Category: Poetry
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Read more: Cold, Jagged, Piece
It’s Poetics Tuesday over at the dVerse Poets Pub. Tonight our mission is to write a NONET – a nine line poem that begins with 9 syllables, descending line by line to 1 syllable. Select ONE of these 9 syllable…
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Read more: Hobohemia
It’s Prosery Monday at the dVerse Poets Pub! Prosery is prose that includes a line from a poem. I will give you the line, and then you incorporate it into a short prose piece. This can be either flash fiction,…
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Read more: The Blur
It’s Poetics time at the dVerse Poets Pub! Tonight, our prompt is “looking out the window.” Peering through the window of my mind’s eye now smudged thick with the fingerprint of time, distorted by memories of trying to remember. Still…
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Read more: The Live Monkey Wrench
It’s Haibun Monday over at the dVerse Poets Pub. Our prompt is birthdays. No doubt about it, there are some couples who simply should not procreate. My parents were in this number. They probably should have dated for a while…
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Read more: Somebody Else
It’s Fandango’s Flashback Friday! This poem was originally written for the dVerse Poet’s Pub exactly one year ago today. I hope you enjoy it. For today’s Meeting the Bar at the dVerse Poets Pub, we are writing to the First-Person…
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Read more: This Time
It’s Quadrille Monday over at the dVerse Poets Pub. This time our word prompt is some form of the word “blue.” The Blues won’t last, they tell me, this too shall pass, and soon sunshine’ll sneak itself through. What do…
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Read more: Useless Heart
It’s Quadrille Monday over at the dVerse Poets Pub. This time our prompt is drum. Finally numb to feelings Of love: thoughtlessly (sometimes purposely!) shattered too many times — there’s nothing left to break. Yet, somehow it continues To beat…
