Tag Archives: dVerse

A Word To Live By

Posted on January 14, 2019 by Christine Irving

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 Christine Irving

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 Christine Irving

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 Christine Irving

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 Christine Irving

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 Christine Irving

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 Christine Irving

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 →

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“…the poem which i do not write”

Posted on November 21, 2018 by Christine Irving

 (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 →

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Quadrille Night at the dVerse

Posted on November 20, 2018 by Christine Irving

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 Christine Irving

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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