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Elsewhere Tableau

August 8, 2020by The Abject Muse2 Comments on Elsewhere Tableau

It's the Saturday Mix - Lucky Dip over at MLMM! This week we'll be crafting a Tableau. Any topic. A tableau consists of one or more verses, each having six lines. Each line should have five beats. There is no set rhyme scheme, although rhyme may be present. The title should contain the word tableau. Veil [...]

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A Rubaiyat: Love Wins Again

February 1, 2019February 1, 2019by The Abject Muse29 Comments on A Rubaiyat: Love Wins Again

The Rubaiyat poetry form for dVerse Poets Pub. He was the man they loved to hate For reasons one can't clearly state. A lonely man without a friend, It seemed like much too cruel a fate.   A wealthy man who dared not spend This one rule he would not bend One day he met [...]

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Cherita

Captain January

January 13, 2019by The Abject MuseLeave a Comment on Captain January

It's still my favorite January.   The typical grey, cold nothingness hovered until the magic happened.   You made the sun shine and flowers bloom — like only you could. Albeit fleeting, I'd do it all again. With you.      

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Double Etheree, Poetry

Should the Tables Turn

November 13, 2018November 17, 2018by The Abject Muse3 Comments on Should the Tables Turn

  I cannot imagine my life without you in it, at least in some capacity. While I am not a woman who shares her man willingly, for you I make the exception. For you, my lover. My heart. My anomaly. But what if the tables were to turn? Would you be so understanding? Would not [...]

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The Haunted Wordsmith

Crayons in Heaven

November 10, 2018by The Abject Muse6 Comments on Crayons in Heaven
Crayons in Heaven

Written for The Haunted Wordsmith's Daily Prompt, which is the image below. The sun yawns, waking me up to gauzy shades of orangey-yellow your favorite color! So glad there are crayons in Heaven.    

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