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Quadrille: What you see in the Mirror
Merril D. Smith is hosting at dVerse today. The prompt is mirror. Merril’s provided the following example and link to other poems on the same theme. “I am not cruel, only truthful‚The eye of a little god, four-cornered.”From Sylvia Plath, “Mirror” Here are some other mirror poems. This is my first time at dVerse. I’d like to thank Colleen for…
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Book review: The winding road by Miriam Hurdle- A journey of survival
I want to thank Miriam for writing this book which is a real-life account of her battle with cancer in 2008. In the foreword, she says, ” Life is precious and it’s worth fighting for. If I died, my pain went with me, but I would leave pain with my loved ones. My life is…
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NaPoWriMo Day 7: When angels dance over the earth
Today’s prompt is to write a poem in the Shadorma structure or the Fib structure. I chose to write both and joined this with a prompt I received on another group. The shadorma was written on the prompt received in that group, titled, ‘You know when angels are dancing over their heads.’ I tweaked it…
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NaPoWriMo Day 3 : Moment of truth
Today’s prompt is to make a “Personal Universal Deck,” and then to write a poem using it. The idea of the “Personal Universal Deck” originated with the poet and playwright Michael McClure, who gave the project of creating such decks to his students in a 1976 lecture at Naropa University. Basically, you will need 50…