marbled sunlit map
fingers trace a memory
and sit still eyes closed
Mindfills © 2026 for Sadje’s WDYS
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marbled ~ haiku
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A sky ~ an AtoZ
A sky Beyond CalleD
hEr voice, a Freefall of Glitter;
Her Impertinent Jade eyes winK,
Leaving Me NO Pause to think;
Quite unfaiR you See,
To lUre me, to conniVe with the shooting stars...
What chance do I have against her eXquisite wiles?
WhY does the breeZe just whisper when heavens collide?Mindfills © 2026 for A who is in Antarctica ~ an AtoZ, one out of the series of poetry forms David and I enjoyed creating.
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Atoz?
- One stanza of 8 lines;
- No word count; no syllable count; no required rhyme or rhythm;
- Each line must include certain letters of the alphabet in a certain order, as follows:
- A, B, C, D,
- E, F, G,
- H, I, J, K,
- L, M, N, O, P,
- Q, R, S,
- T, U, V,
- W, X,
- Y, Z
- These letters can be put anywhere in any word in their lines. They need not be the first letters of their words; and any word may contain more than one letter, as long as they remain in order;
- The required letters must all be CAPITALIZED and bolded, regardless of where they fall;
- All required letters must be in order in each line.
- For example, if the first word in the first line is “bang”, only the “A” in “bang” would count for that line because the “B” must occur after the “A”.
- On the other hand, if the first word in the first line is “about”, both the “A” and the “B” would count towards the requirements of the “Atoz” – because they are in the correct order.
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sun spins ~ a senryu
sun spins gold today
quilts dry in sakura blush
memories latticeMindfills © 2026 for
David’s W3 – Svenja’s Haiga ~ winter to spring
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dawn ~ a quadrille
Dawn breaks into my cocoon;
I unfurl, my first breath in a world of others;
I twirl, my petals inviting winged angels,
my nectar enticing;
I feed their foolish fantasies,
pack little yellow suitcases
for them to travel far,
where I will bloom again.Mindfills © 2026 for dVerse Quadrille ~ flowers by Whimsy Gizmo’s De Johnson
Remembering Cee
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pillow ~ haiku
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window ~ haiku
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I write ~ free verse
I write to feel
those moments for real;
Pause on the page,
savour and breathe;
Ask my other self
"Are you still me?"
Each day, each word
a thread to weave;
The rush of time
rests by a lake,
as tranquil wakes
to soothe the now;
Thoughts take shape
and enter the soul
to find a phrase
that says it all;
My fingers move
like music I know
I let it flow free
into poetry;
That last letter
I loathe to leave
for if I open my eyes
I will seeMindfills © 2026
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crinkled ~ haiku
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I stepped~ free verse
I stepped out from the silence
into the darkness
with an old-fashioned flashlight,
one that could be used as a weapon ...when daylight comes.
I walked unseeing
through the haze of timelessness
past the old banyan tree,
one that knew all the stories
of all our unspoken deeds.
I traced my days,
sketching cobwebbed thoughts
of matchstick men and crayon dreams
along the trail of my footsteps
to find myself once more.Mindfills © 2026 for Sadje’s wdys
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I’m ~ free verse
I'm happy she said.
Her voice is slow, soft,
as she places a lily, a rose, a kiss
on every version of her
that revealed to her,
her courage to be flawed,
her fears holding her back,
her wonder that made her stay,
real and kind and
quietly, radiantly, alive.
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