Category: Poetry
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Read more: The Waiter
Schaller’s Pump, the oldest bar in Chicago, clossed in 2017. https://tinyurl.com/8pk4nhpw
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Read more: For Some
It’s Poetics Tuesday over at the dVerse Poets Pub. The challenge is to write a poem in the first person that compares some trait of ours with something animal. It should not be a whale, but another creature (mammal, fish, bird, insect, etc.)…
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Read more: The Road Fork
It’s Poetics Tuesday over at the dVerse Poets Pub. MsJadeLi of the Tao Talk blog is our host. Today our mission is to explore diverging connections between things in poetry. Of the three options, I’ve decided to take a crack…
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Read more: Our Road: A Villanelle
This week’s prompt at MindlovesMisery Menagerie is to write a response to the phrase, “The End of the Road.” The end of our road came too fast. Despite road bumps and hairpin turns— Seems the best things aren’t made to…
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Read more: Infinite Slow-Mo
It’s Open Link Night (OLN) at the dVerse Poets Pub! Wishes, no matter how heartfelt how life-or-death-impossible can sometimes surprise you and come true and life is suddenly perfect. Other wishes don’t stand a chance in Hell of turning out…
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Read more: Without Me
You had me from lunch. That very day, you acquired a permanent address in my heart, complete with its own Zip code. I’ve given myself no choice — but to hang on to a dream that can’t come true. It’s…
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Read more: Pretty Red Flags: A Villanelle
Because you said you loved me more, O, how could those big brown eyes lie? The pretty red flags I ignored. Our cottage perched along Maine’s shore— Some called it a pie in the sky, Because you said you loved…
