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A Just Plain Poem

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2017 November PAD Chapbook Challenge: Day 23
Write a ‘preface’ poem

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A Just Plain Poem

 

this poem has no prelude
no coming attractions
no preface

there is no poem trailer
to build suspense
no liner notes

this poem is a bold
and daring
in-your-face poem

a laugh-out-loud
cry-me-a-river
mess of a poem

a heart of stone
filled with marshmallow
softy of a poem

a tell-you-a-story
tuck-you-in-bed
sweet dreams kind of poem

this poem is a kiss-
on-the-lips
heart-on-its-sleeve

just plain
in love with you
poem

 

 

 

abundandtly clear

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2017 November PAD Chapbook Challenge: Day 19
Write an ‘abundance’ poem

 

let’s make it abundantly clear ….

this poem is not endowed
with an abundance of
grace

it sometimes trips
over its own unrhymed
feet

it often speak its mind
and ends up bold faced –
underlined
italicized

this poem gets lost
and scared
and sheds tears in
public

but this poem is honest
and true
it is in love with the moon
and stars and
you

 

Straight From the Heart

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Straight From the Heart

for your information
this poem speaks from
the heart
no part has been analyzed or
organized or otherwise
compromised
it says what it means even
if that means it must stay up
all night to consult with the moon
learning how to make you swoon
this poem holds out its hand
to offer its love
no secondhand moonbeam or
tarnished star trinket to
place on a shelf
this poem offers itself
unpolished, unvarnished
not garnished with roses
false glittery poses
this poem tells the truth
for your information
this poem is in love
with you

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Wednesday Poetry  Prompt #411  at Poetic Asides – write an ‘information’ poem

Thoughtful You

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d’Verse Poets Pub -MTB — The Acrostic

Frank has us writing ‘letters’

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Thoughtful You

This crazy life
Had me spinning
Out of control
Unsure where to
Go – what to do next
Hope was just a flicker
Trying to chase darkness
Failing to comfort me
Until you offered
Love

Just Us

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PUT A LITTLE LOVE IN YOUR HEART…
Who doesn’t love Garden Gnomes
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Just Us

It started like a bonfire
burning wildly in the night
threatening to become
uncontrollable, dangerous
a conflagration
consuming us both
but we held tight – wouldn’t
let go until the flame became
our friend, warming us
comforting us, drawing us close
and now that flame burns steadily
a constant glow
lighting the dark places
a beacon to guide us home
a fire that will not die
as long two hearts beat

Troubles

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d’Verse Poets Pub -MTB–The Minute Poem
Frank has us trying out a minute poem and it’s going to take much longer than a minute to accomplish this challenge.
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TROUBLES

I was having trouble sleeping

Moon came peeping

Caught me crying

Left me sighing

 

I was having trouble waking

Sun came shaking

On my shoulder

Left me bolder

 

I was having trouble seeing

Love was fleeing

You came giving

Life worth living

 

Love Amid the Ruins

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Fireblossom Friday: It’s Only A Paper Moon
It’s all about make- believe in the Garden

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Love Amid the Ruins

we like to sit on the front porch
on moonlit nights
the people who lived here – before –
had a swing
but we like the coolness of the cement
we share strawberries from
the the patch that has gone wild
behind the house
there are enough for
chipmunks and birds too
the only music we hear
is made by crickets and frogs
no light pollution streams from
blank windows to dull the stars
we are content, safe
Captain and Tennille got it wrong
there’s nothing like raccoon love

Moonstruck

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d’Verse Poets Pub Quadrille #31 – still

Moonstruck

every morning finds you sneaking out
peeking around a star as morning comes
tapping, flapping its arms in (de)light
you leave me moping, hoping to see you
when the sun sets its head upon a cloud
closes its shiny eyes – but
I love you still

Want To Know

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I Want To Know

How the moon learned
to shine
Why planets don’t
get dizzy – spinning
What the stars do
during the day
Where clouds find
rain and snow
Who whispers to
the wind
When you knew
you
loved
me

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d’Verse Poets Pub – OpenLink Night #186