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The Poem And The Pen
A prompt at dVerse earlier this week was from Grace, MTB: Ars Poetica Revisited – “traditionally, an Ars Poetica is a poem about poetry itself: why we write, what poems do, how language works upon us, and what we hope our words might accomplish” ////////////////////////////////////////// The Poem And The Pen The poem looked at the pen… Continue reading
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Backup Human Cat Dad Weekend
This weekend my Sis and the boys skipped town across the border into Canada for some birthday celebratin’ and I was left in charge as whole house cat dad in my backup human capacity. Now as far as I know they’re coming back though I am sure there are some temptations to just stay and… Continue reading
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From Tom To Dust (6 sentence story)
From this past week came a prompt from GirlieOnTheEdge for another Six Sentence Story. I haven’t done one of these in a little while but I liked the prompt word of “Dust” so I thought I would join in. ////////////////////////////////////////// From Tom to Dust Bill stood just outside the small circle of those gathered, Father Malin,… Continue reading
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A Letter For The King (poem)
New Quadrille prompt at dVerse Poets this week comes from De Jackson/WhimsyGizmo and is of “Mything Poems” and for us to get to our 44 worders including some use of the word “MYTH” … ////////////////////////////////////////// A Letter for the King We wish to hasten a reign’s dying revealed it be of new old clothes wrapping,… Continue reading
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(belated) Memorial Day Weekend: Brothers, Buc-Ees and Car Trouble
We saw the first billboard about 130 miles out. Buc-Ee’s is coming, Buc-Ee’s is coming or something like that with maybe some exclamation points (I don’t remember) and a logo of a Beaver. I said to nephew Matt “Hey, isn’t that the place you were telling me of, the one you and Nick stopped at… Continue reading
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The Cat and Percy the Rat that Fell from the Flat … Earth (song)
(so do you have 3 and a half minutes? sure ya do) A week or so ago my pal Rick, a bestest of mine going on 40 years now, back to our WVU days, posted this to the Facebook: FB JUST INVITED ME TO JOIN NOT MY 1ST OR 2ND BUT 4TH FLAT EARTH… Continue reading
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But … There’s Still The Weather (poem)
At dVerse Poets Li brings us a new Quadrille prompt, the dVerse specialty, a 44 word poem (not including the title) with one word to be included. This time around the word is “Horn”. ///////////////////////////////////////// But … There’s Still the Weather Weather settled the kitchen table with cracked flowers water stained mail, returned and a… Continue reading
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The Girl At The Fair (poem)
Melissa prompted us this week with some Marc Chagall paintings at dVerse Poets, offering that we write a poem for one of the four choices she included. I went with La promenade (The Promenade) – 1918. The Girl At The Fair She arrived in a whirl and twirl of her own breeze made of silken… Continue reading
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A Very Fine Funny Fluffy Movie Friday With The Gang (a sort of movie review)
I leaned across my two nephews while the lights slowly came up and I said to my sis on the other side of them, “Hey Beck, how is it that this place is so dusty?” as I wiped the corner of my eye. Or maybe it was corners suddenly being in a round eye poking… Continue reading
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Digging to China (poem)
A Quadrille prompt this week at dVerse Poets, “Let’s get digging”, comes from Punam who asks that we use the word “dig” or some form of it or the D – I – G in other words (like digital for example) in the Quadrille, which is a 44 word dVerse Poets poem, not including the… Continue reading
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