Category: dVerse
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Sunshine Sings
It’s open link night over at the dVerse Poets’ Pub! I’ve not seen it, but the damp-dirt fragrance of petrichor (that musky mystique!) dazzles my blind mind’s eye. Rain’s shimmer—an almost-sound— splash-dancing thirsty lawns, razored lightening slicing; silencing Thunder’s echoed moans then, Sunshine sings a bow of rain in colors I can hear.
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Ending
It’s Haibun Monday over at the dVerse Poets’ Pub. The theme is transitions. The end of a love even if unrequited, still wrenches the heart. O but you’ve grown — letting yourself let go of the wrong dream
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Aimed Too High
Today’s writing prompt at dVerse Poet’s Pub is for every poem to begin like this: Once upon a _________ (you fill in the blank with any word except “time”) So a poem starting with Once upon a time would NOT fit the prompt! BUT, poems starting like this, for example, do fit the prompt: Once upon a…
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Out of Reach
It’s Quadrille Monday over at the dVerse Poet’s Pub and the writing prompt is the word harbor. Harbor lights in the moonlight, walking the shore with a rainbow just out of reach, Champagne for no other reason than celebrating each other, the way your blue-velvet eyes seemed to glitter when you smiled— these are the…
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The Circus!
Today at dVerse, our prompt is “Come to the Circus!” Here it comes again — the circus: where animals cry on the inside. Performing stupid painful, unnatural tricks wishing they were home. Whips and prods, people yelling laughing big bright lights— no wonder they snap.
aka, The Abject Muse 