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Measuring Loss
For We Write Poems poetry prompt: We Wordle #11 http://wewritepoems.wordpress.com/ Measuring Loss Boney arms failed to keep her teacup of broken history on planet of unusable harvest. Calm devotion drowned in gutters of rushing memory where time is stored alive … Continue reading
An Old Old Story
For The Sunday Whirl writing prompt: Wordle #126 http://sundaywhirl.wordpress.com/ An Old Old Story And I found out a long time ago What a woman can do to your soul Ah, but she can’t take you any way You don’t already … Continue reading
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Tagged apple, Garden of Eden, Peaceful Easy Feeling, song lyrics, story, The Eagles, The Sunday Whirl, wordle, writing prompt
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Dust
For We Write Poems: prompt #116 Unexpected Descriptions http://wewritepoems.wordpress.com/ Please click and listen (skip the ad). Then come back and read the poem. http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=endscreen&v=g0zSB2WEtwU&NR=1 Dust Infinitesimal specks grey matter settled to stillness layered ghosts dreaming hope brushed aside Elizabeth Crawford … Continue reading
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Tagged Dust In The Wind, Kansas, music challenge, song lyrics, unexpected descriptions, We Write Poems, word count poem
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Words From A Wisdom Keeper
For We Write Poems poetry prompt: Make Your Own Wordle http://wewritepoems.wordpress.com/ We were to choose about twenty words from the lyrics of the Gordon Lightfoot song, Don Quixote, then write a poem from the words we had chosen. The … Continue reading
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Tagged Don Quixote, encounter, Gordon Lightfoot, hawk, Poetry prompt, song lyrics, survival, We Write Poems, wordle
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Escape Artist
Digging a hole deep enough to shelter, relax in shadows, no direct sunlight to blind eyes or cause leakage that might muddy softly blurred edges. Keeping colors safe, almost pastel but not quite. Time and space slowed to more … Continue reading
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Tagged blind eyes, colors, digging hole, direct sunlight, Escape Artist, feelings, pastels, poem, Poetry, rhythms, song lyrics
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A Matter of Perception
In response to Claudette’s weekly writing challenge #10: Discernment http://claudetteellinger.wordpress.com/ I watched David Cook on American Idol a few nights ago. He sang his new song, Come Back to Me. I have been haunted ever since. Words whispering in my … Continue reading