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The Life Waiting
For Sunday’s Whirligig: Wordle #25 http://sundayswhirligig.blogspot.com/ birthday, pared, dazzling, weapons, sparks, move, eroding, rot, stumps, resentments, choking, gate For The Sunday Whirl: Wordle #217 https://sundaywhirl.wordpress.com/ evict, nick, trick, valley, threat, scent, dash, deny, try, subside, flee, free For Poets United: … Continue reading
Posted in The Life Waiting
Tagged birthday, clear moment, denial, forgetting, life planned, life waiting, Poetry Pantry, Poets United, Sundays Whirligig, The Sunday Whirl, wordles
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Clear Sight
For the Sunday Whirl poetry prompt: wordle # 188 http://sundaywhirl.wordpress.com/ resolute, flutter, spills, forgotten, stains, pirouettes, children, miserable, decision, neglected, cloudy, moments Clear Sight Hearts flutter, might stutter for a moment, when our children pirouette around rules we have set down. … Continue reading
Posted in Clear Sight
Tagged forgetting, honest, mistakes, open, pirouette, Poetry prompt, stain of remembering, The Sunday Whirl, wordle
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Found Object
For Miz Quickly’s Impromptu Poetry Day 17: Found Object http://imprompt.wordpress.com/ Found Object Have you ever found piece of poem in bottom of pocket or purse, simple verse jotted down on now scrunched up scrap of paper borrowed from neighbor, ’cause … Continue reading
Tangent
Miz Quickly’s poetry prompts Day 8: not to prompt http://imprompt.wordpress.com/2013/04/08/april-8/ Tangent drowning pain when it pooled in her spirit and left stains on the fabric of who she had become. __Tom Lowe The 24th Letter She tried, really tried … Continue reading
Posted in Tangent
Tagged accidental prompt, addiction, alcoholism, forgetting, National Poetry Month, poem a day, stain removal, The 24th Letter, Tom Lowe
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No One Wants To Be Her
PAD Challenge #11 For Poetic Asides For today’s prompt, take the phrase “No One Wants (blank),” replace the blank with a word or phrase, make the new phrase the title of your poem, and then, write the poem. Possible … Continue reading
Posted in No One Wants To Be Her
Tagged forgetting, identity, no one wants to, PAD Challenge, Poetic Asides, Poetry prompt
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Threads (For Mom)
She gave me life over sixty years ago. Now we move together through this final phase of her journey. She is tired, fragile, and often forgets things, like names, ages of her great-grandchildren, or how to turn on the … Continue reading
Posted in Threads
Tagged forgetting, grasp of facts, learning to travel lightly, Mother and daughter, moving together, poem, Poetry, teacher, without baggage
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Soul's Music 