posting poetic prose
21 Sep 2026 8 Comments
in quadrille Tags: beef, breakfast, butter, eggs, pepper, salt
Take and break
two organic brown
humpty-dumpties
into fry pan with a
bit-o-butter, melted.
Sprinkle with real
himalayan salt and
dash of cracked
black peppercorns.
Flip over easy,
serve with side
of one grass-fed
summer-sausage
flavored beef stick.
Preface your day
packed with protein.
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Enjoy humdinger of a breakfast (served anytime) while you
read quadrilles with De at dVerse!
16 Sep 2026 14 Comments
in Uncategorized Tags: chasm, cow, death, resurrection, roses, shroud, skull
Inspired by ekphrastic poetry class with John Sibley Williams. Also linking to dVerse poets where Kim asks us to respond to classical piece, Adagio for Strings, by Samuel Barber. I think the phrasing of music and poetry fit together to interpret the painting.
08 Sep 2026 12 Comments
in quadrille, Uncategorized Tags: rocks, stone, marble, Christ, sculpture, xenolith
who expects classical sculpture
in rural iowa town?
life-size figures of carrara marble
(think italy and michelangelo)
set with care inside massive stone shrine
rocky labyrinth of many rooms, this grotto of
the redemption hides like xenolith within prairie bedrock
created by concrete-mixing priest.
Melissa hosts quadrilles (44 word poems) at dVerse Poets. Theme is”xenolith” which is a fragment of foreign stone trapped inside larger igneous rock. Photos by lynn_
03 Sep 2026 21 Comments
in descort Tags: friendship, independence, loneliness, marriage, person
To be an independent person
is that even a goal?
in puzzle of humanity, all pieces interdependent…
Or overthink, think, think it and become co-dependent
when one marries you are
ONE
whole/half holey
person; impersonate or get personal
flesh will mesh, soles mate
(maybe, baby—by wearing each other’s shoes)
but if it don’t fit…it pinches!
walk it out anyway
or choose friendship only, still grow old lonely
i wonder who/whom we really DEPENDS (trademark) on ?!
risky either way and
“we’re out of your size,” says shoe sales person.
Repeat after Dr. Seuss: “A person’s a person, no matter how small!”
Grace hosts a descort prompt at dVerse Poets. The word descort comes from the idea of discordia or disagreement. Variations in rhythm, rhyme, stanza shape, language, or voice reflected tension and emotional conflict within the poem itself. The traditional themes of the descort are inner turmoil, emotional conflict, and unrequited love.
01 Sep 2026 2 Comments
in american sentence Tags: comfort, death
With a thousand awful ways to die, i’m glad we only do it once.
31 Aug 2026 21 Comments
in haibun Tags: bridesmaids, groomsmen, marry, wedding
Marry me in the same small town church where my parents married. I’ll wear my mother’s sleeveless wedding dress, featuring lacey arm gauntles and wide hoop skirt covered in lace. Shall I wear a hat or veil? My bridesmaids will wear peach street-length dresses and carry sheer parasols.
You will be handsome in broad-shouldered ivory tux trimmed in dark brown. Mother says no cowboy boots! Our brothers, as groomsmen, will wear brown tuxedos with matching bowties. Your nephew can bear the rings on a pillow and my cousin’s daughter can walk down aisle dropping rose petals.
Let’s decorate dais like a garden with latticed arch and baskets of mums. The church ladies can serve barbecue beef on buns with potato salad, frozen fruit cups, and wedding cake. After our reception, you can drive us away in antique buggy, proudly pulled by your horse, Ginger. We must keep our final destination secret!
on lawn of stone church
congratulations and punch
spill like summer petals
Linking to dVerse poets where Mish hosts haibuns on wedding bliss. My husband and I celebrated our 43rd anniversary this past weekend!
26 Aug 2026 21 Comments
in rhyming verse Tags: butterfly, flowers, garden, honeybees, scone, tea, turtledoves
if planting a butterfly garden for me,
invite white doves to flutter by for tea
inside the gazebo, set quaint table there.
don’t wonder or worry what you will wear;
dress in blush, butter yellow, or emerald sheen
like the flowers, who have no need to preen.
serve english tea with sweet cream and a scone,
listen as honeybees dance their way home.
“If that is how God clothes the grass of the field, which is here today and tomorrow is thrown into the fire, will he not much more clothe you—you of little faith?” Matthew 6:30
Melissa hosts landscape poetics at dVerse where we explore the art of Egon Schiele. My ekphrastic rhyme is in response to his painting, House with a Bay Window in the Garden (1907)
24 Aug 2026 26 Comments
in Uncategorized Tags: girl, grand daughters, protest, scream, tickle
“Tickle me!” little girl
demanded. Grandpa
would oblige until
i laughed to tears and,
gasping for air, finally
screamed, “Stop!” which
he always did, with a grin.
Now history repeats
as I witness my husband
“tickle torture” our
own granddaughters,
floored in loud protest.
“The lady doth protest too much, methinks” – Shakespeare
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A quadrille (44 words) on the theme: protest. Read more at dVerse poets pub.
15 Aug 2026 18 Comments
My brief book has arrived and I want to share it with you! Similar to delivering an actual baby, when you write a book and gift it to the world, you hope it doesn’t say anything foolish and that other people will like it.
This is a mini memoir about our family’s experiences raising cattle. It also includes some poetry…and cow jokes. If you live locally, contact me for a print copy. If at a distance, you can read online by clicking the photo link on my blog’s “About” page. Enjoy!
03 Aug 2026 19 Comments
in Uncategorized Tags: book, poem, publish, words, writer
Writers often take journeys in their minds. Observation, memory, and imagination create thoughts to travel by. Experience, learning, and time mark signposts along the way. We draw from an interior well or search for a fresh fountain. Of course, sharing the trip with friends enriches and expands us.
We write one step after the other: a few scribbles in a notebook, an idea tapped on the keyboard, a poem submitted here or there. If we do the work, why are we surprised by acceptance and publication? With or without a map, no journey goes as planned but that’s part of the adventure!
Sometimes we face roadblocks to overcome. Do not give up; do not quit the trail. Keep moving forward. Whether as a career or a hobby, we discover that writing feels satisfying and readers prove gratifying. Is it possible that book you’re dream-wording will appear in print?
journeys of the mind
where everyone’s a poet
words expose secrets
Frank J. Tassone hosts haibun Monday at dVerse…join us on the journey! I think my haiku is actually a senryu 🙂
27 Jul 2026 35 Comments
in quadrille Tags: apathetic, care, noncommital, opinion, phrase, point-of-view
Perhaps the phrase
is meant to be
nonchalant
but it comes across as
noncommittal,
holding out/holding in
your real opinion.
It’s pathetically apathetic
not to speak your mind
with honest clarity; to own
your own point-of-view.
i don’t care? oh, yes, you do!
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Sanaa hosts quadrilles at dVerse, if you care to join us.
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