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30 August: dVerse Shelter
Storms in a Teacup There was all that thunder, it left the air tight as a strange brew of poison. I pour ginger tea in a shallow cup, my head is not mine, it thumps, and I open the window. Lilac-coolness fills morning’s voice with construction down the street and the rhythm of a lawn…
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30 August: An Elevenie Poem
Falling Tonightthe starsare salty. Fallingdry and hard aspennies that won’t quench theearth. An elevenie poem: 1.2.3.4.5.1 Image from Unsplash. ©Misky 2022 Shared with #amwriting on Twitter
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29 August: #FOWC Sea
Fandango asks for a poem, flash fiction, or photo relating to the sea for his Fandango’s One-Word Challenge. Here’s my contribution to his prompt. A larger version of each image can be viewed by clicking the photo. Photos are mine ©Misky 2022 Shared with #amwriting on Twitter
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29 August: A River Gone
A River Gone The oars have gone silent, and only a poem haunts those once rushing waters. for Earthweal weekly challenge. The photo above is mine, taken a few years ago along the Loire River. The image used for the prompt is below, which is the current state of the Loire River after a summer…
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29 August: An Erasure Poem
Clothes Make a Man It’s a man, cut offat the water, and the boy looks past him,then shook his head and said,mm … mm. He wore combat boots, and a rumpled grey suit covered with dials and knobs. WikiArt image by Bill Traylor, “Untitled Figure Construction of a Waving Man” 1947. Public Domain. ©Misky 2022 Shared…
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28 August: Jane’s Oracle #2
A Woman With No Cat A woman with no cat has a hand-bound book. Her friend made it. Page 1, Line 1: a recipe note.Something something add water. She wears country-people shoes,flat as sand, knotted at her thin ankles. If she had a cat, it would wear a bell.She loves birds. Pigeons aren’t birds. She…
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28 Aug: for Jane’s Oracle Words
A Satisfying Harmony She draws hearts on the shower screenHe’s sanding rust off the radiator Truthful, yes, she dries damp towels on it He rifles his tool box for a wire brush, sitson the floor, blows dust off skirting boards She’s eager to pleaseShe draws hearts on the shower screen Jane’s Oracle spoke the words below. Photo…
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28 August: Inside a Dream
A Spark Byfreezing tempest,passion storms. Blazingat beginnings, middles, ends.Its embrace will see usblossoming. For dVerse Poets, an elevenie-acrostic-type poem, each line starting with the words from the phrase “by freezing passion at its blossoming” from Neil Carpathios’s The Kiss. Image is from Unsplash. ©Misky 2022 Shared with #amwriting on Twitter
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K’s Petite Pen: Recycling Day
Recycling Day Men in yellow hi-vis vests, theyknow recycling, which containerfor an armload of draft poems,which one for your destiny. A man’s throwing moisture curledpaper into a bin. I slip in a dozenglossy magazines as a boy hurlsglass bottles in a metal container. He spins and shatters each onewith a chaotic joy of destructionthat only…
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3 Lines from the Garden (revised)
and the ferns, dry but still green, shiver like nervous fingers. Note: format changed. ©Misky 2022 Shared with #amwriting on Twitter. Image is from Unsplash.
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