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Previous posts

• As You Like It
• Dirty Love
• Pastimes of Peace
• The Peace Dividend
• The Black Car
• The Pill
• Well, They Are Gone . . .
• The Inimitable
• Building on Byron and Keats
• From a Likeness to a Delicacy
• What It Was Like
• The Spirit of Collaboration
• The Beautiful and Sublime
• The Triumph of the Epigraph
• Heresy and Quarrel
• The Heretics
• Word Golf
• May I Finish What You Started?
• Painterly Poems
• Quick Meditations
• Simplicity
• A Three-Way Mirror
• What I Wanted To Be When I Grew Up
• Greater Than the Sum of Lust and Duty
• Building a Sonnet
• You Weren’t Serious When You Said
• Addressing the Universe (or One Aspect of It)
• The Potency of Cocktails
• The Chill
• No Entry
• Leaves of Presence
• Under the Dark Marquee
• “I Stop Somewhere Waiting for You”
• But There’s No Knot for Me
• No, I Am Not ...
• A Job of Work
• In Handbags, Purses, and Wallets
• A Liszt Poem
• After Labor Day
• The Fake Apology
• Young Lycidas
• “Yet Once More, O Ye Laurels ... ”
• Ode to Woody Allen
• Play It, Sam
• A Snifter and a Hoodie
• Good-For-You Chocolate
• Control Panel
• You Choose
• Looking for Line One
• Title Search
• Reasons to Live
• You Must Get Drunk
• Prompting a Poem, Dreaming of a Drink
• The Judgment of Paris
• A Familiar Public Place
• Walt Whitman’s Manly Diet
• The Pen Name Is Mightier than the Word
• Behind the Curtain
• T. S. Eliot: Still Undefeated
• “April Is the Cruelest Month, [Because]”
• Let the Renga Reign
• This Week’s Haiku to Become Next Week’s Tanka
• Spring Forward
• Galloping Ghosts
• Heaven, Hope, or a Ghostly Sight
• Papa Joins Mama
• Blues in the Night
• Ruby Tuesday
• A Break with Tradition
• The Mood of Doom, Where Guns Are Snug
• Erase and Change
• The Unmasking
• A Plot Twist–or Two
• Looking Ahead
• The Rules of Engagement
• Bliss is Momentary in the Mind
• Terms of Interment
• From Bouquet to Wreath
• Are the Words of the Prophets Written on Prison Walls?
• The Key That Confirms the Lock
• Caged But Free ...
• Darkness Visible
• Midnight Champagne
• Wouldn’t It Be Loverly?
• Uniformity
• Let’s Do It Again
• Three-Piece Cento With Extra Pants
• Clothwebs and Cobwebs
• Philosophy of Clothes
• A Hand of Frightening Lies
• Snake-Eye
• Humbling Back
• Beautiful Land
• Legato Dreams
• Appaloosa Sky
• Antipodal Star
• The Trip Begins
• Making Groceries
• Product Placement
• Unfinished Business
• Becoming an Obstructionist
• “Conscience versus Consequence”
• Poems and Secret Messages
• “Homage to Auden”
• “In my end is my beginning”
• Like Dancing Down the Aisle
• Similes Are Like Detours—or Shortcuts
• Ashes, Ashes, All Fall Down …
• “Nobody Heard Him”
• Cento, Stanza Two
• Our Crowd-Sourced Cento: Stanza One
• Let’s Assemble a Cento
• Wind and Ice
• The Two-Line Poem
• Complete with “Compline”
• Melodious Song
• Mary’s Tip
• Stanza 5: “Six Options”
• Sestina: Stanza 4
• “Her Winsome Style”
• Chemosabe
• Winning Stanza Refuses to Cave
• Let’s Write a Sestina
• Airport Buoyancy
• When Two Strangers Meet
• Hot Toddy
• Rhyme Sandwich
• Sense of an Ending
• The Last Shall Be First
• Of Ciphers—In the Brain
• Finish What Dickinson Started
• Tara’s Theme
• The Shortest Story Ever Told
• The Winning Couplet Grows (into a Sonnet Ghazal)
• The Couplet
• The Way of All Whim
• Diss All Cumbrances
• Let’s Be Misunderstood
• A Whim of Irony
• Old Acrostic, New Acrostic
• Who’s Waldo?
• The Tanka in Toto
• This Week’s Haiku, Next Week’s Tanka
• The August Haiku
• Help Us Write a Sonnet: The Title
• Help Us Write a Sonnet: Line Fourteen
• Help Us Write a Sonnet: Line Thirteen
• Help Us Write a Sonnet: Line Twelve
• Help Us Write a Sonnet: Line Eleven
• Help Us Write a Sonnet: Line Ten
• Help Us Write a Sonnet: Lines Eight and Nine
• Help Us Write a Sonnet: Line Seven
• Help Us Write a Sonnet: Line Six
• Help Us Write a Sonnet: Line Five
• Help Us Write a Sonnet: Line Four
• Help Us Write a Sonnet: Line Three
• Help Us Write a Sonnet: Line Two
• Help Us Write a Sonnet: Line One