I enjoyed today’s Poetics prompt at dVerse Poets Pub from Melissa Lemay. Inspired by the poem, “August Morning,” by Albert Garcia, she challenged us to “wander from room to room as if in a museum.” The Museum of Temporary Hideouts We say nature abhorsa vacuum, meaningempty spaces don’tstay empty for long.This house has a vacuuminContinue reading “The Museum of Temporary Hideouts”
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Crises of Nature
These poems continue my exploration of Krisis for the dVerse Poets Pub anthology call. It’s the last Open Link Night before the deadline, and we were given the opportunity to present up to three poems for this post. I’ve come up with two offerings. Betrayal By Nature “Nature never did betray the heart that lovedContinue reading “Crises of Nature”
Summer Fling
This poem is in response to Laura Bloomsbury’s MTB prompt at dVerse Poets Pub to write in the Parallelogram de Crystalline form about “the beauty of a (real or imaginary) lover as compared with and described in images of nature.” Summer Fling A love likeA wild bunny gorgingOn juicy ripe garden strawberries Grows brazenAnd boldContinue reading “Summer Fling”
Breaking Through My Crossroads Block
This year, 2025, at the end of August, is the 20th Anniversary of Hurricane Katrina. It’s hard for us survivors to believe it has already been that long because we are still affected by it every day. Any survivor of traumatic events knows what anniversaries can do. So please be tender with any K-storm survivorsContinue reading “Breaking Through My Crossroads Block”
Depth of the Unchanging One
It’s our last full week of NaPoWriMo (National /Global Poetry Writing Month) and the A-Z Challenge. I hope you’re enjoying the A to Z of Depth. Yesterday we dove into change and transformation, so when I read, “the human mind is capable of fathoming that unchanging one behind the many, and having fathomed it, theContinue reading “Depth of the Unchanging One”
Screams All The Way Down
These are my responses to the Writober prompt post Fear of Loss of Autonomy. OctPoWriMo Today is Quadrille Monday at dVerse Poets Pub and the prompt word is “light.” For today’s poem, I was sure that my Artist Magnetic Poetry Kit would have the word “light,” but to my shock and horror, it did not.Continue reading “Screams All The Way Down”
Lonely in a Crowd
These are my responses to the Writober prompt post Fear of Loneliness. OctPoWriMo Loneliness Arrives Uninvited not a lone wolf but a skunk in a funkor a slug on a sofaslimy and staleslowly oozingleaving sticky trails not a peacock but anamoeba, a parasite of painlike knives stabbingfrom the insideonce it gets init never wants toContinue reading “Lonely in a Crowd”
Isolated Incident
These are my responses to the Writober prompt post Fear of Isolation. OctPoWriMo Today’s poem was really fun. During Friday Gathering we did a revision exercise. I looked back at the poem I wrote on October 11th last year and used n+7 on some of the words, meaning I looked up the word in theContinue reading “Isolated Incident”
Sounds in the Darkness
These are my responses to the Writober prompt post Fear of Darkness. OctPoWriMo Today is Open Link Night at dVerse Poets Pub, so link up today’s poem, or your favorite poem you wrote this week. Sanaa also provides a mini prompt that fits nicely with our fear of separation prompts: Consider this line from EdnaContinue reading “Sounds in the Darkness”
Haunted by Ego Death
OctPoWriMo Today’s Poetics prompt at dVerse Poets Pub is to write a poem about Harvest or Haunting, or a Haunted Harvest. Let’s see if I can fit that in with the prompt from the first day of Writober post Letters: Symbols of Sound. Four of the ten words in my word list started with “s,”Continue reading “Haunted by Ego Death”
Experience Writing 