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[image from google

You have got this body now

To live on this earth

A planet impermanent

Where you call your home

Emotions form part of life

The sadness and pain

Some losses and some gains too

There is time to spend

Lessons to be lived and learned

Tread lightly go slow

But time passes quickly though

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OpenLinkNight #414

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[Egon Schiele, Field of Flowers (1910), courtesy, dVerse Poets Pun]

 Dense intense vibrant reds

Hold the garden inbreds

Very much like the crowd

At a football match loud

Enough to be seen yet and

Bold as the fervor of passion

Sharing the frenzy of the match

Less rowdy always sedately watch

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Pulling poetry from the landscape

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[image from google]

 He of the talent of words,

His is the greatest protest, 

Please, give us your fervor

Of the fondest amor -  love,

The steepest mountain climb,

The coldest winter morn,

In agreement of seasons 

But no, it is never so,

So clever is he, protesting.

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Quadrille #354: I Protest

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[AI generated image]

 Daylong 

wishing it was still yesterday

i closed tightly shut my today

in daydream

at times the dawn is late coming

with herald birds sweetly singing

it's daylight

wings flapping in pairs and in threes

flocks fly high above the tall trees

look! daymoon

lingering still amidst the clouds

sentient being yield to clouds

at daybreak

gratitude is all  that we need

nourish our thoughts for this seed

through daylong.

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MTB: Compounding the Stem

revisiting a prompt that is the Compound Word Verse. (here)

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[Image by Hannah Timms, courtesy dVerse Poets Pub]

Just Once

Once in a lifetime, the fog will be kind 

to you, 

absorbing love laughter and too, pain

like a smokey dragon, 

inhaling instead of exhailing, 

so much so, 

your mind is muddled to a squash, 

delicious only if cooked to right consistency, but leaving you 

absent of the hunger needed for a repast, 

then you realise 

without the hunger, the anguish and the longing

for what isn't 

you lose nothing.

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 Poetics: Once In A Lifetime 

 ‘The Window’  by .Mary Jean Chan here

Challenge: Re-read and explore Chan’s poem,  particularly the use of line breaks and caesura to build rhythm and evoke emotion, and the three-word movement: “anger is like the sun, which is like love”.

Now write a poem in the first person, beginning with "Once in a lifetime"

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AUGUST IS STEELPAN MONTH 

HRRE IN T&T🇹🇹 

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[ Choy Moo Kheong, “Echo Through The Canyon” (2024). Courtesy dVerse Poets Pub Acrylic on Canvas, 152.4 × 101.6 cm]

How they did stare eyes peeled to the evening sky, an eclipse is what they wanted to see. Too bad for them, there was no eclipse, on this occasion.

Molten light sparkles like stars in the night and the iridescent image swims

through a mirror that flows into time, that serpentine meander of fantasy and realism.

Yet they stayed, sitting on blankets, wrapped in shawls, eyes wearing fantastic googles, approprate sheilds.

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 Prosery—Luminous Accountings 

Using a line from “King of the River”  

to use in a prose piece

and the iridescent image swims
through a mirror that flows

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[The Circle Theatre by Edward Hopper, 1936: courtesy dVerse Poets Pub]

Staid

We should just stop here,

For healing and sustenance,

Are all contained in this block;

The empty billboard -

Is it a sign of no stars?

Is there no one good enough?

What is important,

That will surely be obtained,

Excesses - not important;

Even the clouds, look!

Seeming quiet and staying,

While folks, are roosting indoors.

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  Open Link Night #413 with Live Edition 

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