One
This week’s visual prompt at Hélène Vaillant’s Willow Poetry blog is the image below. Past the shifting facades, behind the dead ends, on the other side of vertigo lies my heart: hermetically sealed by fear of intimacy, by distrust and abandonment. Many have tried to navigate the labyrinth to its end; all had failed. […]
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Curiosity
Carpe Diem Haiku Kai: And now it is up to you to create the 2nd stanza (2-lines), the 3rd stanza (3-lines) and the 4th stanza (2lines) inspired / associated on the given haiku. the sound of the surf enters my home through the open window and a butterfly © Chèvrefeuille (2018) glides in, as if […]
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Wild at Heart
This week’s prompt at #Three Line Tales is the image below by by Nick Fewings via Unsplash. My heart is a free spirit—wild like the wind. It runs with a rough crowd and has no street smarts. It can’t help but get broken no matter how hard I try to keep it safe.
The Alchemist
It’s Games Night at the dVerse Poets Pub! Tonight, we are to choose 3 names from the list of computer game names below, and somehow or other wrangle them into a poem.You don’t need to know anything about the game – just let the name inspire you. Minecraft Diablo Blossom Blast Space Invaders Assassin’s Creed […]
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Breathe
I have been tagged by crushedcaramel to create an elfchen, which is an 11 word poem written in 5 lines — Line 1=1word, Line 2=2words, Line 3=3words, Line 4=4 words, Line 5 =1 word. Lines 1 and 5 should not be the same word. Some days I miss you terribly. Other days I can’t […]
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