writing
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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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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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Cricket and the Bird Window (Zuihitsu poem)
A new prompt at dVerse Poets is of a poetry called Zuihitsu. The Prompt is here and explains with a number of fantastic examples. Now whether I’m on the right track with the style of this I’m not really sure, I could be completely off base, but it seems to me that this one does… Continue reading
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A Letter to Mom From the Floor (poem)
In a prompt at dVerse Poets this past Thursday Laura invited us to think of letters in a poem. ////////////////////////////////////////// Letter To Mom From the Floor They flew at your insistence in a uniformed stewardess’s winged pocket I thought my letters to the far off land of your other family with scrunch faced glue tongued… Continue reading
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