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for Twiglets #224
Untitled This house. It’s still. Quiet here. Sleep fills heads withthe best parts of dreams. It makes up for the lackof rainbows at night. Moonlit rainbows – would that be sucha sacrifice for the sun? for Twiglets #224 “Rising Moon” – image is from Stratford-Upon-Avon, poem shared with @Experimentsinfc #APoemADay on Twitter © Misky 2021
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Day 30 NaPoWriMo 2021
Day 30: I. Napowrimo: a directions poem, II. PA AprilPAD: Goodbye poem, III. The Poeming “They Were“. And that, my friends, is the end of April’s NaPoWriMo and Found Poetry Challenge and Writer’s Digest Poem-a-Day. I hope you’ve enjoyed the month. I.Just Over There It’s just over there, I said, butif you keep your left…
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Day 29 NaPoWriMo 2021
Day 29: I. Napowrimo, a window view, II. PA’s AprilPAD an evening poem, III. The Poeming Are There Birds In Heaven I.Some Windows Don’t Close I’m wearing my mother’s pearls.I can feel her around my throat. She put excuses into our public narrative,an excuse for his behaviour, or maybean excuse for why she stayed and stayed. She had…
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dVerse Puente
Found: A Foot Out of Water It was just a footin the running gutter,just hanging down. ~ he shrugged ~ It looks likea bloody big squealingfish to me,he said. Poem form “Puente” and Found Poetry, text in Silence of the Lambs by Thomas Harris, © 1989 Yazoo Digital, Arrow; 1st edition (7 May 2009) iBooks, pages…
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Day 28 NaPoWriMo 2021
Day 28. I. NaPoWriMo “Questions“, II. AprilPAD “Remix“, & III. The Poeming “A Foot Out of Water” I.It All Comes Down to Decaf in the End Are you listening?What did you say?May I talk with you?What do you want to talk about? And why now?Who are…
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Day 27 NaPoWriMo 2021
Day 27: I. & II. NaPoWriMo “a word from the Dictionary of Obscure Sorrows” – an Ambedo Haibun also for dVerse Poets III. AprilPAD “Believe it/Or Not” written as a Nodus Tollens and The Poeming “The Red Light Berry” I.An Ambedo Haibun A bee at the windowpane. It’s buzzing. Angry. Or frantic. It can see outside, thinks it’s outside.…
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27 April 2021: Haibun
Vicariously Vigàta No more news. Not tonight. No more gasps for air. No more funeral pyres, or smoke and fire. No more wives in tears, or men beating chests, and no more orphans ghostly stares. I escape it all, if just a while, watching reruns on the TV. Police drama in Vigàta. A Sicilian seaside…
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Day 26 NaPoWriMo 2021
Written for NaPoWriMo “Parody Poem” in response to Lewis Carroll’s “The Walrus and the Carpenter”, and Poetic Asides AprilPAD ” (blank) World, and The Poeming Found Poetry Challenge – The Bluebird. Photo by Pablo Hermoso on Unsplash I. The World According to Pinocchio ( a parody on The Walrus and the Carpenter) His laugh is wet as…
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Day 25 NaPoWriMo 2021
Responding to prompts from I. NaPoWriMo Day 25: An Occasion Poem, II. Poetic Asides AprilPAD: A Thought Poem and III. The Poeming Challenge “Cut To The Chase” I.The Sunrise Sunday Market The sun rises andpreserves the sky. Metal tables are set about.Clinking. Clanking. Huddled noisesof barter and banter and trade. Bread in loaves.In boules.In rolls.…
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Day 24 NaPoWriMo 2021
Day 24 – I. Napowrimo: Substitute the object/subject of a Wikipedia article for another object or subject. I chose the Domestic Rabbit and substituted a pencil for the object. II. Poetic Asides AprilPAD: write a question poem. III. The Poeming Found Poetry Challenge “Between Two Birds” I. & II.The Domestication of Pencils (or maybe…
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