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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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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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