My response to Carpe Diem Tan Renga Challenge #104 “by the mountain spring” by Goda Virginija Bendoraitienė by the mountain spring we talk about the same things just in other words © Goda Virginija Bendoraitienė accompanied by nature: duet […]
Month: June 2016
My Response to Sonnet 12
Read by an actor at Arachne Press’s Midsummer Night in the Garden:
Summer Melodrama
My response to Mindlovemisery’s Menagerie Friday Music Prompt 48: Fields of June and to dVerse Poets Pub Open Link Night #175 We crossed fields patched with scudding cloud and sun, Down lovers’ lane, edged with buttercups and dog rose. Hand in hand, we made our way as one, To a haze of purple grass in the water […]
A bit of fun on EU Referendum Thursday
The Power of Nonsense My response to Mindlovemisery’s Menagerie Tale weaver #73 June 23rd – Making Sense of Nonsense I was never more certain Of the power of nonsense Until I read The Book of Universal Cerfin By the expert Bott Grojean, Who, I believe, has a PhDee In physics and astronomy. Cerfin is a unique […]
When the Whole World Measured Time
Another response to dVerse Poets Pub Tuesday Poetics: Summer Starter I thought I’d give Walter’s prompt another go. This time I have chosen ‘Summer Solstice’ by Carrie Richards and have incorporated a line from an old poem of mine. When the whole world measured timeIn light and dark,Stonehenge was brand newLike you,My child.One drab June,When rain […]
Night Skies in Summer
My response to dVerse Poets Pub Tuesday Poetics: Summer Starter Walter is the host at this week’s edition of Tuesday Poetics! He has asked us to celebrate the first full (official) day of the Summer of 2016 by taking inspiration from a summer moment as seen through the eyes of another poet, something that sparks our […]
Follow Me
My response to Mindlovemisery’s Menagerie Photo Challenge #118 – Brooke Shaden Follow me, she said, In her dress of blue. Yes, I will, I said, I will follow you In the traces of your footsteps Imprinted in the sand, Reaching, ever reaching, For your ghostly hand. Overhead the seagulls turned Into the bitter breeze, […]
Ooame Orchestra
My response to dVerse Poets Pub Haibun Monday: 50 Shades of Rain Toni has asked us to write a tight one paragraph haibun, non-fiction, about rain and us, followed by a haiku about nature that ties our words together. Rain: how we experienced it, the emotions it brought out, the inconvenience it was, the beauty of it. […]
Spoon Man
A flicker of flash fiction for a Monday morning. Vicki bounded up the steps, Jez and Connor right behind her, lugging guitar cases. She sat down outside the café. ‘What’s your poison?’ Jez asked. Vicki was about to request a mocha, when she heard a sound like bells. She twisted her body and, in between […]
Death and Life
My response to Imaginary Garden with Real Toads the sisters Death and Night ~ Micro Poetry Gazing with malicious grin The Grim Reaper comes harvesting Generations of the never-ending Circle of life. Death may swipe Infant innocence or guilt aghast, But humanity eludes his grasp. On a bright bed of flowers, Eve, the source […]
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