My response to dVerse Poets Pub Poetics: Breathing in Blue also shared on Imaginary Garden with Real Toads Tuesday Platform De (WhimsyGizmo) has inspired us with photos from her visit to Lake Tahoe – “Lake of the Sky” and, for this week’s Poetics, asks us to look up, breathe in some blue, and breathe out a poem. […]
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Romance and Sea Mist
My response to dVerse Poets Pub Haibun Monday: A Little Romance: Toni has challenged us to pen a romantic haibun. Although we’ve known each other since childhood, we’d been babies in prams in parallel roads, ran around the playground together when we were six years old and had shy crushes on each other as teenagers, I hadn’t […]
Once in a Blue Moon (reprise)
My response to dVerse Poets Pub Meeting the Bar: Let’s Kick It Up a Notch This evening, Victoria is our host and has asked us to search our archives, choose a poem and add a little spice to it through the use of sensory description, replacing metaphor, or tightening up the word count. I have reworked […]
Why am I Scared of Sharks?
My response to dVerse Poets Pub Poetics: What Are You Afraid Of? This evening Mish has asked us to think about fear. I will never encounter a real shark, although Jaws gave me nightmares, still makes me jump. And living in the countryside, I’m unlikely to meet an aggressive drunk or witness a late […]
My Asymmetry
My response to dVerse Poets Pub Quadrille – I am who I am, but tomorrow, who knows? For Monday’s Quadrille (a poem of 44 words: no more, no less – not including the title), Lillian has asked us to create a self-portrait. I look in a mirror and see A transient ischemic face Staring back […]
Deluge (again)
My response to dVerse Poets Pub Tuesday Poetics: Drought or Deluge After weeks of summer drought, It’s pouring again, Fluidity fluctuating between Short showers and torrential rain. Outside, the cat pounces On each drop that bounces; Liquid diamonds gush down shoots To be guzzled up by dehydrated roots; Water butt and gutters bubble, Overflowing […]
Arctic Escape
My response to dVerse Poets Pub Haibun Monday #17 In most parts of the UK, July and August are on average the warmest months of the year: blue skies, sunshine and soaring temperatures. Although it has been said that a British summer consists of two fine days and a thunderstorm which, until the last few […]
Pleiades
My response to dVerse Poets Pub 5 Year Celebration Part Five; Revisiting Anthony Desmond Gayle is hosting the 5th part and last day of the special 5th anniversary celebration, starting with an interview with Anthony Desmond, including his poem ‘When Everything Real is Gone’ as a prompt to reflect and write on a belief (or what […]
In Glaze of Dusk
My response to dVerse Poets Pub 5 Year celebration Part 4, Catching up with Samuel Peralta Björn has interviewed Samuel Peralta. I enjoyed his poem, ‘N. poeticus’, which has made me a little nervous about my own post this evening. What I have taken from the interview is Sam’s advice to ‘write from the heart, but […]
Finding Your Heart
My response to dVerse Poets Pub 5 Year celebration Part 3 – Laurie Kolp & A Summer Continuance Thank you Walter and Grace for the interview with Laurie; I’ve bookmarked her website and will be taking a look later. We have the following quote from which to draw inspiration: “I am cold, even though the […]
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