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Cat Lives
Written for: The Sunday Whirl, Wordle #403 Words: insight, blocks, shift, shoot, clues, style, alley, siren, lights, live, tracks, permit Alley cats live on scraps. Feral cats prefer outdoors, so if you permit them a warm place, be sure to … Continue reading
The “rest” of the Time
Written for: The Wednesday Muse #4 – Busy Body (posted by Toni) “Speaking of which, what do you all do to rest? do you sleep, take naps, take walks, ride a bike, got to the beach, climb a tree? This … Continue reading
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Tagged birds, earth, outdoors, reading, Time, variations, walking, water
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Picnic Day
Written for: The Sunday Whirl, Wordle #360 Words: simple, gravel, edge, low, tight, path, climb, knots, trim, spread, spray, pattern She wears a simple, lace-edged shirt, patterned with sprays of violets scattered across collar and cuffs, knotted at her trim … Continue reading
Lover Of Books On A Summer Morning
Written for: Poetic Asides November 2017 Chapbook Challenge – Day 27 For today’s prompt, take the phrase “(blank) Of (blank),” replace the blanks with a word or phrase, make the new phrase the title of your poem, and then, write … Continue reading
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Tagged Aubade, bird, outdoors, reading, Summer, Written for Challenge
Absence Of
Written for: Poets United Midweek Motif~Silence (posted by Sumana) Where to find that soundlessness? Is Silence merely absence of sound or more than that? “In the End, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of … Continue reading
“A Cool Verandah
Written for: The Twiglets #30 – “a cool verandah” On a sultry summer night What could be cooler than sleeping out on a verandah https://thetwiglets.wordpress.com/2017/06/27/twiglet-30/#comments
Written for Quickly #18 – Whole Cloth Begin with a lie. At some point mention a specific date. Include one small animal and one large one (names will suffice). Before you finish, correct the lie in such a way that … Continue reading
Beyond
Written for: Carpe Diem #1092, Fantasy in g-moll for Cello by Fanny Mendelssohn fantasy world unfolds while the wind tears clouds apart in sunny colors clouds moving, changing everlasting fantasy world unfolds © Chèvrefeuille (our host) Here is my attempt: … Continue reading
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Tagged fantasy, Haiku, outdoors, written from music
After Three Days
Written for: Poetics Aside #353 – Write a nothing important poem. Maybe it’s a poem about an unimportant tool, plant, animal, or even person. Of course, sometimes the unimportant things are revealed to be the most important of all. So … Continue reading
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Tagged outdoors, shadorma, Sounds, Weather
Belgium
Written for: Carpe Diem #967 Belgium Belgium was one of the countries who established the preliminary European Union, the EEC (European Economic Community). Through the treaty of Rome Belgium was a co-founder of the EU in 1957. Now almost 70 … Continue reading
