con = with
tour = a journey
all the lines and edges
going everywhere
create shapes
defines objects
=
imagine a space
without contour
without a journey
lost in a void
no tripping
can’t stumble
=
floating
airborne
like leaving this world
elevate
glorified
levitate
like Jesus ascending
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dVerse prompt to write a quadrille using the word contour
In Sunday School I learned about the big red apple of original sin in the garden. How Adam and Eve ate thereof. Caste out. Ashamed. Hid from God. What I didn’t learn— it was really a fig. They ate a few. Clothed themselves in fig leaf. Hid from God. Caste out. Separated from God. How Jesus went to the fig tree for food and finding none, he said, “May no one ever eat fruit from you again!” Explanation mark. A curse that lifted a curse. And the tree withered and died.
Jesus new Adam
the sin of man forgiven
reunite with God
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NaPoWriMo Day 29 prompt on curses.
This is how the end comes.
It is wrapped in silver like a gift.
The gift is most welcome,
eager to see what is inside.
Inside was not what I wanted.
It was full of memory.
Each memory had a story.
They played inside my head.
The head was filled with irrelevance,
as I sought for the divine.
What could be more sought after
than a life of heartfelt love?
In love with the only One—
this is how the end comes.
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NaPoWriMo Day 27 prompt to write a duplex sonnet.
Julia’s kiss was soft and sweet
creamy colored
pale yet held up the sky
Judas’s kiss was forever wrought
with greed
betrayal and impending death
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dVerse prompt to write a poem based on the name of a rose.
I can’t really say I loved him. Love does not come easy for me. He was my first kiss, a little bit of making out, kind words from his thin lips.
I went on to guard the pool, to save a life, my tanned olive skin a beacon for men. Then one day a man walked through the gate and I watched his choppy strokes across the water and married him.
We vowed to love art. To make art out of our lives. We traveled both locally and abroad but that huge painting on the Getty wall stays with me— Christ’s Entry into Brussels in 1889 by James Ensor.
When will He come?
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NaPoWriMo Day 21 prompt— a person forgotten, a job taken, a memorable piece of art, an unanswerable question
Look at a man riding the donkey
Go with him saying Hosanna
He is the one waited for
Spread the palms at His feet
He has come to save
Sing songs of joy
Praise His name
He is
Lord
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NaPoWriMo prompt Day 9 to write a nonet. This is based on Zechariah 9:9.
Dark too early
add gloom of cloud covered night
hanging on to the day
with cold in hallways
feel the draft
time to tinsel the town
with flashing lights
singing angels
bright stars
Gloria chorus
in excelsis deo
Handel’s chorus
Hallelujah
Hallelujah
Hallelujah
Hallelujah
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dVerse prompt to write a quadrille using the word tinsel
I wore it on my head
delirious from its weight
wanting to stay upright
posed and productive
ruling my thoughts
with more thoughts
demanding right words
to subjugate my subjects
learning to turn glistening crown
of diamonds and pearls
to a crown of thorns
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dVerse quadrille prompt with the word crown
thousands left at the thought
of eating body like bread
and drinking
blood— forbidden they shout
walk away
will you go also
but where would they go
when the answers
were more than metaphors
serve for us the bread and wine
let us feast
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dVerse quadrille prompt on WiNE
easter with e.e.cummings
far from mystery of glowing
mystery find real peace in it
He has (believe it) risen
near to the sacred heart see true
heart to find a pure love in it
(believe it) He has risen
above a doubtful world made whole
world struggle find God truth in it
He has risen (believe it
beneath all try to understand
to understand and understand
I) believe it (have risen)
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NaPoWriMo Day 5 prompt to take a poem and use the structure of that poem to make a new poem. I always thought e.e. cummings as being structureless; however, this poem I chose was tightly structured. I learned a lot from this exercise.
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