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Hello, dVerse Poets! It’s Merril from Yesterday and Today with your prompt for the dVerse form called Prosery.

For this form, we take a line of poetry and place it into a prose piece. The prose can be fiction or non-fiction, but it must be a piece of prose, not poetry. You are not permitted to insert words into the given line, but you may punctuate it. This is a slippery slope, using someone else’s words in your own work. Please acknowledge the line, the work, and the poet. The piece you write can be no longer than 144 words.

Here in the US, under the current regime, not much is being valued, except tariffs, lies, and lining the pockets of those in power. Funding for the arts, as well as funding for most other things, is being cut. So, I decided to look at our Poet Laureates, in case there are no more. The current US Poet Laureate, the twenty-fourth, is Ada Limón. All the information I’ve seen says her term (her second term) will finish in April 2025.

I just discovered that her “Signature Project” as Poet Laureate is called You Are Here, which called for people to write in response to nature and our national parks. She also edited a new anthology of nature poems.

I really enjoy her poetry, which often seems to end with a punch, as in this one: “Calling Things What They Are.”

For today, I’m choosing this line from “The Magnificent Frigatebird,”

“I have no skills for flight or wings
to skim the waves effortlessly, like the wind itself.”

If you’re new to dVerse. Here’s how to participate:
*Write a piece of prose, fiction or non-fiction, up to 144-words, using the given line.
*Post your story on your blog and link back to this post.
*Enter your name and the link to your post by clicking Mr. Linky below (remember to check the little box to accept the use/privacy policy).
*Read and comment on your fellow storytellers’ Proserv pieces. We all like to have our work appreciated. *There will be a great variety of wonderful stories, I’m certain!