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erbiage words from the poemetry unit skip to content erbiage words from the poemetry unit menu contact about index featured authors august 20 2026 erbiage daily bread how is today the twentieth when yesterday this child drew breath time s hairsbreadth they won t go back to cities east stay grind the flour and cast the yeast breadwinners square counties a road every mile the great plains now mosaic tile breadbasket wild once were texas longhorn we insist on being forlorn small breadbox august aster petals unfurl under downy blankets to curl tea shortbread to meet the bar in the pub tonight we look at the compound word verse at first this seemed too difficult but as i read it and some of my fellow poets this managed to come out i did write the couplets first and added the third lines later and also rearranged the stanzas a bit what do you think mtb compounding the stem dversepoets com share this share on x opens in new window x share on facebook opens in new window facebook like loading august 6 2026 erbiage tainted by language for meeting the bar we look at negativa in poems https dversepoets com 2026 08 06 mtb just say no again this may be a bit overindulgent but it was quite interesting and swept me along a bit lots of threads seemed to gather here no magritte but it does look like one is there any image that can possible avoid such treachery if we really want trouble we could say ceci n est pas un poeme but isn t that a similar treachery exposed on sidewalk cafes late at night are images of imagination any less treacherous or does the lack of resemblance to any thing allow it to begin in innocence no word here is an image yet why not is there any actual ontological distinction between poem and painting some poets have said or rather writ that there is something painters have an easier time portraying than poets this is not philology these are words like looptid like street signs placed on desert parcels that were never built this is not the recirculated citations of sapphic oratorios nor is it anything more than the babble of babies who can only grasp its depth before their minds are corrupted with language how long can you look at the grass for after how many hours does it become interesting there we have found the road again the way to the mountain leads away from the mountain what lion may sniff at this poem while it sleeps share this share on x opens in new window x share on facebook opens in new window facebook like loading august 4 2026 erbiage helen lived to 93 here s one for the prompt at https poetsandstorytellersunited blogspot com 2026 07 friday writings 237 html m 1 to use a book title in your poem i chose a book i haven t read it s been a prolific evening hope there s something in it here s the poem on earth we are briefly gorgeous and so quickly does that fade we had such beautiful weather the other day i couldn t help myself but to exclaim it so to a fellow human passing by his reply perplexed i hope it lasts i felt sorry for the chap he was missing it though it was all around him why wish for what will not come to pass the sun may shine strong into the blistering nines the rain may fall light but long or all at once and fill the drainpipes rejoice make little paper boats to float along the roadside gutter the deluge too shall pass on by beauty is so fickle and she ll keep you tickled just enough to keep you pickled and falling after her but soon you ll fade develop spots and bulgy veins make up only goes so far it s time to see who you really are and that time too is so short on earth we are only briefly gorgeous 20260804 share this share on x opens in new window x share on facebook opens in new window facebook like loading august 4 2026 erbiage a song of a single word oh to choose but one of our hundred and seventy one thousand children can we stop there like a red octagon or needs we must look beyond the chalkwhite arrows to what is signified the extent of our ego shines where we dared label love how bold how brash and how so often words fail falter before reaching that glorious grandeur to stuff that into this little sack of a word no wonder we lose sight of it so often despite it s all pervading nature so when someone like that is encountered love more when the car stalls or the tree falls on it love more in fire famine flood or the way your spouse slips under your skin just love more meet anger with love even in my deepest fear that she would leave me abandoned alone worthless open up heart love more it s terrifying how vast it becomes deep and high and wide beyond continents moons and starships a pins head all the other words fit inside it all the other words are made of it it s a wonder that we needed another and yet if you really look eric your heart needs only love it s your mind that spills the scrabble bag and gushes on about it shhh om post inspired by a venerable prompt https poetryblogroll blogspot com 2016 08 poets united midweek motif song of html m 1 which i didn t notice until it was writ here s their current iteration https poetsandstorytellersunited blogspot com 2026 07 friday writings 237 html m 1 share this share on x opens in new window x share on facebook opens in new window facebook like loading august 4 2026 august 4 2026 erbiage a butterfly but no there is an amphitheater in the land of uqbar that would have been lost to oblivion save for a horse who would browse on grouse in the orchestra there remains only a small fragment of a playbill on rice