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July 2024

  • “Hi, I’m Joe Frankenberry From New York” (a post/poem revisit)

    A new prompt at dVerse Poets comes from Punam of paeansunpluggedblog and concerns grief and writing of it, if you are able to do so and share such. It made me think of a post I wrote back in June of 2020, during the pandemic, a post about heroes and about my Father, something I… Continue reading

  • Camel of Earth (a Y and P story)

    And in response to a Flash Fiction prompt from Melissa. Now the prompt said to write something to/about a picture she posted, this one a closeup of a camel. ////////////////////////////////////////// (after an accidental crash landing) Oh sure, just make a left at the red planet you said, the blue one looks nice you said, what… Continue reading

  • Game of Furniture (adding to the lexicon)

    Came across a post from a new friend this past Friday asking that you have a bit of fun with 10 made up words, by defining them however you would. Well, when I saw the “words” I thought they would fit right into the the world of the Danderyds and the Idanas, a world initially… Continue reading

  • Crumbs For Crows (redux) – (poem)

    New dVerse Poets prompt from Grace to write a Ballata which is this … (if I have it right, but know, me getting shit right can often be a big “if” by the way) The first stanza has five lines with a repeat of the opening line in line five and a rhyme pattern of… Continue reading

  • Farm Rivalry – A Short Horse Western – (poem)

    About horses was our latest prompt, this one from Dora, at dVerse Poets. A little fun. . Farm Rivalry – A Short Horse Western Hold your horses shushed the horse whisperer at the gate there are stories to be shared from the horse you rode in on that one has secrets ya know, no, ya… Continue reading

  • So Then Sunday: Don’t Go Back To Trumpville (song)

    Because there may not be much time before we are singled out and sent away as example of a lack of unity and non-fealty, or possibly be felled out of tall Russian windows I thought I would “So Then Sunday” this one while I can. From back in December. To R.E.M.’s “Don’t Go Back To… Continue reading

  • Who The Fuck Is Tia?!

    Example that I am old and often out of touch and just can’t keep up with the kids these days #356. Email from a sales person from later in the day yesterday that I didn’t see until I first got in this morning asking if I could update one of her clients spots taking out… Continue reading

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  • At The Edge Of The Surf (and dreaming) – (poem)

    So the latest prompt at dVerse Poets asked to take into consideration Pablo Neruda’s poem “The Wide Ocean” and the line … “Ocean, if you were to give, a measure, a ferment, a fruit of your gifts and destructions …” . At The Edge Of The Surf (and dreaming) I sat at the edge of… Continue reading

  • Reason? (flash fiction)

    From a dVerse Prosery flash fiction prompt that asked to use the line “every day unfurls as it must” but top out at 144 words ////////////////////////////////////////// Reason? The student asked the teacher why everything was so cryptic, so much the riddle, why couldn’t he be more straightforward, forthcoming? The teacher said nothing They sat   … Continue reading

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  • Crab (poem)

    There was prompt at dVerse poets earlier this week that asked to use the word “crab”. Now I completely blew by the 44 word call of a dVerse Quadrille but … Crab I am not a jazzy Crawdad, or a belly Catfish bottom feed or a Flounder floundering for hope or a Pike on a… Continue reading