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  • Unpunctuated

    Unpunctuated

    It’s Meeting the Bar at dVerse Poets Pub! Synesthesia is a neurological phenomenon in which stimulation of one sense leads to automatic, involuntary experiences of a second one.   There are over 80 types of synesthesia described by science.   Nearly every combination of sensory experiences or cognitive concepts is possible. Seeing music as colors is one

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  • Blindsided

    Blindsided

    It’s Poetics Tuesday over at the dVerse Poets Pub. This week our prompt is to write about November and what it means to us. *** Papyrus-like leaves flutter in November’s sharp breeze grasping at what used to be: reluctant to let go of their lifeless branches once lush and green. Listless gray clouds hovering and

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  • Anhedonia*

    Anhedonia*

    It’s Quadrille Monday over aat the dVerse Poets Pub. This week, it’s The Happiness Project! *** They say it comes from within — happiness. Unless the within Is without. Where rainbows are gray music is lonely silence laughter is as unlikely as Chamicuro. Longing is non-existent when within is without love can’t won’t live in

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  • The Other Half

    It’s open link night over at the dVerse Poets Pub. I decided to create another nonet using a line from Postscript by Seamus Heany: One side is wild with foam and glitter . One side is wild with foam and glitter — kaleidoscope of dancing snow. Conversely, its other half, a cacophony of apathy in

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  • Cold, Jagged, Piece

    It’s Poetics Tuesday over at the dVerse Poets Pub. Tonight our mission is to write a NONET – a nine line poem that begins with 9 syllables, descending line by line to 1 syllable. Select ONE of these 9 syllable lines as your opener (or more if you wish to write several nonets) It seems

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