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dVerse Poets Pub – OLN #191
Today is Open Link Night (OLN) over at dVerse Poets Pub. Gayle is our host today and sadly, this is her last go as Pubtender. She is an amazing talent and is one of the kindest people around. She will...
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dVerse Poetics: Musical Muse
Mish is prompting for the dVerse Poetics today. She asks us to reach inside our musical muse and use lines from a favorite song to craft a poem. This is also being posted for Imaginary Garden with Real...
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OLN: Rice Planting
Today is Open Link Night at dVerse, meaning, we can submit ONE poem of our choice of subject and form. I am also linking this to Real Toads Thursday Meme “The one where you grab a nearby book and...
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dVerse Poetics: Metaphor
This is for dVerse Poetics hosted today by Bjorn. He wants us to use metaphors in our writing. I don’t know if I came close. I’m used to writing “direct poetry” – no hidden meanings or agendas. So I...
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dVerse Poets Pub – voice of first frost
This is for dVerse’s Poets Pub, Haibun Monday. Victoria is using the words “shimi no koe” – the voice of first frost to prompt us in our haibun. First frost is a precursor to hatsu yuki, the first...
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Real Toads – That Was Close!
This is for Real Toads. Margaret gave us a prompt from a song – Cruel. This is about going bad, getting good again, going back, and growing up. I hope this comes close....
View ArticleReal Toads Bits of Inspiration
This is for Real Toads Bits of Inspiration: Dragonflies. there are all kinds of stories about them, myths. Japan is no different in its stories of dragonflies, especially among the Samurai. The...
View ArticleGardenias
For Hedge’s 55. Gardenias You used to play the piano when you could not sleep – The sound filled the house. Smell of gardenias filled the air. Someone else lives there now. They cut down the gardenia...
View ArticleThe Flowers in the Glass
For the Camera Flash prompt today on Real Toads. The Flowers in the Glass “My house is run, essentially, by an adopted, fully clawed cat with a mean nature.” Anthony Bourdain The cat jumped onto the...
View ArticleHaibun: Bitter Kisses
For Sherry’s prompt over at Real Toads, Homecoming. We are to write about the nostalgia of lost faces, lost loves, gone places. She offers up one of my favorite songs by the Beatles. I am using it...
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For my Sunday Muse blogspot, Wednesday Muse prompt, A non-music music prompt. “Don’t let the sun go down on me”. Frozen “When stars collide, like you and I, no shadow blocks the sun” — Elton John“The...
View ArticleAmerican Sentence #490
An American Sentence for Helen’s Get Listed prompt over at Real Toads. An American Sentence is exactly 17 syllables, a complete sentence, created by Allen Ginsberg, because he couldn’t follow the...
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