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Written for Sadje’s What Do You See
Continue reading “Koi Pond”Our gracious host, Rochelle, is asking us to get
creative in 100 words or less using the photo
seen below. Welcome to Friday Fictioneers.
Written for dVerse Prosery: “Of Jaguars
and the Night”. Our host, Merril, invites us
to write prose in 144 words incorporating the
line below from “Jaguar Song” by Arthur Sze.
Laughing Along With A Limerick.
The prompt word is “land”.
Written for MLMM Monday Wordle;
the prompt words are shown below.
change ~ known ~ fault ~ seen ~ money ~ silence
flowers ~ excited ~ irritated ~ hand ~ table ~ kept
Written for Sunday Whirl Wordle.
Here are Brenda’s prompt words:
home ~ world ~ denied ~ bees ~ pleas ~ forgotten
folklore ~ wonder ~ strum ~ fallow ~ sigh ~ sky
Written for Tanka Tuesday where our host,
Yvette, asks us to write a poem about a
dream that came true or one that fell apart.
Written for Reena’s Xploration Challenge.
Our challenge is to write a poem or story
as inspired by the image shown below.
Written for Living Poetry where Bart asks us
to write a poem incorporating the words
‘common’, ‘rise’, and ‘Wordsworth’.
Written for Sammi’s Weekend Writing Prompt
where we are challenged to incorporate the
word “eternity” in a 44 word composition;
also for Sue & Gerry’s Weekly Prompts
Weekend Challenge word – “dislike”.
Written for Wea’ve Written Weekly.
Our PoW, Jaideep, asks us to write
a Heritage-Tech Fusion poem.
Written for “Can You Tell A Story In” –
exactly 44 words using the prompts below.
shock ~ dribble ~ bear ~ ambidextrous
Continue reading “It’s All Greek To Me”Written for Song Lyric Sunday –
“Harness the Energy”
The Brevity Challenge – Sarah & Rohini
invite us to borrow a six word story and
expand on it or create one of our own.
I created my own and expanded it.
Written for SenHai Saturday where our host
Susi asks us to write a senryu and haiku using
the image shown below as inspiration.
Inspired by Max’s blog, ‘Old Steam Ships’ –
this is my story based on facts about the SS Eastland
disaster in the voice of Harry B. Thayer, President
of Western Electric, who chartered the ship
for 2,500 employees and their families
for a company picnic. Thanks, Max!
Written in response to a cool
image I saw on Bushboy’s World.
Thanks for letting me use it, Brian!
Written for Haiku Fridays with J-Dub
Written for Writing Prompt #123
using the prompt word ‘rich’.
Written for dVerse Poet’s Pub: Open Link Night.
Our host, Mish, invites us to follow our muse
and write a poem inspired by the image below.
Our gracious host, Rochelle, is asking us to get
creative in 100 words or less using the photo
seen below. Welcome to Friday Fictioneers.
Written for Weekend Writing Prompt
where Sammi asks us to get creative
in exactly 88 words using the word
‘pristine’ and for Sue & Gerry’s
Weekly Prompts Weekend Challenge
and the prompt word ‘fastidious’.
Written for dVerse Poet’s Pub: “My God,
It’s Full of Stars”. Our host, Dora, invites us
to write a poem inspired by stars in the night sky.
Old pilings stand like soldiers in the tide,
their shadows drowned in silver, ever still….
above them, dust of ancient stars collide,
a river bent across the night’s dark hill.
The land behind us hums with amber light,
Montauk’s glow a small and mortal thing,
while overhead, ten billion years take flight
in dust that makes the darkness swell and sing.
I stand there, feeling smaller by the mile,
a speck upon a speck upon a shore,
yet something in that vast and star-thrown aisle
makes me feel closer to it all the more
Alone. The rocks kept watch. The sea stayed low.
The galaxy leaned down to touch the deep….
and for one breath, before I had to go,
I held the whole of heaven, mine to keep.
NAR©2026
This is “Andomeda” by Paul Weller
Everything on The Elephant’s Trunk was created by me, unless otherwise indicated. Thanks for your consideration. NAR©2017-present.
Laughing Along With A Limerick.
The prompt word is “wreck”.
Written for MLMM Monday Wordle;
the prompt words are shown below.
town ~ anxiety ~ box ~ half ~ wrong ~ sound
today ~ full ~ bench ~ running ~ message ~ again
Written for dVerse Poet’s Pub: A Light
Burst of Air. Our host, Lisa, invites us to
write a quadrille using the word “puff”.
Written for Sunday Whirl Wordle.
Here are Brenda’s prompt words:
voicemails ~ high ~ exhale ~ wind ~ begin ~ unaware
scared ~ glows ~ ghost ~ storm ~ story ~ lotus
Written for Tanka Tuesday where our host,
Colleen, asks us to write a bussokuseki, a tanka
with an additional 7-syllable line at the end.
Inspired by an image by my amici at Blog 57.
Written for Sadje’s What Do You See
Continue reading “Evening Wheel”
