Tag Archives: Poetic Asides prompts

Or Nothing

Posted on February 21, 2019 by whimsygizmo

.. We throw down our …………(hearts) cards on the table and place our …………………………..(debts)                       (forgive us our debtors)  bets at center. You make fine origami of both Joker cards … Continue reading →

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All Rise

Posted on October 3, 2018 by whimsygizmo

I say the tragedy is how you’re gonna spend the rest of your nights with the light on So shine the light on all of your friends… – Jason Mraz   .. This sky’s got a million ways of cracking … Continue reading →

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I get the last piece of forever, now.

Posted on September 19, 2018 by whimsygizmo

… Got me a man who says it as a verb, disturbs the earth to make me spin. Got me 20+ years of giggle-guffaw-tears, and a way with words he steeps me in. Got me a thousand little things that … Continue reading →

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Stop Me (If You’ve Heard This One Before)

Posted on August 16, 2017 by whimsygizmo

… So, this poet walks into a ……..{space} …..bar and hyphen -ate hydrates herself with a trochee or two, and begins pledging ………..poems to a metered moon. Soon, the stars are all (g)listening, until they just can’t stop. ……………………Cue ……………………the … Continue reading →

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Err, Apparent

Posted on August 2, 2017 by whimsygizmo

… She is holding an un -quiet dragon under her skin, the line -age of whom can be traced back many moons, monsoons and slow gulf stream storms. She has mumbled and fum -bled her way into some smallish spaces … Continue reading →

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Snapping at the Sky

Posted on May 31, 2017 by whimsygizmo

She’s bruised, but I can’t tell if she’s abused …………….or just camera shy.   .. Prompted by Poetic Asides.   

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Unspangled Dragons

Posted on May 17, 2017 by whimsygizmo

.. They crave sequins and spark -led shine, bright pieces of sea and fractured stars. Gray scales ache for ribboned river, milky way canyon scars and the sheen of sea glass. We comb the shores in search of strings and … Continue reading →

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The Reason She Never Writes About Politics

Posted on May 1, 2017 by whimsygizmo

… is that the moon has a silver platform that never tires her.   ..  

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The Things We Forgot

Posted on April 19, 2017 by whimsygizmo

{Blame the Rain} .. I forgot to tell you that I will always remember the way your grin held up the sky. You forgot to say good -bye, but I can forgive you that for the way the whoooosh of … Continue reading →

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Quietus

Posted on April 18, 2017 by whimsygizmo

Oh death, where is your sting? – I Corinthians 15:55 And death I think is no parenthesis – E.E. Cummings  .. We dress it in black. Night. Un -known. We give it a scythe, a sickle, the fickle heart of … Continue reading →

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