Poetry – Page 53 – Another Fearless Year

June 20, 2015

Slips Away

I’ve been thinking a lot about my sister Peggy lately, perhaps because her death is the subject of the first chapter of the book I’m working on. Yesterday the refrain for this Kyrielle came to me and then I finished the poem this morning. 8/20/15...

Let’s Have Lamb

Let’s Have Lamb I was thinking Why don’t we have lamb instead of bread for communion? Since Jesus was the Lamb of God who was slain shouldn’t lamb represent His body? I’m not complaining, mind you I don’t even like lamb And everyone loves bread...

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June 13, 2015

Afternoon Observations

Today I’m going to try my hand at a haibun. I read one that Bjorn wrote the other day, and he pointed me to the dVerse Poets Pub post about this poetry form that I missed last year. I’ve been wanting to try one ever since....

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June 10, 2015

Have No Fear

So I’ve written two Kyrielles, Let Me Carry You with the rhyme scheme abaB cbcB dbdB, and An Odd Kyrielle with the rhyme scheme aaaR bbbR cccR. There is a third rhyme scheme option with the Kyrielle, and that is aabB ccbB ddbB. I just had to write one. I...

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June 9, 2015

Black and White Make Gray

The prompt at dVerse Poets Pub today is to write a poem about the colors black and white. Here’s what I came up with. Black and White Make Gray When we were young everything was black and white We saw the world as dark or...

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June 4, 2015

An Odd Kyrielle

After writing my first Kyrielle yesterday, I apparently had Kyrielle rhyme schemes on the brain when I went to bed. Once the lights were out, the first stanza of one with the rhyme scheme in which the refrain does not rhyme started forming in my...

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June 3, 2015

Let Me Carry You

The other day I was reading some entries in The Poetry Dictionary by John Drury. I know, that sounds pretty nerdy, but I love learning new poetry forms and trying them out. I found a new form called the Kyrielle. It is a “French four-line...

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June 2, 2015

Hummingbird

The prompt at dVerse Poets Pub today is offered by guest Patti Wolf. She’s asked us to step outside and capture a moment in nature, to write “microworld” poetry. Since I’ve been at work all day and it’s pouring rain, I stepped into my memory...

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May 28, 2015

I Was a Seed

Brian Ens is running the show at dVerse Poets Pub today and is asking us to write a poem in any form. The catch? We have to explain why we chose the form that we did. I decided to write a Rondeau. I selected this form...

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May 27, 2015

Reputation

No one whispers to you what they whisper about you to others Though they might taunt and tease And while there may be truth in the taunting it’s never the whole truth Only God knows the whole truth your whole heart the pain in the...

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Another Fearless Year

Category: Poetry

Slips Away

Let’s Have Lamb

Afternoon Observations

Have No Fear

Black and White Make Gray

An Odd Kyrielle

Let Me Carry You

Hummingbird

I Was a Seed

Reputation

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Slips Away

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Let’s Have Lamb

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Afternoon Observations

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Have No Fear

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Black and White Make Gray

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An Odd Kyrielle

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Let Me Carry You

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I Was a Seed

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