Tag: dVerse
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Light Bearing: a #Tanka Tuesday (1/16/18) #tankaprose #haibun …#poetry #haiku #dversepoets
“Darkness cannot drive out darkness: only light can do that” I never knew my about mother’s prejudice until I was almost thirteen. She deliberately chose to withold any comment, or display any attitude, that would influence me to adopt her biases. Others’ parents did not make such enlightened decisions. dark night “better…
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Bounce Back: A Riding the Dragon #Quadrille #haibun reprise…#poetry #haiku
The Dragon bucks. He spills me onto the earth. I can lie there, staring at the sky with the breath knocked out of me. Or I can bounce back up. And get back in the saddle. winter sun the only way out is through for dVerse–Quadrille #48. DeJackson hosts, and the word…
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#Throwdown Thursday (1/11/18): my latest on .@ImageCurve.. #haibun #poetry
Gastronomic Insomnia Full, from dinner. Spicy beef and rice with black beans repeat. The last traces of tequila complete their work. I keep drinking water. No matter how bloated I feel. Or how sleepy. windchime rises, falls crickets chirp first published on Image Curve, January 11, 2018 Photo by Natasha Bhogal on Unsplash for…
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#Tanka Tuesday (1/9/18): Low Winter Sun …an Ekphrastic #tankaprose…#haiku #poetry #photo
“low winter sun” by Sharnon Knight “low winter sun” a pathfinder’s way ends at home fresh snow and bare trees a welcome sight We swore we passed the same farmhouse. Weather-worn, with a silo near the barn, and perhaps a shed set back in the same, full field. Each one lay along a state road…
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Our Post-Mortem: an .@ImageCurve winter moon #haibun for #dVersepoets
Our Post-Mortem I sit on your beige sofa across from you in your living room. Mike — your husband, my fraternity brother— prepares the VHS tape. Of your wedding. There is a moment when he’s in the kitchen. I see you, seated cross-legged, some serene Buddha of a woman. Only a hint of…
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The Agony and Ecstasy of Doors: a #haibun…#haiku #poetry
Rome. Arch of Janus in the Foro Boario. Facade towards the Tevere river. Through the arch, the porch of the church of Saint George in Velabro is seen. By No machine-readable author provided. MM assumed (based on copyright claims). [Public domain], via Wikimedia Commons Who could imagine that a locked, white-paneled double-door would offer…
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#Tanka Tuesday (1/2/18): Ordinary Grace–a #tankaprose #haibun…#poetry #haiku
Photo by Olesia Misty on Unsplash An alchemic drive to transform this fallen world into paradise how many moments of Grace missed in the ordinary? We almost don’t recognize each other. Her near-pixie cut hair and blue lipstick, and my ever-growing beard, conspire to conceal us. A moment later, we exchange our…
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#Monoku Monday: A #Quadrille for #dVersepoets
Close of New Year’s Day New Year still the soft glow of Christmas lights Neil Diamond’s voice fills the living room. Mira and Frankie lie sprawled on a couch and chair-ottoman, facing their screens. Our Last vacation day, before we leap into action! uncried tears this January …