Real Toads and dVerse Poets Pub OLN
Today Shay is prompting over at Real Toads. She asks us to write of spells, gypsy curses, dopplegangers, the like. She also requests “no haiku because they give me the shakes”. Perhaps like me she has...
View ArticleHaibun: Ageless
This is linked to Real Toads, Tuesday Platform. With total admiration in De Jackson’s (WhimsyGizmo) style of poetry. Ageless This poem is ageless – No wrinkles, no white hair, no unsteady gait. This...
View ArticleHaikai Challenge #16
For Frank Tassone’s haikai challenge #16,Freedom. Monday would have been my Mother’s 88th birthday. This is in her honor. She did love to ride behind me!...
View ArticleWeight of Crows
or Angies prompt at Real Toads. We are to choose a list and write a poem from the words. solace trace pause over inwardness sweat reflect beginning need forgiveness unfolding back thanks weight years...
View ArticleLeaf Hagaki
Today is Quadrille Monday at dVerse. What is a Quadrille? It is a form unique to dVerse Poets pub consisting of exactly 44 words (excluding the title) and the chosen word. Today Victoria is in...
View ArticleHaibun: Valentine’s Day
Haibun: Valentine’s Day We met online – a true romance of the 1990’s. He answered an online ad I had placed along with 20,000 other folk who responded. But his stood out, mainly because he was a local...
View ArticleBattle
For Bjorn’s prompt on Real Toads – Entropy and Thermodynamics. We’ll see how I did. This is unusually long for me. It is a true story from my past and interest in all things Japanese, including a long...
View ArticleMinamikaze
Day Six of Nano-nano. or whatever it is. At Real Toads, doing the prompt thing with them. Today the prompt is “speaking with another’s voice”. Minamikaze We became one the first time you held me. I...
View ArticleThe Southern Wind
In Honor of Walt Whitman’s birthday and his poem The Song of Myself – a song of myself for Tuesday Platform at Real Toads. The Southern Wind I am a southern woman born and bred. Compared to my Yankee...
View ArticleRed is the color of peace
For Paul’s prompt at Real Toads about Peace. This is an old poem previously posted but reworked and tightened up a bit. I truly believe that we carry peace around with us, that it must be found...
View ArticleThe Rain
For the Tuesday Platform over at Toads. The Rain Listen to me the way you listen to the rain – with your head cocked to one side and your eyes half closed, a faint smile on your lips. Touch me the way...
View ArticleYou Don’t Know Me
I will be posting this on Real Toads Tuesday Platform. You don’t know me As you move through this life and this world you change things slightly, you leave marks behind, however small. And in return,...
View ArticleThe weight of Love
For Kerry’s Prompt on Real Toads – Camera Flash and a Flash 55 The Weight of Love All those love locks fastened to all the bridges – Each one telling of eternal love, Each one making note of a love...
View ArticleHaibun: Things I learned in the CIA
Posted for Mish’s prompt at dVerse Poets Pub – finding beauty in the ugly. Haibun: Things I learned in the CIA “Skills can be taught. Character you either have or you don’t have.” Anthony Bourdain Many...
View ArticleGarden of White Flowers
The Notes: A triple Cherita. A cherita tells a story and is written thusly: one line, then two lines, then three lines for a total of six lines. There is no line length, no rhyme, no syllable...
View ArticleCherry Blossom Snow – sakura no yuki
For Anmol’s prompt over at dVerse – relationships and sensuality. This is an “extreme” haibun being less that 65 words. Actually, all haibun need to be short as in the original. Haibun are true...
View ArticleLet’s Play Pretend
For Marian’s Prompt at Real Toads about coming out Gay along with a song from Boy Erased. Let’s Play Pretend “To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all.” Oscar Wilde So...
View ArticleBecause
For Susie’s prompt at Real Toads – why do you write poetry. This is also for Open Link Night at dVerse Poets Pub. Because When I was 11 T.S. Eliot took my poetic cherry. I bled buckets of poetry – I...
View ArticleHaibun: My Tree
A haibun for the theme of solitude at dVerse. This is in the style of the original haibun created by Basho – not a lot of description and words. Just the experience. My Tree “Love the trees until their...
View ArticleHe Survived
He survived “What greater gift than the love of a cat?” Charles Dickens He survived after being thrown away by his person’s heirs roaming the neighborhood living off stale popcorn and bread thrown out...
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