Category Archives: poetry

foul weather

Posted on December 7, 2020 by Maggie C

smoke-laced crisp fall fog like aftertastes of apple when the half-worm shows

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Poetic Injustice

Posted on November 19, 2020 by Maggie C

Justice is blind, though inherently judgmental. My verdict awaits. COVID culls with dispassion guilty and guileless alike. dVerse MTB: Jisei (Japanese Death Poems)

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Separations

Posted on August 26, 2020 by Maggie C

wheat from chaff gold flakes from silt truth from lies me from you dVerse poets poetics: Wheat

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Blue B’s

Posted on July 13, 2020 by Maggie C

Beautiful blooming bluefields bounce, bob, bow. Balmy breezes brush by, blowing… bending. Blue blossoms balance atop tall, slender green stalks. Buzzing, boisterous bees; bumbling busy bugs bombard bevies of burgeoning blue bouquets. Bad-ass bayoneted bottoms belie beneficial blending of pollen … Continue reading →

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Room to Think

Posted on May 28, 2020 by Maggie C

“Welcome to my house!” The little boy pulls aside a low hanging branch and gestures into the shadow of an old growth cedar tree. “What a lovely home!” I look around the imaginary room: the evergreen walls, the mossy drapes, … Continue reading →

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spring reckoning

Posted on May 21, 2020 by Maggie C

Planted last winter, I watched for your blush of life. You remained dormant, or dead – Now I’m left to choose: wait and hope, or dig you out. dVerse Meet the Bar challenge: 5-line Japanese Poetic Forms. My first attempt … Continue reading →

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Chez Maggie

Posted on April 27, 2020 by Maggie C

NaPoWriMo,*Day twenty-seven: Today’s prompt: “write a poem in the form of a review. But not a review of a book or a movie of a restaurant. Instead, I challenge you to write a poetic review of something that isn’t normally … Continue reading →

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The Simple Life

Posted on April 26, 2020 by Maggie C

Day 26 of NaPoWriMo.* For today’s prompt, we were asked to fill out an “Almanac Questionnaire” that you can find here, then use our responses as the basis for a poem. And so I came up with this depiction of … Continue reading →

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Day Twenty-five: Free Write

Posted on April 25, 2020 by Maggie C

NaPoWriMo Day 25. * Today, “The prompt, which you can find in its entirety here, was  developed by the poet and teacher Hoa Nguyen, asks you to use a long poem by James Schuyler as a guidepost for your poem.” The … Continue reading →

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Found!

Posted on April 23, 2020 by Maggie C

The poetry challenge today on the dVerse site is to write a “found” poem using the words on book spines. Bjorn asks us to: Go through your collection on books, and note the titles. Sort them so the titles form … Continue reading →

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