Sensing a shift in the status quo Ever so slight but I read you well Having been here before At first it was devastating The beginning of the end Now after weathering the storms that are named for you I go with the flow Copyright © 2023 Christine Bolton - Poetry for Healing All Rights Reserved Mish is hosting Monday Quadrille at D’Verse. Her prompt word is ‘Shift’ to be used how you wish. A Quadrille is a poem of exactly 44 words excluding the title
As darkness came the dulcet tones of your voice filtered through the still night air I would hang on to every word falling from your lips Each syllable perfectly enunciated creating the beautiful Music of your soul Smiling I danced to its sweet melody Copyright © 2023 Christine Bolton - Poetry for Healing All Rights Reserved Linda Lee Lyberg is hosting Monday Quadrille at D’Verse. Her prompt is ‘Music’ A Quadrille is a poem of exactly 44 words excluding the title.
We lay close on cool sand counting stars in the velvet sky Knowing with each magical moment we spend together they align more perfectly in their shining, twinkling brilliance Love is born on this night of a thousand wishes As the celestial show dazzles Copyright © 2023 Christine Bolton - Poetry for Healing All Rights Reserved De is hosting Monday Quadrille at D’Verse and the prompt is ‘Stars’ A Quadrille is a poem of exactly 44 words, excluding the title
Nonchalant girl hair twirling around fingers Twitching like a fly swat A mustache held in place Under nose With pouted lips She rolled hair in little buds Tightly across her crown Onlookers amused Boredom leaves and hair is now the texture of candied peel Copyright © 2022 Christine Bolton - Poetry for Healing All Rights Reserved Mish is hosting Monday Quadrille at D'Verse Poets. Our prompt tonight is 'Candy' however we would like to use it. A quadrille is a poem of exactly 44 words excluding the title.
The inviting call of love Spoken in white breath of wintery dreams Arms outstretched in warm embrace to those who respond with blind faith Promising happiness to weather any storm Sunshine through rainfall Bringing rainbows to paint away the clouds Do you dare answer? Copyright © 2022 Christine Bolton - Poetry for Healing All Rights Reserved Lisa from Tao Talk is hosting Monday Quadrille at D'Verse Poets. Her prompt word for our 44 word poem is "Warm"
As hard as you might try
I will never be controlled
Thinking my spirit can be grounded
By clipping my wings
Will only make me run faster
Like the wind I can never be caught
I am free to blow whichever way I choose
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De Jackson is hosting Monday Quadrille at D’Verse giving us the prompt “Wings”
A Quadrille is a poem of 44 words excluding the title.
What is this strange dance that we always do Where we circle each other like prey Staring in silence Strategizing and preparing for the inevitable outcome Throwing verbal darts while we sidestep and taunt until one eventually falls unceremoniously from the tracks of life Copyright © 2022 Christine Bolton - Poetry for Healing All Rights Reserved Merril is hosting Monday Quadrille at D'Verse tonight. The prompt word is "Track" A quadrille is a poem of 44 words excluding the title Image by Thomas Schroeder from Pixabay
It stings, cuts, snipes and slashes
Pounds the brain
Twisting stomachs
In an intricate macramé of knotted concern
Takes breath from bodies
Blinds eyes
Bruises souls
It expands the heart
And it also breaks it
Love
The most arduous, gut-wrenching
Piece of work
Ever!
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Lisa from Tao Talk is hosting Monday Quadrille at D’Verse tonight. Today is
Labor Day in the US and she has promoted us with the word ‘Work’
Sleep slinked away like a thief in the night In the wee hours of the morning countless sheep filled a head waiting for dawn to break With it came brightness and clarity A palette of blazing orange with whisps of grey brushing the sky Copyright © 2022 Christine Bolton - Poetry for Healing All Rights Reserved Linda Lee Lyberg is hosting Monday Quadrille at D'Verse. She has promoted us with "Morning" A Quadrille is a poem of exactly 44 words, excluding the title Image by marion beraudias from Pixabay
I stare at the paper
The type as black
as my heart
Bold as my actions
I see my name and your name
but my eyes refuse to go further
The rest is a blurred mangle
of words and emotions
that delivered this decree
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All Rights Reserved
De Jackson is hosting Monday Quadrille at D’Verse Poets
and she has prompted us with the word ‘Type’
A Quadrille is a poem of exactly 44 words excluding the title