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Blossom drifts
Originally posted on Jane Dougherty Writes:
Secret Keeper’s prompt words this week are DRIFT | BREATHE | LIGHT | HOLD | LIFE Photo©tsuna72 Blossom drifts, Feather-light, Caught in the breeze. Hold tight, Life flees, Into yawning rifts, Breathing shifts.
When I was Seventeen
Originally posted on All I Have to Say:
Last night, I dreamed about time-travel. In the dream, I’d been transported back to a time where I could have made some very different choices. I had to decide whether to stay in the past where I could change the course of my life, or return to…
Let’s dance the last dance
Originally posted on Jane Dougherty Writes:
Four short poems Let’s dance the last dance And fill out arms with roses. Let’s take the colours of the dawn, And pour them into sunset’s ocean. ? On the edge of tide and time, I reach out and touch your face, Damp with feather-soft spray, Capturing this moment,…
Poetry challenge #8: Butterfly cinquain
Originally posted on Jane Dougherty Writes:
A butterfly cinquain is a nine-line syllabic verse of the following pattern: 2 / 4 / 6 / 8 / 2 / 8 / 6 / 4 / 2. This is a poem that makes a pretty pattern, a butterfly, in fact. Here’s my example, based on yesterday’s drenched…
Foggy foggy river
Originally posted on Jane Dougherty Writes:
Foggy, foggy river, Shivers, sending ripples racing, Tracing the earth’s stretching, Fetching the gulls in from the sea. Trees, stark black, leaf fall flutter, Shutters creak, damply swinging, Flinging droplets wide, dripping, Slipping in muddy patches, Snatches of song floating past, Last night’s paper lying, soggy, Foggy, foggy river.
So many wars
Originally posted on Jane Dougherty Writes:
Photo ©Avishai Teicher So many wars after so many years, So many deaths and so many tears, So many poppies that blow on the hill, And still we keep sending our men out to kill. The poppies that blow in the fields of the Somme, Are the same as…
I think I wrote a ghazal!
Originally posted on Jane Dougherty Writes:
Jennifer Knoblock left the link to this post with the operating instructions on how to write a ghazal. I think I’ve got it right. It’s a tricky form, was for me, anyway, so thanks Jennifer for inspiring me to try it. ? We watch the night together ’neath the…
Poetry challenge #3 :the entries
Originally posted on Jane Dougherty Writes:
The third challenge on the theme of Samhain attracted another beautiful crop of poems. Darkness, death and the otherworld/afterlife obviously have great appeal. Here are your sept poems, in order of appearance. Peter Bouchier was first (again!) https://peterbouchier.wordpress.com/english-essays-and-poems-2/hallow/ then Jim, who I’m pleased to say has left a twitter…
Viv Drewa - The Owl Lady 