"We can hear in it our song"
Dana Street, Berkeley, CA
by Charles Entrekin

"Reaching back into the closet of recent memory"
Laguna Beach
by Gail Entrekin

"This woman who alphabetizes all our books"
For Gail on Her Birthday
by Charles Entrekin

"Keeps me safe from the deep night"
Ask Me
by Gail Entrekin

"A yellow moon is out"
Love Poem for Gail
by Charles Entrekin

"What's left at the end of the day"
The Business Man
by Gail Entrekin

Bouquet of Flowers ~ Odilon Redon

"Your arms felt like home"
Vacancy
by Annie Jenkin

"A seagull circles white as seafoam kissing the shore"
encircling joy
by Michael Escoubas

"My mother discovered my notebooks with initialled hearts"
Lingering Latency
by Claire Scott

"Once, when they were young, she tried to make him dance"
Mrs Gilhooly, Dancing
by Neil Leadbeater

"Let our eyes hear the stories the dancers tell"
Let’s Switch to Dance
by Wilda Morris

"In love, we’re pulled to sacrifices"
Where Love Takes Us
by Gail Denham

"The slow lyrical journey"
Easy Sunday
by Mark Fleisher

"My heart is as awakened from the deepest sleep"
Two Women
by MFrostDelaney

"River stories fell from your lips like glacial waters"
For John
by Gloria Viglione

Sunflowers ~ Claude Monet

The A to Zed of Love!

The piece must be about love or romance.
You may pluralize or add gerunds or add or
eliminate  past tense.


afternoon
blushed
catastrophe 
diary
eyes
flabbergasted
gift
heart
it
just
know
leather
memory
nuzzled
our
place
quail
roof
surprise
thunder
upstairs
very
windsock
X-ray
year
any word beginning with a "Z"

"There is a day in my memory"
The Red Barn
by Sharmagne Leland-St. John

"Pages filled with secret things"
Love’s Vivid Transparence 
by Michael Escoubas

"Your blue eyes were etched in the diary of my heart"
Love's Timeless Journey
by Mark Fleisher

"An unspoken memory"
If Only
by Marcel A. Duclos

"A place I'd never dreamed I'd ever see"
It Was All a Dream
by Vaughn Neeld

"Barest wisp of your fingertips"
The Life-Changer
by Melanie Claire Blinn Eulberg

"Afternoon came slowly"
The Diary
by Gloria Viglione

"As we nuzzled there on a blanket"
Winds of Love
by Gay Williford

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Click here for the Word prompt & Ekphrastic Prompt for March 2021

Violet & Iris ~ Vincent van Gogh

"Honeymoon"
Haiku
by Charlotte Digregorio

The Bouquet ~ André Dunoyer de Segonzac

"My dreams"
Senryũ
by Charlotte Digregorio

Lilacs and Peonies ~ Suzanne Valadon

"She'd miss the long walks above the sea"
Malibu
by Sharmagne Leland-St. John

"Whispery softness of silk"
Interlude
by Mary Jo Balistreri

"I want the sky airbrushed pink with blossoms"
Desire
by Kate Kingston

"Her heart holds her back"
Love in the Garden
by Maralee Gerke

"An image in a frame"
Framing
by Susan Holm

"The woods are deep and wild"
The Dream
by Carole Bugge

Pink Azaela Chinese Vase ~ William Merrit Chase

"What it takes to be kind"
Love Construction
by Candace Armstrong

Poppies in a Vase ~ Pierre Bonnard

Poems from Snowdonia
Selected by Amy Wack
reviewed by Neil Leadbeater

Listen
by Steven Cramer
by Michael Escoubas

The Lesson of Plums
by Lois Parker Edstrom
by Michael Escoubas

Wild roses and Irises ~ John La Farge

Publisher: Highland Park Poetry
The Majesty of Trees: Poets Respond Root, Trunk and Branch
Co-Editors: Jennifer Dotson and Mary Beth Bretzlauf

Publisher: Kelsay Books
Color and Line: Poems by Carole Mertz

Publisher: Moonrise Press
Alphabet of Birds—Stories from Home and Garden
by Toti O’Brien

Publisher: Saddle Road Press
Face, A Memoir
by Marcia Meier

A bouquet of flowers in a crystal vase ~ Nicolaes Van Veerendael

Chill out with a
Pink Drink Smoothie
from the kitchen of Sharmagne Leland-St. John

Treat your sweet tooth to
Valentine's Day Tea Scones
from the kitchen of Sharmagne Leland-St. John

Never a sweeter treat for Valentine's Day!
Sweets For My Sweetie Red Velvet Cookies
from the kitchen of Sharmagne Leland-St. John

After Yun-Shou-P’ing