Poetics

  • 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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  • 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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  • 1959

    1959

    This time when he proposed, the answer was no. No courthouse wedding and honeymoon in Mexico; no house in the suburbs, no little girl with dark, curly hair. And so, my homeless soul hovered elsewhere and waited to be wanted.

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  • My Charms

    Today at the dVerse Poets, we have Art as Inspiration, and introducing Beverly Dyer.   I may as well have tried to tame a Mustang stallion or steal a mirage thinking my charms were enough to capture your heart and you would love me back.  

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  • For Certain

    It’s Poetics Tuesday at the dVerse Poets Pub! This week’s prompt is harbinger. the steamy glances shooting over the top of your menu with Cupid’s arrow precision, the way you look at me and sigh like a slow summer waltz watching my heart melt like Belgian chocolate in the sun with that curious half smile on

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