Here’s my response to the prompt #embark - thanks to our host of #vss365 Whispers @whisperingpoems.bsky.social

The painting is ‘Coign of Vantage’ (1895) by Sir Lawrence Alma-Tadema (1895-1912)

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Here’s a #triolet for the prompt #stormy - thanks to our host of #vss365 Whispers @whisperingpoems

Photo my own

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Here’s my response to the prompt #conflict - thanks to our host of #vss365 Whispers @whisperingpoems

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Here’s my response to the prompt #marvel - thanks to our host of #vss365 Whispers @whisperingpoems.bsky.social

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Here’s a Petrarchan sonnet on the prompt #escape - thanks to our host of #vss365 Whispers @whisperingpoems.bsky.social

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Here are two ‘pi-ku’ poems for #fragmentsfriday with @blackboughpoetry.bsky.social

I discovered pi-ku reading Merril D Smith’s blog @merrildsmith.bsky.social – the form follows the number for π, 3.14, and this determines the number of syllables per line.

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Here’s a #triolet for the prompt #sustain - thanks to our host of #vss365 Whispers @whisperingpoems

Image is ‘Moonlight over the Sea, with Distant Cliffs‘ (1796–7) by JMW Turner

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Here’s my response to the prompt #autumnal - thanks to our host of #vss365 Verde Mar @tetrametracall1.bsky.social

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Here's 67 words responding to the #coast theme @TopTweetTuesday. Thanks, as ever, to EIC @matthewmcsmith.bsky.social

My photo, taken on #Cleethorpes beach looks west towards the Haile Sand Fort.

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Not having written any formal poetry for some time, here’s a #triolet on the theme of #sanguine - thanks to our host of #vss365 Verde Mar @tetrametracall1.bsky.social

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Here’s my response to the prompt #esoteric - thanks to our host of #vss365 Verde Mar @tetrametracall1.bsky.social

The painting, ‘The Sorceress’ (1913), is by John William Waterhouse (1849-1917)

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Here’s my response to the prompt #eloqeunce - thanks to our host of #vss365 Verde Mar @tetrametracall1.bsky.social

The painting shows a detail from Laus Veneris (1873-75) by Sir Edward Burne-Jones

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For #fragmentsfriday from @blackboughpoetry.bsky.social
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Here’s my response to the prompt #naivete - thanks to our host of #vss365 Verde Mar @tetrametracall1.bsky.social

Photo by Masjid MABA on Unsplash

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Here’s my response to the prompt #melange - thanks to our host of #vss365 Verde Mar @tetrametracall1.bsky.social

Photo by Liu T. Corriveau on Unsplash

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Here’s my response to the prompt #intuition - thanks to our host of #vss365 Verde Mar @tetrametracall1.bsky.social
Photo by Matteo Vistocco on Unsplash
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Here’s my response to the prompt #moonglade - thanks to our host of #vss365 Verde Mar @tetrametracall1.bsky.social
Photo by Irakli Pichkhaia on Unsplash

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For @TopTweetTuesday. Thanks for hosting @matthewmcsmith.bsky.social
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Here’s my response to the prompt #palimpsest - thanks to our host of #vss365 Verde Mar @tetrametracall1.bsky.social

Image by DC Studio on Magnific

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Here’s my response to the prompt #adroit - thanks to our host of #vss365 Verde Mar @tetrametracall1.bsky.social
Photo by Chris Liverani on Unsplash
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