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  • Buttonwood

    Buttonwood

    It’s Quadrille #83 over at the dVerse Poets Pub. Today’s writing prompt is to create a quadrille using the word sun.     Willow tree leaves flutter graceful silvery green— not quite shiny. Two young butterflies at play dipping, diving, spiraling through the air. A field of sunflowers turn their faces skyward as if the

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  • Out of Control

    A Quadrille for the dVerse Poetry Pub It was my go-to if things got out of control. my ace in the hole. kept it in the back of my mind like an extra 5 bucks just in case. today I finally used it— but changed my mind.   Can’t un-slit my throat.  

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  • Your Space

    It’s Quadrille Monday at the dVerse Poets Pub! The writing prompt is “Kiss.” What would it be like I wonder, to count the gold flecks in your hazel eyes and smell the fabric softener of your shirt, to be in your space. Utter perfection! And if we (just for a moment) were close enough to

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  • A Rubaiyat: Love Wins Again

    The Rubaiyat poetry form for dVerse Poets Pub. He was the man they loved to hate For reasons one can’t clearly state. A lonely man without a friend, It seemed like much too cruel a fate.   A wealthy man who dared not spend This one rule he would not bend One day he met

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  • For Certain

    It’s Poetics Tuesday at the dVerse Poets Pub! This week’s prompt is harbinger. the steamy glances shooting over the top of your menu with Cupid’s arrow precision, the way you look at me and sigh like a slow summer waltz watching my heart melt like Belgian chocolate in the sun with that curious half smile on

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