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"Christine de Pizan Writing in Her Room." From an illustration in a handwritten book she wrote, c. 1410-1414. She commissioned the illustrations. Beneath the Surface She toiledcountless joy-hourswithin the scriptorium,fingers deft as stepping birdsetching words on vellumbetween lapis flowersand scarlet-draped saints-she labored to create a gilded keyto life-mystery, her sole childshe kept hidden there-a xenolithwaiting...
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Rewrite, rules bent.Invite to consent.Aright, we dissent.A fight? Ambivalent.Recite and relent.Acolytes give assent.Respite. We fall content. Despite our diffidence,some incite resistance. Alas, sans consequence.Despot... acquiescence. Dost we protest too much?Nay, methinks we protest too little. dVerse Quadrille challenge: protest.
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A stone is a stone.it's reached its final form,it's shrunk, it hasn't grownor gathered any moss, as long as it keeps rolling down an incline of some sort, unaltered, hard, solid, limestone, sandstone, marble, granite, a part of the Earth's crust.Kim M. Russell, 21st April 2025 It's Quadrille Monday at the dVerse Poets Pub, with...
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The Prayer of the FirstAstronaut Poet There is no Wifi in space and so I send my words out into the Universe hoping that each syllable will emit a ray somehow connected to all my other syllables, and if quantum entanglement is right, they will one day find each other again. For the diverse Poets...
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