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Day 19 prompt: tri colors I’m really quite wary Of colors primary Red is so burning I find it concerning Yellow is soured By ties to a coward […]
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Still life
Day 18 prompt: still life I’m not much for the still life The lazy run of the mill life Give me instead a thrill life So full my cup […]
Playful
Day 17 prompt: playful (an acrostic poem) Pause … Look Around … You’ll Find Unexpected Laughter (Until today, I’ve resisted this poetic form because it felt too easy, like a […]
Liquid via Haikubes
Day 16 prompt: liquid For Christmas this year I received Haikubes — a set of word dice you toss out and then organize into poetry. Such fun. With today’s prompt […]
Can’t take it any more
Day 15 prompt: renewal Take off Take flight Take a trip Take a drive Take a jog Take a hike Take a stroll Take a dive Take […]
Marketing 101
Day 14 prompt: oddity (a haiku) When your specialty Becomes a commodity Foster oddity
Newborn
Day 13 prompt: pampered (a cincquain) Newborn So well tended Tummy filled, tush pampered Small, irresistible person True love A cinquain has five lines. The pattern is this: […]
Just dessert
Day 12 prompt: dessert My good friend Sunny Eats kinda funny: Milk chocolate chips Over sirloin strip, Marshmallow treats On roasted beets, Giant Cool Whip globs On broccoli raab, Maple […]
If people wore labels
Day 11 prompt: fragile What if people wore labels According to mood Like the big inky stamps Some parcels include? Fragile Would you be the […]
Unseasonable
Day 10 prompt: winter (a haiku) Queer January No parka, boots or rock salt Who shanghai’d Jack Frost?
Farm girl
Day 9 prompt: on a farm (a nonnet) As Dad’s tractor hums in the cornfield Last born, too green to tend the crops, Sprawls out under maple shade Grazing on […]
How gauche
Day 8 prompt: white (a limerick) I bought a grand gown for Columbus Day My southern belle mom calls it gauche display Not for sequins galore Nor the hem to […]
Fill me up
Day 7 prompt: burgundy Looking almost past me Well-dressed attendant Motions me up And out Of well-worn bench Barely making eye contact […]
Anxiety to Calm (a diamante poem)
Day 6 prompt: calm anxiety tight . breathless clenching . pressing . stewing clutter . victim … mercy . clarity releasing . breathing . trusting open . light calm
A Reader’s Story
Day 5 prompt: warped Summer’s best fiction Drenched In mid-day sun Prescription sunglasses Tame tiny black characters On bright white paper I am silent Enveloped by words Pages piling left […]
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