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dVerse Poets Poetics

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The poem I would like you write is about the end of something: the end of a season, a relationship, a story, a letter, a journey, a dream, a life, the world, etc. You can write in any form, rhyming or not; just make sure it ends in one of the ways described below – and let us know which you chose and why.

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I chose number 5 by T.S. Eliot because I think it fits well with the USA Today:

Everyone yells their opinions

Speaking from a known dominion

Whether a podium draped in a flag

Or a cardboard box on the main drag

Our voices disappear in the throng

Some telling others they are wrong

I’m guilty of this, I speak out

I try to explain what I’m about

But no one cares

And no one dares

To object to my face

It all seems a race

To end all the old freedom bells’ that rang

“And the world ends in a whimper rather than a bang.”

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Tuesday Poetics: Endings

Truthful Tuesday 9-17-24

by rugby843, posted in Uncategorized

Did your family move around a lot when you were younger, or did you pretty much live in one place for most of your life? What about now? Do you move around frequently or have you lived in the same place for quite a while?

I moved at 3 to a dairy farm and then at 15 to a small apartment in town, then a boarding house, apartment, house and more houses and then two apartments. I lived in Vermont, New Hampshire, Texas, Colorado, Texas, Texas, Colorado, Texas, Colorado, Wyoming.☺️

Truthful Tuesday: September 17th, 2024

SYW 9-16-24

by rugby843, posted in Uncategorized

Here are this week’s questions:

1.  Do you believe in Love at First Sight? Definitely ❤️


2.  How did you meet your partner? (I know I have asked this before) I worked at USACRREL and he was a GI there.


Alternative question for my single readers:
Do you live alone or do you have a pet for company? I do live alone, widowed in 2013 and no pets.


3.  How long have you been a couple?
Alternative question: how old is your pet?


4.  Did you marry in a church or other religious place, or somewhere else? We married in 1966 in a small church, reception in basement😀


Alternative question: have you had more than one pet at a time? When our kids were little we had three inside cats and two outside dogs.

Gratitude: I am grateful today I had a trip to WM for groceries, but bought too many snack items and fixed a Taylor Swift book display that some weirdos had turned backwards and put Bibles in front of them all 🙄😳😡🤯🫤

Share Your World 16th September

And so it begins…😡

by rugby843, posted in Uncategorized

We were at WM today and passed this display of books. The photo shows that I had just finished turning all the books around the way they should be presented.

When we saw the display someone had turned all the books backwards and put bibles in front of them…WTF? My daughter took the Bibles all off and put them back on the shelves where they belonged.

I turned all the Swift books around. It’s bad enough to be accosted by groups of women, preaching to you, or wanting you to join some cult or telling you about God or Jesus, or whatever, that is bad enough, but going around to book displays for Pete sake, Taylor Swift? that’s just ridiculous.

If people don’t wake up and stop this nonsense, it’s going to be life like the Handmaid’s Tale 😳😡

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Winnie’s Woe

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Poor Winnie, she stood right outside the door, hoping the sun would cure her, aches and pains and a sallow complexion might have been a product of her melancholy. She was physically exhausted as night after night she watched the moon climbing into the empty sky, and then fitfully dreamed of lost love. Winnie’s days were long and tiring and certainly disappointing. There was no one to help her get out of her slump. It was affecting her appearance and wrinkles started forming around her constant frowning lips. One night she decided to make a wish on a falling star, silently pleading for a happier life. The next day she decided to make a change by herself because it seemed no one else would help her. She got up early, walked down the path near the beach and on a whim, ran into the surf. It was invigorating and she even screamed to the waves, “I’m ready!” She had a sudden burst of excitement and then ran out and lay on the sand. She cared not that she was soaking wet and gathering sand on her clothes, even looked up to the sun, smiling.

“Ready for what?”A deep voice asked, and right then, Winnie didn’t feel woeful at all.

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OLWG# 383- Rigmor @ The Met