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  • Blindsided

    Blindsided

    It’s Poetics Tuesday over at the dVerse Poets Pub. This week our prompt is to write about November and what it means to us. *** Papyrus-like leaves flutter in November’s sharp breeze grasping at what used to be: reluctant to let go of their lifeless branches once lush and green. Listless gray clouds hovering and

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  • The Other Half

    It’s open link night over at the dVerse Poets Pub. I decided to create another nonet using a line from Postscript by Seamus Heany: One side is wild with foam and glitter . One side is wild with foam and glitter — kaleidoscope of dancing snow. Conversely, its other half, a cacophony of apathy in

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  • 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 lines as your opener (or more if you wish to write several nonets) It seems

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  • 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, nonfiction, or creative nonfiction, but it must be prose! And it must be no longer

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  • 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 I see you and me the way we were all those years ago. And I

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