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My eyes poem a song to your heart Can you see it in their sparkle My lips poem a whisper for your ears Can you hear the silence My touch poems a tingle to your skin Your shiver tells me everything i need know       Submission for dVerse Quadrille

adore this?

To the One Who Opens the door The Door And the Gate Keeper And, to the One who walks through - Sulis Sarasvati - there is a point a moment in time and space focused and singular where change is noticed here all things are possible here we know and we don't know collectively agitated …

Hiraeth

An eloquent write from Brendan at Real Toads provides us with a prompt entitled Home. Please red his soulful introduction below before moving on to my poem. As one who moved around a lot in his earlier decades, the eventual finding, making and sustaining a place I call home has resulted in the most productive …

tra la la

Tonight we are hosted by Lillian for Poetics at dVerse When I was young, we made an annual summer outing to Riverview Park in Chicago, Illinois. 74 acres of fun founded in 1904 that finally closed down in 1967. It was called an amusement park and was always crowded with families, thrill seekers, scout troop …

veiled

  Fireblossom Friday at Real Toads, with a prompt to look beyond the obvious. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ She stands before me as so many times before she has done and my heart it weeps if I could describe her to you I would but i fear cliche i do not dare drape words on her perfect form …

narcissus

Img source  Narcissus by Caravaggio Over at dVerse this evening Bjorn is hosting and asking us "to write poetry that creates drama by focusing on the contrast between opposites, between light and dark, between good and evil. There is some connections to the technique of antithesis I have written about before, but here you have …

City at night

Photograph by Me The challenge tonight put forward by Kim at dVerse poetics is "to write a poem about a city at night, using the photograph as a starting point. You can write about your own city, one you have visited or lived in previously, a city you would love to go to or just …

Breath

img source It's the Quadrille #21 prompt at dVerse tonight courtesy of Mish. She says, "I would like to offer you the word “breath” or “breathe” for this week’s Q44. You can use other variations on the word, such as breathless, breathtaking, breathable or get creative with word-play. Your quadrille does not need to be about …

Now Zen Now Zen

Gayle is our host for the Meeting the Bar night and here is what she proposes. The Alouette was created by author, Jan Turner, who has created numerous poetry forms, some of which we’ve covered at dVerse. You can find many of her forms at Shadow Poetry.  This form consists of two or more stanzas …

Goodbye Fall

I'm running late with everything bar work at the moment but here is my Poetic Tuesday entry ( It's Friday) Thanks to Walt for the prompt over at dVerse and good luck to him on the next part of his journey. Our theme is goodbye. ************************************************************************** Autumn is hanging on. Leaf by golden yellow brown …