Month: Jan 2024
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12 January: #TLT – Ink In Thirds
Sunrise frost, January’s mistress,A pine bough, silver bells, and scented lair,This winter’s vagrant heart stares. Written for Ink in Thirds “morning” – Some artwork is created using Midjourney AI, and is identified as such in the ALT text or captioned. Imagery and poems/prose ©Misky 2023.
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12 January: Found Poetry
Lightness There is no great secret.Awake.Rise.And shine.Illuminate.Light isone’s equilibrium. Images are copyright and not to used without permission, which I willingly give when asked, and when not for commercial use. Wounded by Love, The Life and Wisdom of St Porphyrious, First published in English 2005. ISBN 978-960-7120-19-9. A concise explanation of Found Poetry and Dadaism…
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12 January: Timelessness
Timelessness The brick wallby the milking shed is old.Older than anyone’smemory goes.And ferns sproutbetween weather-gnawed bricks,ledges like untidy eyebrows,and green growswithout direction or restriction.And the sun rises overthat wall in the morning.Slowly. Slowas the neighbour’sgreen-eyed catwhen its name is called.Everythingmoves at its own pace here. A poem inspired by a paragraph in Bleak House by…
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11 January: A Thursday Door
Bushboy (Brian Dodd) shares photos of doors, but not just any doors. Spectacular doors from his journeys. Dan’s Thursday Doors opened the door on this. I love doors of all sorts. I’ve trawled through my holiday snaps and found a few to share. ©Misky 2024 Shared on X #amwriting @bushboywhotweet and @DAntion
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11 January: A White Wolf for dVerse
White Wolf This wolf, white as light,single-minded, truth and insight,sees through my human stories. The ones I believe of myself.The ones I ask others to believe.The ones I trim for appearance sake. And those storieshave substance,and my substance casts dark shadows. Stories are shadows, and reflections,so if the wolf is light,I am the one casting…
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11 January: Found Poetry
The Touch To flail darkness,to assault it with light,to wage war on itby touching the forehead. And it flees. Images are copyright and not to used without permission, which I willingly give when asked, and when not for commercial use. Wounded by Love, The Life and Wisdom of St Porphyrious, First published in English 2005.…
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10 January: dVerse Quadrille
Skeletal Tonight’s sunset is tinged scarlet,bleeding into the lagoon, outbeyond, into the lake, falling throughsummer-thick shrubs beyond twilighted memories where something of the past joinsskeletons of rowboatsin soured brackish water, rottinglike a black heart. And the setting sun shivers. Written for dVerse Quadrille “Lagoon”. A Quadrille poem is 44-words (san title) Some artwork is created using…
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10 January: Found Poetry
Queues the who ofhimand heand youand sheand weand me, and stillI would rather put myselfoutside it all,and feel a cloud. Images are copyright and not to used without permission, which I willingly give when asked, and when not for commercial use. Wounded by Love, The Life and Wisdom of St Porphyrious, First published in English…
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9 January: Found Poetry
Afterlife I am in no dangerto be laid down, and then saiddead. And so I engaged conversationwith my old self, fallinginto a mystery thatno longer concerned me. Images are copyright and not to used without permission, which I willingly give when asked, and when not for commercial use. Wounded by Love, The Life and Wisdom…
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8 January: For Six Sentence Story
Careful. There’s that word again; meant to pull you up and stop you in your tracks; take stock; change your ways; a word to the wise or the unwise as the case might be. And he says, “Good god, it’s dreary outside. And I’m standing beside him at the window, taking in this man I…
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