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MLMM Sunday

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This Sunday, I would like you to create about what August means to you. Please feel free to create in media that inspires you. Likewise, please feel free to share previously created work that touches on this topic.

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This year we have had a hard rain and thunderstorm almost every day this month, quite unusual for our area.

surprising downpour
stripping stems of their beauty
petals float away
perhaps a child will catch them
smile and relish in nature

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Sunday Confessionals : Augustine

SoCS 8-24-24

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Haptic as in touch controls on my phone. I never mastered this and even using a fingerprint takes forever…in my opinion. I am an impatient person, that’s probably why my writings are short – back to the fingerprint touch – it says your touch is too light, or too hard and getting the edges is a pita! And swiping and others also a pain. So haptic? Didactic.
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The Friday Reminder and Prompt for #SoCS Aug. 24, 2024

dVerse Poets – Triversen

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Here are the basic rules:

*Three-line stanzas (Tercets). Each tercet is a sentence.

  • The tercets are grammatical, and they are broken by breaths,
    the accents and rhythms of normal speech—two to four beats per line. Unrhymed

The ideal length is 18 lines or 6 stanzas, but even Williams did not always follow that rule.
Ideally, each line is two to four beats, or stressed syllable (not total syllables). Williams disliked iambic pentameter, but others have written Triversen poems with more beats.

So, for today’s challenge, write a Triversen poem, following the rules above–at least make your poem unrhymed tercets with each stanza making a sentence. It can be on any subject. But I know sometimes it’s easier with some sort of theme. One suggestion might be to look around wherever you are and write about something in the room (as in Williams’ wallpaper), or write a poem about the view from your window.

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RED

The colored stripes,

a bright color scheme

with red, red, the base

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A curtain’s valance with

ruffled edges, and

red , red stripes

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Atop the window, seen

red, red, takes the eye

with gold and orange stripes

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Table cloth also has

red, red and other stripes,

with softer colored hues

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Kitchen has red, red

towels, oven pads, plus

small appliances too

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My mother loved red,

red, also my choice, a loving

reminder with color.

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Meeting the Bar: Triversen