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15 February: Found Poetry
Wake Wake to the fragranceof mountains, sea and sunrise.Wake your poetic spirit to the sky robed regal as a king. Wake to a sense of beauty,of nature’s secret,and the thirstin a nightingale’s song. Images are copyright and not to used without permission, which I willingly give when asked, and when not for commercial use. Wounded…
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14 February: for 6SS
Tides Her eyeshave more and moreof the past in them.Shadowsthat cover the cold oceanwith healing indifference. She wants totake to the shifting windsand lift anchor, be washed outon a tide. Washed outacross the sandbanksin a small boat with a taut sail. It’s a picture an innocent heart might draw. And there she wouldfind herself, and…
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14 February: Found Poetry
Wretched the manwho not well desires life, He who is incapableof being filled with longing. 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…
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13 February: Found Poetry
A Heart He suffered in his heart.Had he been a Japanese vase –Or had he been flowers to fillHis heartHis vaseHow thoughts impedeour fabric. 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,…
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12 February: Found Poetry
Noise An invisible life,hidden in boundless noiseof murmurs affects otherswithout a word said.What separates powerfrom words. 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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11 February: Found Poetry
Just the Same We have such power over the heart.We think of little more.We murmur and hide, and we harbour ourselvesagainst storms, and sufferjust the same. 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…
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10 February: Three Line Thursday
Up Hills and Down Blackthorn’s ready to bloom, snow on the pavementChildren up hills and down hills, rosey facedAnd noisy as Christmas elves Written for Three Line Thursday. Some artwork is created using Midjourney AI, and is identified as such in the ALT text or captioned. Imagery and poems/prose ©Misky 2006-2024.
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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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