Category: Quadrille

Poem, Quadrille

On Bended Knee

The Sicilian Storyteller

Lillian, tonight’s Pub Master, is hosting Quadrille Monday
at the dVerse Poets Pub. We’re asked to create a 44-word
poem using the word “figment”. Here’s my poem.

She knelt
down on
bended
knee

Heard a
voice say
“Come to me”

It’s just a
figment,
this can’t be

A voice that
sounded
just like he

“I think
 I will count
to three

Then of his
ghost
I will be
free

One, two
.”

NAR©2024
44 Words

What do Mark Twain and a Purple Dragon have in Common?

This is “Imagination” by Bob Dylan


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Poem, Quadrille

Fade To Black

The Sicilian Storyteller

Written for dVerse Poets Quadrille #202
– Hello Darkness –
where we are asked to embrace the dark
in 44 poetic words.

Death creeps
in the night,
hiding in the
darkest of places
where junkies
shoot up
in the alleys
by dim light.

But no one
is around
to see
the relief
on their faces
when they fade
to black
and softly give up
the fight.

NAR©2024
44 Words

Quadrille #202: Hello Darkness


This is Metallica with “Fade To Black”, live from Pinnacle Bank Arena, Lincoln, Nebraska

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Poem, Quadrille

Like Spitting Into The Wind

The Sicilian Storyteller

De Jackson, aka WhimsyGizmo at dVerse Poet’s Pub
has asked us to write Poems of Place for Quadrille #201.
This is my submission.

That time I found
myself
in the principal’s office
because
I
screamed
at
the teacher
who tried to put
his hand
up
my
shirt,
then
being assaulted
again
at home
by
my
mother
who accused me
of
“asking for it”.

Neither
place
felt
safe.

NAR©2024
44 Words

Quadrille #201: Poems of Place

This is “Education – Another Brick In The Wall, Part 2” by Pink Floyd

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