Haiku, Scary, Theme Prompt, Word Challenge, Word Prompt, Writing Challenge, Writing Prompts, Zip Haiku

The Calling: Zip Haiku

Written for Day 7 of Sammi’s “13 Days of
Samhain”
words “hazardously” and “hazy”

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Flash, Micro Story, Theme Prompt, Word Challenge, Word Prompt, Writing Challenge, Writing Prompts

How Cheesy!

Written for “Can You Tell A Story In” –
exactly 41 words using the words below.

hotel, shepherd, trapeze, cheese

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Informative, Music Blog, Song, Theme Prompt, Word Challenge, Word Prompt, Writing Challenge, Writing Prompts

Mammas Don’t Let Your Babies Grow Up To Be Cowboys

Written for Song Lyric Sunday
where our challenge is
“Yee-Haw Get Along Little Doggies”

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Poetry, Theme Prompt, Villanelle, Word Challenge, Word Prompt, Writing Challenge, Writing Prompts

Love-All: A Villanelle

Written for Wea’ve Written Weekly.
Our PoW, Kim, challenges us to write
a poem about a person, real or imagined,
who was forced to leave their home.

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Ekphrastic, Poetry, Quatrain, Scary, Theme Prompt, Word Challenge, Word Prompt, Writing Challenge, Writing Prompts

Night Of Ancients: A Quatrain

Written for Open Link Night & dVerse LIVE
where our host, Lillian, has given us options;
I’ve chosen to write a poem that mentions
at least 3 different colors. Also written for
Day 6 of Sammi’s 13 Days of Samhain and
the words “dangerously” & “darksome”.

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Horror, Photo Prompt, Poetry, Quatrain, Scary, Theme Prompt, Word Challenge, Word Prompt, Writing Challenge, Writing Prompts

Into The Woods: A Quatrain

Written for Crispina’s Crimson’s
Creative Challenge
and for Day 5
of Sammi’s “13 Days of Samhain”
words “treacherously” and “tricky”.

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Bussokusekika, Poetry, Scary, Tanka, Theme Prompt, Word Challenge, Word Prompt, Writing Challenge, Writing Prompts

Samhain Jig: A Bussokusekika

Written for Day 4 of Sammi’s “13 Days
of Samhain Challenge’ with
prompt words
“perilously” and “peculiar”. Also  for
Esther’s Writing Prompt word ‘catch’.

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Limerick, Photo Inspiration, Poetry, Theme Prompt, Word Challenge, Word Prompt, Writing Challenge, Writing Prompts

RDP Thursday: intersecting lines

Written for RDP where Brian asks us
to get creative with “intersecting lines”.

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Art Inspiration, Eerie, Ekphrastic, Poetry, Quatrain, Theme Prompt, Word Challenge, Word Prompt, Writing Challenge, Writing Prompts

Woman In The Weeping Field: A Quatrain

Written for dVerse Poet’s Pub – A Haunting.
Our host, Melissa, challenges us to choose one
of three paintings and write an inspired poem of
no more than 31 lines. This is also in response to
Day 3 of Sammi’s “13 Days of Samhain Challenge”
and the words “menacingly” and “mysterious”.

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Limerick, Poetry, Theme Prompt, Word Challenge, Word Prompt, Writing Challenge, Writing Prompts

Dip Stick’s Diner

Laughing Along With A Limerick.
Esther’s prompt word is “works”.

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Theme Prompt, Word Challenge, Word Prompt, Writing Challenge, Writing Prompts

RDP Wednesday: chuck

Written for RDP where segoil asks us
to get creative with the word “chuck”.

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Mini Story, Word Challenge, Word Prompt, Wordle, Writing Challenge, Writing Prompts

The Kindness Of Strangers

Written for MLMM Monday Wordle;
Di’s prompt words are shown here:

crutch,
wool, warmth, settle, kind, dog,
lonely, secure, push, hand, slip, press

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Free Verse, Poetry, Quadrille, Scary Story, Theme Prompt, Word Challenge, Word Prompt, Writing Challenge, Writing Prompts

Frightfully Fanged: A Quadrille

Written for dVerse Poets Pub – Q25-
“I Screen You Screen, We All Screen….”
where Lisa, invites us to write a
quadrille using the word “screen”.
Also for Sammi’s “13 Days of Samhain”
and the words “frightfully” & “fanged”.

