Month: Apr 2020
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AprPAD: Day 30
https://miskybr1.tumblr.com/post/616828788908720128/found-on-30-april To follow: 1. Something that returns: http://www.napowrimo.net/day-thirty-6/ 2. PA Day 30 A praise poem https://www.writersdigest.com/editor-blogs/poetic-asides/2020-april-pad-challenge-day-30 ©️ Misky 2020 It’s Poem a Day month. These are all 1st drafts.
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AprPAD: Day 29
https://miskybr1.tumblr.com/post/616721791086362624/found-on-29-april Ick – I Hate Rhymie Poems a brush a broom that sweeps the air my god how those eyes could stare so brown so deep alert for fun sleeping away in afternoon sun a walk a run on fields green a dog like that I’ve rarely seen she’s gone she’s gone but I will…
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Visual Verse Anthology
The Sizzler She ignores the wolf whistles. She’s wearing her bristles; it’s a look but don’t touch approach. A saunter by the water – phew, low tide puts her nose out of joint. Do you admire my pointy little toes? for The Visual Verse Anthology on Instagram ©️ Misky 2020 It’s…
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Twiglet #174
He Wants a Circular Drive But I want a drive that disappears from sight. Off to the left, as if ones departure was never part of the plan. Twiglet #174 “through iron gates” ©️ Misky 2020 It’s Poem a Day month. These are all 1st drafts.
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AprPAD: Day 28
https://miskybr1.tumblr.com/post/616630366389829632/found-on-28-april for PA past or future A Conversation with Great-Grandma I was not much more than 7. I’d sit on her bed, she in her chair. She’d tell me stories of when … . . . when the cow died, she said, and then, mid-sentence, she’d pinch another grey whisker between her thumb and index…
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AprPAD: Day 27
https://miskybr1.tumblr.com/post/616541464375214080/found-on-27-april An Overview of a Dead Blow Fly Who can blame curiosity, a thousand-eyed perfection. One of a dark cloud of rot. Epiphany, as it grows out of the dust, its own death dust. Black. Scrawny. Seems to be looking west, waiting for the clouds to break. Legs stiff as wire. Woody. Brittle. One dried…
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AprPAD: Day 26
https://miskybr1.tumblr.com/post/616450132471365632/found-on-26-april As Changeable as Monday Spring sunshine and then a hard frost. A seasonal split. Green shoots perish in the night, running toward life with arms up, sleeveless and gloved, and embalmed in dry rainless gutters. It’s such a cruel thing, sudden change. It must feel like hell. Flower delivery today for my neighbour whose…
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AprPAD: Day 25
https://miskybr1.tumblr.com/post/616373852284518400/found-on-25-april Writing After James Schuyler’s “Hymn to Life” – He and I in a Square I watch the day go by through the kitchen window. A yellow car drives by as I wash the breakfast dishes. I keep walking by things that need doing. Clean the cooker grates, I tell myself, and then I…
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AprPAD: Day 24
https://miskybr1.tumblr.com/post/616272742202884096/found-at-24-april for Napowrimo Day 24: fruit This was supposed to be about fruit. It took off in a direction that I hadn’t intended. Sometimes, reality just refuses to be prompted. Being a Rat Chatcher is an Honourable Profession The poncy Bichon next door has decided to be a dog again. For a while there, it…
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AprPAD: Day 23
https://miskybr1.tumblr.com/post/616185184721715200/found-on-23-april PA Day 23: “Social (blank)”. Social Isolation and Weird Dreams about Wales look at these veins laced along my legs, a juicy damson colour. hold fast my heart; I am airborne on faithless wings of dreams, and the weather’s turning into a wringing storm. thunder drums, and wind’s bugle blows. nightfall stirs dreams…
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