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A Campsite Too Far
Written for: Sunday Muse #229 I think I’m going to throw up! I told you I have to pee. You need to find a rest stop NOW! Mom, Sally’s picking her nose again. Am not! Jeez, whose idea was it … Continue reading
Children’s Theater
Written for: Go Dog Go Cafe – Tuesday Writing Prompt (posted by Devereaux and Beth) “Todays prompt: Write a poem using the words theater, children, and perspective” A theater for children became her pet project. Being blessed with the imagination … Continue reading
In The Library
Written for: The Sunday Whirl, Wordle #214 Words: Thirst, Share, Stories, Breath, Apart, Feign, Run, Stars, chain, First, Roots, Roads They sat in the library feigning nonchalance– these kids who thirsted for stories that were not their own. They shared … Continue reading
A Child’s Questions
Written for: Go Dog Go Cafe – Tuesday Writing Prompt (posted by Devereaux and Beth) “Use the words, ‘for reasons they don’t understand’ in a poem.” But, where are we going? Why do we have to leave? I won’t see … Continue reading
A Teller of Tales
Written for: The Sunday Whirl, Wordle #451 Words: mouth, fluttered, door, ghost, sky, spring, step, weaving stories, boom, scuffling, temples Stories swept along from the mouths of one generation to the next. They told of ghost figures tattooed on his … Continue reading
Young, Broken Hearts
Written for: dVerse Poets Pub – Poetics: After St. Valentine’s Day he left the building. (posted by sarahsouthwest) “Write a poem about the Valentines that didn’t happen. The lost loves, the ones that didn’t work out: the holiday romance whose … Continue reading
Street Games
Written for: Poets and Storytellers United Weekly Scribblings #93: Kid Stuff (posted by Rommy) “Write about something you really enjoyed in childhood.” Street games of any kind played on cement. Never wanted to stop and go home. Statues, Iron Tag, … Continue reading
Tales Told
Written for: Sunday Muse #167 Half a shipwreck, no deck, no sailors, just a rusty chain hanging down among the stones where it washed ashore. Clouds impose their steely swirls onto this hulk. In Summer, we climbed up the sides, … Continue reading
The Days of Lemonade
Written for: Go Dog Go Cafe Tuesday Writing Prompt (posted by Devereaux and Beth) “Write a poem using “lemonade days”. Children set up a stand selling lemonade in days of Summer. Friends lent them a helping hand, dependent of course … Continue reading
Party of Hunters
Written for: Poets and Storytellers United Weekly Scribblings #69: Of The Hunt (posted by Magaly) “I invite you to write poetry or prose from the point of view of a character or speaker who is hunting, being hunted, or both.” … Continue reading
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