d’Verse — Confessional

image link Anmol is our host of d’Verse this evening.  He has challenged us with: So, the Poetics challenge today is to write a confessional verse in the style of any of these poets or write something which plays with the ideas expressed here — to put your regrets, your guilts, your sins, your humanity,…

#d’Verse — Quadrille to Change

image link De Jackson is the host of d’Verse poet’s pub this evening. De’s prompt follows: The changing of the guards. Spare change. Positive change. Change your clothes. Change your attitude. Change your life. Changed. Changeability. Changing. You could even go a little creepy on us, and write about a changeling. Whatever you write, just…

d’Verse — house ramble and find

Lillian is the hostess this Tuesday with d’Verse poet’s pub.  She instructs: So – here’s what I’m asking you to do today. Walk around your house and look at all the things hanging there: on walls, in closets, on your refrigerator door, etc. Pick something that “speaks to you” and use that as the basis…

d’Verse — Haibun Monday: January

Today’s offering is a haibun written for hostess of the evening’s d’Verse, Kim’s, prompt of January. Waking up at eleven, looking out at another repetition of anemic feebleness that washes the life out everything. Invisible beyond grey, clouds prevent any instance of ROYGBIV. Eyes strain to delineate blah from blah. To say it is preferable…

Village Pastoral — revision 2 of 1

image link   Village Pastoral * Here is the latest revision, using enjambment: * Each morn, sun’s rise, she passes a dog, long dead, bloated, rotting roadside; its sick stench, maggot’s perfume, cause ripe wretching and swoon. She prays for rain to wash it all away. * Town’s well; wives talk, pails rise, smiles fall,…

dverse poet’s pub — The Librarian

image link Merril is the hostess of the first dverse poet’s pub of 2019. Her prompt today: So, today, I want you to consider time and space and what if? What if you–or someone else—or some THING else–took that less or more-traveled path? Would it make a difference? Will it make a difference? Look backward,…

Sonnet to A Songwriter

SONNET TO A SONGWRITER I decided to write a sonnet to the so-often unsung heros of music, the composers, or songwriters. I tried put words to the process of creating a song, or what I would imagine the process would be like. This is a Shakespearean sonnet in iambic pentameter with a rhyme scheme of…