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The Poet’s Quill is my outlet for the most beautiful form of writing. I hope the Quill becomes a home for like-minded friends who find beauty in the written word and are willing to share it. Along with original poetry; comments, questions and suggestions are most welcome.
Mike Patrick
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Category Archives: Death
IMMATERIAL SOULS?
Kenia, in her Wednesday Challenge for Imaginary Garden with Real Toads, http://withrealtoads.blogspot.com/2011/11/kenias-wednesday-challenge_30.html, challenges us to write a metaphysical poem from one of the metaphysical questions linked in her posting. I chose question #48: Do humans involve immaterial souls? IMMATERIAL SOULS? … Continue reading
Posted in Death, Free Verse, Love, Poetry, Real Toads, Un-rhyming
Tagged death, free verse, love, Poetry, Real Toads, un-rhyming
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NOT A HERO REMEMBERED
The Sunday Whirl, http://sundaywhirl.wordpress.com/, gave us an interesting mix for Wordle 29. I’ve written enough horror for a while, so I drew on history for this one, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Albert_Woolson. Now, I feel so old. The words were: dappled, piercing, shell, air, … Continue reading
Posted in A Wording Whirl of Sundays, Aging, Celebrity, Death, Elegy, Free Verse, Life, Old Times, Poetry, Un-rhyming, War, Warriors
Tagged A Wording Whirl of Sundays, aging, celebrity, death, elegy, free verse, life, old times, Poetry, war, warriors
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STEP FORWARD
Imaginary Gardens with real Toads, http://withrealtoads.blogspot.com/2011/10/da-iawn.html, asks us to write a cywydd llosgyrnog: a Welsh poem of any number of stanzas. Each stanza has a strict meter, containing two eight-syllable couplets and two seven-syllable interlacing rhymes on the third and … Continue reading
Posted in Cywydd Llosgyrnog, Death, Freedom, Mixed Meter, Poetry, Real Toads, War, Warriors
Tagged cywydd llosgyrnog, death, freedom, mixed meter, Poetry, Real Toads, war, warriors
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SINGING ON MURKLE
The Sunday Whirl’s wordle #27, http://sundaywhirl.wordpress.com/2011/10/23/wordle-27/, contained the words: rusted-out, nods, beginning, glaze, stretched, ragged, straighten, rolling, bridges, clouds, blade, and drag. Because it’s so close to Halloween, I let my imagination run wild. SINGING ON MURKLE by Mike Patrick … Continue reading
Posted in A Wording Whirl of Sundays, Crime, Death, Fear, Free Verse, Horror, Narrative Poem, Poetry, Un-rhyming
Tagged A Wording Whirl of Sundays, crime, death, fear, free verse, horror, narrative poem, Poetry, un-rhyming
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GRAVEYARD
Janet, at Another Porch, http://anotherporch.blogspot.com/2011/09/tiny-breeze.html, went walkabout with her camera. She placed a collage of photos from her walk on her post. Clicking on the collage will enlarge it somewhat, enough to see the birth of this poem. GRAVEYARD by … Continue reading
Posted in Aging, Death, Free Verse, Nature, Old Times, Organic, Poetry, Un-rhyming
Tagged aging, death, free verse, nature, old times, organic, Poetry, un-rhyming
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FLOUNDERING
A combination of things came together today in order to create this poem. I’m reading a book, The Poetry Home Repair Manual, by Ted Kooser, and just finished a chapter where he asked a question on how important a role … Continue reading
Posted in A Wording Whirl of Sundays, Aging, Death, Depression, Free Verse, Lost Love, Poetry, Un-rhyming
Tagged A Wording Whirl of Sundays, aging, death, depression, free verse, lost love, un-rhyming
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LOVE’S GREAT COST
Did you every lose yourself in a prompt, or have one haunt you? The Friday picture prompt from Imaginary Garden with Real Toads http://withrealtoads.blogspot.com/2011/09/picture-prompt-friday.html, was one of those for me. I glanced at it on Friday after perusing a nautical … Continue reading
Posted in Death, Iambic, Lost Love, Mixed Meter, Narrative Poem, Real Toads, Rhyming
Tagged death, iambic, lost love, mixed meter, narrative poem, Poetry, Real Toads, rhyming
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IF I SHOULD DIE, THINK ONLY THIS OF ME
Prompt #17 for Carry On Tuesday, http://carryontuesdayprompt.blogspot.com/, was to use all or part of “If I should die, think only this of me” (the first line of Rupert Brooks poem, The Soldier). I simply used it as the title of … Continue reading
Posted in Aging, Carry On Tuesday, Death, Family, Freedom, Iambic, Mixed Meter, Organic, Poetry, Religion, Rhyming
Tagged aging, Carry On Tuesday, death, family, freedom, iambic, mixed meter, organic, Poetry, religion, rhyming
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THE CARDBOARD KING
I’m a little slow getting this one posted. The View From the Side http://viewfromtheside.wordpress.com/2011/08/05/weekend-theme-32/ prompt #32 didn’t excite me when I first saw it. What can be more boring than “cardboard.” Only a couple of themes came to mind, and … Continue reading
CASTLE KEEP
For me, the words in The Sunday Whirl’s, http://sundaywhirl.wordpress.com/, wordle 15 came alive. While reading them, I had a remarkably detailed visual image. Oh, how I wish I had the delicate writing talents of Harry Nicholson or Earlybird so I … Continue reading
Posted in A Wording Whirl of Sundays, Death, Fear, Iambic, Old Times, Organic, Poetry, Religion, Rhyming, Tetrameter, Warriors
Tagged A Wording Whirl of Sundays, death, fear, iambic, organic, Poetry, religion, rhyming, tetrameter, warriors
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