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Day 27: NaPoWriMo 2021
Fate, What Foolish Fate Sometimes I think my pathis too close to the high road, and then it’s too close to the low, but I prefer the quietof snow underfoot, preferthe quietness in dreams. It masks the noise of sorrow.Deaf to loss, and fright. And then I wake, discoverthere are no…
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Day 26.2 NaPoWriMo 2021
Migrants’ Shadows Their shadows rideon utopian tides,following every sunset.Go west, go west, there’s no rest in gnawing cold.Dragged through grass,through mud and hill,the weak, the mad, the ill. They ride the waves, SOS,god save our souls. Thosesinking feathers, plumageclouds, shadows in the sea. Written for Miz Quickly’s Day 26 Image screen-grab of today’s newspaper. 27 migrants…
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Day 26.1: NaPoWriMo 2021
Miz Quickly’s Day 26 It’s a Damned Cold I just stuck a stick up my nose.Is it a cold or covid. I wiggled it about and thensneezed out a shout. And the line I was givenwas negative. Written for Miz Quickly’s Day 26 Photo by Sayan Ghosh on Unsplash. © Misky 2021, shared with #apoemaday on Twitter.
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Day 26: NaPoWriMo 2021
Well Wells it wasgreen as fevergrassthose patina domesthe slopesthe steep your Bob Marley t-shirt andthe boiled potatoes with cream the tea we took at threethe light blinding your eyesin the fierce heat the honeysuckle verandahwhere we ate burnt toastand watched the clock tickon and tick on…
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Day 25: NaPoWriMo 2021
Miz Quickly’s Day 25 “Hat” and PA’s “Thankful” Two For Day 25 I.Hat On Seventeen Syllables Noise.Let’s be silent,put a hat on my headto keep my voice inside. ❅ II.Ring Clear (rewrite) I’m thankful that I’ve not lost the soundof my loved ones voices.Those dead and long gone,still ring clear in my head. Written for Miz…
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Day 24: NaPoWriMo 2021
for Miz Quickly’s Day 24 prompt: Merit The Merit of Parental Advice I earned 32 Girl Scout badges,made 1st class scout twice, but my mother said,her finger poking at me, You better hope you can findsomeone to marry. Poetic Asides Response Poem In Response to Atwood’s Three Desk Objects What minutes tick and what hours…
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Day 17.1: NaPoWriMo 2021
Miz Quickly’s Day 17.1 Process Note: This rewrite is for Lisa who was sad that I omitted the bit about the cat. But then it all felt slightly unseasoned, so I added a sinister wolf. Now it just needs three little pigs (I’ll credit Vinny for his subliminal message). Crouching in the Bedsheets Winter.Time to…
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dVerse An Ekphrastic Poem
Walking In The Shoes of Blackberrying It’s the 3rd stanza of Blackberrying.That last hedgerow is behind her,a milk bottle filled with blackberries, and the bite of sea air funnelsa phantom laundry wind thatslaps her face. Terns and gulls hook at the air,and salt marsh sheep scatterlike chalky clouds on green hills. She walks along a…
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Day 23: NaPoWriMo
Day 23: Miz Quickly & PA, and a Haibun for dVerse Poets. Like Unplugging I. (for Miz Quickly & PA) Just A Few Desires, yes, a few likeseeing brilliance rising offthe sea, morning sky that’s an aquamarine-holiday colour,and white-dashed beachesso bright that your eyes sting, and silence,yes, silence from radio voices.And I still want sex…
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Day 22: NaPoWriMo 2021
Day 22: Miz Quickly’s Impossible prompt and PA’s Animal prompt Haunted Fog I.Blind Fog The cliffs drop offinto whiteness,a blue and grey brewof updrafts and silk.The air, it feelshaunted by fog.That chill,is proof of it all. II.Delirium Fog Four crows on the lawn,appeared from nowhere.Stepped through someinterior door, and broughta delirium fog with them.…
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