Frozen lashes prick On wakeful nights without you Love wreathed in hollies. Spring serenade flows Hapless heart twitches in vain Warm tears trickle slow. Stubborn summer spike Threatens to deice numb nerves, Birdsongs calm no more. Ah!
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My journey begins home Gathering faint beats of a scarred heart, Shuttered smiles that barely crease The portentous halo lifts in surprise. Outfit tattered, yet dignity intact My journey begins home, On obscure paths lit by acceptance Spongy shoulders
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Cloaked in gray, o’er the lit screen, sits my teenage brat, The ‘literati’, unmoved by stink of dead rat, In vain, I wrap my thoughts to know what he’s at. Nonplussed, broom and I barge in for a sanguine start
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My womb welcomes a pristine seed In sacred space that God decreed Tiny blessing from heavens freed. It’s the bloom that braved misty morn Flowering in a freezing dawn, Spring serenade in autumn lawn, I stroke the shell shielding
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The overcast skies vented their fury on Kasol, a quaint town in Himachal. Padmaja watched the stubborn drops coat the glass windows of her little cottage in the assisted living facility. A tingle of anxiety crept up her frail nerves
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Today, the last of me fell to the ground. It was inevitable. I had been standing for many months in a decrepit condition, my make-up gone, my back scraped to reveal hollow bones but I never accepted defeat. I arched
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As the gray curtains parted on the gloomy stage Tears dropped down from an unseen cage. The melancholic patter stopped the birds happy flight, But the verdant greens stood upright. I rushed out to get the first smell of petrichor,
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Poetry Prompt 6- Waltmarie. A poem of this style is- -of 10 lines -even lines are of two syllables -odd lines can be longer with no specific syllable count. They end with an em dash (-) -even lines can read
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Poetry prompt 5 is of the style Strambotto. Here are the basic rules for strambotto: Octave (8-line) poems or stanzas Hendecasyllabic (or 11-syllable) lines Rhyme scheme: abababab She sighs behind dark veils of a sparkling gown, Knowing the fair maiden, coming next, is
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Poetry Prompt 4 for Tale-A-Thlon 2025- Ottava Rima ~Written by Giovanni Boccaccio ~”Ottava Rima” literally translates to “eighth rhyme” in Italian ~Follows a strict ABABABCC rhyme scheme ~The final couplet provides a summarizing, emphatic, or witty conclusion to the stanza’s
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