Category: Poetry
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Silver Midnight Moon
The prompt at dVerse Poets Pub today is Time and What if? Remember the night of the silver midnight moon when the stars were bigger and shinier than they should have been? What if we’d wished on the one that had fallen— a quicksilver flash in the sky— instead of falling, so easily, ourselves?…
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The Cavalier
He broke her heart like all the other promises — and never looked back.
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Sestina: On the Rocks
Today’s writing prompt at Mindlovemisery’s Menagerie is recovery. While this piece isn’t about recovery, it’s somewhere in the ballpark. She’s sick. Her nose starts to run and bleed. Crackling leaves fall out of the trees and spread a carpet of scratchy brown over her world. She hugs and rocks herself; staring down at a street…
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I Knew
It’s Open Link Night at the dVerse Poets Pub! A Rondel is a French form consisting of 13 lines: two quatrains and a quintet, rhyming as follows: ABba abAB abbaA. The capital letters are the refrains, or repeats. The first time I met you I knew, I would be foolish to fall in love…
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Synchronicity
It’s Open Link Night at the dVerse Poets Pub! Your lips move In sync with your hands, giving a voice to the words that live in your heart. You write them on the air (in permanent, invisible ink) and my heart can hear ~ So clearly ~ What my ears cannot.
aka, The Abject Muse 