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Black All Over
For The Sunday Whirl: Wordle #206 https://sundaywhirl.wordpress.com/ crawled, crows, heart, grain, clay, splintered, bones, crack, collapse, quilts, escaping, open Black All Over Have a crow deep in my soul. Crawled through small open crack made years ago. Owns divided, splintered … Continue reading
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Tagged black all over, bringing fire, crow, fool, hero, indecision, soul, The Sunday Whirl, two choices, two legends, wordle
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Tremulous
For The Sunday Whirligig: Whirligig #212 http://sundayswhirligig.blogspot.com/ tremulous, customs, wander, holds, separate, love, forgotten, traditional, architecture, woman, city, remember Tremulous Woman alone, standing between two separate architectures. Doric columns of past, remembered loves held in cardboard boxes stacked shoulder-high in … Continue reading
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Tagged black ink, definitions, doric columns, moving, past, present moments, sunlight and shadow, The Sunday Whirligig, tremulous, wordle
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The Other I Am
For The Sunday Whirl prompt: Wordle 204 http://sundaywhirl.wordpress.com/ clay, sleep, tongues, powers, burns, wild, dream, end, stolen, through, beginnings, am The Other I Am* The Other I Am is no longer a secret kept by me, from or to myself. Had … Continue reading
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Tagged clay of dreams, other I am, Poetry Pantry, Poets United, power of tongues, secret garden, The Sunday Whirl, Walt Whitman, wordle
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Questions
For The Sunday Whirl prompt: Wordle 203 http://sundaywhirl.wordpress.com rustling, dry, sweet, deck, tear, monkeys, blasphemy, whole, born, plague, will, keep Questions How does one speak of blasphemy? Of a church dealing from double, plague-ridden deck of definitions. One for itself, another … Continue reading
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Tagged blasphemy, church, definitions, face-saving, politicians, questions, sacred world, The Sunday Whirl, wordle, writing prompt
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Unavailable Until Further Notice
For The Sunday Whirl prompt: Wordle #202 http://sundaywhirl.wordpress.com/ knead, excuses, wind, drive, sting, images, string, trip, club, plant, trample, begin Unavailable Until Further Notice Words huddle there in a ragged string of reluctance, some kneading hands, others mumbling excuses about … Continue reading
Posted in Unavailable Until Further Notice
Tagged dream, notice, petals of poetry, reluctance, resistance, The Sunday Whirl, unavailable, wordle
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Mythopoesis
For The Sunday Whirl: Wordle #201 http://sundaywhirl.worpress.com empty, veins, flesh, names, table, weight, fear, howl, circle, through, ghost, granite Mythopoesis Looks a tad dense, like it might carry weight found in ghostly veins and flesh of granite. Myth-o-po-ee-sis. Slips through air at … Continue reading
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Tagged CS Lewis, JRR Tolkien, looks heavy, making myths, meaning, mythopoesis, The Sunday Whirl, Tree and Leaf, wordle
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Song In My Soul
For The Sunday Whirl: Wordle #200 http://sundaywhirl.wordpress.com/ umbrella, river, hopeless, petals, post, uncut, yearning, delicate, tiny, perched, blue, until And for Poets United: Poetry Pantry #240 http://poetryblogroll.blogspot.com/ Song In My Soul Live beneath an umbrella of hope, though never really possessed one. … Continue reading
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Tagged branches, delicate petals, deluge, Poetry Pantry, Poetry prompt, Poets United, soul, The Sunday Whirl, there is more, umbrella of hope, wordle
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Stone Weight
For The Sunday Whirl writing prompt: Wordle #199 http://sundaywhirl.wordpress.com/ empty, held, memory, saintly, crack, track, wrestle, pebbles, cue, act, science, angel Stone Weight It’s not science, you know. I wasn’t saintly, not even close to being an angel. There’s a wide … Continue reading
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Tagged anger and hate, boulders, cue, graveled path, memory, stones, The Sunday Whirl, trowels of forgetfulness, wordle
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The Art of Active Meditation
For the Sunday Whirl writing prompt: Wordle #198 http://sundaywhirl.wordpress.com/ instill, fill, burst, tumble, glass, sound, clown, fleece, another, wound, emit, seal And for Poets United: Poetry Pantry #238 http://poetryblogroll.blogspot.com/ Art of Active Meditation Forgot how the colors can instill a burst of … Continue reading
Careless Risking
For The Sunday Whirl writing prompt: Wordle #197 http://sundaywhirl.wordpress.com/ rescue, patron, day, measure, spread, race, state, host, spend, ticking, cloud, humility Careless Risking Hard not to laugh when others measure in words like heroic or humble. She was patron of neither. … Continue reading
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Tagged carelessly risking, fear and foreboding, hero, humble, measured in words, nightmares, Poetry, rescue, The Sunday Whirl, wordle
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