Written for dVerse Poets Quadrille Monday –
“Bird is the Word”. Our host, De Jackson,
has offered up the word “bird”.
Here is my quadrille.
Tag: Quadrille Monday
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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!
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.
Electra Glide In Blue
Written for dVerse Poets Quadrille Monday.
The prompt word is ‘indigo’; this is my quadrille.
Messin’ With My Frozen Zone
Written for dVerse Poets
Quadrille Monday – #216
where today’s prompt word
is “hint”. Here is my quadrille.
When The Vow Breaks ~ A Quadrille
Written for dVerse Poets Quadrille Monday
where we are asked to write a 44 word poem in
the format of our choice incorporating the word
‘promise’. Here is my promise quadrille.
His Jealous Mother
Written for dVerse Poets – Quadrille Monday 209 – Plucking Strings
Our host Lisa asks us to include the word “string(s)” in our piece.
This is my free verse poem based on a true story as told by my mother.
My father’s mother hated my mother for marrying her son.
Returning from their honeymoon, my parents visited her mother, then his mother.
When his mother opened the door, she pushed my mother down the stairs, breaking the string of pearls around my mother’s neck.
NAR©2024
44 Words
This is “A String of Pearls” by Glenn Miller and His Orchestra.
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Memories of Me
Written for dVerse Quadrille Monday #206.
Our prompt word is ‘bend; here is my poem.
I long to be myself again,
before the pain began.
Now wistfully staring at
old photos
of a younger me,
lithe with slender arms
and shapely legs
which once did bend
with graceful ease.
Dancing dreams fill my nights;
I want to sleep forever.
NAR©2024
This is “Pretty Ballerina” by The Left Banke
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On Bended Knee
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
This is “Imagination” by Bob Dylan
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Anticipation: Dectina Refrain
Written for Quadrille Monday dVerse Poets Pub; De Jackson is
asking us to create a 44-word poem using the word “Friday”.
My poem is a Dectina Refrain:
1st line is 1 syllable, 2nd line is 2 syllables
3rd line is 3 syllables, and so on for 9 lines;
the 10th line is comprised of the first four lines
as one stand-alone sentence.
Our
Friday
night dinner
we wait all week
to sit on the couch
and eat sexy pizza
with cheese like hot melted love,
gooey and deliciously good,
and we drink tall glasses of red wine.
Our Friday night dinner we wait all week
NAR©2024
44 Words
#TGIF
This is “Makin’ Whoopee” by Dr. John and Rickie Lee Jones
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