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I Must Attend - Haibun by Paul Vincent Cannon
At dVerse Frank is hosting the Monday Haibun with an invitation to write alluding to March Madness. dVerse Poets – Haibun – March Madness Photo: http://www.freepik.es “One day you finally knew what you had to do, and began …” Mary Oliver I Must Attend There are signs, almost imperceptible, that autumn rises. None of this makes sense in isolation. One spent pumpkin vine does not make an…
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Fragments - a poem by Paul Vincent Cannon
At dVerse Mish is hosting Open Link Night, the night we choose a poem to post. dVerse Poets – OLN Photo: our dear old woofer Vienna (sometimes called hoover). “Hour that is mine from among them all!” Pablo Neruda FragmentsA glass of the pepperysitting in duskclosing out the day,cooling to eveningwe roast our partoffering sweet observations,as last light hits the far shorewe soak up the…
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When I Return To Myself - a poem by Paul Vincent Cannon
At dVerse Kim is hosting Poetics with an invitation to write about one of the four elements – fire, earth, air and water, noting that Aristotle added a fifth – Aether or ether, which in Sanskrit was Akasha, the subtle dimension of being. dVerse Poets – Poetics – The Four Elements Image by Vitaliy Levkin from Pixabay “I learn by going where I have to go.” Theodore Roethke When I return To…
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Intuition Blues - a poem by Paul Vincent Cannon
At dVerse Lillian is hosting the Quadrille (44 words sans title) with an invitation to write a poem including the word Indigo or its form. dVerse Poets – Quadrille Image by Adina Voicu from Pixabay “You’ll know it … as you know ’tis noon …” Emily Dickinson Intuition BluesIndigo Suzeshe's no flooze,got a hex of seventake you to heavencolour you blue,no time to snoozedon't need the newsshe's…
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Will You Take My Hand? - a poem by Paul Vincent Cannon
At dVerse Grace is hosting Poetry Form with an invitation to write a (English) Madrigal – as follows: Content: Often includes a theme of love Structure of an English madrigal *Usually written in iambic pentameter.*Comprised of three stanzas: a tercet, quatrain, and sestet.*All three of the lines in the opening tercet are refrains. Form: A thirteen-line form in three stanzas:Stanza 1] Tercet…
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Stray Bands - a poem by Paul Vincent Cannon
At dVerse Melissa is hosting poetics with an invitation to write an ekphrastic poem using one of four paintings by Emil Nolde. The double challenge is to do so knowing the artist originally declaimed his connection to the NAZIs but was eventually outed as having been involved in the NAZI party. Note: There are a number of famous people who fit into this type of moral dilemma – Martin Heidegger…
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Madness Lurks - prose by Paul Vincent Cannon
At dVerse Li is hosting Prosery (144 words of prose) with an invitation to take a phrase from Alice Walker’s ‘Before you knew you owned it.’ The phrase is – “Make of it a parka for your soul.” dVerse Poets – Prosery – Making a Parka Image: aljazeera.com Evil personified! “Oh shade obscene from out the jungled past.” Burnett A. Ward Madness Lurks A bleak wind blows. Everywhere madness creeps…
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Compassionate Resistance - a poem by Paul Vincent Cannon
At dVerse Bjorn is hosting Open Link Night with Live Edition, the night we choose a poem to post. dVerse Poets – OLN Photo: theartistnextlevel.com “I refuse to be claimed.” Naomi Shihab Nye Compassionate ResistanceI write the word noit's my defiance in an age whenyes has become aplague of expectation,where compliance ismerely anticipated,a fait accompli,but I left that paddock long ago and…
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Creme de la Creme - a poem by Paul Vincent Cannon
At dVerse Sanaa is hosting poetics with an invitation to write a Valentine’s poem choosing from the following three options: 1- Love Potions and Concoctions: Write a poem as a recipe for a love potion. Throw in some berries and cream, maybe a dash of cinnamon and chivalry. Tell us what love means to you. 2- Love Letters Through Time: Write a poem in the form of a love letter. It can be…
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Get A Free Zing - a poem by Paul Vincent Cannon
At dVerse De is hosting the Quadrille with and invitation to Zing, to include Zing or a form in a poem. dVerse Poets – Quadrille – Poems With Zing Photo: outdoorshell.com “O Winter! frozen pulse and heart of fire” Helen Hunt Jackson Get A Free ZingCamping in the winternow that's not the thing,the closer to zeromore woolies need to bring,because of the temperaturesome vigorous walkingis de…
