Category: Visual Verse
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VV August Image
A Very Long Sentence I saw it first in children as theybroke into the sunlight, scooping fearless holes in the air, theirsmall bare feet swiftly padding on snow-white shingle beach,and running for the sea — their toes foraging in the seaweed,furrowing through the sand, and I press against the window,and hide myself in a cloud,…
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for Visual Verse Anthology on Instagram
An Ode To A Sneeze Here comes a breeze, full ofragweed and grass,demon pollen of motherwort,whipweed and oak.My mask, to maskthis rabble in my head. based on image at Visual Verse on Instagram. Write 5-50 words in 15-minutes based on the daily image.
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for June’s Visual Verse
Elementary It is early June, and I hear birdsong – it’s bright, coming straight out of sunshine. The bird hides somewhere in the late spring greenery of the garden. I can’t see it. I am solely reliant on its song. It’s pitched at the upper half of the keyboard, sharp not flat, and not C.…
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14 May Visual Verse on Instagram
Like a Winter’s Tree Oh how time tramples your bones into shivering limbs; a bare tree of winter. for Visual Verse on Instagram and Twiglet #176 ©️ Misky 2020
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for Visual Verse on Instagram
The Conveyance Up and up on hot air. Hissing. Lifting. It felt like a secret, hers to keep. Flying through clouds that clung to her skin. Inhaling the sting of iced ozone, she was flushed with desire. Felt wind all round her. And so hesitating not, she removed her clothes. for Visual Verse…
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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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AprPAD: Day 13
https://miskybr1.tumblr.com/post/615281617958731776/found-on-13-april/embed A Poem in the Style of This Is Just To Say, by William Carlos Williams Forgive me, because while you slipped in and out of your afternoon nap, and while the TV updated daily covid-19 news, and while a magpie fought with a pigeon over bird seed … I bit the ears off your…
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AprPAD: 4 April
Day 4 PA: “Wish” War Reflections on the St. Stephen’s College Massacre In a corner of the old church yard, next to that tombstone that’s drifting deep into damp peat, there’s a small plaque beside the Yew tree remembering a child killed in Hong Kong on Christmas Day 1941. I wish him God’s speed and…
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AprPAD: 3 April
Following On Washed and refilled the birdbath today. Chaffinch arrived. Took a drink. Bathed. Left behind a rose-coloured feather. Then crows. Three of them. Fighting. Water level dropped by half. Then a pigeon. Wings lifted for airing. A tidal splash flooding the tulips and emptied the birdbath. Another day unravelling. https://miskybr1.tumblr.com/post/614368794294550528/found-on-3-april/embed PA…
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For VV Feb 2020
Crossing the Sun’s Path When she was a girl her mother told her that ears were planted in the bushes, hidden in the trees where they waited to hear truth, and that sound you hear, the trickling from cooling fountains was water laughing at every lie they heard. She’d walk through parks, through gardens, and…
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