Category: poetry
Literary Revelations’ Professional Analysis and Comparison
The analysis “compares Literary Revelations with post-2020 indie presses.” Literary Revelations comes out favorably. The report details why. Check it out at Gabriela’s Literary Revelations site.
dVerse — Poetics Tuesday — The Worm Turns
The Turning Of The Worm,Painting by Christian Michael The Worm Turns Plot points on a small map, where I travel no furtherthan scattershot; wet in settler’s muck where I wiggle, human worm, blind, underground, catalyzing compost. Churning waste to sleepy dreamer’s gold, I rise, emerge,shadow from shadows, with an urge to breathe; sniff frightened, decaying…
dVerse Q243 — Be a Bird
Be a Bird Be a bird,hued or drab,warbling or silent,wafting or waddling,building or nesting,migrating or staying put,preening or molting,hunting or pecking,diving or swimming,lightbound or darkbound,predator or prey,hopping or dancingearth, sky, sea;choosing whereverfree be. De (aka whimsygizmo) is today’s host of dVerse’ Quadrille Monday. De wants us to write a 44-word poem using the word bird.
The Oracle Speaks — Peace Bloom
Peace Bloom Fertile dawn’s a soft squirrel,moon-wandered poetry over lake. Quiet is how peace blooms between,through which wild things tendril,root in garden bright sanctuary. Follow winter as you must;Spring green makes never blossom,sacred, happy, full soon. Bonus poem:blue & lonelyfrosty feelleave me The Oracle speaks through magnet poetry.
dVerse MTB/Forms — Blue Forensics
VanGogh’s “Blue Wheatfield with Cypress” Blue ForensicsWhat acts cast this pall upon the bloody world?Weather sprite tricks or via faux-king twit I heard.Normal season’s passing or terminal affliction?A healthy ecosystemic or sick viral acquisition?Which infusive spilled fluid is chosen, preferable?Meltstreams for crops or gunsiphons unutterable?Bright skyball trajectoring sun or nuclear missile?Task: plant seed cellpacks or…
WMM 2026 Day 4 — Peggy Lee
Photo: Michael Ochs Archives/Getty Images link takes you to a huge amount of info on Peggy Lee and has other pictures there Norma Deloris Egstrom (b. 5/26/1920 – d. 1/21/2002) known professionally as Peggy Lee, was an American jazz and popular music singer, songwriter, and actress whose career spanned seven decades. From her beginning as a vocalist on local radio…
