Free Verse, Poetry, Quadrille, Scary Story, Theme Prompt, Word Challenge, Word Prompt, Writing Challenge, Writing Prompts

Frightfully Fanged: A Quadrille

Written for dVerse Poets Pub – Q25-
“I Screen You Screen, We All Screen….”
where Lisa, invites us to write a
quadrille using the word “screen”.
Also for Sammi’s “13 Days of Samhain”
and the words “frightfully” & “fanged”.

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Ekphrastic, Poetry, Quadrille, Theme Prompt, Word Challenge, Word Prompt, Writing Challenge, Writing Prompts

Back Before Dark

Written for dVerse Poets Quadrille –
“A Pocket In Your Poems”. Our host,
De, asks us to write a 44-word poem
using some form of the word “pocket”.

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Poetry, Quadrille, Theme Prompt, Word Challenge, Word Prompt, Writing Challenge, Writing Prompts

Silver Bird

Written for dVerse Quadrille – “Ho-hum,
it’s time to Poem”. Our host, De Jackson,
asks us to write a 44-word quadrille
using forms of the word “hum”.

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Poetry, Quadrille, Theme Prompt, Writing Challenge, Writing Prompts

A New Tomorrow

Written for dVerse Quadrille –
“X Marks the Spot”. Our host,
Melissa, invites us to write a
quadrille with the word ”xenolith”.

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Longer Stories, Quadrille, Theme Prompt, Writing Challenge, Writing Prompts

The Cousin

Written for Muse On Monday.
David challenges us to write a
story involving a distant relative.

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Poetry, Quadrille, Theme Prompt, Word Challenge, Writing Challenge, Writing Prompts

Overcompensation

Written for dVerse Poets Pub
where our host, Punam, asks
us to write a quadrille based
on the theme “I Protest”.

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Poetry, Quadrille, Theme Prompt, Word Challenge, Word Prompt, Writing Challenge, Writing Prompts

Going For It

Written for dVerse Poets Quadrille Monday:
Jumpstart Your Poem. Our challenge, put
forth by De Jackson, is to write a poem in
44 words, including the word ‘jump’.

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Poetry, Quadrille, Theme Prompt, Word Challenge, Word Prompt, Writing Challenge, Writing Prompts

What My Mother Taught Me

Written for dVerse Poets – ‘Quadrilling
without a care in the world.’ Our host,
Sanaa, asks us to write a poem in 44
words using a form of the word “care”.

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Poetry, Quadrille, Theme Prompt, Word Challenge, Word Prompt, Writing Challenge, Writing Prompts

Light My Fire

Written for dVerse Poet’s Pub: A Light
Burst of Air. Our host, Lisa, invites us to
write a quadrille using the word “puff”.

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Poetry, Quadrille, Theme Prompt, Writing Challenge, Writing Prompts

Atmospheric Pressure: The Myth

Written for dVerse Quadrille Monday –
Mything Poems. Our host, De Jackson,
invites us to get mythical …. in 44 words!
Here’s where the prompt took me.

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Poetry, Quadrille, Theme Prompt, Writing Challenge, Writing Prompts

The Devil’s Due

Written for dVerse Poets Quadrille Monday –
“Toot Toot” hosted by Lisa who invites us to
get creative with the word ‘horn’ in just 44
words. Here’s where the prompt took me.

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Poetry, Quadrille, Theme Prompt, Word Prompt, Writing Challenge, Writing Prompts

Going To The Game

Written for dVerse Poets Quadrille –
This One’s Gone To The Dogs! The
challenge cooked up by De Jackson is to
write a 44 word poem with the word ‘dog’.
Here’s where the prompt took me.

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Poetry, Quadrille, Theme Prompt, Writing Prompts

Dogwood Evening

Written for dVerse Poets Pub ~ Quadrille Monday:
Come Bloom With Me! Our host, Lillian, invites us
to write a 44-word poem with the word “bloom”.
This is my quadrille.

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Dialogue, Poetry, Quadrille, Theme Prompt, Writing Prompts

Can You Dig It?

Written for dVerse Poets Quadrille: Let’s Get Digging.
Our host, Punam, invites us to write a44-word poem
using a form of the word “dig”. Here’s my quad.

