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 [The Dreamer,” an oil painting by Caspar David Friedrich from the period 1820-1840, ]

To Sleep

Night is generally for sleeping

I toss and turn

Close my eyes, then open them; peeping

Again pull up the covers; durn

If its too hot like; roasting

I pull them down again; stern

My opened eyes espy; the dark's  in

I think may be a nightlight; kerne

Or a glass of water; pouring

Or a dream; yearn

But first to sleeping

For there are no daydreams at night; learn

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 Unlock with lists 

Writing List poems

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[image courtesy dVersePoets Pub]

Childhood friends those two

When everything spelt anew

Stood at the window

Observing all below

Never was their laughter few

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  Poetics Tuesday: What art says 

artworks by Indian artists given ; to write a poem inspired by any one

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     [image Frederick Carl Frieseke (American, 1874 – 1939), The Bird Cage courtesy dVerse Poets Pub]

A Bird In A Cage

That song, that mesmerising song. Some things are just not good for an unsober head, carrying a mind of non direction, crazed in booze, and too bold women, and the faint perfume.

From its chalice steals, the sacred blend of dignity, divinity, deep serious contemplation and remorse, by morning glare. When did it occur to them to look for him, to ask about him.

Weren't they drinking buddies? Weren't buddies supposed to look after one another? It is a sad day went a friend goes missing, like a phantom,  out of the night. When a friend's wife is left alone; to listen to the song of a bird in a cage.  

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 Prosery - Paul Laurence Dunbar 

Write a prose, using a line given from Dunbar's poem - Sympathy; the same poem credited for Maya Angelo' s poem title "I know why the cage bird sings"

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Roses In Conversation

Afternoon delight,  bordeaux

Tangles summer song;

Windrush, sea foam, penny lane and white wings

Sound on a brass band;

Restless, queen of hearts

Signs: No surrender!

Peace! shouts a mermaid at Golden Gate;

The Eiffel Tower is in France;

Ebb tide is upon us Desdemona,

Pass the cayenne pepper please, dear Quicksilver.

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  Poetics: Names of the Rose 

Write a poem using at least 5 names of roses from a given list: 

Afternoon Delight. Bordeaux. Brass Band. Cayenne. Desdemona. Ebb Tide. Eiffel Tower. Golden Gate. Mermaid

No Surrender. Peace. Penny Lane. Queen of Hearts.vQuicksilver. Restless

Sea Foam. Summer Song. Tangles. White Wings. Windrush

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Dot Dot Dot

Saturday afternoon gone, found me at a workshop dipping strange tools into tiny pots of paint. Have you guessed yet? I was at a dot art worshop. And, my dots bloomed

first dot art workshop -

a cluttered messy table

and my paint smudged hands

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 COME BLOOM WITH ME 

To write a quadrille - theme bloom

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[AI genersted image]

Humour of Glass

By that look

You gave me in

temper of thy 

Rigid humour of glass

Ladybugs crawl and 

Babies babble to tell 

Wonderful stories of the

Unknow which when we face

Then only thou 

Knowest and viewest

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 Poetry Form: Golden Shovel 

I used the line "Look in thy glass and tell the face thou viewest" Sonnet 3 By William Shakespeare

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 The Seven Grandfather Teachings : A Fold Poem

They call him turtle oh so slow

He's not a bird not a  swift or eagle

Pondering the life as it should go

With teeth as of the beaver  no lies to chew

Gathering  yet the truths oh so slow

He weaves a testament solid

Scales on his back harden you know

Enough to shelter the culture

Life can be humbling wolf will say so

Him with others make up the whole

Courageous like mother bear but oh so slow

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 Poetics: The Seven Grandfather Teachings 

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