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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: Love
MARIA’S DILEMMA
I’m cheating on this second post for The Sunday Whirl’s wordle #33, http://sundaywhirl.wordpress.com/2011/12/04/wordle-33/, with the words: amorous, subtle, inkling, laden, genuflect, vanilla, mission, bark, crusted, precipice, December and trivet. I thought they were the most difficult words yet and the … Continue reading
Posted in A Wording Whirl of Sundays, Free Verse, Life, Love, Poetry, Religion, Un-rhyming
Tagged A Wording Whirl of Sundays, free verse, life, love, Poetry, religion, un-rhyming
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WHEN WE TALK
The music for each of the nocturnes can be found at http://www.tropicalglen.com/Jukebox/Genre/Classical/ChannelClassical.html Nocturne #4 Written to: Gounod – Ave Maria (Meditation on Prelude No. 1 of Bach) WHEN WE TALK by Mike Patrick When we talk at night our voices … Continue reading
Posted in Free Verse, Love, Music, Night, Nocturne, Poetry, Un-rhyming, Unprompted
Tagged free verse, love, music, night, nocturne, Poetry, un-rhyming, unprompted
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EVENING’S SILENCE
Nocturne #2 EVENING’S SILENCE Written to Chopin – Nocturne in B flat minor Op.9 No.1 by Mike Patrick In evening’s silence we tiptoe from the house and leave mankind’s lights behind. In the upper field, we sit on a wooden … Continue reading
Posted in Free Verse, Love, Nature, Night, Nocturne, Poetry, Un-rhyming, Unprompted
Tagged free verse, love, nature, night, nocturne, Poetry, un-rhyming, unprompted
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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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THIS OLD HOUSE
Viv in France wrote a poem yesterday, http://vivinfrance.wordpress.com/2011/11/20/changes-for-dverse-poets/, that haunted me from the moment I read it. I tried to ignore it. I tried to work on my novel, but it refused to go away. To truly understand the poem, … Continue reading
Posted in Family, Free Verse, Life, Love, Narrative Poem, Poetry, Un-rhyming, Unprompted
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I PLAY NO MORE
I’ve been so busy trying to write an impossible novel, I almost missed one of the Welsh poetry forms from Imaginary Garden with real Toads, http://withrealtoads.blogspot.com/2011/11/i-gymryd-anadl.html. This week they want a toddaid. A toddaid is a stanza comprising a ten-syllable … Continue reading
Posted in Aging, Love, Poetry, Real Toads, Rhyming, Toddaid
Tagged love, Poetry, Real Toads, rhyming, toddaid
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THE DRAWER
Imaginary Garden with Real Toads, http://withrealtoads.blogspot.com/2011/11/memory-bowl.html, challenges us to place a few items in a memory bowl, make a poem out of it and perhaps include a photograph of the bowl. I don’t have much of an artist’s eye for … Continue reading
Posted in Free Verse, Love, Poetry, Real Toads
Tagged free verse, love, Poetry, Real Toads
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THE GOLDEN YEAR
Margo Roby, in her Tuesday Tryouts, gave us a visual prompt, a painting of Edward Hopper’s Cape Cod (see below). All we need to do is write a character sketch about what we see in the painting. Oddly enough, the … Continue reading
Posted in Aging, Family, Free Verse, Life, Love, Narrative Poem, Poetry, Tuesday Tryouts, Un-rhyming
Tagged aging, family, free verse, life, love, narrative poem, Poetry, Tuesday Tryouts, un-rhyming
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SHE TASTED OF LIME
Margo is being cantankerous again. For her Tuesday Tryouts, http://margoroby.wordpress.com/2011/11/01/a-lime-is-a-lime-or-is-it-tuesday-tryouts/, she wants a four-quatrain poem of any type one wants to write, rhyming or un-rhyming, with no adjectives, adverbs or similes, but it has to contain the word “lime” at … Continue reading
Posted in Free Verse, Love, Poetry, Tuesday Tryouts, Un-rhyming
Tagged free verse, love, Poetry, Tuesday Tryouts, un-rhyming
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LOVE AT FIRST SIGHT
It was a cruel joke when I read wordle 28 in The Sunday Whirl, http://sundaywhirl.wordpress.com/2011/10/30/216/, and found the weekly dozen taken from my own last week’s poem. I can tell you, it was not love at first sight when I … Continue reading
Posted in A Wording Whirl of Sundays, Crime, Free Verse, Life, Lost Love, Love, Narrative Poem, Poetry, Un-rhyming
Tagged A Wording Whirl of Sundays, crime, free verse, life, love, narrative poem, Poetry, un-rhyming
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