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Luna Sees

Posted by Raivenne on March 25, 2020
Posted in: dVerse ~ Poets Pub, Poetics, Poetry, Quadrille. Tagged: , , , , , , . 8 Comments

In the darkness of night the constellations shine

Telling their stories

As goddess Luna in her magic glory

With sides

Ebon dark and blanch light

Still bares witness to all

The storm clouds seen by us now

Does not make it

Any less so

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I’m pulling a succinct double duty here.

On Monday Linda asked us to create a little magic in quadrille – a poem of exactly 44 words, not including the title using the word of the day: magic.

On Tuesday for Poetics Mish asks us to contemplate the following by Mizuta Masahide:

“Barn’s burnt down, now I can see the moon.”

Use it as inspiration to note experiences of our own personal insight or enlightenment and pen a poem.

I am minded through these trying times that just because we can’t always see the joy in life, does not mean it’s not there waiting to be noticed again for those who remember to look.

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Quadrille #100 : Where’s My Magic Wand
Poetics – Now I Can See…

What It’s Not

Posted by Raivenne on March 12, 2020
Posted in: dVerse ~ Poets Pub, Meeting the Bar, Poetry. Tagged: , , , , . 23 Comments

It’s not the breadth of his shoulders
Or the warmness of his gut
It’s not the stride of his long legs,
That oh so proud strut

It’s not the coin of his bank
Saved in bunches
To cope with any fallout
From rainy-day punches

Nor is it being held in his strong arms,
A niche for me made so dear
It is his deep rumble of sweet nothings
Whispering everything in my ear

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Tonight at dVerse, Björn challenges us to Listen to Lists. Be creative, use any type of list and then write a poem from that list. Let it grow, and be inspired by rhymes and metaphors.

My list is also something of a Not Poem.

dVerse ~ Poets Pub: Meet the Bar & Listen to Lists

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Better Plans

Posted by Raivenne on February 27, 2020
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I did not want that I should fall in love
For it seemed Fate had better plans for me
It was a bother not mine to speak of
I did not think I could fall in a love
Hard as the bedrock yet soft as a glove
That such love could be returned you see
But now I know I have fallen in love
For it seemed Fate had better plans for me

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Today on dVerse Poet’s Pub Frank challenges to write a triolet or a poem that closely resembles a triolet.

So, what is a triolet? A triolet’s characteristics are the following.

  1. The poem has 8 lines.
  2. The rhyme scheme is abaaabab.
  3. The meter is iambic tetrameter.
  4. The first, fourth and seventh lines repeat.
  5. The second and eighth lines repeat.



I Like You Wild

Posted by Raivenne on January 27, 2020
Posted in: dVerse ~ Poets Pub, Poetry, Quadrille. Tagged: , , , , . 33 Comments

Don’t care if you’re white,

black or browned

Jasmine sweet

or nutty all around

The long or short of it

On plates of paper or china

You are wedded character

Valencia to Carolina

Some like you mild, nice

But I like you wild, rice

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Today at dVerse Kim wants us to go WILD with our Quadrille, a poem of exactly 44 words, not including the title. The poem must include the word wild. My muse went a little silly with it.

dVerse Poets Pub | Quadrille #96: Wild Monday

Your Tears

Posted by Raivenne on February 11, 2019
Posted in: dVerse ~ Poets Pub, Poetry, Quadrille. Tagged: , , , , , . 22 Comments

Your tears
Glistened
Shone like diamonds
That streamed your face
In silver lines
They were balm
Elixir
Hot and heavy
Salty and yet so wet
Just like you
An ambrosia of
Your pain
And your arousal
Tasted
In a kiss yielded
From your lips

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Tonight at dVerse Dee (whimsygizmo) asks us to kiss off a quadrille, a poem of exactly 44 words, not including the title, and use some form of the word kiss.

 dVerse ~Poets Pub | Quadrille #73
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Spoiler Alert

Posted by Raivenne on November 19, 2018
Posted in: dVerse ~ Poets Pub, Just Me, Being Me, Poetry, Quadrille, The Sunday Whirl. Tagged: , , , , . 20 Comments

Begun with ease
This weekend sailed
In flow and streams
Of marathon drifts
Plots news to us

A sibling with fringe
In boredom spoke free
Thus spoiled our binge
With a cuss

My punch’s sting
With cheers
Still rings
I don’t regret
The fuss

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A little silly fiction that may become reality in many homes in the U.S. come this holiday weekend. 

