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Mirrors (poem)
A Quadrille prompt this week at dVerse Poets comes from Lisa who asks us to fashion our latest 44 word poem including the word “puff”. (photo: pixabay – fun_lucky-rain-6180565) Mirrors The wall’s mirror asked why I didn’t lean breathlessly to examine closely or stand puffed back admiringly and I asked would it sit … Continue reading
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“They Have More Missiles AND Godzilla Too?!?!?!”
(after seeing a “picture proof”) “Holy shit!! The Islamic Republic of Japan have what?!! They’ve literally just come into existence and, again, they have what?!?! Oh, and just come into existence because of ME by the way, this Islamic Republic of Japan, something I’ll get no credit for like so many other things. People tell… Continue reading
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Malky Fisch And The Temperamental Town (story start – working title)
(FOREWARD: I get a lot of Spam phone calls, calls that vary in my caller ID between numbers I don’t recognize or invented names/random businesses/places to make the call appear, I guess, legitimate and thus raising the chances that I’ll answer. Mostly I just slide straight to dismiss and be done with it but, sometimes… Continue reading
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The Poem And The Pen (poem)
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 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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