Category: Poetry
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Mulberry Silk
It’s Quadrille Monday over at the dVerse Poets Pub. Today our writing prompt is the word, embrace. 44 words. I’ve wondered about it often — How it would feel To be wrapped in your embrace. Decorated in Fancy Red diamonds as rare and dazzling as you are? Or perhaps it’s more like a draping of…
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Perpetual Camouflage
It’s Fandango’s Flashback Friday! 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 I will publish a post I wrote on this exact date in a previous year. How…
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Our Time | A Villanelle
It’s OLN (Open Link Night) over at the dVerse Poets Pub. I chose the villanelle below to share. I still believe you hung the moon Painted rainbows after a storm. Who knew our time would end so soon? The look in your eyes made me swoon Memories sting and rip like thorns I still believe…
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Puddle-Chunked
It’s MTB (Meeting the Bar) night over at the dVerse Poets Pub. “Opening lines” is the theme: So come on poets, join me at the beginning. Let’s find that best first line: see if you can hook yourself a new reader with upfront vivid images and unusual word use maybe stick with tradition (starting top…
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Radiance Contorted
It’s Quadrille Monday over at the dVerse Poetry Pub. Jade/Li is our host today and she has given us the writing prompt, Way. Admittedly, she was a radiant bride. No groom ever looked hotter in a tux — It seemed normal. What told the tale The way you looked after The I-dos.: Desperation and regret…
aka, The Abject Muse 