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Monthly Archives: December 2019
Home Improvements
Written for: Poetic Bloomings2 – Prompt #275 – “What’s New?” “We stand on the crest of a new year, in a new decade. Both causes to celebrate. Everything becomes a fresh new start to everything you aspire to! So we … Continue reading
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Tagged children, earth, fresh start, New Year, preservation
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Marooned
Written for: Sunday Whirl #436 Words: strip, trap, left, rant, trust, wave, still, share, tell, survive, list, know Trapped on a small strip of land, he was left to fend for himself. Waves of loneliness and despair rendered him listless. … Continue reading
Stuck In Time
Written for: Sunday Muse #88 Five minutes until the new year when my face and my fate will be revealed–good or ill if I remove mask. http://thesundaymuse.blogspot.com/
My Cousin’s Company
Written for: Poetic Bloomings2 – Prompt #274 – It’s A Wonderful Life Write of something wonderful that has happened in your lifetime. She passed away one year ago– funniest, brightest person I have ever known–my cousin. We grew exceedingly close … Continue reading
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Tagged cousin, Love, miss, outstanding, personality
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Joy
Written for: Poetic Asides #508 – Write a celebration poem. Each dog or cat rescued that brought joy to our home– those who have passed, and those present– you rock! https://www.writersdigest.com/editor-blogs/poetic-asides
Mr. Peabody
Written for: Imaginary Gardens With Real Toads – Final Artistic Impression “Over Loved and Stuffed with Toril Fisher” (Imagined by Margaret) “My earliest memory of “security” (other than my mother) is a flat, rather plain teddy bear, aka Teddy. He … Continue reading
Gift Rhymes
Written for: dVerse Poets Pub – Meeting The Bar: gift rhymes (posted by Bjorn) “As this is the last prompt before we go on break, I thought that we would do something for the season and I wanted to share … Continue reading
White on White
Written for: Sunday Muse #87 White on white-horse in a snowstorm-guides the way home for the perched lost bird. http://thesundaymuse.blogspot.com/ ss
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Tagged American Sentence, bird, guidance, horse, snow, Written from Art
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Not Enough Time
Written for: Poetic Bloomings2 – For Your Consideration – Beginning of the End “Begin you poem/story: “Everything they could have said to each other had been said . . . ‘ Everything they could have said to each other had … Continue reading
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Tagged fear, relationship, written from photo, youth
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Here’s To
Written for: Imaginary Gardens With Real Toads – (posted by Marian) Just One Last Word: Imagine Here’s to you, Marian, and all the poets who have posted prompts, and wrote imaginative, beautiful poetry. May the garden flourish with the seeds … Continue reading
