Category: Poetry
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Read more: The Neon Nose
It’s the Weekly Terrible Poetry Contest #52, hosted by Chelsea Ann Owens This time our prompt is the word birth. I’ve a birthmark upon nose and in the dark it glows I want to remove it but the doctors say…
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Read more: A Nanosecond
It’s Quadrille Monday over at the dVerse Poets Pub! This time our writing prompt is some form of the word crack. ℵ Almost never a sliver of sunlight cracks through the brick-like layer of eternal gloom. For a nanosecond, I…
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Read more: Remarkable Nothing: a Double Etheree
Since you’ve been gone each day is just like the day before. nothing remarkable nothing new under the sun or moon or stars that you hung just for me you put the colors in the rainbow then took them…
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Read more: 1959
This time when he proposed, the answer was no. No courthouse wedding and honeymoon in Mexico; no house in the suburbs, no little girl with dark, curly hair. And so, my homeless soul hovered elsewhere and waited to be wanted.
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Read more: I’m Gonna
It is time once again for Chelsea Ann Owens’ Weekly Terrible Writing Contest. This week’s prompt is the word fifty, and the entire mess poem must be exactly 50 words. ~~ Now I’m gonna write a poem in exactly 50…
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Read more: Hot Butterfly
It’s Quadrille Monday at the dVerse Poets Pub. The theme is “quiver.” § § Before you ever touch me; you don’t even have to speak (not one syllable!). All you have to do is look at me and do that…
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Read more: La Primavera through Adolescent Eyes
Today’s prompt at the dVerse Poets Pub is to enter the world of Pop Art and describe a modern painting, cultural phenomenon, a product, an icon/idol or mass medium. I failed to follow directions and opted for Sandro Botticelli’s La…