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poetry 101 rehab: connection – Slow Dance
This week’s prompt is: Connection Across a crowded room I see you enter You look as pleased as me to be here. It’s those eyes that first attract me They dart around the room Taking in the atmosphere....
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FFfAW – Week of 07-29-2015 – Xanadu
In Xanadu did Kubla Khan A stately pleasure-dome decree: WAIT! What? You can’t say that. Why not? Who’s going to get it? She will. You’re writing to impress someone? Yes, she writes to this prompt....
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Writing Prompt #118 “Collage 3″ – Finding Your Place
The word was to build a fort A place to huddle together Against the storm raging around us. You wanted to sit at my fence To view the native flora Those flannel flowers you so admired. Each day I hear...
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Magpie Tales Sunday, August 2, 2015 Mag 281 – Earth Child
The earth child looked up Saw in my eyes Wonder and mystery. She placed her hand on mine For a second she paused Then grabbing a finger Set off into the forest Around us animals stood and gazed A...
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FFfAW – Week of 08-04 – Dividing the Paddock
Image © The Storytellers Abode. The two farmers looked at the large rocks that had stood forever in their paddock. They both agreed the stones were a nuisance and that they couldn’t shift them....
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Photo Challenge #72, Verge, August 4, 2015 – A Step Back
Image: – Alexandre Deschaumes Turmoil, terror, turbulent I know you are standing at this point Looking down Trembling, torn and terrified. Below is a abyss One neither of us wants you In any way to...
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Photo Challenge #73, Crowned, August 11, 2015 – Inclines with no Declines
Image: – Natalia Drepina Today I breathed The down is not so rapid The up not so harrowing There’s a chance of progress The stream’s not flowing so swiftly Making headway is possible A step at a time...
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Tale Weaver #26: inuksuk – Home
Image: Vancouver, British Columbia Winter Games, 2010 This week we are asked to weave a tale using the Inuit word ‘inuksuk’ as the basis for our tale. In Inuit (and other Artic Circle languages),...
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Music Friday Prompt #4 “Queen of the Night” from The Magic Flute by Mozart –...
This week we are asked to use Mozart’s ‘Queen of the Night’s ‘aria from “The Magic Flute” as the basis for a piece of writing. The girl looked up from her screen She’d written another thousand words...
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Wordle #74 “August 17, 2015″ – Lily
This week’s words: Madness, fertile, scorn, listen, crinoline, exaggerate, petrous, needle, Lily, fragile, ornament, twenty-three All Lily heard sounding in her head was twenty- three,...
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Kreative Kue 39 – Strapping
Using this photo as inspiration, write a short story, flash fiction, scene, poem; anything, really. It was true he thought that the dark side was always going to be the more interesting side. Dark...
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Writing Prompt #122 “Collage 5″
The madness was plain to see The magic mystifying. Why he stayed in a mad house Inhabited by such a lunatic Puzzled so many, but not him. The days of love were long gone Feelings existing in a mist of...
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Photo Challenge #76, Hope and Houses, September 1, 2015 – Lofty Abodes
Image: – oprisco She lived in lofty abodes He lived in shallow ditches She dressed in finery He dressed in what came his way. She dreamed of love of a life He dreamed of surviving one more day She...
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Writing Prompt #123 “NoEnd House Part 5″ – Carrion
The walls within which I live Ooze a stench permeating my flesh. I am tarnished by the refuse dictating my life. No amount of incense will purge me. Carrion the result of years of lovelessness I...
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Wordle #77 “September 7, 2015” – Mary Louise
This week’s words: Grope Hazel Skull Mutual Luminary (A celestial body, as the sun or moon. A person who has attained eminence in his or her field or is an inspiration to others.) Leopard Potency...
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Mondays Finish the Story – Sept. 7th, 2015 – The Tower
Finish the story begins with: “As her mount shifted uneasily under her, she grasped the brim of her old felt Stetson, gazed upwards and remembered Jean Pierre.” It never seemed fair to her that he...
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FFfAW – Week of 09-08-2015 – Eternity
As they raced down the road she heard him screaming at her to slow down. The wind and rain mercilessly lashed the car, the windscreen wipers stopped beating in time and the road was a blur in front of...
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Photo Challenge #77, Golden Hour, September 8, 2015 – Life Is…..
Life can seem like that at times That we are going no where. That day to day it’s a case of the doldrums. We can float through life with purpose Direction and focus Or we meander aimlessly From one...
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Tale Weaver 30: once upon a time . . . Fairy Godmother
Image: Fairy Tales by Hans Christian Andersen Artist: Harry Clark (1916) Source: Wikiart.org I remember the extreme sadness that pervaded our household when my mother died during the birth of my baby...
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Writing Prompt #124 “Collage 6″ – Imposed Silence
I turned the imposed silence Into a positive An indirect reaching out When at times the void was impossible. Visually said I was here To remind you that resilience Wins out in times of disconsolation....
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