writing
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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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Balloons (six sentence story)
(image – sharodej-1284418 – Pixabay) GirlieOnTheEdge had another Six Sentence Story prompt earlier this week that I was late to entering in the prompts link with the others but I thought to go with it anyway and stream a little. The word this time around was Balloon. ////////////////////////////////////////// Balloons He thought of just how cool it would… Continue reading
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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?!?!?!” + You Take the E Out (dum-ocrat song)
(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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