Quadrille Poem: Enzo in the Rearview Mirror
Winter storm Enzo brought record-breaking snows to the South along the Gulf of Mexico. Brrrr! It’s poetry-worthy!
Category: Poetry
Negation Poem: Beach Life Childhood
My childhood at the beach is a constant muse for poetry and a guide for how to live, an everlasting gift from my parents, who chose to leave suburbia for a life on the coast that would their children to be children and their lives to authentic and grounded in nature.
newspapers (a stream of consciousness poem)
A quick poem in response to a prompt from the dVerse Poets Pub about newspapers.
Post-Yuletide Poem: After the Hustle and Bustle and Joys
The Christmas holiday time with family was over, the days-long series of festivities successfully executed and enjoyed by all. This short poem captures the essence of the post-holiday reflection of empty-nesters.
Quadrille Poem Challenge from dVerse
Poetry challenge from the dVerse Poets Pub is to write a quadrille (44-word poem) using the word “with” in some form.
My Tribal Connection: a Beatnik Villonnet Poem Answering a dVerse Prompt
Beatnik poem written in response to today’s dVerse poetry challenge, requiring that we use the Villonnet format, which was entirely new to me.
In the Summer in the South, Our Vampires Buzz
A lament in quadrille form about the picnic-ruining, blood-sucking tiny Draculas that plague the South in the summer: mosquitos.
Narcissist Tailspin Web: Escape While You Can!
I haven’t suffered from narcissistic abuse, but I have seen it and the damage it can do to a person. This poem in quadrille format describes the darkness and manipulation, and there are links to help resources.
Nomad in Paris: a Poem in Free Verse to Honor the City of Lights
A poem about wandering the streets of Paris alone, taking in the culture via the sights, sounds and smells, written at Charles de Gaulle airport just before heading home to Houston.
6 Days without Power and Now This?
An onomatopoeia poem in response to a dVerse Poets Pub prompt and the seemingly never-ending and scarily violent storms happening right now in our area.
Japanese Maple Remembrances and the Transitory Nature of Things
Our beloved Japanese maple is gone, but remembered, along the lines of the Japanese phrase “mono no aware”, and a lovely poem from another poet inspired this post.
Poetry Form: Magic 9, Acclaiming and Not-the-Saming
A poem in the “Magic 9” format that highlights the characteristics both positive and negative cultures and promotes diversity.
poem: i can buy my own flowers
A bitter and melodramatic mashup of two tiny poems in response to a dVerse Poets Pub prompt about being stood up. But hey, I learned that I can buy my own flowers.
A Perfect Place Setting: Eat, Drink and Be Merry
Gleaming pictures and a poem about “place”, inspired by the exquisite place settings at Andrew Carnegie’s Skibo Castle in Scotland.
Quadrille: Yeasty Love Poem
A love poem to a special ingredient that rises from slumber and transforms magnificently.
When You See Them Fly Away
This poem was written for my “kids” in response to the dVerse Poets Pub prompt from Laura called Cascading in Fives.
Mortality: They Will Conjure Me
A poem about ripples reminding of those days of cooking and wine, stories and trust, laughter and imagination, acceptance and love.
Poem: he immediately knew he’d found his friends
A prequel poem about how Snoopy met Woodstock, and then they were found by Charlie Brown.
Poem: silly gaffe (words make me laugh)
Answer to a dVerse Poets Pub prompt to write a quadrille (44-word poem) using the word “pinch”. Includes a cat, a horse and a crab and a reference to homonyms, homophones and homographs.
Poem for Tomball: slowly, slowly (from the inside out)
Recognizing that while the farmers market in Tomball may not be the cause of the change in the city from a hick town to a more open-hearted, open-minded, diverse and enlightened place to be, it is the proof of it (a poem).
