Frankenberry's Attic

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  • 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

  • Day Broke Night Fell Day (poem)

    So a new prompt at dVersepoets.com, It Begins to Dawn, says, to begin the post, “After our summer break, we’re beginning again, beginning afresh, like a new dawn perhaps” with a couple of examples of dawn, one as the start of a day or another with dawn as a verb. It then offers up the prompt… Continue reading

  • Cats Dream Too

    So a flash fiction prompt here from Melissa … Hello! Welcome to Melissa’s Fandango Flash Fiction Challenge. Each week I will post an image I grab off the internet and challenge bloggers to write a flash fiction piece or a poem inspired by the image. There are no style or word limits. The image below… Continue reading

  • So Then Sunday: Baby General’s Golden Black Heart’s Band / Sky’s Orange When You’ve Got Blind Friends (song)

    Haven’t posted one in a little while so was torn on a So Then Sunday for today. Something fairly recent or maybe something a bit older? I know that sounds ridiculous right? But well to end this silly quandary I thought I’d go back to the early parody days but something that is still pretty… Continue reading

-The Cricket

-Bella

-Arthur

-Saphira

-Shoes

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