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Poetry, Quadrille, Theme Prompt, Word Challenge, Word Prompt, Writing Prompts

Le Joint

Written for dVerse Poets Quadrille Monday –
“Writing Down the Bones”. Our host, De Jackson,
asks us to create a poem using any form of  
the word “bone”. Here is my quadrille.

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Poetry, Quadrille, Theme Prompt, Word Challenge, Word Prompt, Writing Prompts

Searching

Written for dVerse Poets Pub – “ Shhhhhh…..
Quiet, Please!” hosted  by Lillian who has
asked us to create a quadrille using the
word “silence”.  This is my response.

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Poetry, Quadrille, Theme Prompt, Word Prompt, Writing Prompts

Small Watchfulness

Written for dVerse Poets Quadrille Monday –
“Bird is the Word”. Our host, De Jackson,
has offered up the word “bird”.
Here is my quadrille.

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Poetry, Quadrille, Theme Prompt

3 a.m.

Written for dVerse Poets Quadrille Monday –
“Hunger Makes the Best of Poetry”
–

where our host, Lisa, is serving up
the word “hunger”. Here is my quad.

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Free Verse, Poetry, Quadrille, Theme Prompt

California Dreamin’

Written for dVerse Poets Quadrille
Monday
– “Swearing by all Flowers”
where our host, De Jackson, has offered
up the word “flowers”. Here is my quadrille.

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Free Verse, Poetry, Quadrille, Theme Prompt

First Light

Written for dVerse Poets Quadrille
Monday
– “Swearing by all Flowers”
where our host, De Jackson, has offered
up the word “flowers”. Image courtesy
Crispina Kemp. Here is my quadrille.

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Poem, Quadrille, Word Prompt

The Persistence Of Memory

Written for dVerse Poets Quadrille
Monday – #240 –“ Fill, Zip, Trip”

where our host, Punam, has offered
up the word “trip”. Here is my quadrille.

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Poetry, Quadrille, Word Prompt

Lingering

Written for dVerse Poets Quadrille
Monday – #227
where our host,
De Jackson, has offered up the
word “smile”. Here is my quadrille.

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Flash, Micro Story, Poem, Quadrille

Done

Written for dVerse Quadrille #237 – Zero.
Our host, Melissa, from Mom With A Blog,
invites us to create a poem of exactly 44 words
using the word “zero”. This is my quadrille.

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Poem, Quadrille

Blithe Spirit

Written for dVerse Quadrille #235 – Take Your Poem
For A Whirl Around The Block!
Our host De Jackson,
aka WhimsyGizmo, invites us to pen a poem of precisely
44 words, using a form of the word “whirl”. This is my quad.

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Poem, Quadrille

Forever And Ever

Written for dVerse Quadrille #234: A Sparkler
A Day!
Punam invites us to celebrate Diwali
by writing a quadrille including a form of
the word “sparkler”. This is my quadrille.

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Poem, Quadrille

Enough Already!

Written for dVerse Quadrille #233: Bring On The Boo!
De Jackson (WhimsyGizmo) invites us to scare up
a poem of exactly 44 words, including some form
of the word ‘boo’. This is my contribution.

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Poem, Quadrille

So Very Proper

Written for dVerse Poets Quadrille #231 –
“Making Much Of Poems”
. Our host De Jackson
invites us to write a poem in exactly 44 words,
incorporating the word ‘much’ or a form of the word.
This is my quadrille.

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Poem, Quadrille

Who Let The Dogs Out?

Written for dVerse Poets Quadrille #230 –
“Let’s Kick Up A Rumpus!”
Our host Kim
invites us to write a poem in exactly 44
words, one of which must be the word
“rumpus”. What fun! Here’s my quadrille.

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Poem, Quadrille

The Great Debate

Written for dVerse Poets Quadrille #229: Shall We
Jabber On?
Our host, De Jackson, asks us to write
a quadrille using the word ‘jibber’. Here’s my bit of fun!

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Poem, Quadrille

Pops

Written for dVerse Poets Quadrille #228. Our host
Mish asks us – just for the halibut – to write a quadrille
using the word ‘fish’ in any configuration. Recalling
the many stories about my husband and his identical
twin fishing with their Pops, this is my quadrille
.

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