Poetry in My Coffee
I got up early this morning because my son’s alarm went off at 5:00 a.m. (don’t you miss being 12?) and I couldn’t go back to sleep. I have a disgruntled attitude toward my parents at the moment and I...
View Article100 Theme Challenge ‘67%’
100 Theme Challenge: 67% Mixed Decks Deal: stroller, insistence, supremely, always, so Life is not a sometimes It’s an always A thorn that pricks at your dreaming With a nagging insistence That says...
View ArticlePoetry Poker and The Plague Legacy: Tara’s Poem
Here I have a Poetry Poker poem that I wrote about one of my characters in The Plague Legacy: Acquisitions. I had fun putting it all together and will probably do this for more of my characters as I...
View ArticlePoetry Poker Poetry Cafe Theme Mashup
The Poetry Cafe, proudly created by one of my former English students who grew up into his truly awesome self, is now sponsoring a mashup of their 100 Theme Challenge and Poetry Poker. It’s my very...
View Article100 Theme Challenge
Theme: Introduction, from the 100 Theme Challenge in The Poetry Cafe Mixed Decks Deal: lift, although, automatically, hence, meeting Although to you I have no face, we are meeting in a poetry café...
View Article100 Challenge Theme ‘Love’
Theme: Love Mixed Decks Deal: plunder, sunshine, avalanche, callouses, because My innocent plunder Was loving you I expected sunshine And raindrops soft as kisses But your affection Is an avalanche...
View Article100 Challenge Theme Abandoned
Theme: Abandoned Mixed Decks Deal: candle, whip, toys, invent, paddle Three leagues I chased your candle For your flame to kiss me once, a whip of wanting, And the cut still stings with lust. The heat...
View Article100 Theme Challenge–Playing the Melody
Theme: Playing the Melody Deck: Stars in Her Eyes Deal: giddy, beyond, streak, flushed, insistence I am your instrument Play me a giddy rhyme Like a girl with bright eyes Flushed and shy For her first...
View ArticleNot Lust
Poetry Poker, mixed decks deal: disgust, between, swear, stash, slide. Not Lust A silent conversation and my eyes slide, slide, slide to the spaces between all the pieces I’ve seen of you. I swear...
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