Tag Archives: Meeting the Bar

Songs, Sirens, Starlings

Posted on December 8, 2016 by whimsygizmo

.. Treble-tremble me loose oh, {adagio slow} untroubled and stanza’d soft. Hold me. Un -fold me to the tempo of timbre trees, slur me ………….{legato} to an indigo sky. Cadenza me a seasoned sonata chant, a rococo rant, a tiny … Continue reading →

Posted in dVerse poems | Tagged dVerse, Meeting the Bar, music poems, music terms, sirens, sky songs | 24 Comments

The Bridge at Midnight Trembles

Posted on October 14, 2016 by whimsygizmo

You walk into the room With a pencil in your hand… – Bob Dylan, Ballad of the Thin Man .. You ask it a question or two and you hope it knows some things and that it might sing if … Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged Bob Dylan, Bob Dylan lyrics, dVerse, lead, Meeting the Bar, pencil poems, smudge, song lyric poems, the inexorable sadness of pencils | 15 Comments

A (Very) Few Words for Mr. Edmund Clerihew Bentley

Posted on September 16, 2016 by whimsygizmo

… Oh, Mr. Edmund Clerihew B., this witty-verse hue just ain’t for me. As a teen, you invented some poeming fun. But you see, my poems are more…undone. … A bit of tongue-in-cheekiness for the dVerse prompt, where Gayle … Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged biographical poems, Clerihew, dVerse, forms, Meeting the Bar | 21 Comments

Reason

Posted on September 1, 2016 by whimsygizmo

… ’This the season of our fallings. The scent and pent-up, unspent while of wailing leaves. We cleave too long to trees, ponder-pander wrong for breeze, squeeze ourselves back into boxes too small too tall too squalling for our aching … Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged autumn poems, dVerse, Meeting the Bar, reason, rhyme | 18 Comments

A Meter Maid Goes Rogue

Posted on June 17, 2016 by whimsygizmo

(she’s not all that fond of feet) .. The ticking of the clock is off; her feet are tired, and waning. tickTOCK, clickCLACK. Creep close, stand back. The only thing she craves is sea, a salted skin for staining. Moon … Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged clock ticks, dVerse, feet, indigo, Meeting the Bar, mermaid poems, pentameter, sea, spill | 16 Comments

Hourglass Songs

Posted on May 19, 2016 by whimsygizmo

Keep this under your hat, beneath your skin: let’s begin as smashed hope and promise, a small smidgen of something sound. This stopwatch is set to ‘run’ – maybe we’ll see our turn and learn a thing or two, one … Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged dVerse, Etheree, form poems, forms, hourglass, Meeting the Bar, poetic forms, songs, strum, time | 15 Comments

What Remains

Posted on May 5, 2016 by whimsygizmo

(a Golden Shovel after the first line of The Cremation of Sam McGee, by Robert Service) … Look there: because we are ghosts digging the strange small and savage broken things the forgotten world has ever done, we all invest our … Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged broken things, dVerse poems, Golden Shovel, indigo skies, Meeting the Bar, moon, Robert Service, sun, The Cremation of Sam McGee | 29 Comments

{Sevenling: On the corner}

Posted on April 7, 2016 by whimsygizmo

.. On the corner there’s a man with a guitar, a dog and an empty cup. Her eyes don’t know which to see first: strings, collar, coin. The streetlamp crow knows what to do, but he’s not talking. … Continue reading →

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{Sevenling: I have wished}

Posted on April 7, 2016 by whimsygizmo

.. I have wished upon broken shoelaces, falling coins, fading stars. The world is braiding itself back to primary: red, yellow…blue. Maybe it’s time to color outside the lines. .. I’m hosting Meeting the Bar later today over at … Continue reading →