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Texting with my daughter
Reminiscing
children’s poetry
I am being sniffed
My dog wakes
paws over me
I am being sniffed
remnants
of sleep and dreams
I am being sniffed
from what lingers
of last night’s dinner
I am being sniffed
of garden smells
still in my hair
I am being sniffed
to say
wake up
time to go outside
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NaPoWriMo Day 22 prompt to write a repetition poem
And This Dog Barked
My dog Rufus was an aging beagle
sat in his kennel as people walked by
and this dog barked to see such a sight
My dog Rufus would sleep in my bed
cuddle in the covers where he laid his head
and this dog barked in the middle of the night
My dog Rufus was leary of strangers
always on guard if he would sense danger
and this dog barked before the bite
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dVerse prompt to create a tale (not tail) in your mind so that it will be remembered because of its lyrics, repetitions, etc. Then write it or record it.
Emojiing
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👁🔘🔘🔘🔘🔘
💤💤💤⚠️⚠️⚠️
Emojiing
Emojiing again
🦩🐓☁️🌊🐚👙
Peter Piper
So many times
this nursery rhyme spoken
a tongue twister
with its own history
Pierre Poivre
missionary from France
with an eye on peppers
places to plant and grow
and a recipe for pickling
no refrigeration
so Peter Piper picked
and pickled
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dVerse prompt on stream of consciousness following my first experiment with pickling peppers. This rhyme was a childhood favorite.
C as in Cat
Cat
Calm
Claws
Capers
Chasing
Cautious
Companion
Caterwauls
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NaPoWriMo prompt on letters of the alphabet and a dVerse prompt on a pet companion.
Visual Alliteration
Wild Docdodu
Find the wild docdodu
It has six legs
And won’t bite you
It hides in trees and on the ground
With eyes of yellow it looks around
Sometimes you can see it too
Because it has a skin of blue
If it would ever show it’s head
You’d see an elongated neck
With beak the size of your mother’s bread
I thought I spied it the other day
It had come to the ground
And was running away
I called it by name
But it wouldn’t stay
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NaPoWriMo prompt on a list poem so here is the list to identify the wild docdodu
Rat Smell
how does a rat smell
twitch of the nose
whiskers along the rafters
it knows you are there
as it hurries past
often on its guard
it is the cat
that smells
a rat
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