paper remarkable for its survival most is illegible all that can be discerned is ial guest star the duke of burgundy as the gatekeeper 20260804 for the poets pub d verse poetics but no a butterfly dversepoets com share this share on x opens in new window x share on facebook opens in new window facebook like loading august 4 2026 erbiage mag i haibun monday at the pub about journeys well ive had a few mostly in my own country which is rather large and while i do love travel theres a more important landscape that needs mapping out join the fun https dversepoets com 2026 08 03 haibun monday 8 3 26 journeying 20260804 i would move about the world like a drunken boat or really more like a dry leaf going where the wind lead sometimes the winds of chance were generous and brought me to interesting things places or people but there was no overarching plan no real goal save to enjoy the ride needless to say there wasn t much of a career i didn t need to play any games or so i thought then perceiving them as not real so i carried on and tried to drown in experience later the journeys would become planned with a destination or things to see and do along the way far flung cousins stoked this fire with weddings and reunions and such there is a hollowness in me as i write this though and the common thread is in the mirror not regarding me and perhaps it must be this way a moving out a cutting of apron strings a plan for though i can leave a lot of baggage behind furniture and old pictures of family i never met what always finds its way into my case is me it is a basic human function to invent meaning and apply it to the world i have trouble valuing that though because it feels contrived no matter where or how far the way out is in cradled in berth seeking in sand and sea the rock to stand on share this share on x opens in new window x share on facebook opens in new window facebook like loading july 31 2026 erbiage dreadful fright oh fuck you you unfounded fear that absolute sheer terror i feel abandonment that s a prophet you may come to pass this is my may 18 1980 against which i have girt my loins honed my blade and calloused my heart how many truman s and johnson s have i smothered lakes filled and streams steamed bridges burnt all to cinders all to allay a fear that never comes to pass kept in this lock lidded cooker done my best to bury it when it blows all sense and lessons and mantras are gone all that remains is a meatbag filled with terror paralysis cowering receding fleeing hiding ashamed swallow ignore pretend try to somehow carry on and function anyway can i let that fear tune me serious focus and perhaps emit an attestation a declaration the manifesto of a me astride dreadful fright open link night at the pub https dversepoets com 2026 07 30 openlinknight 412 come join bub share this share on x opens in new window x share on facebook opens in new window facebook like loading july 29 2026 erbiage beyond focus vision the world is so full so rich so delicious in its complexity our minds so vast and masterful yet cannot grasp the simultaneous enormity and infinitesimality of it all it is here where the word world sidewalk ends the artist may draw on and draw on for eyes do not eat words the same way they consume images you with your vision saw the sun set captured the silver threads of galestorm rain draw our attention to the glowing edges of leaves rabbitbellies lion interrupted twighlight horizons and in the eyes of beasts thank you for these maps the pen performed for the minds eye the brush for the eyes mind though both yearn across to cross the cross the gap between us these two distilleries together produce a spirt closer twogether than single malt this intoxication brings a focus which excludes so much i am not the first poet to sip at your taps wallace and sylvia apollinaire will your lush jungle painting return guillaume s gift and be my tombstone for the prompt i hope the formatting will hold word world sidewalk are meant to all be valid options for that spot same with across to cross and the cross https dversepoets com 2026 07 28 launch light and truth of painting the artwork of henri rousseau as inspiration interesting getting entwined with the intersection of painting and poetry how their differences reach beyond each other my fav https en wikipedia org wiki the_sleeping_gypsy media file la_boh c3 a9mienne_endormie jpg also referenced this one https en wikipedia org wiki tiger_in_a_tropical_storm media file surprised rousseau jpg and https en wikipedia org wiki tiger_in_a_tropical_storm media file surprised rousseau jpg share this share on x opens in new window x share on facebook opens in new window facebook like loading july 29 2026 erbiage uncaring is no balm can there be one single thing that we needs must increase how long have we lain hidden here pretending trying vainly to dial it back to at best a dull throbbing ache i care not i ll cry but dont be fooled tis a lie 20260729 for yesterdays prompt at the poets pub our very own form the quadrille 44 words exactly q 252 quadrilling without a care in the world dversepoets com share this share on x opens in new window x share on facebook opens in new window facebook like loading july 24 2026 july 24 2026 erbiage ballad of the tree the sea and me what of the tree re mains amid the keel boards and the decking what of the sea remains beneath the snow white crystal salts what of the me remains when the ego burns away and all the man i 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