Tag Archives: dVerse

A Word To Live By

Posted on January 14, 2019 by

I received a prompt today from De Jackson at the dVerse Poets Pub.  He suggested “change” as the topic for a forty-four word quadrille.  Ha!  Who couldn’t write a book on this topic?  You might as well tell us to … Continue reading →

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Association

Posted on January 12, 2019 by

It’s open link night at the dVerse Poets Pub,  Grace is behind the bar and any one can belly up to tell a tale, old or new.  She began the telling with Lines for Winter by Mark Strand.  I didn’t … Continue reading →

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Why I Keep This Stuff

Posted on January 10, 2019 by

Yesterday at the dVerse Poets Pub, Lillian asked us to write about some object we have hanging in our homes.  I have so many things hanging from all sorts of places.  My walls are full, as is every vertical surface.  … Continue reading →

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To Write a Terzanelle: Challenge by Jilly

Posted on December 7, 2018 by

Our times are so fraught.  Whether at home, on a bus or hanging at the dVerse, I haven’t had a conversation in years that doesn’t circle back to the state of the union and leave everyone distraught.   The huge anger … Continue reading →

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Secret Ingredients

Posted on December 7, 2018 by

Gospel Isosceles posted a lovely prompt at the dVerse Poets Pub encouraging us to write about a secret ingredient.  I had a hard time thinking of a response because I already have a strange poem I wrote several years ago.  … Continue reading →

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quadrille prompt by whimseygizmo – cheers!

Posted on December 5, 2018 by

Monday morning I poured some eggnog in my coffee and set to wrapping Christmas presents. I would rather unfurl poems, but duty calls, days shorten and I have to get theses MAILED!   Still, I was thinking quadrille when I came … Continue reading →

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Waiting

Posted on November 27, 2018 by

However, I began thinking of the fires in California and all the displaced people and animals.  I used to go to Paradise (not Pleasure) as a child visiting my grandmother on her ranch outside of Marysville.  Nana had a friend … Continue reading →

Posted in Animals, dVerse, Haiku, Memoir, Nature, Poetry, Trees | Tagged , , , , , , , | 8 Comments

“…the poem which i do not write”

Posted on November 21, 2018 by

 (title from poem xvii by e.e. cummings) Rumi is a long time favorite of mine.  His love poems speak often of desire, as does the Judeo-Christian Song of Solomon.  Religious apologists say that the use of erotica in these and other … Continue reading →

Posted in Consciousness, Desire, dVerse, Eros, Herstory, Poetry, wisdom | Tagged , , , , , , | 5 Comments

Quadrille Night at the dVerse

Posted on November 20, 2018 by

Hey the challenge on the bar at last night’s poets pub was to write a quadrille. (The Quadrille combines two essential elements – a single word that has to be included in the body of your text. The second is to limit  … Continue reading →

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dVerse ~ Poets Pub

Posted on November 7, 2018 by

I’ve found a virtual poets’ pub where every barkeeper and patron – even the solitaries, come to meet and mingle with other lovers of the craft.  The dedicated staff takes turn posting a series of prompts several times a week … Continue reading →

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