Category: Poem of the Month

Flowing Free – Poem of the Month – July 2023

Flowing Free – A Quadrille

As inevitable as change
it would come
After a hard, frozen winter
Tears of sadness cascaded
in a melting waterfall
of cathartic release
All good things sullied by spite
and left to drown in the river of hope
Now, finally flowing fast and free


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De aka Whimsygizmo is hosting Monday Quadrille at D'Verse Poets.  Her prompt word tonight is all things 'Water'  However you would like to use it in a Quadrille.
A quadrille is a poem of exactly 44 words, excluding the title


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The Mirror Has Two Sides – Poem of the Month – May 2023

The Mirror Has Two Sides

There are two sides to a mirror
The side you choose
holds magic confirming your
narcissistic nature
Which loves what it sees 

My side is blank
It’s only purpose
to reflect your image
out to the world
I am unseen, living in your shadow


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Merril is hosting Monday Quadrille at D’Verse and the prompt is ‘Mirror’

Clouds – Poem of the Month – April 2023

Clouds

flocculent clouds
puffed in the sky
giant marshmallows
tempting the eye

an east wind moving them
beyond the line of vision
dividing the horizon
with a precise incision

sun covered momentarily
perhaps making a prediction
only to reappear
with courage of its conviction

as twilight arrives
at its inevitable time
Nature’s shift begins
its internal rhyme


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Linda Lee Lyberg is hosting Open Link Night at D’Verse.  I reworked a poem I wrote about 5 years ago.  I wrote it in rhyme as that is how nature sometimes talks to me ☺️

The Earth Stood Still – Poem of the Month – March 2023

The Earth Stood Still

When you left me
the earth stood still

The wind held its breath
and trees stood silent
A melon ball sun refused to smile
and the sky cried no tears

Feeling my pain it held me
until I could release
a gasp of disbelief


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De provided tonight’s Quadrille prompt at D’Verse, and it is the word “Gasp”.  Sanaa will be hosting and reading our submissions.
A quadrille is a poem of exactly 44 words excluding the title.

Love is Art – Poem of the Month – February 2023

Love is Art

Love is staring at a piece of art
for the first time
You allow yourself to feel it
before taking in the details 
It mesmerizes with a spell
Taking intelligence
and decision-making skills
Throwing them to the wind
Obliterating that which is all around
So you neither see nor hear
anyone other than the magician
The sun is brighter
filling your heart with joy
Then you step back
and look at the creation
The artwork is abstract
Colorful but complicated
It is not what it seems
Beauty is in the eye of the beholder
Others see it as nonsense
But it is what it is
Will you buy it?


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Art - Love Is All We Need, by Banksy

Sanaa is hosting D'Verse Poetics tonight and as it's Valentine's Day
she has prompted us with 'Love' and to say it like it is.

Swimming With a Hook in my Mouth – Poem of the Month – January 2023

Swimming With a Hook in my Mouth

In this prison I am not alone
There is food and warmth
A security the body craves
but a nourishment
unable to feed the mind
Here in your jail my soul possessed
Cramped in a cell, my words stifled
Expectations to meet
A schedule to follow
Duties to be performed
Resentment builds within
I tread water to prevent drowning
in your sea of servitude
I am tired of swimming 
with a hook in my mouth


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Linda is hosting Open Link Night at D'Verse Poets

In The Lonely Hours – Poem of the Month – December 2022

In The Lonely Hours

In the lonely hours
consumed with the things I cannot control
I drown in the sadness of my life
My decisions, right at the time
are haunting and daunting
Fearing no escape from the gate-less prison
of my choices
Guilt overwhelms as duty reigns supreme
When all seems lost
a caring person breaks the spell
on a mind paralyzed with fear
The words, so simple
but clarifying and freeing

Just walk away




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Silver Threads – Poem of the Month – November 2022

Silver Threads

No road is straight and no hill is too steep
We walk a crooked mile every day
and climb obstacles only to be pushed back down
We stumble and trip, fall and rise
The fabric of our lives becomes worn and threadbare
We patch and repair making sure it stays strong
and sometimes even replace it in order to start again
in a new place and a new time
The arduous journey is never lost or forgotten
It is who we are and we are destined to follow a path forward
Sometimes we take a wrong turn and feel hopeless
but along the way we take the silver threads from our clouds
and weave them into the tapestry of our lives
Their light a gleaming reminder of how far we have come


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Grace is hosting Open Link Night at D’Verse Poets

Walk in the Park – Poem of the Month – September 2022

Walk in the Park

I walked that I might breathe
Each inhalation pushing the oxygen
Up to my brain until my head cleared
and normalcy returned
Every step taking me further away
from the source of my discontent
I absorbed the surroundings
Following the bend in the river
A gentle susurrus shook
The weeping willow blossoms
Sunlight disappeared beyond the treeline
as dusk staked its claim on the day
From the corner of my eye
a scintilla of light flashed
to the left, then the right
Fireflies shining in the twilight
Glowing on and off
Teasing the viewer
tempted to catch them
It was then I knew
I had found my querencia
My safe place of peace
Where my equilibrium could return
Stopping to wonder at the light show
I rested a while, thankful for the sojourn



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Mish is hosting Tuesday Poetics at D’Verse and has prompted us with unusual words that have been finding their way into our everyday language. We are to use three of her suggestions in our poem.  I chose Susurrus, Scintilla and Querencia.  You will find
their meanings on the D’Verse link along with the others available.
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