dVerse Poets Pub – Page 19 – Another Fearless Year

July 30, 2015

Not Just a Statistic

The prompt at dVerse Poets Pub today is to write a poem in common meter, but to use some of the tricks that Emily Dickenson used to make common meter a little more interesting. I love an opportunity to sort of break the rules of...

The Gospel Misunderstood

Today is going to be Open Link Night at dVerse Poets Pub (I think). At any rate, I wrote this for Open Link Night. It was inspired by several conversations I’ve had lately—some in real life and some online. So often the Gospel is misunderstood...

Poetry Comments: 21

July 17, 2015

The Philosophy of Choice

The prompt at dVerse Poets Pub yesterday was offered by Brian Miller, back from a 5-month break from the pub. During his absence, he took a philosophy class and so is calling us to write about philosophy, with the requirement that our poem be titled...

Poetry Comments: 34

July 14, 2015

A Little about Me

Over at dVerse Poets Pub we’re celebrating the 4-year anniversary of the pub with Marina’s prompt that calls us to get to know each other a little better. Each poet is to pick six words—three that describe us and three that describe things or people we...

Poetry Comments: 26

July 8, 2015

Ocean

Melodious surf Lapping the pebbly sand Deceptively calm 7/28/15 update: Shared today for the dVerse Poets Pub prompt on nature.

Poetry Comments: 20

June 23, 2015

Monsoon of Mercy

At dVerse Poets Pub today, Abhra tells a tale of the monsoon season in India. The “prompt” for the day is fairly vague, so I drew from Abhra’s story about how the hot, dry summer is followed by the monsoon. And I tapped into the...

Poetry Comments: 27

June 17, 2015

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...

Poetry Comments: 15

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....

Poetry Comments: 44

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...

Poetry Comments: 27

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...

Poetry Comments: 21

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Another Fearless Year

Tag: dVerse Poets Pub

Not Just a Statistic

The Gospel Misunderstood

The Philosophy of Choice

A Little about Me

Ocean

Monsoon of Mercy

Let’s Have Lamb

Afternoon Observations

Black and White Make Gray

Hummingbird

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