writing
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TAKE 1 TABLET BY MOUTH INTO RIGHT EYE … (just a pretty dumb post)
So, boss production guy at the radio stations I work for has a daily routine, when emailing that our next day log checks are good, of including in the mail a number of funny memes and pictures. This one was in yesterday’s set. From “Customer Training: Counter” for Tough Guy Pharmacy School TAKE 1 TABLET… Continue reading
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Intro’s To A New Co-Worker & Revisiting “I Didn’t Pee” (A Cujo The Cat Song)
Was looking at my blog stats this weekend and apparently, I’m really big (relatively so) in China right now. I say relatively so because my blog is not one that sees a ton of traffic, steady light traffic sure, some new traffic and regular checkin’ in with our old pal or nemesis Frankenberry traffic yes,… Continue reading
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Coloring the Pale (poem – quadrille)
Earlier this week protesting was in order (IS in order in this current orange cluster f climate of ours) with Punam at dVerse Poets and a very cool quadrille prompt inside a cool post, of yes, protest. So then to the latest dVerse Quadrille, a 44 worder (not counting the title) including here, the word… Continue reading
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Skywrite (pale blue dot)
From Laura, a prompt at dVerse Poets looking to follow the lead of a poetry form invented by Margaret R. Smith (source here): with some meter some rhyme and some compound words. It goes like this: Poem’s title includes the stem word 15 lines 5 stanzas 3 lines per stanza rhyme scheme a,a,b meter 8/8/3 last line… Continue reading
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The Girl With The Umbrella (poem)
At the end of last month Melissa offered a prompt at dVerse poets with some paintings for inspiration as she has done before, including back in May with some paintings of Marc Chagall, to which I responded with a recent favorite poem of mine “The Girl at the Fair” for a Chagall painting entitled “La… Continue reading
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Both Feet (poem)
Quadrille prompt at dVerse Poets this week from De Jackson, whimsygizmo, was to use the word “Jump” in our latest 44 worder. Thanks De ////////////////////////////////////////// Both Feet I try not to gun or conclude Not on command or through hoops But might in a lake leaving no foot behind if minding bikinis and bones soon… Continue reading
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They Thought Themselves a Play of Some Renown (poetics – poem)
Earlier this week there was a prompt from Merril where she wrote of butterflies, Poetics: But no, a butterfly, and provided a list of butterfly names for us to possibly work a poem around, asking for 3 or more of the names to be included. Well, it’s been pretty busy for me of late and I… Continue reading
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Air Them Out (poem – quadrille)
Earlier this week Sanaa presented to us a new Quadrille prompt for our latest in 44 word poems. The prompts always come with a word to include in your Quadrille and here that word was “Care” with a great post from Sanaa to explain how she came about choosing it. Now, the window to get… Continue reading
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So Then Sunday: God Made Trump (boogie woogie song)
Well fresh on the heels of Trump’s triumphant turn as a comic (according to the Benny Johnson lapboy talking/tweeting heads of the right wing world) where, in reality, he should have stolen the paper bag from the unknown comic like he steals songs from artists for his walk up music to yet another blown save… Continue reading
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Rapt Attention (prosery)
Merril at dVerse Poets prompted us earlier this week with Prosery Monday. Prosery, like the Quadrille is, as Merril notes, a dVerse form. Where the Quadrille is a 44 word poem with a single word to include, Prosery is 144 words of prose with a line from a poem to include. In this case the… Continue reading
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