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Scary Story, Short Story, Theme Prompt, Word Challenge, Word Prompt, Wordle, Writing Challenge, Writing Prompts

The Letters Beneath

Written for Sunday Whirl Wordle.
Here are Brenda’s prompt words:

letters, urged, exist, pranks, view, incessantly,
west, fools, lunatic, bones, ghastly, vast

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Poetry, Quatrain, Theme Prompt, Word Challenge, Word Prompt, Writing Challenge, Writing Prompts

Deadly Delicious: A Quatrain

Written for Day 1 of Sammi’s Short Spooky
Prompt Challenge
for the 13 Days of Samhain

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Micro Story, Theme Prompt, Word Challenge, Word Prompt, Writing Challenge, Writing Prompts

Power of Prayer

Written for Weekend Writing Prompt
where our host Sammi asks us to use
“hope” in exactly 10 words. Also for
Sue & Gerry’s Weekly Prompts Weekend
Challenge
and the word “stillness”.

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Mini Story, Theme Prompt, Word Challenge, Word Prompt, Writing Challenge, Writing Prompts

Pickle On The Side

Written for “Can You Tell A Story In” –
exactly 54 words using the words below and
“whisper” from Esther’s Writing Prompts.

pastrami, guitar, maze, burglar, wax

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Informative, Trivia, Word Challenge, Word Prompt, Writing Prompts, Writing Challenge

Did You Know?

Written for fun and for RDP where Punam
has tossed out the word “hodgepodge.”

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Poetry, Senryu, Theme Prompt, Word Challenge, Word Prompt, Writing Challenge, Writing Prompts

RDP Thursday: fringe

Written for RDP where Brian asks
us to get creative with the word “fringe”.

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Limerick, Poetry, Theme Prompt, Word Challenge, Word Prompt, Writing Challenge, Writing Prompts

Be Cool, Daddy-o: A Limerick

Laughing Along With A Limerick.
Esther’s prompt word is “hip”.

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Exaggerated Poem, Lampoon, Poetry, Theme Prompt, Word Challenge, Word Prompt, Wordle, Writing Challenge, Writing Prompts

Fishing Widow

Written for MLMM Monday Wordle;
Di’s prompt words are shown here:

habit,
life, charm, thorough, chart, cast,
memory, settle, wary, amuse, fist, carry

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Flash, Lampoon, Mini Story, Satire, Word Challenge, Word Prompt, Writing Challenge, Writing Prompts

Shaken, Not Stirred

Written for Weekend Writing Prompt
where our host Sammi asks us to use
“gizmo” in exactly 86 words. Also for
Gerry & Sue’s Weekly Prompts Weekend
Challenge
and the word “fanciful”.

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Wordle, Word Challenge, Word Prompt, Poetry, Writing Prompts, Writing Challenge, Quatrain

The Acorn Quest

Written for Sunday Whirl Wordle.
Here are Brenda’s prompt words:

anchor, search, moment, laugh, find, inhibits,
comfort, always, want, squirrel, spaz, auto

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Happy Birthday, Music, Song, Theme Prompt, Word Challenge, Word Prompt, Writing Challenge, Writing Prompts

RDP Tuesday: Calm

Written for RDP, where Martha asks
us  get creative with the word “calm”.

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Haibun, Phrase Prompt, Poetry, Quote, Theme Prompt, Word Challenge, Word Prompt, Writing Challenge, Writing Prompts

Fly On, Amelia: A Haibun

Written for Living Poetry. Bartholomew
asks us to write a poem incorporating
a quote by Amelia Earhart. Also for
RDP and the word “momentous”.

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Informative, Music, Music Blog, Theme Prompt, Word Challenge, Word Prompt, Writing Challenge, Writing Prompts

Let’s Talk About Girls!

Written for Song Lyric Sunday –
“International Day of the Girl Child”

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Photo Prompt, Poetry, Sijo, Theme Prompt, Word Challenge, Word Prompt, Writing Challenge, Writing Prompts

At Rest: A Sijo

Written for Wea’ve Written Weekly.
Our PoW, Destiny, asks us to write
a poem using one or more of the
Urdu words she has provided.
Inspiration from an image by
Brian at bushboys world.

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Ekphrastic, Poetry, Quadrille, Theme Prompt, Word Challenge, Word Prompt, Writing Challenge, Writing Prompts

Back Before Dark

Written for dVerse Poets Quadrille –
“A Pocket In Your Poems”. Our host,
De, asks us to write a 44-word poem
using some form of the word “pocket”.

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Mini Story, Theme Prompt, Word Challenge, Word Prompt, Writing Challenge, Writing Prompts

Get Down!

Written for “Can You Tell A Story In” –
exactly 62 words using the keywords below
and for Esther’s Writing Prompts’ word ‘play’.

breakdance, vaccine, martini, shifty, woodpecker, horoscopd

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