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Day 15: Found Poetry for Miz Quickly
Found Poetry in Victor Meldrew’s Amazon Customer Review What’s this?A 5-star review of vegetables.e.g. tomatoes! You get £169.99 anda utility room covered withaluminium foilto help concentrate time. It is a matter of feelthe power. For Miz Quickly’s Day 15 “A Found poem from a review on Amazon”. Shared with @Experimentsinfc #APoemADay on Twitter ©Misky…
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Time, Picnics and Blizzards
Time is laid out like a picnic – Margaret Atwood “Salt” Sometimes, Time Is A Blizzard (which is why you won’t see any punctuation in this one) our old clockticks a bit slowerthen it might yet the daystill slips fromthis room to the next The…
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dVerse Quadrille 130 “smudge”
Rooted Off in the distance is a grove of trees,so bare and far away. Ice clings to the twigs, while a good natured wind laughs inthe branches. Each sentinel tree is standing, calm and confident. Silently rooted inbroad smudges of winter snow. Written for dVerse Poets, Quadrille (44 words sans title) #130 including the word “smudge”. Hottest…
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Miz Quickly’s 12 Wicked Words
A Road: A Collection of Disjointed Thoughts It’s the dalliance of her undress. Her silky hip. The filthy silence that follows. And since you asked, my advice isall roads windup with endurance. I’ve traveled dry heat. Stony mirages.A staff in hand. I drew green on dunes, for a change of scenery. …
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Miz Quickly’s Free Day Flash Fiction
A Different Bitter Sweet Symphony The sun rolls into some corner of the earth, and the sky turns orangish-red, but everywhere else in the world knows this trick, so nothing new there. And you close your eyes to the glare of streetlights and cars, focus on the pink neon sign that spells Motel, as if…
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Miz Quickly’s Prelude
A Prelude There’s musicin the sea air, it’sin the damp plaster wallsand the grey shining windows. Music’s inthe stained mattressand the rusty taps that oncespilled with water. It leaves itsmark behind photos on the wall. Music falls in tiers,peals off the shingle beach,floats on the sea in this placewhere music begins. Miz Quickly’s “Prelude” supplied…
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Miz Quickly’s One Hand Washes Another
Down The Path we walk downthis ruttedsummer scented road,wherethe harvest was blessedby our loins with good grace and of season,though not as in salted, and you sparklelike the silver braceletaround your ankle,the one that youbought at the May village fête, and I take your hand,our fingers laced,knowingday on day thatyour belly swells. for Miz Quickly’s…
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12 June: A Long View
A Long View the stars set the skyin black-fringe, like a stellarbroadcast of fireflies. the full moon, a watchful slow-rolling eye, it was a blemish on her mood. she was a small spell broken.she was a wrong word let slip. for #FOWC “blemish” and Miz Quickly’s This Would Have Been Something Else. Shared with @Miz_Quickly and @Experimentsinfc #APoemADay…
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Miz Quickly’s Rhetoric List Poem
A List Poem: A Bit of Rhetoric on Turmeric the knobs of soft butter and chicken thighs,the yellows of onion, garlic and ginger, addthe cumin, the cardamon and cinnamon,the Kashmiri chillis, some garam masala,two bay leaves from the garden. tomatoes.then fenugreek rolled between two fingers,its scent, a trembling light just before dark,its aroma caught in…
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Miz Q’s 8 June and Twiglet #230
A Thin Moon Stings This thin moon hangs in a void with itsinaudible hush. Wanders about on a breezy cosmic pulley. Rises up clearand as bright as blackbird’s song. Thin moon stings the sky, pale and veiled,sings over our muted voice. Takes our secrets to the grave. Old moon free ofmy worry. On a rope…
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