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in 15 words, write about a unique way of coping with surroundings.
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joyceanne
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Creativity

Art release:

Recess time

Play dates among 

Words

Flowers

Music

Fragrance

Jungle gyms

Freedom swings. 

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Challenge
Love Poem Challenge - Let's Test The New Challenge Abilities
Write your best love poem! Make my heart skip a beat! Show me some beautiful rhyme and meter!
Cover image for post Testing the Waters, by joyceanne
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joyceanne in Poetry & Free Verse
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Testing the Waters

Love laps at the shore of your soul,

tickles,

like waves licking bare toes,

you want to flee

from the fresh surprise

of frothy kisses

reviving your need;

Lace your fingers in mine,

intertwine,

hold my hand and wade

into the refreshing sea,

we'll test the waters again,

paddling far beyond the

dry sands of our broken hearts.

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Challenge
Describe a flower garden, but do not use any color adjectives (i.e., don't use descriptive words like red, yellow, green). Ideas: Tell me how your body senses the garden? How does red feel? What is yellow? Imagine how it would feel to step into a flower garden without eyesight, then explain it to me. Get visceral...describe the scene either directly or indirectly. Be creative. :) Or go totally metaphorical with it. Think outside the box. Oh, and make it a micro-poem, too. Have fun!
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joyceanne in Poetry & Free Verse
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Until Summer

Beyond the shade of graceful pines,

within stone walls of old design,

flower beds, dormant still,

deny demands that purpose fill.

When Spring- no, Summer! comes,

breathing grass and blossoms,

yearning fades to perfumed joy and petal days,

while fragrant vines, enchanted, climb

upon the trellis of a gardener's mind.

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Challenge
Write a sexy haiku - can be subtle or hot, hot, hot!
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joyceanne in Haiku
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Mesmer

Soft, glistening stars

Open windows to your soul

Mesmerize my will.

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Challenge
With St. Patrick's Day approaching, write a poem about anything green. Have fun!
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joyceanne in Micropoetry
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Lucky

Beware green clovers,

They'll steal you away,

Under neon lights,

Beyond sun's rays,

Betting on enchanted lands,

Miniature castles in starlit sand,

Sailing fortune's misty miles,

Leprechauns dancing, tricksters' smiles.

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Challenge
To the best of your ability, tell us which would you choose or which one is better - A broken heart or An empty one! If you will, please include the 'Why'. #BrokenOrEmpty Tag me, if you want!! Happy writing, y'all :)
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joyceanne in Micropoetry
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Break My Heart

An empty heart

So brittle cracks,

A broken heart

May love attract.

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Challenge
Go on and let love unleash it all write a poem, prose, blank verse, haiku anything at all everything is accepted declaring how much you love your lover. HAPPY VALENTINES DAY do not forget to send this after you finish writing to your lover. Enjoy!
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joyceanne
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Bath Time Sonnet

In steeping bath of bergamot and thyme,

Of love besot, in winter’s garden play,

With silken skin afresh in scents sublime,

With me, my love, afloat in fragrance, stay.

Into this pond of sacred water dive -

My body’s slick with precious oils’ film -

Seek out my breath and penetrate my hive,

In pools of sweat, my love, to drown or swim.

Dear Holy Ghost, as jasmine fountains spray,

In watr’y light absolve a virgin’s stains,

My heart shall bleed and on my knees I pray,

Have mercy, Lord, for passion floods my veins.

Disperse these healing herbs to cure and cleanse,

Allow us time for love and grace dispense.

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Challenge
Another 10 word micropoem challenge: write a poem that begins with the word TAIL and ends with the word TALE. Or the other way around! Tag me, if you wish! #ATailTale
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joyceanne in Micropoetry
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Tail Tale

Tail of a dream

Wags at me -

Swishywish fairy tale.

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Challenge
Pen an absolutely REVOLTING Valentine's Day poem to someone you wish to kill (smother? maim?) with kindness. No more than ten lines, please! Evisceration and filthy, colorful language of yore are a plus. Tag me in the comments, if you wish. #myloathsomevalentine
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joyceanne in Micropoetry
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Jealousy

As fog and mist occlude the branching tree,

As wisps of cloud and rain do vision blur,

So I shall pluck the roving eyes from thee

That cast your gaze and Cupid’s spells on her.

In ceremonious magician's cape,

I'll dismember your rotten, putrid corpse

And grant your loathsome heart no fair escape,

Deny it's woeful pleas for just recourse.

Of morbid end let cunning lovers fear,

Confess your lies, reveal your guts, my dear.

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Challenge
Let's bring back sonnets! I challenge you to write a Shakespearean sonnet. 14 lines, the first 12 lines are separated into 3 quatrains with 4 lines each. The last 2 lines are its own couplet at the end. Each line has 10 syllables. It is an iambic pentameter. The rhyme scheme is as follows: ABAB CDCD EFEF GG. For more of an explanation follow this link: https://tinyurl.com/SonnetHowTo or message me any questions. For an example follow this link: https://tinyurl.com/18Sonnet.
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joyceanne in Poetry & Free Verse
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Sonnet : Love and Death

(Not sure if I'm doing this right, but tried to follow the rules.)

Alone, no breath upon my neck tonite,

Bereft, so cold, the heat of passion passed,

Lamenting life on wings in hasty flight

Away, away, so far from human grasp.

In fear I cringe yet by my side you rest,

In darkness dwell, in morbid time project,

What twist of mind, what mental game, what test?

Corrupted vow to honor and protect?

As blood still flows and lungs inhale the day,

Let souls unite, our hearts together twined

We’ll greet the sun and join it on its way,

No more, no more, in fearful tears drown time.

I prayed an angel rescue me from grief

Now dread he'll go and death be my relief.

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