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Twiglet #225
Off the Wall with a White China Mug Last spring, sitting on the patio,sun bouncing off the brick wall.Milky coffee in a white china mug. There was smoke in the wind.Bonfire, you said, but it was the pub burning down. for Twiglet #225 “white china” Photo by Ben Kolde on Unsplash Shared with @Experimentsinfc…
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From Gulls to Leaf and Hatching
Wind Just Isn’t Strong Enough to stop the flightof clouds and gulls,to stop a caterpillarfrom inching along a leaf,and it will never stopa chick from hatching, orseeds from sprouting, orstop a stream from running. But wind is a bear, a wily body. Photo by Eunice…
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for Twiglet #224
The Turn Back in those dayswhen darknessfilled my headlike an anchor, and memoriesclung in stripslike demons’ hair,back in those days when calendarsand clocks mattered,I never noticedthe moon’s rising head, turn and smile at me. for for Twiglets #224 “Rising Moon” and shared with @Experimentsinfc #APoemADay on Twitter © Misky 2021
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for May V’Verse
Ophiuchus It’s not quite a nightmare,more like the scariestpart of a funfair. And there’s a snake, namedafter a far away constellation,that moves in and out ofthe measurement of Pi. And that snake’s all smilesand black kettle eyes,and it slings off its lightninglike some ancient ode. And while you’re riding itsshoulder blades into blizzards,you raise up your…
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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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