Tag: poetry
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#Free-style Friday: a #haibun for #dVerse Poets’ Pub’s MTB – sleep
Her Infirmity is My Insomnia I wake up at four in the morning. Try and sleep again. Mira coughs, inhales hard. Coughs again. She gets up and sprays her nostrils with her over-the-counter spray. I listen to her. All the while hoping for a sleep that does not come. sparrow’s song beneath a brightening sky bare maples…
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#Tanka Tuesday 9/26/17…A Weekly Tanka Prompt Challenge-64 and dVerse birthstone poem prompt
glittering topaz surrounded by history more gilded than gold no birthstone compares to the fragility of our lives For Rambling of a Writer’s Weekly Tanka Challenge-64 and dVerse Poet Pub’s This One’s for you!
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#Monoku Monday 9/25/17: a #Quadrille #41 for dVerse Poet’s Pub
Fra Diavolo Crushed red pepper, like yellow sunflower seeds in powdered blood. Marinara sauce made fresh from boiled tomatoes. Mixed together, poured over a fresh lobster and linguini. Forkfuls, washed down with Chianti! For dVerse Poets Pub Quadrille # 41 (spice): “Your entire poem need not be spicy or relate to spices (though…
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#Poetry challenge accepted: DVerse question poem
For the DVerse Poetry question poem challenge Why? Why are the thorns as much a part of the rose as the petals? Why is the only authentic love the love of the “nail-scarred hand”? Why does the truth crucify us to liberty? Why does desire dog us like the furies? Why ignore the way when…
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#Poetry- month of mini writing challenges 2017 – day 20
For Month of mini-writing challenges 2017- day 20 I, Cuchulainn I, tied to a post, awaiting them, my enemies who’ve killed me at last. Stand my ground against them to the end. Not much longer, now. Blood-stained blade, too heavy to lift one last time. Blood-filled tunic, stained with mine and my last friend’s.…
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By the Waterfall: A #Throw-down Thursday (9/7/17) #haibun featuring my latest from @.ImageCurve
We take our first hike of this season on the Pine Meadow trail. Soon, we diverge onto the yellow-marked trail at the first junction. The clouds of early morning break apart. The sun pierces every gap in the Maple and Douglas Fir canopy. We reach the waterfall, just past the rock scramble along the…
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Monoku Monday 9/4/17…Revisiting the Harshness…#haiku #haibun #monoku
In Harshness In the crunch of fiberglass, a shattered mirror dangling on a wire. In the biting words of a text-message slap, the piercing cold stare of an evaluator’s review. In every word and action taken or not. In every inch of fallen snow power-thrown before sunrise. Not only in rippling lakes cold sunset…
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Wayback Wednesday 8/16/17: a #Thanksgiving gone wrong…#writephoto #haibun #haiku #poetry
Conflicted Expectations We cleared gravy-stained plates and tainted wine glasses. The remains of the turkey could feed the five of us for days. It was the first year we didn’t host. Mom and Dad invited us downstairs instead. We had arranged to eat dinner with them and then travel to my Sister-in-law’s for dessert. She…
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