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 The Equation

That was yesterday not today

You called i answered here i am

My voice as clear as any stream

Such an easy equation then

You called i answered here i am

Not wanting to contain the dark

For stars were twinkling the most

That i had ever seen before

My voice as clear as any stream

Who would want a babbling brook

Is shadow so encompassing

That thou needst to look to the moon

Such an easy equation then

One plus one eleven too you

Standing side by side is the dare

You never learned to comprehend

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  MTB: Returning to Fours

Challenge: to write a  Retourne 

• 16 lines made up of 4 quatrains
• 8 syllables per line
• a tumbling refrain using the last 3 lines of the first stanza thus:
  xABC Axxx Bxxx Cxxx.
• unrhymed

 

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Clandestine

In the secret addressed

A marriage he blessed

The importance

To Friar Lawrence

None could have guessed

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  Poetics: Step into the Lead

Challenge: choose a character from a well-known story, myth, book, fairy tale, movie, play, or even song who is not the lead character, to write a poem. 

 

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Change is inevitable. It's there from moonrise to sunrise. Another day, another breath, another dream. Who can utter the poignance of all that is constantly threatened, invaded, expended.

Festivals hang in suspension, waiting for another year of celebrations. Seasons change and people grow.What's left of life, do we ever know.

We look back, we live today, tomorrow we hope for. And peace we envisage is a well earned reward so we strive. The green leaves sprout from seeds planted in the garden, and we muse, sure, this is good.

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  Prosery: From a purely aesthetic viewpoint, Levertov

 Challenged to use the line ” Who can utter the poignance of all that is constantly threatened, invaded, expended.”From the poem “In California: Morning, Evening, Late January,” by Denise Levertov.

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 Rain On The Roof

What will you do , 

If the rain storms in,

Stomps on your front gallery,

In the middle of a bright sunny day,

And shoves you indoors,

There with your best bud?

Ask him to make us some eggs.

Why not,

There's something about rain,

Maybe the sound of it on your roof,

That insights a palatable hunger.

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OpenlinkNight # 419

The line  "Ask him to make us some eggs" is from Wildly Constant by Anne Carson

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[Georgia O’Keeffe, Yellow House (1917); courtesy dVerse Poets Pub]

That Yellow House

 When he had climbed up the stairs

He knew he shouldn't be unawares

Had there been blue skies this early

Then he would have knocked surely

For the fact of the matter

No matter what the weather

This yellow house shone

For moon or for sun

With its garden of flowers

Delighting passersby

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Revisiting O’Keeffe;

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Sing

Sing to your soul

Demur and definite

Like a child lullabyed

To the land of slumber 

In time there will be

A call and response

Like a concert 

Well engrossed 

Sing your chorus

Over and over again

Until you get to the end

Sing !

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Quadrille #259: Sing It!/a>

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Skipping Town

Having  haloweened the moon

He pumpkin-headed out of town

Wanting to ghost those friends

Who thought him stupid enough

To witchify the lawn

Planted by the new neighbours

So there he was at a strange bar

Treating himself 

To beer after beer after beer

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Meet the bar by verbing your verse

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