#dVersePoetsPub

  • A Star

    A Star

    It’s Quadrille Monday over at the dVerse Poets Pub! Our writing prompt is Magic. Exactly 44 words. A roomful of people or even a nightclub when you looked at me and grinned that crooked grin Poof! the world disappeared. Just you and me. Sometimes that magic still happens when I gaze at the midnight sky and

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  • The Mermaid’s Song

    The Mermaid’s Song

    It’s Poetics Tuesday over at the dVerse Poets Pub. This time our host is Laura Bloomsbury who has tasked us with this: Write your poem as a rhyming tercet of 3 line stanzas though a composite 9 liner or more would do just as well – Strict meter is not a requirement but for an

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  • The Drug

    The Drug

    For the dVerse Prosery prompt, we write prose that includes a line from a poem. This line is given in the prompt—you do not choose it. Our Prosery piece must not exceed 144 words. I don’t know why I was surprised every time love started or ended. I use the same MO every time; they

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  • An Hour Killed

    An Hour Killed

    It’s Poetics Night at the dVerse Poets Pub. Our host tonight, Gospel Isosceles (Amaya Engleking) has asked us to “turn the pub into a psychological strip club as we bare it all.” The prompt is taboo. McDonald’s and a movie… On a school night? He was my older cousin, so it was okay but home

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  • Travel Plans

    Travel Plans

    de Jackson, (aka WhimsyGizmo) is hosting the dVerse Poets Pub tonight, and she asks us to create a Quadrille (44 words) incorporating the word stir. when I come across a lone cufflink, chipped button off an old dress shirt — and you’ve been gone, what? thirty-some years now — I still get that sweet fluffy

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