Category: Poetry
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Read more: Buttonwood
It’s Quadrille #83 over at the dVerse Poets Pub. Today’s writing prompt is to create a quadrille using the word sun. Willow tree leaves flutter graceful silvery green— not quite shiny. Two young butterflies at play dipping, diving,…
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Read more: Out of Control
A Quadrille for the dVerse Poetry Pub It was my go-to if things got out of control. my ace in the hole. kept it in the back of my mind like an extra 5 bucks just in case. today I…
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Read more: One
This week’s visual prompt at Hélène Vaillant’s Willow Poetry blog is the image below. Past the shifting facades, behind the dead ends, on the other side of vertigo lies my heart: hermetically sealed by fear of intimacy, by distrust…
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Read more: Breathe
I have been tagged by crushedcaramel to create an elfchen, which is an 11 word poem written in 5 lines — Line 1=1word, Line 2=2words, Line 3=3words, Line 4=4 words, Line 5 =1 word. Lines 1 and 5 should not…
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Read more: Your Space
It’s Quadrille Monday at the dVerse Poets Pub! The writing prompt is “Kiss.” What would it be like I wonder, to count the gold flecks in your hazel eyes and smell the fabric softener of your shirt, to be in…
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Read more: Trick Heart
Today at Mindlovemisery’s Menagerie, the writing prompt is The Dissonant Heart. Sometimes, it comes close Almost, but not quite. My heart flips and flops As it tumbles into love pausing in mid-somersault to roll over & play dead.…
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Read more: A Rubaiyat: Love Wins Again
The Rubaiyat poetry form for dVerse Poets Pub. He was the man they loved to hate For reasons one can’t clearly state. A lonely man without a friend, It seemed like much too cruel a fate. A wealthy man…