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16 May: dVerse Quadrille

Call Me Dylan

His parrot is
a decent poet. Self-defined
as difficult, and frequently
absent

by intoxication.

Like Dylan Thomas,
fixated on reflection,
his parrot
loves a mirror.

And popping bubblewrap.

His parrot
is a madrigal singer
in need of
a mirror

to see the whole picture.

AI Digital Artwork is my own, created using AI Midjourney. Imagery and poems ©Misky 2023. dVerse Quadrille “Mirror”. This piece is part of a continuing collection of poems about a parrot, which is a chapbook called “Three Weeks with a Parrot Named Sukey Tawdry”.

Misky

May 16, 2023

AI Art, Poetry

8 responses to “16 May: dVerse Quadrille”

Spira

May 16, 2023 at 9:27 am

For reminding me “Do not go gentle…” a big thank you.

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1. Misky
  
  May 16, 2023 at 8:46 pm
  
  We shall thank Dylan, Nick.
  
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Frewin55

May 16, 2023 at 10:26 am

What is a Chapbook, is it the opposite of chick-lit?
Most amusing…

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1. Misky
  
  May 16, 2023 at 11:49 am
  
  No. It’s a small collection of poems that are based on a theme. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chapbook
  
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  1. Frewin55
    
    May 16, 2023 at 2:14 pm
    
    Thanks for that Misky. I did mean that the poem was amusing…
    Were you looking after somebody’s parrot?
    
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    1. Misky
      
      May 16, 2023 at 7:59 pm
      
      😀 Yes, I understood that, Andrew. No, the whole scenario with the parrot is fiction. I wrote the original poems for the chapbook during the Covid lockdown as part of the Writers’ Digest Chapbook Challenge. It shortlisted, but didn’t win.
      
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abigfatcanofworms

May 16, 2023 at 1:50 pm

Fabulous!

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1. Misky
  
  May 16, 2023 at 8:47 pm
  
  Thanks so much, Jo. x
  
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