Protesting the protestors’ protest
Right on time
Of protested protest
To put the pro
Easily back in protest
Start the test
To see what brings peace
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dVerse prompt on protest poetry. During the Vietnam War protests we were sewing P arm bands. P was for peace
Blue is the color of the sky
or the water when it runs clean enough
there is a line called the horizon
that when seen from mid ocean
becomes a circle
not 360 degrees of separation
rather a binding look at a whole world
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dVerse quadrille prompt on sky
In their dreams
they sleep with the moon
by Mary Oliver from Death at Wind River
Subquishable wants to know where did you go; your background and foreground; lay of the line. Keep it personal, submittable, short and divine, but the words aren’t right because some have already been taken, so touché to cliche! Use them anyway. If structure is not your master, remember Cummings put a letter anywhere. When punctuation creeps into the fray, there is no rule that wants to stay. Hang those commas in the air; see them everywhere. Use the Dickinson dash without remorse. Watch out for song and rhyme because it just might make a poem subquishable.
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dVerse prompt on prosery combined with a line from Mary Oliver. This prose poem is definitely subquishable.
THOSE stories we tell—
PALE riders going from
FLOWERS to flowers—
MIGHT return before dawn
STILL busy depositing eggs—
HAVE this one last task
TIME & fulfillment
TO perpetuate a species
FRUIT for thé next generation
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dVerse prompt to use this line by Karina Borowicz—
« Those pale flowers might still have time to fruit. »
The luna moth lacks a mouth so it cannot fed. Its purpose is to mate and lay eggs, which is done in six to ten days before it dies.
Image from the Field Book of Insects, 1918
Birdman of Alcatraz (before a little edit)
Notorious inmates
Birdman born in Seattle
Murder incarceration
Solitary confinement
He studied canaries
Caged like them in his small cell
He let them fly freely
Like his mind behind bars
Never released
Birdman of Alcatraz (after)
Notorious inmate
Birdman born in Seattle
Murder in Alaska
Incarceration
Solitary confinement
He studied canaries
Caged in his small cell
He let them fly freely
Like his mind behind bars
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dVerse prompt to edit a poem with concern for noun and verb; adjective and adverb. This was a spontaneous poem written on a postcard during August Postcard Poetry Festival.
outside
eaves dropping rain
then
a torrent
(no gutters)
inside
sound of rain
on roof
makes river
plummeting down
(no gutters)
outside
Florida squall
passes over
lightning strike
tree down
then gone
(no gutters)
inside
sound of dripping
from ceiling
must have
a leak
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dVerse quadrille on eavesdropping. Had a fast storm the other day.
let me count each kiss
placed head to toe with love
calm after the thrust
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dVerse prompt on erotica
Beach hikes are the best because there is no elevation. I can walk for miles, barefooted, sand between my toes and shells strewn along the way. Waves repeating melody cancels the cares of the world, healing power of sound and saltwater.
Except in some beaches of Portugal where the hike to the small beach among rugged cliffs is near impossible. A road leads down, the surf pounds and beware of being pulled under.
In Crete the road winds along sharp curves, narrow, sometimes one lane, for miles going down until finally, there is an expanse of beach, pink sand and clear water.
in any season
this offering to the land
brought by the sea
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