dVerse

  • Hobohemia

    It’s Prosery Monday at the dVerse Poets Pub! Prosery is prose that includes a line from a poem. I will give you the line, and then you incorporate it into a short prose piece. This can be either flash fiction, nonfiction, or creative nonfiction, but it must be prose! And it must be no longer

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  • The Blur

    It’s Poetics time at the dVerse Poets Pub! Tonight, our prompt is “looking out the window.” Peering through the window of my mind’s eye now smudged thick with the fingerprint of time, distorted by memories of trying to remember. Still I see you and me the way we were all those years ago. And I

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  • The Live Monkey Wrench

    It’s Haibun Monday over at the dVerse Poets Pub. Our prompt is birthdays. No doubt about it, there are some couples who simply should not procreate. My parents were in this number. They probably should have dated for a while & called it good. But no, they had to take that ball and run with

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  • Somebody Else

    Somebody Else

    It’s Fandango’s Flashback Friday! This poem was originally written for the dVerse Poet’s Pub exactly one year ago today. I hope you enjoy it. For today’s Meeting the Bar at the dVerse Poets Pub, we are writing to the First-Person Narrative, using  “I am” as part of our poem. The voice and the specific point

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  • This Time

    This Time

    It’s Quadrille Monday over at the dVerse Poets Pub. This time our word prompt is some form of the word “blue.” The Blues won’t last, they tell me, this too shall pass, and soon sunshine’ll sneak itself through. What do they know? Nothin.’ ‘Cause they don’t know you. If they did, they’d know (just like

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