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For Sunday Whirl #503
The Men Chasing Cod All those fishing boats offshore, they’re moving paragraphsshifting on the horizon.Nets out. Time idles.God’s odds for a bounty.And then the nets tangle.Grounded on someparenthetical, Captain says. (he likes that word – not sure of its meaning though)And his anger turns wicked thunder,and it rains down on us.The catch is lost.…
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Miz Quickly’s Catch and Release #2
He Doesn’t Care What the Papers Say Forget things likeumbrellas.Restaurant food.Fast cars and posh clothes.Face masks. Evening mist fills his eyes,this shepherd and his sheep.Stars that once breathed in fire,now blink in patterns of brokenlight, and the apple of his eye, these sheep, who ask noughtbut to possess this verdant day.The shepherd turns his headagainst…
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Miz Quickly’s Prose Sonnet About Rain (draft)
An Untitled Prose Sonnet (for those using visual assistant/speech software) Rain divided the day in half. I usually write in the morning but I spent it idle, wandering wordless. You mowed the rug-thick grass, that robin following behind you, and you laughed at its flitty chirp, as it pulled over-fat…
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for Miz Quickly’s Hidden in Plain Sight
Balancing Teacups It’s a balancing act.That tottering sunshine-bright teacup balancing on your knee, orthat void between wakefulness and nod, when your head snaps back, and it chooses awake.And life, of course, pretty much all of it. for For @Miz_Quickly Hidden in Plain Sight and shared with @Experimentsinfc #APoemADay on Twitter ©Misky 2021
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for Miz Quickly: Oh Brave
Be Brave I.I’m older now. LovedAnd well worn.Like a favourite pair of shoes, andI’ve a happy heart forSimple things.Bravery. Faithfulness. Patience, Except when it comes to fishing. II.My sister loves fishing. She braves Freezing water forHours on end withNothing more than a shiverTo show for it. My dad lovedFishing. We scattered hisAshes on the…
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for Miz Quickly Day 25
Molly (a poem in reply to Mary Oliver’s “Percy”) My dog, named after my mum’s beloved dog,although she told me some years laterthat she’d never had a dog by that name,or for that matter a dog of any name, and when I showed her an old dog-eared photoof her holding…
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Day 24: Miz Quickly’s Bones
The New & Improved Dictionary of Skeletal Anatomy occipital: a vehicular roundabout in England occipital protuberance: the centre mound in a roundabout with low-growing trees to prevent people driving straight on superior articular: a very well spoken person, sort of like Stephen Fry clavicle: a tidal flat, or possibly a frying pan head of humerus:…
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dVerse Haibun
Yes, Of Course, The Lesser Periwinkle I’m sitting in the damp evening air, rain still dripping from the leaves, and my ear catches the sound of small bone animals in the Vinca Minor (there was a time when I couldn’t recall its proper name – now I can’t recall its common name, although I’m sure…
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Miz Quickly’s Catch & Release #1
Finds in a Sketch There were shirtsleeves rolled upand muscles tight and pressed,and somewhere in the distancelions roared their same complaint,a sound that seemed soft as velvet. Then the pulling and shifting, andthe circus tent came down, floating, a cloud of dusty dry summer, a risingcurtain that nature couldn’t suppress.The game was up. The work…
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A Very Short da-Dum Waltz
A Very Short da-Dum Waltz when time wasyoung,and the starshungbright in oursky,we’d dip andrise,dance my man, rollto a silver star stroll The last two lines are like the twirly bit (or something). Written for dVerse Poets “A poem to Waltz-time” and shared with @Experimentsinfc #APoemADay on Twitter ©Misky 2021
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