Tag: Life

I Remember Eucalyptus

I remember the scent of eucalyptus wafting on the wind. I remember the scent of summer rain on the hot, dry dirt road. I remember dust devils swirling down that same dirt road before the rain came. I remember the hot, arid Santa Ana winds...

A Beautiful Sacrifice

Over at dVerse Poets Pub, Mary challenges to write about beauty. With Good Friday and Easter on the horizon, I decided to write about the most beautiful sacrifice in all of history. A Beautiful Sacrifice It is an ugly scene A naked man with bloody...

No Dead Poetry Allowed

Today is World Poetry Day, so I thought I’d write a poem about poetry. I hope my poetry, in general, falls into the “living poetry” category. No Dead Poetry Allowed A poem leaps off the page into the reader’s heart or it is simply words...

Words Lurk

Another dVerse challenge I couldn’t resist. Victoria has called us to action, to use verbs to improve our poetry. She suggested taking an older poem and rewriting it to replace any tired “to be” verbs with action verbs. I took an extremely old one of...

The Beginnings of a Poem

This is the beginning of a poem I’m sharing for Meeting the Bar at dVerse Poets Pub, following the Oulipo option from Anna. Playing with language and poetry rules, I’m writing a poem with the following self-imposed rules: It’s a Terza Rima with 26 stanzas...

My Son Shine – Reduction

Son Shine His smile a thousand rays of sunshine His laugh a hundred birds singing His dancing a silly smile and laugh His curiosity a hundred cats His temper a howling hurricane Sweet, silly, stubborn, bold is he The Meeting the Bar prompt at dVerse Poets...