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    Retroflexed Triflections: A Summer Of Poetry Blog Challenges In Three Parts
    Retroflexed Triflections: A Summer Of Poetry Blog Challenges In Three Parts
    Retroflexed Triflections: A Summer Of Poetry Blog Challenges In Three Parts
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    Retroflexed Triflections: A Summer Of Poetry Blog Challenges In Three Parts

    By Steve Lavigne

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    Love of language, poetry prompts and openness to self-discovery guide Steve Lavigne's latest collection of poems. Delightful twists and turns of voice, meanings and poetic devices power their way throughout this work as each poem is allowed to direct its own course – whatever that may be- unabashed honesty, self-effacing humor, healthy skepticism, optimistic faith. Unique and entertaining, this book is sure to inspire your own season of creativity as you compare the end results to the initial prompt. Will you step up to the challenge?

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherSteve Lavigne
    Release dateOct 29, 2012
    ISBN9781301881215
    Retroflexed Triflections: A Summer Of Poetry Blog Challenges In Three Parts
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    Steve Lavigne

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      Retroflexed Triflections - Steve Lavigne

      Retroflexed Triflections

      A summer

      of poetry blog challenges

      in three parts

      by Steve Lavigne

      copyright 2012 Steve Lavigne

      Smashwords Edition

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      Smashwords Edition, License Notes

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      Table of Contents

      One - Trifecta weekly challenges

      Triumph

      Absence

      Dinosaur

      Black

      Firework

      Good v. Evil

      A skinny long haired hippie

      Blind

      Venus and the Sailor

      Radical Departure

      Home

      Operation Surgical Strike

      Normal

      She realized early on

      The Score

      this soap bubble, glass ball

      With This Vorpal Blade

      without you

      The narrow back alley

      Two - Trifextra weekend challenges

      motherless

      3 wishes

      on the count of three

      Bills, clippings, yellowing photographs

      Broken butterfly

      Sevenling (in 33words)

      Grasping the last strains

      In three words

      Jesus

      A fabulists’ contract

      Trifecta: The Novel

      Riding this chain clanking

      Daughter

      Three – Other challenges

      Her world, a helicopter seed spinning

      Bliss

      t-shirt

      Robin red breast

      Sevenling

      Lament

      Symbolism

      My nonet

      1 – long ago

      Carnival

      when words slip free

      You’ve been gone so long

      Change

      Change (2)

      Follow

      Riddle

      There’s a line

      fire

      random thoughts at 4am

      summer school

      One flew over the cuckold’s nest

      Dessert

      One

      Triumph

      A triumph, this waking

      well rested

      not overly or under

      done

      much as the brown eggs

      on the stove

      which were hand delivered

      with a soft affection

      from a friend.

      A triumph, my reaction

      to the overly exuberant

      shouting and chattering

      of morning children,

      no bleary eyed cringing

      or flashing anger

      this time

      just a gratefulness

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