At dVerse Li is hosting Prosery (144 words of prose) with an invitation to take a phrase from Alice Walker’s ‘Before you knew you owned it.’ The phrase is – “Make of it a parka for your soul.” dVerse Poets – Prosery – Making a Parka Image: aljazeera.com Evil personified! “Oh shade obscene from out the jungled past.” Burnett A. Ward Madness Lurks A bleak wind blows. Everywhere madness creeps…
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Photo: found on pinterest.com “there was epiphany in the pain” Olu Oguibe Once MoreDark emotionnow jiltedexcludedsulkingnot completely annihilated ,woundedhidingdeep in the interior,rising almost to lifeas feelings swirlwhen tiredness infiltratesprojected,legitimised by thincircumstance,attempting blamethwarted by thesmoking gun ofself-awareness. Copyright 2025 ©️Paul Vincent CannonAll Rights…
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At dVerse Laura is hosting Meeting The Bar with an invitation to write an Open or Free Verse poem. For more detail follow the link below: dVerse poets – MTB – Open to the Question Photo by Fernanda Pereira: https://www.pexels.com “Kiss by kiss I cover your tiny infinity” Pablo Neruda To The LastSheuncertain of her desireopened the door tothe feast withinopened the bottletwo glasseslong…
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At dVerse Melissa is hosting Poetics with an invitation to write a poem that is about lying, for more detail follow the link below: dVerse Poets – Poetics – April Fools Image: learning-mind.com “To claim, at a dead party, to have spotted a grackle, when in fact you haven’t of late, can do no harm.” Richard Wilbur SureO yeah, surekeep goingbut I gotta tell youonly 47% of what you saidis true…
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(via 34 - a poem by Paul Vincent Cannon)
Image by Simon from Pixabay “… the old revolutionary road breaks off into the shadows near a meeting-house abandoned by the persecuted who disappeared into these shadows.” Adrienne Rich The Long HaulWe set out one stifling summeralbeit and unbeknown, asNapoleon on a bent to Moscow,determined to climb the mountainpiton after piton of division, hateand everything that was a cruelpolluting…
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An Ekphrastic for Paul Brooke’s Ekphrastic Challenge Art Work: Sara Elizabeth Bell ‘Stone Tower, Laurel Creek’ Pale CairnTrickle above a whisperpast the pale cairn of hopesomeone carefully laid as guide for the watershould it fail to see itsdownward directionalong this bed of life,neatly tucked into my witness eye whichmight later recount atold you so if it daredto find its own way,the cairn a…
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At dVerse De is hosting the Quadrille (44 words sans title) with an invitation to write a poem using some form of the word enchant. dVerse Poets – Quadrille – Some Enchanted Poem Photo: literaryfictions.com Greta Garbo “Then suddenly there was sun and the music came back …” Mark Strand GesturesPeople always talkabout eyeshow they draw you,peer deeply intoyour soul, but there is deep magicin…
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Hopeless, Starving, and Besieged. Israel's Forced Displacement of Palestinians in Gaza, Human Rights Watch, New York, NY, November 14, 2024 (pdf here)
At dVerse De is hosting the Quadrille with and invitation to Zing, to include Zing or a form in a poem. dVerse Poets – Quadrille – Poems With Zing Photo: outdoorshell.com “O Winter! frozen pulse and heart of fire” Helen Hunt Jackson Get A Free ZingCamping in the winternow that's not the thing,the closer to zeromore woolies need to bring,because of the temperaturesome vigorous walkingis de…
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