Written for Tanka Tuesday where Colleen
asks us to write a poem using homophones.
Here’s where the prompt took me.
Category: Writing Prompts
Last Trip Home
Written for Sunday Whirl Wordle. Our host is
Brenda Warren; her prompt words for this week are
shown below. Here’s where the prompts took me.
lifetime, share, relax, connect, place, last,
class, awe, home, will, years, & trip
RDP Tuesday: gift
Written for RDP, where Martha asks us
to get creative with the word “gift”.
Thanks, Martha! Here’s where the prompt took me.
Inferno: A Badger’s Hexastitch
Written for Sue & Gerry’s Weekly Prompts
Weekend Challenge word ‘hell’. I am using
a fab photo by Brian at bushboys world for
my image. Here’s where the prompts took me.
Going To The Game
Written for dVerse Poets Quadrille –
This One’s Gone To The Dogs! The
challenge cooked up by De Jackson is to
write a 44 word poem with the word ‘dog’.
Here’s where the prompt took me.
Wall Of Black
Written for Sammi’s Weekend Writing Prompt
where she asks us to get creative in exactly 53
words using the prompt word ‘thunderstorm’.
Here’s where the prompt took me.
RDP Monday: eupeptic
Written for RDP where segoil asks us
to get creative with the word “eupeptic”.
Thanks, Heather! Here’s where the prompt took me.
Between The Snowflakes
Written for Reena’s Xploration Challenge,
where we are encouraged to wrap our heads
around the word ‘elusive’. Here’s my take.
Shopping Day
Written for Esther’s “Can You Tell A Story In” –
exactly 100 words using the prompt words
shown below. Here’s where the prompts took me.
expire – squint – cult – lemon – grandpa
stampede – helicopter – market – pompom – woof
Call Me!
Written for Song Lyric Sunday –
“Celebrating World Telecommunications
& Information Society Day”.
This is my response to the challenge.
His Majesty
Written for SenHai Saturday where our host,
Susi asks us to write a senryu and haiku using
the image shown below as inspiration.
Here’s where the image took me.
The Sea
Written for David’s Wea’ve Written Weekly.
Hope is our PoW this week; her prompt is
to write a 10-20 line Dinggedicht poem.
Here’s where the prompt took me.
RDP Saturday: votive
Written for RDP where Punam asks us to
get creative with the words “votive”.
Thanks, Punam! Here’s where the prompt took me.
The Seventeenth Shelf
Written for Sadje’s What Do You See
and for Muse on Monday where David
asks us to write about a hunt or a search.
Here’s where the prompts took me.
Acts Of Love
Written for dVerse Poets – Unlock With Lists.
Our host, Björn, invites us to get creative with
the use of lists. Here’s where the prompt took me.
Mellow Yellow
Written for Haiku Fridays with J-Dub.
Thanks, Jill. Here’s mine.
💛
The Messenger’s Bicycle
When I saw this photo on Brian’s site,
Bushboy’s World, I knew I wanted to
write something. Here it is. Thanks to
Brian for the use of his wonderful photo.
The old bicycle leaned against the shed wall in Gallipoli, 1915. Private Thomas Webb had ridden it through dust and danger, leather saddlebags stuffed with dispatches too sensitive for the telegraph.
The green canvas bag held rations …. hard biscuits, a tin of jam. The pale linen pouch concealed folded maps, pencil-marked with troop positions. The rolled leather bundle on the front fork? Letters, dozens of them, from mothers and sweethearts, promises of home.
Thomas never read them. That wasn’t his job.
On a Tuesday morning in April, he made his last run between command posts. The bicycle came back without him, bags still full, chain still ticking softly as it rolled to a stop against a stone wall.
Someone propped it there. Nobody moved it.
If only bags could speak.
NAR© 2026
This is “Diggers of the Anzac (This is Gallipoli)” by John Williamson
All text and graphics are copyright for Nancy Richy and are not to be used without permission. NAR©2017-present.
Secret Pond
Written for Crimson’s Creative Challenge.
Here’s where Crispina’s image took me.
Going Home
Our gracious host, Rochelle, is asking us to get
creative in 100 words or less using the photo
seen below. Welcome to Friday Fictioneers.
This is where the prompt took me.
RDP Thursday: peaceful
Written for RDP, where Martha asks us
to get creative with the word “peaceful”.
Thanks, Martha! Here’s where the prompt took me.
Moving On
Written for Tanka Tuesday where Robbie asks
us to write any form of poem to tell a story with
a beginning, a middle, and an end. Thanks to
Maureen for her from Thursday Door Challenge
photo. Here’s where the prompts took me.
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–“
Continue reading “What Remains”Asphalt Jungle
Written for Fandango’s Story Starter
which is shown below.
Here’s where the prompt line took me.
A Drip Too Far
Written for MLMM Monday Wordle;
the prompt words are shown below.
Here’s where the prompts took me.
tap, leak, annoyance, awkward, cost, cheaper,
tap, leak, annoyance, awkward, cost, cheaper,
difference, chrome, waste, smell, trip, cleaner
The Wildest Wrangler Of The West
Written for Living Poetry where our host,
Bartholomew, asks us to write an exaggerated poem
telling a tall tale in glorious detail. I have paired
my poem with a great image from Melissa’s
Fandango Flash Fiction Challenge.
Here’s where the prompts took me.
The Line Between
Written for Sunday Whirl Wordle. Brenda is our host
and her prompt words are shown below.
Here’s where the prompts took me.
wide, line, self, hollow, rare, track,
twist, eye, trance, trudge, powder, empty
RDP Tuesday: rigamarole
Written for RDP, where Martha asks us
to get creative with the word “rigamarole”.
Thanks, Martha! Here’s where the prompt took me.
Smoke Tells All
Written for TN Kerr’s Writing Prompts and Practice
and for three Fandango FOWC prompts, including
’silk’, ‘sentimental’, & ‘impractical’; TN’s prompts
are shown below. Here’s where they took me.
Inconvenient Truth
Written for Sammi’s Weekend Writing Prompt
where she asks us to get creative in exactly
46 words using the prompt word ‘rapacious’.
Also for Gerry and Sue’s Weekly Prompts
Weekend Challenge – ‘collapsible’.
Here’s where the prompts took me.
Going Nowhere
Written for “It’s Story Time” where Jolene
has given us four prompts to work with.
They are shown below; here’s where they took me.
