Poem – Page 51 – Another Fearless Year

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...

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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May 26, 2015

Where Peace Is Found

The prompt today at dVerse Poets Pub is to write about something that is part of our every day life. I could have written about any number of things, but decided to write about prayer. Where Peace Is Found Kneeling here elbows leaning on my...

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May 24, 2015

Nothing to Fear

There’s nothing to fear but fear itself and bears if you’re in Yellowstone loneliness if you’re all alone failure if your theory is flawed sickness and death if you don’t know God Yet if God is on your side there’s nothing to fear just trust...

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May 19, 2015

It’s 2:00 a.m.

Anthony Desmond has challenged us over at dVerse Poets Pub to write a poem incorporating 2:00 a.m. Here’s what I came up with. It’s 2:00 a.m. It’s 2:00 a.m. I should be sleeping Tomorrow’s a big day But I’m wide awake It’s 2:10 I should...

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Another Fearless Year

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Have No Fear

Black and White Make Gray

An Odd Kyrielle

Let Me Carry You

Hummingbird

I Was a Seed

Reputation

Where Peace Is Found

Nothing to Fear

It’s 2:00 a.m.

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Have No Fear

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