The Versesmith

dVerse -  Open Link Night #396   You can link up one poem of your choice below or write to the optional mini prompt which we are offering today. Consider the opening line from Edna St Vincent Millay’s poem “Love is Not All.” source “Love is not all: it is not meat nor drink nor slumber nor a roof against the rain." I read her words, then lay the book, spine up on my lap, and wonder. No, “ love is not all …” I found it once. Lost it, and never found another. Yet I do not hunger nor thirst for love, nor lose sleep, alone in my bed. If I lay awake at night, it’s to hear the rain upon my roof. No, “ love is not all …” It’s merely a part of one sort of whole. Which leaves another sort of hole when it parts. ©20 25 Lisa Smith Nelson. All Rights Reserved  

 dVerse #235 : Take Your Poem For a Whirl Around the Block  Ready to give it a whirl? Here’s how to let your whirl unfurl:  Just pen us a poem of precisely 44 words, not counting the title, and using some form of the word whirl. My head in a whirl,  dizzying, what was I doing again? My mind wandering, lost, wondering where I was going? My brain in a fog, confused, didn’t I already write that line? If we all gained an extra hour,  why does it feel inversed? ©2025 Lisa Smith Nelson. All Rights Reserved