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The Lightness Of Desire - a poem by Paul Vincent Cannon
At dVerse Laura is hosting Meeting The Bar with an invitation to write a Sparrowlet – Laura explains (and includes a link to our first foray in 2022 with Grace) And with this first MTB of February 2025 we are turning to an invented stanzaic form created by Kathrine Sparrow that she calls a variation of the Swap Quatrain. It was first prompted by Grace in 2022 namely the Sparrowlet:- Poetry…
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Pound By Pound -a poem by Paul Vincent Cannon
At dVerse Dora is hosting poetics with an invitation to write a poem using defamiliarization – for more information about defamiliarization and the prompt follow the link below: dVerse Poets – Poetics – Reimagining The Familiar Photo: ar.inspiredpencil.com “There is a snake in swans.” Sylvia Plath Pound By PoundThen, I wonderedif other homes were habited bysuch darkened men of tradeswhose…
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Shadow Play - Haibun by Paul Vincent Cannon
At dVerse Frank is hosting Haibun Monday with an invitation to write alluding to Groundhog Day. For more info and examples of Haibun follow the link below: dVerse Poets – Haibun Monday – Celebrating Groundhog Day Image by Rodolfo_Llanos from Pixabay “Be grateful for whatever comes” Rumi Shadow Play Birds, heading north, south, change is surely coming. Ants mounding their holes against rain.…
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Of Course The Tree - a poem by Paul Vincent Cannon
At dVerse Grace is hosting Open Link Night – the night we choose a poem to post. dVerse Poets – OLN Image: ‘Japanese Girl Standing Beneath A Willow Tree’ by Emil Orlik, 1901 – Colour woodcut. Found on Tumblr. “breeding lilacs out of the dead land, mixing memory and desire” T.S. Eliot Of Course The TreeWhat is it to seeare we seeing what she sees,or is it that we are seeingbut know not…
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Tell Me - a poem by Paul Vincent Cannon
At dVerse Kim is hosting Poetics with an invitation to write a poem using an optician’s word grid, taking two lines and using the words in order. Here are the sets of words: nose – one – cause – evenwere – crone – our – summername – use – means – arosenear – can – remove – surecrow – verse – see – renewassume – once- van – sumaware – caves – sea – cream dVerse Poets – Poetics – The Optician’s…
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Gouache Me - a poem by Paul Vincent Cannon
At dVerse Mish is hosting the Quadrille (44 words) with an invitation to write a poem on the word Hint. dVerse Poets – Quadrille – Can You Take A Hint? Image: found on pinterest.com “Why would we want to scourge our softness to straight lines like a Mondrian painting?” Marge Piercy Gouache MeTaut canvaspine ribs showing,O gouache me slowlywith that real ox hairbrushing,…
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What Can Be Said (Ontology's a Drag) - a poem by Paul Vincent Cannon
At dVerse Bjorn is hosting Meeting the Bar with an invitation to write a poem using an apophatic (αποφατικοζ) or negation approach – the not knowing, (as opposed to a cataphatic (καταφατικα) or positive approach – the knowing/affirming). For more detail follow the link below: dVerse Poets – MTB – Meet The Bar Positively Through Negation Image by Nick Kirtoki from Pixabay “The rose has no Why?…
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Said Budde - a poem by Paul Vincent Cannon
At dVerse Punam is hosting Poetics with an invitation to – For today’s poetics you can create a cut-out poem, write a newspaper blackout poem, you can use the headline from your local newspaper as a springboard and write a poem on it or you can simply write why you love or hate reading the newspaper. You can also write your poem as a comic strip or create a collage poem from cuttings from your…
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Where? - prose by Paul Vincent Cannon
At dVerse Merril is hosting Prosery (144 words) where we write a piece of prose (fiction or non-fiction) which must include the line “Where can we find light in this never-ending shade?” from the Poem ‘The Hill We Climb’ by Amanda Gorman. dVerse Poets – Prosery – Finding The Light Photo: mensxp.com “As in what if the shadow is golden?” Rosamond S. King Where? Where can we find light in this…
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Choice Is Antithetical - a poem by Paul Vincent Cannon
At dVerse Sanaa is hosting Open Link Night (with live edition) the night we choose a poem to post. dVerse Poets – OLN Image by Markus Winkler from Pixabay “The end of choice, the last of hope …” Philip Larkin Choice Is Antithetical In my teensa clarity of insight - choice is antithetical,I'm quite capable of decidingbetween two things -let's saybrown or blue sweater,it could go either way,…
