Category: Poetry
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Read more: For Certain
It’s Poetics Tuesday at the dVerse Poets Pub! This week’s prompt is harbinger. the steamy glances shooting over the top of your menu with Cupid’s arrow precision, the way you look at me and sigh like a slow summer waltz watching…
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Read more: Cruel Eclipse
It’s Open Link Night at the dVerse Poets Pub! Star-crossed and in perpetual orbit: the Moon circling the Earth circling the Sun—your heart beating the rhythm of my soul. Enter the cruel eclipse: spouses, children! (yours, mine never ours).…
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Read more: Down Deep
This was otiginally written for the dVerse Poets Pub in 2019. Wouldn’t you like to expose your newer readers to some of your earlier posts that they might never have seen? Or remind your long term followers of posts that…
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Read more: Now Here
It’s the Go Dog Go Cafe Tuesday Writing Prompt Challenge! This week our mission is to write a poem using the word ‘somewhere’ at last twice. Without the one you love somewhere equals nowhere. Anywhere beats somewhere when you’re Nowhere.…
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Read more: Loose Change
It’s Quadrille Monday over at the dVerse Poets Pub! Do you ever think about me? Does my existence enhance yours in the slightest, or is my presence in your life akin to clear gelatin? And if I suddenly disappeared, I wonder…
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Read more: Captain January
It’s still my favorite January. The typical grey, cold nothingness hovered until the magic happened. You made the sun shine and flowers bloom — like only you could. Albeit fleeting, I’d do it all again. With you. …
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Read more: Every Day
Every day I pass her on my way to work and she calls to me: her voice cool and deep, she tempts me (Lord, she tempts me!) a little more each day. I got nothin’ and nobody but if I…