Poetry

  • A Secret’s Secret

    A Secret’s Secret

    It’s Open Link Night over at the dVerse Poets Pub. Sanaa is our host. I’m one of your most dangerous secrets. A guilty pleasure keptsafely under the covers and silent as a lie. Be mindfulof certain secrets, my dear.They like to tell themselves.

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  • It Goes

    It Goes

    It’s Prosery night at the dVerse Poets Pub! PROSERY IS a piece of short prose that includes a line from a poem. I will give you the line, and then you incorporate it into your prose piece. Your prose can be either flash fiction, nonfiction, or creative nonfiction. YOU CAN NOT WRITE A POEM for

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  • The Alchemist

    The Alchemist

    It’s Fandango’s Flashback Friday again! Here’s an oldie from 2019, originally written for the dVerse Poets Pub. *** It’s Games Night at the dVerse Poets Pub! Tonight, we are  to choose 3 names from the list of computer game names below, and somehow or other wrangle them into a poem.You don’t need to know anything

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  • Until

    Until

    It’s Quadrille Monday over at the dVerse Poets Pub. This week, our writing prompt is the word “abide.” “Love will abide” — until it gets tired of waiting for never until it nearly starves from subsisting on scraps of attention so grudgingly thrown until it finally realizes that its been had and rips that heart

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  • …and the ocean

    …and the ocean

    It’s Fandango’s Flashback Friday! Here’s one I had written on this very day in 2018.  Welcome to dVerse Poetics.  Anmol (HA) will be your host for today. And we have a lot to talk about and read today — so let’s all get a nice drink, sit back and relax, and explore desire. Finally, there

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