aka, The Abject Muse

Category: Poetry

  • Slow Learner

    Slow Learner

    Learning to let go of you means erasing the fact that you made my wildest dreams come true      

  • Sunshine Sings

    Sunshine Sings

    It’s open link night over at the dVerse Poets’ Pub! I’ve not seen it, but the damp-dirt fragrance of petrichor (that musky mystique!) dazzles my blind mind’s eye. Rain’s shimmer—an almost-sound— splash-dancing thirsty lawns, razored lightening slicing; silencing Thunder’s echoed moans then, Sunshine sings a bow of rain in colors I can hear.  

  • Imagination

    letting go of you is as unimaginable as never having known you at all.    

  • Ending

    Ending

    It’s Haibun Monday over at the dVerse Poets’ Pub. The theme is transitions. The end of a love even if unrequited, still wrenches the heart. O but you’ve grown — letting yourself let go of the wrong dream    

  • Aimed Too High

    Aimed Too High

    Today’s writing prompt at dVerse Poet’s Pub is for every poem to begin like this: Once upon a _________ (you fill in the blank with any word except “time”) So a poem starting with Once upon a time would NOT fit the prompt! BUT, poems starting like this, for example, do fit the prompt: Once upon a…