your earlier posts that they might never have seen? Or remind your long term followers of posts that they might not remember? Each Friday I…

    Perpetual Camouflage
  • Read more: Puddle-Chunked

    It’s MTB (Meeting the Bar) night over at the dVerse Poets Pub. “Opening lines” is the theme: So come on poets, join me at the beginning. Let’s find that best first line: see if you can hook yourself a new…

    Puddle-Chunked