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No Price

Posted on October 18, 2020 by

Written for: Poets and Storytellers United Weekly Scribblings #41: What’s The Price (posted by Rommy) Write your interpretation of the question: What is it worth? A comfortable home, warm and cozy. Pets of your choice to cuddle Food in the … Continue reading →

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Gingerbread Cottage

Posted on September 28, 2020 by

Written for: Sunday Whirl, Wordle #475 Words: hypocrisy, lunch, foil, cat, why, fox, trust, sad, hoax, miss, liars, cottage Mrs. Fox lives in a gingerbread cottage. She takes considerable comfort in her calico cat, Cosmo. Distrusting store-bought pet food, she … Continue reading →

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Three Chapters of Me

Posted on September 21, 2020 by

Written for: Poetic Bloomings2 – Prompt #304 My Life In Words “Your auto-biography begins here. Break up your life (up to this point in time) into three chapters. Give each chapter a title. Write three brief poems (one for each … Continue reading →

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2105

Posted on August 18, 2020 by

Written for: Poetic Bloomings2 – Prompt #299 – A House Is Not A Home We are writing about a house or a home. It could be a house we live(d) in, a house we wished was ours, a supposed haunted … Continue reading →

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Hardened at Nine

Posted on July 15, 2020 by

Written for:  Go Dog Go Cafe – Tuesday Writing Prompt “Write a piece of prose or poetry around the phrase, ‘nine years old, and she never had  a chance.’ “ She did whatever she could not to go home. Mama … Continue reading →

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Reminds Me Of . . .

Posted on October 3, 2018 by

Written for:  dVerse Poets Pub – Poetics:  “Comfort Smells”  (posted by Gina) “Today I ask that you write a poem about a smell that takes you to a time when you would just collapse into a safe place especially when … Continue reading →

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Moving Aftershocks

Posted on December 31, 2017 by

Begins with chip on squared corner of television table. Next, we discover top of bookcase has vanished, leaving naked slats of wood laddered over double glass doors of mahogany  frame.  Bottom door gapes open like a toothless jack-o- lantern. Crooked face of grandfather clock dangles in peril, its … Continue reading →

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Sunflower House

Posted on October 29, 2017 by

Written for:  Imaginary Gardens With Real Toads – Fashion Your Words~Let’s Build Houses; as some parts of planet earth remain storm-ravished, some parts have weathered the storms. Yet some parts remain near-paradise. Poets: wherever we find ourselves, here is a call … Continue reading →

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At My Sister’s House

Posted on August 31, 2017 by

Written for:  Poetic Asides #408 – Write a second home poem. Most people have a first home–even if it’s just the place where you lay your head or stash your heart. But many people also have a second home–a place … Continue reading →

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Family Assortment

Posted on April 16, 2016 by

Written for:  NaPoWriMo – Day 16 Today, I challenge you to fill out, in no more than five minutes, the following “Almanac Questionnaire,” which solicits concrete details about a specific place (real or imagined). Then write a poem incorporating or … Continue reading →

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