Category: Poetry
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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 they might not remember? Each Friday Fandango will publish a post written on this exact…
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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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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 if you’d notice the absence of loose change jingling in your pocket.
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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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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 call her bluff that ol’ river gonna make me late for work. Damn late.…
aka, The Abject Muse 