Category: Poetry
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Evicting Earl
Today’s poetry form over at the dVerse Poets Pub, is the dizain. You’re truly not the guy you used to be And I’m not the girl I was yesterday. But what do you see when you look at me? Saggy, wrinkled skin? Thinning hair of gray? You don’t have time to look at me these…
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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, spiraling through the air. A field of sunflowers turn their faces skyward as if the…
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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 finally used it— but changed my mind. Can’t un-slit my throat.
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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 and abandonment. Many have tried to navigate the labyrinth to its end; all had failed.…
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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 be the same word. Some days I miss you terribly. Other days I can’t…
aka, The Abject Muse 