tenWords — Newly minted

cool veranda

cat and me outside

after the day’s heat

******

I find a garment

left behind —

he wants to return!

******

water lizard

holds very still

so do we, watching

hushed

******

child from the mild south

exclaims, ’Cool!’
discovering tropic frangipani

Another response to the dVerse tenWords prompt, These are new pieces, written specifically for/in this form.

tenWords Extracted

Gave her heart

only for a few seconds.

More than enough.

******

Buying silk,

an artist expressed

a desire to know velvets.

******

In the garden

very quiet

dream-life taking hold —

remember?

******

Pure frosty mornings:

rare occasions
when there is no wind.

The tenWords form is an invention of Brian Miller's. At dVerse today we are asked to try some. I extracted the above from pages of the novel The Maker of Heavenly Trousers by Daniel Varé; so they are also, in a sense, found poems, and — because some of the words are far apart — they are similar to erasure poems too.