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Mothering
Mothering and when there wasno birth in her, andjoy was beyondher skill,she looked beyondher ills, anddressed herself inadoption. Shared with #APoemADay on Twitter ©Misky 2021
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A Quadrille for dVerse Poets
The Overnight Rain It lingerson the bright morning.A slight shade.From twigs.Branches.From the nape of grass.It fills my nose with wet. The fox wasin the flower pots again.Wounded pansiesstrewnlike stars, anda grasshopper watchedas I rearranged nature. For dVerse Quadrille 44 words, sans title, including “wound”. Shared with @dversePoets and @Experimentsinfc #APoemADay on Twitter ©Misky 2021
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A Limerick
Behind Glass there once was a rock from Vesuviuswhose life was extremely luxuriouscradled on silknefarious by ilkto onlookers it was completely oblivious for Fandango’s #FOWC “nefarious” and shared with @Experimentsinfc #APoemADay on Twitter ©Misky 2021
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for The Sunday Whirl #502
It Might’ve Been Florida But It Wasn’t There was a time when gossip nevertraveled beyond the town limits,and what was published as newswas already known. You might’vestaggered around in extreme heatand humidity as if drunk. Always,summer was a fun-run-carnival until the middle of September. And scandals, they’d lie hard andlong below white cotton sheets,and girls chased…
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B.1.617.2
B.1.617.2 Two jabs, and you thought freedom. Taken in by a different light.Beguiled by scenery and treesand lavender fog overspring green grass. It’s your face you seein the mirror, in high streetwindowpanes, gleaming,filled with sun. Oh, our fatal indifference.Because…
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14 May 2021: Frogs, a Squat, and Clouds
Frogs, a Squat, and Clouds because it croaked,I assume it’s a frog. bauble eyes spying the surface.it’s a peek and wet gush. it’s asstill and steady as a loaf of bread. frogs and bread, both a bit crusty,and given time, licked with green.an off-colour soaked tea bag sheen. it just squats there, a bubble risingfrom…
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for Fandango’s #FOWC “Whimsical”
Doin’ da Limerick There once was a woman with a shapely wiggleWhose whimsical nose had a permanent wrinkle.She was missing a tooth,So every word ended in toot 🎶and she laughed as if constantly tickled. Written for Fandango’s #FOWC One Word Challenge, the word being “whimsical”. Shared with @Experimentsinfc #APoemADay and #FOWC on Twitter ©Misky…
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dVerse Does Blue
A Quick Study of Blue I.my interior monologuestirs the blues.that goblin in the undergrowth.that unwelcomedhue. II.the acer in the gardenis born to yellow leaf,against blue summer skiesit turns green. III.blue sky.blue pots.bluebells’ heads hung.a yellow yolk in a clear blue sky. for dVerse Poets. The colour blue. Shared with @Experimentsinfc #APoemADay on Twitter ©Misky 2021…
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12 May 2021: Fandango’s #FOWC
Doin’ da Limerick There was a man from Adelaidewho asked the barman for a lemonade.When handed a Guinness,a barmaid who was a witness,said the man flew into a tirade. Written for #FOWC. I’ve always been intimidated by limericks. I still am. This is for Fandango’s One Word Challenge “tirade” and shared with @Experimentsinfc #APoemADay and #FOWC on…
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