Month: Feb 2024
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9 February: dVerse Quadrille
The Quilt ImagineIrregular bits of summer colour.Pieced.Carefully aligned from what might’ve beenthrown away.Blocks of colour, songsters of print.Sister’s skirt. Daughter’s dress of grassy green.Double stitchedpicos with white thread. Thimble Thumbing A patchwork quilt that she called her soul. written for dVerse Poets. Poem Form: Quadrille to be include the word “imagine”. A quadrille is 44 words sans…
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8 February: Not Forever but Something Still
This week’s Six Sentence Story (SSS), which calls for 6 sentences including the word game, is written in a poetic form called a Cadralor. It’s a poem of 5, unrelated, numbered stanzaic images, each of which can stand alone as a poem (in this case prose) of fewer than 10 lines, and optionally constrains all…
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8 February: A Thursday Door
Tenter Ground in London was originally an open space used by Huguenot weavers. They used the space to dry the cloths they made on frames called tenters, which had hooks to pull cloth tightly so that it dried evenly and without creasing. This process also gave us the phrase on tenterhooks – very tense and…
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8 February: Found Poetry
Ego deluded man.Off and gone astray as ifit were organically meant. As if it were the enemyof the heart. As if a frame of contrary mindleads to truth and light. 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…
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7 February: Found Poetry
The Little Ones You are young.You are fearless.You are perfect. It is a kindness of upbringing.And kicks of protest. 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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6 February: Found Poetry
Vocables We are affected by the radiationof’ words. Words enter earsbut love enters one’s heart. Listen to your secretsand take away all meaning. No one is everything. 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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5 February: Found Poetry
Precisely I am a simple annoyance. Simply, mystically in your scriptured ear. Why speak betterif not in a more perfect way. 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…
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4 February: Found Poetry
Brain of minein long dialogue.It will eventually come to its senses and leave well enough alone. 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…
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3 February: Found Poetry
To Sleep Late in the night,beyond words,beyond nothing to say,where strange mysteries are hidden,he went to sleep.It was an aimlessly fine time. 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…
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2 February: Found Poetry
Details They are mysteries.Delicate matters of flowers.Delicate fragrance in the colour of birds,and then a kiss comes.That’s how it works.The small details of our ways,that small bird in a cage. 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…
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