Prosery, Theme Prompt, Phrase Prompt, Writing Prompts, Writing Challenge, Quote

Tenants

Written for dVerse Prosery: Something
Shuffling Overhead. Our host, Kim, invites
us to write a piece of prose in 144 words or
less, incorporating a line from the poem
“Body” by Alice Oswald seen here:

“the dead were settling in under their mudroom
and something was shuffling overhead”

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Phrase Prompt, Prose, Prosery, Theme Prompt, Writing Challenge, Writing Prompts

Dreams From An Unfinished Mind

Written for dVerse Prosery – “Tribute to
Gordon Downie”. Our host, Mish, asks us
to write a piece of prose using this line
from Downie’s poem, “Starpainters”
:

“The Starpainters are taking over now.”

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Phrase Prompt, Prose, Prosery, Quote, Theme Prompt, Writing Challenge, Writing Prompts

Ashes

Written for dVerse Prosery – Luminous
Accountings. Our host, Dora, invites us
to write a piece of prose in no more than
144 words incorporating the following
line from “King of the River” by Stanley
Kunitz: “…and the iridescent image
swims through a mirror that flows.”

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Literary Quote, Phrase Prompt, Prose, Prosery, Theme Prompt, Writing Challenge, Writing Prompts

I Am What Waits

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.

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Phrase Prompt, Prose, Prosery, Theme Prompt, Writing Challenge, Writing Prompts

What Remains

Written for dVerse Poets Prosery –
Paul Laurance Dunbar. Our host, Dora,
asks us to include the line below from Dunbar’s
poem, “Sympathy” in a 144-word piece of prose.
Here’s where the prompt took me.

“And the faint perfume from its chalice steals–“

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Phrase Prompt, Poetry, Prosery, Theme Prompt, Writing Prompts

The Threshold

Written for dVerse Prosery Pub – Publication.
where our host, Melissa, has asked us to write
a
144-word piece of prosery incorporating the lines
from Emily Dickinson’s poem: “Publication – is
the Auction of the Mind”
. Here’s my response.

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Prose, Prosery, Theme Prompt, Writing Prompts

Quietly

Written for dVerse Prosery – “Winter Lull” – hosted by
Merril who has asked us to write a 144-word

piece of prose, including the poetic verse
shown below. This is my response.

 “It all belies our existence; we wait, and are still denied.”
from “Winter-Lull” by D.H. Lawrence

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Flash, Prose, Prosery, Short Prose, Theme Prompt

The Trench

Written dVerse Prosery Monday – Bury Me.
Our host Lisa asks us to write a 144 word piece
of flash prose incorporating the line “Bury me
with the lies I told” from the song “Bury Me” by

Alejandro Escovedo. Here’s where the prompt took me.

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Flash, Haibun, Poem, Prosery

In Papa’s Garden

Written for dVerse Poets Prosery: Yvor’s
“Time and the Garden”
. Our host, Sanaa, asks us
to write a short piece of prosery of up to 144 words
and include a complete line from the poem
“Time and the Garden”.
Here is my haibun.

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Flash, Prosery, Short Prose

Into Oblivion

Written for dVerse Prosery: Walcott’s Dark August.
Our host Kim asks us to write a piece of flash fiction
of up to or exactly 144 words, including the line shown
below by Derek Walcott. Here’s where his line took me.

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