image link Tonight’s dverse poet’s cafe topic is fire and it can be in any form. This one may be in a form but no guarantees. two extinguished travelers searching for shelter where warmth could be and found each other * kindling of combustible memories tossed into the pyre ignited by unvalidated emotions consumed…
Category: poetry
d verse monday — haibun on waiting
image link Imelda is hosting at dverse tonight. Her prompts are waiting and the form haibun. This is the second try for me on haibun and it’s probably the most challenging form I’ve done yet. I’m very interested in any critiques on this. It would be appreciated as I want to get better, especially at…
Oblivion
image link A Quatern is a sixteen line French form composed of four quatrains. It has a refrain that is in a different place in each quatrain. A quatern has eight syllables per line. It does not have to be iambic or follow a set rhyme scheme. She sinks into oblivion Each instance his name…
Trap
image link Fandango’s One Word Challenge today is trap. Today’s offering is a sedoka . The Sedoka is an unrhymed poem made up of two three-line katauta with the following syllable counts: 5/7/7, 5/7/7. A Sedoka, pair of katauta as a single poem, may address the same subject from differing perspectives. Trap Arms, bodies entwined…
Mi Familia
image link A family gathering gives, Appreciating why one lives Reminisces, laughter galore About things serious before Time, growth, and love blossoms forgives. Sons, now men, have women to love Humble prayers they would be beloved Helpmates, companions, hand in hand Cherished partners, unfolds as planned Thank you, Grace from dverse for the prompt today…
Guilty
Laws are like cobwebs, which may catch small flies, but let wasps and hornets break through. ~Jonathan Swift, A Critical Essay upon the Faculties of the Mind, 1707 * Crime is naught but misdirected energy. So long as every institution of today, economic, political, social, and moral, conspires to misdirect human energy into wrong channels;…
Temple of Desire
image link Dverse topic of the night is desire and sexuality and our personal views on it. If you haven’t checked out the exceptional poetry going on over at dverse, hightail it over there by clicking on the link! here lies fleshly temple living archive within which are held sensory etchings intertwined orientations…
Tao-Talk 