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d’Verse Poets Pub -Jazz poetry with Amaya
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All Jazzed Up
this poem is all jazzed up
hair slicked back
one cool cat, man
a take the (A) train
smoke-gets-in-your
eyes torch song
kinda poem
the heart of this poem
is laying down
a hope-you-dig-me
crazy beat
noodling a jive tune
to tell you –
before you split –
you send me
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
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
2017 November PAD Chapbook Challenge: Day 17
Write a ‘what I meant to say’ poem
I wrote two.
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Wait!
I him-hawed and stuttered
blushed and teared up a little
whispered and coughed
as you turned around and
stomped away
I meant to say
“Come back.”
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Just a Whisper
this poem never meant to say
“I love you”
or even
“I really like you” or
“call me”
but the moonlight had
smoothed out all
it’s rough edges
and the heart of this poem
began beating a beat
it had never beat before
it looked in your trusting eyes
finding the soul of a mate
and this poem whispered
“I love you”
Expect the Unexpected –
from Poems of Garden Gnomes
I’m way behind on this prompt -*blush*
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bet you never expected …
this better-late-than-never poem
this hit-the-snooze-button-
once-too-often poem
this poem with really good intentions
but poor follow through
this bowed-head-
bouquet-of-roses-
seeking-forgiveness poem
this hope-it’s-not-too-late-
to-play poem
standing here, blushing
2017 November PAD Chapbook Challenge: Day 15
Write a “ Strange (blank) poem
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Strange Enough
this poem is a little strang(er)
than most
sitting in a corner
scribbling
nibbling
on the nub of a pencil
talking to itself
laughing
sighing
crying
rolling itself up
into a ball
real small
until it disappears
2017 November PAD Chapbook Challenge: Day 14
It’s Two-For-Tuesday again.
write a sonnet or another traditional form – or not
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Write or Flight
this poem is in hiding
until its fear of
con-form(ing)
passes
it is considering
hermit-hood
peaking through a
gap in the curtains
waiting for this
form(ula) of cadence
to march away
leaving it in rhyme-less peace
2017 November PAD Chapbook Challenge: Day 10
Write a ‘going somewhere’ poem
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Going Nowhere
this poem is going nowhere
no way
no how
it is a stay-at-home
kind of poem
a curl up in its jammies
with a good book
kind of poem
its a quilt together warm
words kind of poem
a popcorn and hot chocolate
kind of poem
a hibernate until spring
kind of poem
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