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The Line Meanders - a poem by Paul Vincent Cannon
At dVerse Dora is hosting Poetics with an invitation to write a poem using the ideas of a margin(s) as a springboard. For more detail and resource follow the link below: dVerse Poets – Poetics – Diving Into Margins Image by Ted Erski from Pixabay “You have it but you don’t have it.” John Asbery The Line Meanders The search, the desire, the drive for oneness admits a nexus, a margin of its…
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Swept Up - a poem by Paul Vincent Cannon
At dVerse De is hosting the Quadrille (44 words) with an invitation to write a poem using the word or any of its forms – lift. dVerse Poets – Quadrille – Ready For Liftoff Image by Khusen Rustamov from Pixabay “… and my soul is swept up in joy.” Uvavnuk (Iglulik Eskimo, 19th C. Trans. Hane Hirschfield) Swept UpLyftthe highest spaceeven to the seventh,elysian fieldsJuno's provinceabove the…
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As Long As I Can Fly - a poem by Paul Vincent Cannon
At dVerse Melissa is hosting Poetics with an invitation to write a poem using the photographic work of Michale Sammut (by permission). For all the photos and more detail follow the link below: dVerse Poets – Poetics – Art In Nature I have chosen this Photo by Michael Sammut – many thanks Michael – check out his wonderful work here Michael Sammut Photo: Ruddy Turnstone by Michael Sammut “A…
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Attention Debt - Burning Haibun by Paul Vincent Cannon
At dVerse Li is hosting the Haibun with an invitation to write what is know as a Burning Haibun. Burning Haibun relies on writing a Haibun then using erasure x 2 to arrive at a distilled form as a second part, followed by the usual haiku/senryu. Burning Haibun is typically about an interior journey/reflection. For more detail follow the link below: dVerse Poets – Haibun – Making Way Image:…
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Delight - a poem by Paul Vincent Cannon
At dVerse Lillian is hosting Open Link Night (with live edition Saturday – for details follow the link below) the night we choose a poem to post. This will be the last live session for 2024. dVerse Poets – OLN Photo: pexels.com “… beyond the body itself, we are making love” Sharon Olds DelightIn the mellow of eveI wonder,from time to time,what it would be liketo take a portion of sunand…
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Bang On - a poem by Paul Vincent Cannon
At dVerse Punam is hosting the Quadrille (44 words) with an invitation to write a poem inclusing the word Bang. dVerse Poets – Quadrille – Going Out With A Bang Photo: jfwonline.com “Now as the train bears west, its rhythm rocks the earth” Theodore Roethke Bang OnClickety clackleather seatsswaying carriagetrees a blur,we sat oppositeall stops,untilthe darkening outer suburbs,furtive…
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The Tree Of Earthly Delights - an Etheree by Paul Vincent Cannon
At dVerse Laura is hosting Meeting The Bar with an invitation to write an Etheree poem in the form of a fir tree. For more detail follow the link below: dVerse Poets – MTB – An Etheree Tree Image: vogue.com “Stooped in the still and shadowy air lips unseen – and kissed me there” Walter De La Mare The Tree Of Earthly DelightsOhelloms xmasI see you thereunder mistletoeunder no illusionjust a…
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The Story Never Mattered - a poem by Paul Vincent Cannon
At dVerse Melissa is hosting Poetics with an invitation to write a poem about a favourite TV show(s). dVerse Poets – Poetics – Favorite TV Shows Photo: Joanna Lumley, still shot for her role as Purdy in the BBCs New Avengers (1976 – 77) a show about three British agents battling a range of criminal and terror plots. “A delicate flame runs beneath my skin” Sappho The Story Never Mattered…
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Floating Beyond The Scars - Prose by Paul Vincent Cannon
At dVerse Bjorn is hosting Prosery with an invitation to write a piece of prose (fiction or non-fiction) using the line “Your drew stars around my scars” from the the song Cardigan by Taylor Swift. dVerse Poets – Prosery – Taylor Swift Image: psychcentral.com “We remember the time around scars” Michael Ondaatje Floating Beyond The Scars The mystery of space was always on our lips, that…
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Friendship's End - a poem by Paul Vincent Cannon
At dVerse Grace is hosting Poetry Form with an invitation to write a Nove Otto – a nine line poem with eight syllables per line and with a rhyme scheme of aacbbcddc. dVerse Poets – Poetry Form – Nove Otto Photo by Tycho Atsma on Unsplash “The mean ones wear their masks with pride, but deep down, the pain resides.” Maya Angelou Friendship's EndI looked for your sagacityfound only your…
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