Heeding Haiku With Chèvrefeuille, February 6th 2019, sundown Mindloves Misery Menagerie’s Chèvrefeuille says: Welcome at a new episode of Heeding Haiku With … MLMM’s feature about haiku and haibun. As you all (maybe) know I am hosting my own website at blogger.com and this month we are creating Tan Renga. Tan Renga is a short chained…
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d’Verse — Invisible — Walking the Labyrinth
image link Merril is the host for dVerse poet’s pub today. Merril says: Write a poem in any form that references invisible or invisibility. There are lots of ways to go with this, and I’m eager to see what the dVerse community comes up with. I’ve also just thought that an erasure poem might fit…
dVerse Haibun Monday #2 — 2/4/19 Winter Solitude
“Winter Solitude” by Patricia DeWit Kim is the host of this week’s Haibun Monday at the dVerse poet’s pub. Kim says: For this week’s Haibun Monday, write about solitude: it could be meditative solitude, solitude in nature, or just plain old sitting alone in your room solitude. That’s up to you. But you should write…
dVerse Rubaiyat: The Beauty of a Fork in the Road
John Sloane, “North Country Christmas” UPDATE ON 2/10/19: I have been working on on the rubaiyat after receiving excellent feedback. To all who have contributed feedback thank you very much, especially Nora. I decided to change the title for one. For another I added another stanza, which meant some lines had to be switched around. …
MLMM Heeding Haiku with Chèvrefeuille — HAWK
This week’s Mindlovemisery’s Menagerie’s Heeding Haiku with Chèvrefeuille has the inspirational prompt of hawk. i Perched, her red tail wags, head swiveling to decide which snow drift to glide. ii Brown wings glide over white drifts; talons clutch the hare; sub-zero dinner. iii Winter hawk calls in the morning; there will be grief in snowy…
d’Verse Return
gif link Sarah is hosting d’Verse this evening. Sarah says: Tonight, I want you to write about a harbinger. My offering tonight to meet the prompt is in the form of a double etheree. Each night you stay after work like I do and meander to my work area. You pretend to seek my…
MLMM The Promised Skull
NEKNEERAJ of Mindlovesmisery Menagerie Photo Challenge has asked for a poem or story to go with the above image. I went with a free-form poem. Long I survey, with hollowed eyes, rubbled landscape, cloudless skies. Humans going to and fro, I watch and wait, through rain and snow. You said you’d come back, swore your…
