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Confession #2 – Hanami
This is the second part to Poetic Confessions at dVerse Poetics Pub. Secret fears, life, love…what we hide inside…. Deep in the night When all things cease to move Except for the dreams That creep in...
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NaPoWriMo 9 – Kokuryū – Black Dragon
Today for NaPoWriMo9, I am following an optional prompt of my choice. I gasped the first time I saw him. To my friend I said, He is the most beautiful man I have ever seen. She laughed at me. He …...
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dVerse Poetics – Contradiction
At Meeting the Bar today at dVerse Poetics, Bjorn wants us to write a poem using “antithesis” as the poetic device. “Begin at the beginning… and go on till you come to the end: then stop.” ~Lewis...
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Poetics Tuesday: River of Silver
Today at d’Verse Poetics, Bjorn is our Pubtender. He has given us a variety of petroglyphs, carvings found in caves in Sweden. There was quite a variety of them. Their primitive beauty is timeless....
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Black Dragon and Sparrow
黒竜 と スズメ (Kuro ryū to Suzume) Black dragon and sparrow “Come, let me show you” – Indeed the spring moon was full and lit the yard Like a klieg. Although in jeans and tee shirt, he still looked lethal...
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Poetics Tuesday: River of Silver
Today at d’Verse Poetics, Bjorn is our Pubtender. He has given us a variety of petroglyphs, carvings found in caves in Sweden. There was quite a variety of them. Their primitive beauty is timeless....
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Black Dragon and Sparrow
黒竜 と スズメ (Kuro ryū to Suzume) Black dragon and sparrow “Come, let me show you” – Indeed the spring moon was full and lit the yard Like a klieg. Although in jeans and tee shirt, he still looked lethal...
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Daffodil Lips – synesthesia
Today at d’Verse Poets Pub, Victoria is our pubtender. She is doing an encore presentation of synesthesia – a neurological condition where people taste colors or see colors when hearing music or a...
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KFC and City Stars
Our first Christmas together we spent in your home of Hakone. I was transfixed by the beauty of where you grew up with Mt. Komagatake as a backdrop to Mt. Fuji and the lapping clarity of Lake Ashi. To...
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Haibun Monday #7: Gifts
Today, Mary Grace is pub tender at dVerse. She has given us four quotes from which to choose one and write a haibun with one haiku at the end to the quote we choose. The quote I chose is at the...
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Haibun Monday #10 Cherry Blossoms
Monday, over at dVerse Poet’s Pub, I am behind the Bar pouring out the prompt. Cherry blossom time is a special time in Japan. Hanami, or cherry blossom viewing, is all about family, fesitival, food,...
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Haibun Monday #11 – Reach Out
I am hosting the dVerse Poets Pub for Haibun Monday. My prompt was inspired by the new “Call a Swede” in honor of the 250th anniversary ban on censorship in Sweden. You call a number and a randomized...
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dVerse Poets Pub – Haibun Monday
Today for Haibun Monday, Bjorn is giving us the prompt – Beauty in Decay. Assisting him with this is a wonderful photographer, Susan Judd. We are to choose one of her photos and write the haibun around...
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Quadrille Monday
Today is Quadrille Monday at dVerse and I am prompting. The word for today is “skip” and the variants of “skip”. Come visit us and don’t skip reading the poems. Poems must use the prompt word and...
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Quadrille Monday dVerse Poets Pub
Today at dVerse Poets Pub, Grace has given us the word “green” for the Quadrille word prompt “. What a lovely word for the blending of late spring and early summer. Poems must use the prompt word...
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Haibun: Summers Pass
For Poetic Bloomings – we write about lessons learned during a summer. Summers Pass We were tied together by summers. We met at a kendo and weapons demonstration. You in your black silk hakama – black...
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dVerse Poetics: keiu
Walt is hosting Poetics today. He wishes us to write about summer drought or too much rain. This can include harmful rain or writers block – any interpretation of drought or downpour. Come visit us!...
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dVerse Poets Pub – Haibun Monday #29
We have a guest prompter today at dVerse. Come find out who….hint: he’s from Australia. The theme is “waiting”. https://dversepoets.com/2017/01/23/haibun-monday-29/ The Waiting Game You are gone....
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dVerse Poets Pub: Haibun Monday – The Best Things in Life are Free
Monday I am doing the prompt for Haibun Monday over at dVerse Poets Pub after a fairly long absence. While a bit stressful, it is still good to be back in the Pub writing prompts and reading and...
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Haibun Monday – The Shadow Knows
Monday I am doing the prompt for Haibun Monday over at dVerse Poets Pub. Years ago I read In Praise of Shadows (陰翳礼讃 In’ei Raisan), an essay on Japanese aesthetics by the Japanese author and novelist...
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