Tag: Dectina Refrain

Sammi at Weekend Writing Prompt has challenged us to write
creatively in exactly 60 words, incorporating the word ‘vapid’.
Using a few other prompt words, here is my 60-word response
in the form of a Dectina Refrain and a Haiku Duet.

Old
man with
vapid thoughts
and empty eyes
lives in denial;
puppeteers pulling strings
feeding hypnotic untruths
into flaccid, desolate brain
on the outskirts of insanity.
Old man with vapid thoughts and empty eyes

Gray, grayer smoke
above the clouds in the sky
no light shining brightly

Brown dying trees
dried leaves lay at the roots
no buds tacitly emerging

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60 words

Weekend Writing Prompt #350 – Vapid

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Weekly Prompts Weekend Challenge – Desolate

FOWC with Fandango — Outskirts

This is “Fool On The Hill” by the Beatles

Dectina Refrain:
This refrain is written as follows:
1^st line – 1 syllable, 2^nd line – 2 syllables
3^rd line – 3 syllables, and so on for 9 lines;
the 10^th line is comprised of the first four lines
as one stand-alone line.

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