dVerse’s Quadrille

This week in dVerse’s bar, Mish is the host for the Quadrille and we are to create a poem in 44 words utilising the word ‘ice’ in any form https://dversepoets.com/2023/01/23/quadrille-168/ I decided to attempt a Golden Shovel poem using the beginning of Joni Mitchell’s song ‘Both Sides Now’ – beautiful song, and a beautiful creative

W3 – Golden Shovel Poem

Hello ‘Weavers’, can you believe it, this is the 17th W3 prompt hosted by David (see link below), this week’s POW is David himself with his fantastic poem entitled ‘‘Straits, or: Expanses”. I am so pleased too, that David’s guidelines are to write a Golden Shovel poem from one or more of his lines. I

Inspired to write a Golden Shovel Poem

‘Start Close In’, a poem by poet and author, David Whyte, was an inspiration please watch and hear him recite it, it is beautiful “The poet lives and writes at the frontier between deep internal experience and the revelations of the outer world. There is no going back once this frontier has been reached; a