Yesterday’s poetics prompt at dVerse Poets Pub celebrated Teachers’ Day in India. Punam challenged us to write a poem about our teacher. New Poem Precocious ~from the Latin praecox meaning early ripening I remember Miss Berniewho saw merecognized the needin a precocious childand supplied a home-made packet of extrawork. Not more reading, not more math,butContinue reading “Teacher Appreciation”
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Descort
Note to poets: I had noticed a lot of strange traffic to my site this last year. The wordpress forums assured me that the little bots constantly visiting my old posts were nothing to worry about and harmless, but that didn’t sit right with me. They had to be doing something. Then I happened toContinue reading “Descort”
It’s ModPo Time
A very quick writer’s life update: Last December I was diagnosed with stage four colorectal cancer and started chemo. I had a mass the size of a football on an ovary (I looked nine months pregnant) and another large one in my colon. The two tumors pushed together and completely blocked my colon in lateContinue reading “It’s ModPo Time”
An Upside Down World
Yesterday’s Poetics prompt at dVerse Poets Pub was to choose one of four paintings by Chagall and write an ekphrastic poem. My focus this year is surreality. As Chagall’s dream imagery had an influence on the surrealists, I felt inspired to start my surreality posts with a poem to this prompt. Return to an Upside-downContinue reading “An Upside Down World”
The Museum of Temporary Hideouts
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”
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”