dVerse

  • Cruel Eclipse

    It’s Open Link Night at the dVerse Poets Pub!   Star-crossed and in perpetual orbit: the Moon circling the Earth circling the Sun—your heart beating the rhythm of my soul. Enter the cruel eclipse: spouses, children! (yours, mine never ours). Still, this relentless and unchangeable love, our secret conflagration, longs to burn out loud.  

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  • Down Deep

    Down Deep

    This was otiginally written for the dVerse Poets Pub in 2019. 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 Fandango will publish a post written on this exact

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  • Loose Change

    It’s Quadrille Monday over at the dVerse Poets Pub! Do you ever think about me? Does my existence enhance yours in the slightest, or is my presence in your life akin to clear gelatin? And if I suddenly disappeared, I wonder if you’d notice the absence of loose change jingling in your pocket.    

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  • Silver Midnight Moon

    The prompt at dVerse Poets Pub today is Time and What if? Remember the night of the silver midnight moon when the stars were bigger and shinier than they should have been?   What if we’d wished on the one that had fallen— a quicksilver flash in the sky— instead of falling, so easily, ourselves?

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  • I Knew

    I Knew

    It’s Open Link Night at the dVerse Poets Pub!   A Rondel is a French form consisting of 13 lines: two quatrains and a quintet, rhyming as follows: ABba abAB abbaA. The capital letters are the refrains, or repeats. The first time I met you I knew, I would be foolish to fall in love

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