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The Eye and The Dark (flash fiction)
A new Flash Fiction prompt, this one from Dora at dVerse Poets, a one of 144 word max prose (not including the title) and a one, in this case, to include the line “Out of the ninth-month midnight” from Walt Whitman’s poem “Out of the Cradle Endlessly Rocking”. The Eye and The Dark It was… Continue reading
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Third Eye Harvest Moon
In response to Merril’s “Haunted Harvest” prompt at dVerse poets. “You can take the themes of harvest or haunted literally or use them metaphorically in any way you wish. Harvest grain, organs, fish, or emotions; imagine the grim reaper with a scythe. Write about something that haunts you, regret, a long-ago love, thoughts of someone… Continue reading
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Possible Sniffers (flash fiction)
A new flash fiction prompt from Melissa, to write something from this pic. “Mom, stop, we’ve talked about this, it’s a different day. Artie and I have told you, plus you know I can’t, I have messed up insides, we just can’t, just deal with Chrissy and Semblance (of a cat) and Penelope. Now are… Continue reading
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Of Moms, Sons & Assorted Friends (flash fiction)
So another Flash Fiction/Prosery prompt at dVerse Poets from Melissa of Mom With a Blog of the usual 144 word max type (not including the title) and the prompt this time around was a line from a poem by Tina Chang “I am haunted by how much our mothers do not know.” Melissa explains it… Continue reading
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Tableaus and Nightstands
Something for a latest dverse poets prompt. ////////////////////////////////////////// I was all a reach with tableau which sounds like table but wasn’t as it don’t hold no lamps or knicks instead real tried light and knacks to table tableau’s nightstand sleep wishes to reach when night comes hard unforgiving dreams of cold monsters that scream for… Continue reading
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The Scrapbook And The Man In The Black Fedora (flash fiction)
So another prompt at dVerse Poets … It’s Monday and, at the dVerse Poets Pub, we are writing Prosery, the very short piece of prose or flash fiction that tells a story with a beginning, middle and end. It can be in any genre of your choice, but it does have a limit of 144… Continue reading
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The Miscellaneous Jar – (poem)
So De Jackson, aka WhimsyGizmo, brought the latest “Quadrille” idea to us at dVerse Poets, that dVerse invention 44 word poem that asks just that you include a particular word. This time around from De? That word was “Jar”. . The Miscellaneous Jar I tapped the lid with a butter knife in evenly spaced indents… Continue reading
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“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
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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
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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
