Written for Tanka Tuesday where our host,
Willow, asks us to write a Celtic Autumn poem.
I have written a Séadna.
Category: Theme Prompt
Going For It
Written for dVerse Poets Quadrille Monday:
Jumpstart Your Poem. Our challenge, put
forth by De Jackson, is to write a poem in
44 words, including the word ‘jump’.
Suspended Automation
Written for Living Poetry. Bart claims
that vending machines are under-
represented in poetry and I’m
inclined to agree! Our challenge
is to write a vending machine poem.
Downstream: Mirror Cinquain
Written for Reena’s Xploration Challenge.
Our challenge is to ponder the words below
and use them in a piece of any form or size:
light ~ fall ~ current ~ break
Continue reading “Downstream: Mirror Cinquain”Adrenaline
Written for “Can You Tell A Story In” –
exactly 75 words using these prompt words:
coffee – Lamborghini – eyebrow –
tradition – chips – socks – maths
The Spice Is Right: Song Lyric Sunday
Written for Song Lyric Sunday –
“Spice It Up”
In Plain Sight: A Minnie Ming Mystery
Borrowed Words, New Worlds Challenge –
our hosts Sarah & Rohini invite us to write a
piece of our choosing incorporating the
following quote by Arthur Conan Doyle:
“The world is full of obvious things which
nobody by any chance ever observes.”
The Introduction: A Chōka
Written for Tanka Tuesday where our host,
Melissa, asks us to write syllabic poetry
using “forgetting” as our theme.
Paradise On Ice: A SenHai
Written for SenHai Saturday where our host
Susi asks us to write a senryu and haiku
using this image as inspiration.
What A Bozo: A Haiku?
Written for Haiku Fridays with J-Dub.
Image provided by Jill Witherspoon.
Fooled you! It’s really a senryu!
Continue reading “What A Bozo: A Haiku?”Room 407
Written for Muse On Monday.
Our challenge is to write a story
about a piece of obsolete technology.
Love’s Open Door
Written for Thursday Inspiration –
“Keep On Loving You”
Star Search
Written for Melissa’s Fandango Flash Fiction
Challenge using the image below as inspiration.
What’s Left Behind
Written for Sadje’s weekly question:
What Do You See?
Grounded: A Haibun
Written for dVerse Poets Haibun Monday:
Journeying. Our host, Frank, challenges
us to create a haibun based on journeying.
Pier 13
Written for dVerse Poetics: But no, a butterfly.
Our host, Merril, challenges us to write a
poem in any form incorporating the names
of at least three butterflies from a list she
has provided. I have chosen Crimson Patch,
Fatal Metalmark, Golden Hairstreak,
Painted Lady, and Velvet Rose.
The Second Shift
Endings & Beginnings Challenge – our hosts
Sarah & Rohini invite us to write about an
ending becoming a beginning, or conversely,
a beginning marking the end of something.
Ghost Trip
Laughing Along With A Limerick.
The prompt word is “sheet”.
Reflections On An August Afternoon: American Cinquain
Written for Living Poetry. Our host, Bart,
asks us to write a poem based on
the distractions of August.
The Chase
Written for Reena’s Xploration Challenge,
which is to write a poem or story as
inspired by parataxis and hypotaxis.
Raindance
Written for “Can You Tell A Story In” –
exactly 51 words using the prompts below.
yawn ~ weather ~ toot ~ cookies ~ necromancer
Continue reading “Raindance”Sir Swellimpedeedoo Says “I Do”
Written for Wea’ve Written Weekly.
Our PoW, Matt, challenges us to
write a 10-line nonsense poem
as inspired by this image:
Jackie DeShannon ~ August 21, 1944: Song Lyric Sunday
Written for Song Lyric Sunday –
“The First Emperor”
Twilight Guardian
Written for SenHai Saturday where our host
Susi asks us to write a senryu and haiku
using this image as inspiration.
Sorry, My Bad
Written for Muse On Monday. We are asked
to write a story in the form of an email.
Texas Sky
Written for Haiku Fridays with J-Dub.
Image provided by Jill Witherspoon.
Let’s Dance!
Written for Thursday Inspiration –
“Land of 1,000 Dances”
The Order
Our gracious host, Rochelle, is asking us to get
creative in 100 words or less using the photo
seen below. This is Friday Fictioneers.
Tiger, Surprised: A Sonnet
Written for dVerse Poetics – ‘Launch:
Light and Truth of Painting’. Our host,
Melissa, asks us to write a poem inspired
by one of the works of Henri Rousseau.
Empire Of Secrets
Written for Sunday Whirl Wordle.
Here are Brenda’s prompt words:
wild ~ cross ~ left ~ staff ~ last ~ split
burial ~ grind ~ space ~ land ~ room ~ hood
The Elephant's Trunk 