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Where I Come From

For Miz Quickly’s Impromptu Poetry Day 30: 30 http://imprompt.wordpress.com/ Where I Come From Why work so hard to be good at something no one else really cares about? Why spend hours, sometimes days and weeks, to tweak ordinary thought into … Continue reading

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Wish To Be A Perfect Poet (with a bit of self talk)

For Miz Quickly’s Impromptu Poetry Day 29: Wishes http://imprompt.wordpress.com/ Wish To Be A Perfect Poet (with a bit of self talk) But foolish wish can’t even be kissed, ’cause puckered lips cannot begin to pronounce perfectly profound words that might … Continue reading

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Pushed Beyond Limits

For The Sunday Whirl: Wordle # 106 http://sundaywhirl.wordpress.com/ Pushed Beyond Limits Transparent grubs of memory marched across mind in blind oath not to be forgotten. What she saw in list was harrowing, narrowing choices to thin gruel disconnected from marrow … Continue reading

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More Than A Job

For Miz Quickly’s Impromptu Day 27: Salesman http://imprompt.wordpress.com/ More Than A Job Used to work in a bookstore, behind counter, selling books. Loved talking to customers telling them how this volume could take them here, or help get them there. How … Continue reading

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Mouth of The River

For Miz Quickly’s Impromptu Poetry Day 26: Get Out of The House http://imprompt.wordpress.com/ Mouth of The River The mouth of the river swallows fingers of land, or at least attempts to lick them, wetting edges of an envelope hoping sealed … Continue reading

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Poem Starting With a Line by Anne Sexton

For Miz Quickly’s Impromptu Poetry Day 25: “Poem Starting with a Line by _______” is your title. http://imprompt.wordpress.com/ Poem Starting With a Line by Anne Sexton Kind Sir: This is an old game. One darts ahead leaving whispered trail of … Continue reading

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Uninvited

For Miz Quickly’s Impromptu Poetry Day 24: Wordle http://imprompt.wordpress.com/ Uninvited In the aftermath, trying to remain calm as she explained to stony-faced cop, how her unexpected guests detoured around modest, but boring, array of snacks, obviously finding more value in … Continue reading

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Spring Meltdown

Miz Quickly’s Impromptu Poetry Day 23: Repeat After Me http://imprompt.wordpress.com/ Spring Meltdown A cascade poem should flow downward, rushing water leaping over stones and boulders. Every third line, a ripple of repetition. It begins, sun melting hard packed snow creating … Continue reading

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For Earth Day

For Miz Quickly’s Impromptu Poetry Day 22: Earth Day http://imprompt.wordpress.com/ For Earth Day Earth Mother Giving life To her children Spinning in space, keeping this place our home. What small gift might we give you in return to replenish fragile … Continue reading

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A Found Prose Poem

For Miz Quickly’s Impromptu Poetry Day 20: Prose Poem http://imprompt.wordpress.com/ A Woman’s Way of Knowing From:  Still, Suzan (2011-07-13). Commune Of Women (p. 352). NBN_Mobi_Kindle. Kindle Edition. Sophia questions that herself: how can she be so sure of what she’s … Continue reading

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