Image: found at bondibeauty.com.au via Bing “Let me float across the sky” Maya Angelou She WondersShe is flying sparkledalong the brooding clouds,seeking benedictionabove the forests whooffer lessons in slowness and where the question hums -if the seasons are not welcomedwill they come at all?As she flies she wonders,upon reaching the horizonwill she sing her song and will her words be…
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Image by metacross from Pixabay “The idealistic imagined world is alone, isolated, undisturbed remaining free …” Angelina Pandian High TideThose little expansive momentsof transportrapture or riskwelcome or notin nano seconds of interruptionparallel universes openingI've lost the trigger,but I don't really careI'm in it now,don't disturblet me indulge the flurryof senses and memoriesno matter…
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At dVerse Grace is hosting Open Link Night – the night we choose a poem to post. dVerse Poets – OLN Photo: zmescience.com “And the dead tree gives no shelter.” T.S. Eliot The Old Casuarina I often pass the old casuarina,green tobrown to grey,soft to hardthe end of sap,juice of the livinggonedead,elemental washthe smooth soon enoughsplits and pits,what once coherednow shredded,a fibrous…
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Image by Наталия Когут from Pixabay “Always too eager for the future, we pick up bad habits of expectancy” Phillip Larkin Not SeeingThe gaze,le regard,what catches the eyewhere am I fixed with intent to exclusion,are there any new movementsto beat the syncopated repetitionof the daily urban ballet soinfused it is now tasteless,invisible, and yet not a partof my breath, it is…
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Photo: taken two weeks ago at Flinders Bay, Augusta. The rock and reef provide a sheltered swimming and snorkelling opportunity (and the recent addition of a fresh fruit ice cream van). “Oh, to be lying on a beach, somewhere, with sand in my toes.” Linda Harnett Down Along The ShoreHe texted meto saythe pallets are readybut I have no energyto go and get them,it's not just that it's hotthe rain…
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At dVerse Li is hosting the Haibun with an invitation to write what is know as a Burning Haibun. Burning Haibun relies on writing a Haibun then using erasure x 2 to arrive at a distilled form as a second part, followed by the usual haiku/senryu. Burning Haibun is typically about an interior journey/reflection. For more detail follow the link below: dVerse Poets – Haibun – Making Way Image:…
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Photo: Found on bing.com “Sometimes an idea is just an idea” Sina Queyras What's Your Point?Tightropeof woven wordssways high in a breezebetween intolerable points,behind me distorted images an ever moving past,before me a miragenothing more than arainbow of shifting sands,the musicin my headis no certain guide,just my invitation to forget the distanceand dance. Copyright 2025 ©️Paul Vincent…
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At dVerse Dora is hosting Poetics with an invitation to write a poem using the words Despite, and Still. For more detail follow the link below: dVerse Poets – Poetics – Despite And Still Image by Antonio Cansino from Pixabay “No, why should I mind? I can’t get any peace anywhere.” Dave Calder A Curmudgeon ReflectsAh, schmaltzmassthat day when we run raggedto be the people we claim to already…
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Merry Christmas Everyone
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At dVerse Kim is hosting poetics with an invitation to write a poem about a dragon. dVerse Poets – Poetics – Legendary Creatures Photo: wallpaperaccess.com “For when he takes his prey he plays with it to give it a chance” Christopher Smart The Fire DrakeMaybe, maybe not, thegryphon brings good luckbut I pat him every nightbefore I take the 240 wornsteps up the ancient toweras if a talisman of…
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