Music Blog

November Air

This week at Glyn Wilton’s Mixed Music Bag,
he’s asking us to write about a song in which
the title or a line mentions the current month. 
Here’s my November artist and his song.

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Poem

RDP Tuesday: absurd

Today at RDP, Martha Kennedy asks us
to get creative with the word ‘absurd’.
Thanks, Martha! Here’s were my mind went.

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Uncategorized

Veterans Day, 2025

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Fantasy, Mini Story

The Rent

Written for Crispina’s Crimson’s Creative
Challenge #059
. I chose Pic #3.
Here’s where the image took me.

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Mini Story, Mystery, Wordle

A Fading Echo

Written for Sunday Whirl Wordle – #731. Our
host is Brenda Warren and these are our words:
rooted, years, footsteps, creaks, look, stir,
hour, loop, clock, echo, before, and slips.
Here’s where the prompts took me.

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Flash, Haiku, Poem

RDP Monday: flinty

Today at RDP, sgeoil asks us
to get creative with the word ‘flinty’.
Thanks, Heather! Here’s my take.

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Flash, Mini Story

Rock Bottom

Written for AI Drabble, a new challenge from
Mike Jackson where there are two main rules:

1) all written work must be exactly 100 words;
2) all written work must be AI generated.
We are provided with a word prompt
and an image.
All ideas/suggestions are mine as interpreted by Claude AI.

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Cinquain, Poem

It Don’t Come Easy

Written for Cinquain Poetry Prompt #25.
Our inspiration word is “fire”.
This is my mirror cinquain.

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Poem

RDP Sunday: sepia

Today at RDP, drkottaway asks us
to get creative with the word ‘blink’.
Thanks, Doc!  Here’s my take.

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Fantasy, Poem

Come Sail Away

Written for Sammi’s Weekend Writing Prompt
#441
where we’re asked to be creative in exactly
73 words using the word ‘cerulean’. Also for Sue &
Gerry’s Weekly Prompts Weekend Challenge –
‘bucket’. Here’s where the prompts took me.

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Music Blog

A Few Of My Favorite Things

Written for Song Lyric Sunday –
‘Ring On Her Nose’.
This is my response to the challenge.

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Flash, Poem

RDP Saturday: blink

Today at RDP, Punam asks us
to get creative with the word ‘blink’.
Thanks, Punam!  Here’s my take.

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Song, Uncategorized

Dirty Little Secret: Thursday Inspiration

Written for Thursday Inspiration #305 –
“What Difference Does It Make”.
 Here’s my inspirational response.

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Song, Uncategorized

Rising Sea Levels: Friday Faithfuls

Written for the 11/7/25 edition of Friday Faithfuls:
“Rising Sea Levels”. Here’s my response.

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Haiku, Poem

RDP Friday: transcendent

Today at RDP, Martha Kennedy asks us
to get creative with the word ‘transcendent’.
Thanks, Martha!  Here’s my take.

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Mini Story

The Journey

Written for MLMM Monday Wordle #449.
Our prompt words this week are: follow, future,
happiness, inspire, lie, mistake, monument,
secure, short, stunned, thought, and walk.
Here’s where the prompt took me.

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Mini Story

The Continuing Adventures Of George & Martha, Vol. 9: The Yellow House

Written for Friday Fictioneers, where our host Rochelle
encourages us to be creative by writing a story in 
100 words or less using the photo shown below.
 Here’s where the photo prompt took me.

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Flash, Mini Story

RDP Thursday: waver

Today at RDP, leapingtoes asks us
to get creative with the word
‘waver’. Here’s my take.

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Mystery, Short Story

Silent Witness

Written for Sadje’s What Do You See #311.
Here’s where the photo prompts took me.

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Limerick, Ovi Poem

Dumpster Diving

Written for Esther’s Laughing Along
With A Limerick #256
. The prompt
word is ‘litter’. This is my limerick.

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Poem

RDP Wednesday: regal

Today at RDP, sgeoil asks us
to get creative with the word
‘regal’. Here’s my take.

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Musing, Uncategorized

Cyster Update, Part 2

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Music Blog

November Blue

This week at Glyn Wilton’s Mixed Music Bag,
he’s asking us to write about a song in which
the title or a line mentions the current month. 
Here’s my November artists and their song.

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Flash, Mini Story

RDP Tuesday: explore

Today at RDP, Martha Kennedy asks us
to get creative with the word ‘explore’.
Thanks, Martha! Here’s my take.

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Haibun, Poem

Being Sicilian: A Haibun

Written for Sammi’s Weekend Writing Prompt
#440
where we’re asked to be creative in exactly
97 words using the word ‘heritage’. Here’s my take.

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Poem, Quadrille

Blithe Spirit

Written for dVerse Quadrille #235 – Take Your Poem
For A Whirl Around The Block!
Our host De Jackson,
aka WhimsyGizmo, invites us to pen a poem of precisely
44 words, using a form of the word “whirl”. This is my quad.

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Limerick, Poem

RDP Monday: gluttony

Today at RDP, sgeoil asks us
to get creative with the word.
 ‘gluttony’. Here’s my take.

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Poem, Triolet

Blurred Edges

Written for Sue & Gerry’s Weekly Prompts
Colour Challenge
using the word ‘grey/gray’.
The prompt inspired me to write my first triolet.

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Poem

Is Anybody Listening?

Written for The Sunday Whirl – Wordle #730. Our host is
Brenda Warren and these are our words: ‘ideas,
remember, words, plague, escape, faith,
strength, unity, through, arrest, cruelty, and
injustice’. Here’s where the words took me.

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Flash, Musing, Poem

RDP Sunday: turn

Today at RDP, drkottaway asks us
to get creative with the word ‘turn’.
 Thanks, Doc! Here’s my take.

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