It's Poetics Tuesday over at the dVerse Poets Pub. Tonight our mission is to write a NONET – a nine line poem that begins with 9 syllables, descending line by line to 1 syllable. Select ONE of these 9 syllable lines as your opener (or more if you wish to write several nonets) It seems [...]
Category: Poetry
Hobohemia
It's Prosery Monday at the dVerse Poets Pub! Prosery is prose that includes a line from a poem. I will give you the line, and then you incorporate it into a short prose piece. This can be either flash fiction, nonfiction, or creative nonfiction, but it must be prose! And it must be no longer [...]
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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 Live Monkey Wrench
It's Haibun Monday over at the dVerse Poets Pub. Our prompt is birthdays. No doubt about it, there are some couples who simply should not procreate. My parents were in this number. They probably should have dated for a while & called it good. But no, they had to take that ball and run with [...]
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Leaf Cycle
Today at the dVerse Poets Pub, we are to create a Haiku Sequence. 1. Vibrant autumn leaves decorating the lawn and spicing the air. 2. Wintertime's leaves scrape and scratch along the sidewalk crunch beneath my boots. 3. Tiny, hopeful buds sprouting from dewy branches robin spies a worm