Written for:

The Sunday Whirl – Wordle 378
sunday whirl logoRegret, News, Binge, Stream, Ease, Sail, Flow, Drift, Sting, Free, Cheer, Fringe
Use at least ten of the words in a poem or short story.

 

 

 dVerse ~Poets Pub | Quadrille Monday – Spoiler Alert
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Lillian invites us to write a Quadrille –is a poem with exactly 44 words, not counting the title– using the word spoil, or a form thereof, in the poem itself, not the title.

    Home

    Posted by Raivenne on November 5, 2018
    Posted in: dVerse ~ Poets Pub, Poetry, Quadrille. Tagged: , , , , . 9 Comments

    I thought it was

    Brick and mortar

    Walls and windows

    Rooms and furnishings

    That is a falsehood

    It is your stance beside me

    Vertical and horizontal

    Your shouts and whispers

    Frowns and winks

    Your heart and soul

    Where you are

    There is my home

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     It’s Quadrille Monday at dVerse Poets Pub and tonight De Jackson (aka WhimsyGizmo) invites us to give it a wink at a Quadrille (a poem of exactly 44 words, not counting the title) and include one word. This week’s word: wink.

    dVerse Poets | Quadrille #68: Winkle, Winkle, Little PoemdVerse Poets Pub graphic

    Working for the Weekend

    Posted by Raivenne on October 22, 2018
    Posted in: dVerse ~ Poets Pub, Just Me, Being Me, Poetry, Quadrille. Tagged: , , , , . 23 Comments

    This lady takes the early train

    Wiping sleep from my eyes

    To come back home again

    Wash, rinse and reprise

    Decades now spent

    Chasing the enterprise

    Of the adage

    Early to bed, early rise

    Not mentally healthy

    Certainly not wealthy

    And questioning the wise

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    dVerse Poets Pub - OpenLinkNight Mic

    Tonight at dVerse Poets Pub Kim asks us to write a Quadrille (a 44 word poem, not including the title), using the word “Early.”

     

    Let Me

    Posted by Raivenne on May 17, 2018
    Posted in: dVerse ~ Poets Pub, OpenLinkNight, Poetry. Tagged: , , , , , . 13 Comments

    There should be no sound, so you can hear me
    Yet I hear your voice scream out, in the silence of your love
    Its timbre pains me, its timbre thrills you
    When your yesterdays haunt you, in the restlessness of night
    Would you accept me as balm? Let me be tomorrow’s peace

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    TANKA / SUPER TANKA

    The Tanka is an ancient form of Japanese poetry. Tanka are 31-syllable poems that have been the most popular form of poetry in Japan for at least 1300 years. In Japan, the Tanka is usually written as a straight line of characters, but in English and other Western languages, it is usually divided into five lines, with a syllable count of 5-7-5-7-7.

    The key to the Super Tanka form is that it is two Tanka written side-by-side. Each can be read independently, but must work together as a whole.

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    dVerse  ~ Poet Pub |
    OpenLinkNight #220

    Leap

    Posted by Raivenne on January 1, 2018
    Posted in: dVerse ~ Poets Pub, Poetry, Quadrille. Tagged: , , , , , , . 10 Comments

    Last year was lost to rumors

    Boils, bursting at seams

    Last ditch efforts telling sweet nothings

    In the middle of the night

    Hope, my first step

    To the mighty vine of this year’s truths

    All I need do is leap

    In the silver light

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    The Sunday Whirl | Wordle 332

    Mighty, Ditch, Silver, Tell, Vine, Light, Middle, Lost, Boil, Rumors, Nothings, Seams

    Use at least ten in a short story of poem

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    dVerse Poets | Quadrille # 47 Leap

    The rules in Quadrille is simple:  write a poem, or short story in 44 words (excluding the title) with the word, LEAP.