I went out to the garden
looking for spelling bees
there were many beside me—
a bumble bee entered foxglove’s bell
it was not the one I seek
then one buzzed my head
anxious at my presence
to say the word
say the word
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dVerse prompt for a quadrille using the word spell
When just a boy
his Aunt Eva sat at table
playing cards with her friends
they called themselves The Magpies
and he crawled beneath
among their sequoia legs
while over head the squawking
of the birds
At the internment of this aunt
one lone magpie
flew into the small cemetery
as if to say
I am here
I am here
remember me
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dVerse prompt to write a corvid poem
Out of the mist
in silver glow
comes a voice
I did not know
This earth is mine
tend it well
all firs and the pine
cedars too
A breath for me
and a breath for you
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NaPoWriMo Day 25 prompt to write an aisling
Come
into the garden
at dawn
before
dew dries
from the dragonfly
Come
as the sun
filters
through cedars
to glow
on the rippled
waters of pond
Come
with trowel and seed
energy
to last all day
pluck a weed
don’t forget
to feed
hungry peonies
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NaPoWriMo Day 19 prompt to write a command poem. This is my garden commanding me to get to work.
there would be day and there would be night on the first day
water will not spill over the edge of this rough existence but tides will be sometimes high and sometimes low
(compressed over time
into a spiritual shape
of shadows)
spin factor that keeps balance and movement in the right direction
perfect union with the creator
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NaPoWriMo Day 18 five answers to an unstated question
I want to know what makes a flower bloom
My tulips look like I planted upside down
Iris are all green with lanky stalk
Lilies look so small and disarrayed
Is it the lack of nutrients in the soil
Or winter’s low shading of the sun
My pear tree must have flower to fruit
Without blooms peas and beans retreat
Do not waste away another day
It’s time to fertilize fertilize fertilize
Come alive
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NaPoWriMo Day 16 prompt to write a curtal sonnet.
Exterior Afternoon
A baby is sleeping in a baby buggy under an old elm. The sun is shining on the buggy.
Voice Over
Jane There is something heartfelt about being born in Iowa.
A small butterfly flies into the buggy and lands on the baby’s nose.
The baby wakes up.
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NaPoWriMo Day 14 prompt to create the first scene of your life.
This little thing
so small—
gnat
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NaPoWriMo prompt on small
When I was ten, I learned to swim. To hold my breath, submerge, and move underwater. Only the torso, legs and arms of other people were visible. No heads. I never timed these underwater adventures but swam about like some kind of fish. Eyes open but no gills; just my expanded lungs, increasing capacity to stay under longer and longer. I became an orca scouting its prey. My feet, the fluke, pounding surface with each new breath. My mouth spewing water into the sunshine.
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NaPoWriMo Day 8 prompt to write your alter ego.
It’s sunny today
raining predicted
cats falling from the sky
and before it is over
dogs will fall too
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NaPoWriMo Day 6 prompt to write a phrase poem where the phrase reads down the left margin.
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