April Lyrids

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Whyquain – Beginnings and Endings

Whyquain A form invented on AllPoetry.com by Gloria Kim, aka Porphery.  It is a single verse of five iambic tetrameter lines in monorhyme which answers some asked or un-asked question. POEM why do we think in clean, straight linesor in a curve of some design?reach points - circles can't determinethoughts unhinged, in shapes redefinedAre we …

How I wish…

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Showers

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Ideas Ebb and Flow – from Eugi’s Causerie

Eugenia's brilliant response to Reena's Xploration Challenge #225 migration of words strewn beyond aspiration rework in progress https://amanpan.com/2022/04/09/ideas-ebb-and-flow/

Destinations

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Kill-joy

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Wisdom

Enjoy Eugenia's response to Xploration Challenge #221 https://amanpan.com/wisdom/

Still life

Still photographs are out. Videos are in. Friends, prospective employers, partners all want to see the vibrancy of a personality, not a frozen mood clicked from wrong angles. But this prompt took me back by two years. The lockdown had just started, and I enrolled in a charcoal drawing class online.  Placing still objects at …

Confused

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