Written for Thursday Inspiration #310 โ
โOh Sherrieโ. Hereโs my response.
Tag: Lovers
Done
Written for dVerse Quadrille #237 โ Zero.
Our host, Melissa, from Mom With A Blog,
invites us to create a poem of exactly 44 words
using the word โzeroโ. This is my quadrille.
RDP Wednesday: yield
Today at RDP, sgeoil asks us to get creative
with the word โyieldโ. Thanks, Heather!
I found this poem in a box of mementos;
it was written by me in 1965.
The last stanza was written just now.
Discarded
Our gracious host, Rochelle, at Friday Fictioneers
encourages us to be creative by writing a story inย
100 words or less using the photo shown below.
ย Hereโs where the photo prompt took me.
Sweater Weather
Written for Cinquain Poetry Prompt #22.
Our inspiration word is โsmokeโ.
I have written a Mirror Cinquain.
Weighing The Odds
Written for Sue & Gerryโs Weekly Prompts
Weekend Challenge, using the term โPros &
Consโ. Hereโs were the prompt took me.
Baby Come Back
Written for Thursday Inspiration #300 โ
โAll Out Of Loveโ and for RDP FRIDAY!
RETURN! Hereโs my contribution.
See You In September
This week at Glyn Wiltonโs Mixed Music Bag,
heโs asking us to write about a song in which
the title or a line mentions the current month.ย
Hereโs my September artist and their song.
On Mulberry Street
Written for Sadjeโs What Do You See #306.
Hereโs where the photo prompt took me.
Night Music
Written for Cinquain Poetry Prompt #16
where our inspiration word is โbelieveโ.
Also written for dVerse Poets MTB:
Cinquains Revisited. I have written a
ย Mirror Cinquain, a 10-line, single stanza poem
with a syllable pattern of 2โ4โ6โ8โ2โ8โ6โ4โ2.
Sealed With A Kiss
This week at Glyn Wiltonโs Mixed Music Bag,
heโs asking us to write about a song in which
the title or a line mentions the current month.
Hereโs my September artist and his song.
Lover, Come Back!
Sammi asks us to be creative with the word
โumbrellaโ in exactly 24 words while Gerry &
Sue want us to include the word โburgeoningโ.
Maybe this timely image from Mike at OMIMM
will inspire me. Hereโs where my thoughts went.
Imitation Of Love: An Etheree
Written for Melissaโs Fandango
Flash Fiction Challenge โ #330.
Hereโs where the photo took me.
Just This One
In 2017, this was the first story
I wrote for The Elephantโs Trunk.
Rewritten for The Unicorn Challenge where we are encouraged
to write a story in 250 words or less using the photo below
as inspiration. Here’s the memory that was ignited.
Broken Alliance
Written for Sammiโs Weekend Writing
Prompt #424 using the word โdemureโ,
Gerry & Sueโs Weekly Prompts Weekend
Challenge (intoxicating) and OMIMM
Weekly Writing Prompt #67. In 70 words,
this is where my imagination took me.
The Breakup
Written for Sammiโs Weekend Writing
Prompt #415 using the word โconfideโ
in exactly 96 words; also Fandangoโs
Story Starter #198 and for Gerry & Sueโs
Weekly Prompts Weekend Challenge โ
โcavalierโ. This is my 96-word story.
Come Sundown
Written for OLWG #415.
The prompts appear below.
This is my story.
An American Tragedy
Written for OLWG #414 and ZOZO
17.04.25 โ Extra Prompts. Combined,
there are seven inspirations, four for
the first story and three for the second.
This is my take and these are my stories.
Dismissed
Written for The Unicorn Challenge where
we are urged to get creative in 250 words or less.
The photo below is our inspiration; this is my story.
Muted Moments
Written for Muse On Monday,
where the theme is โlost in a fog’.
Also for Sadjeโs โWhat Do You See?” –
#284 and the two corresponding photo
prompts shown below. This is my story.
The Argument
Our gracious host, Rochelle, at Friday Fictioneers
asks us to use the photo below as inspiration
to write creatively in 100 words or less while
making every word count. This is my flash.
Palisades Park
Our gracious host, Rochelle, at Friday Fictioneers
asks us to use the photo below as inspiration
to write creatively in 100 words or less while
making every word count. This is my flash.
January Heart
This week at Glyn Wiltonโs Mixed Music Bag,
heโs asking us to write about a song in which
the title or a line mentions the current month.
Hereโs my featured January artist and her song.
Sweet Talker
Written for Estherโs โCan You Tell A Story Inโฆ..?โ
exactly 18 words using the required three words
โresolutionsโ, โcustardโ and โhairdryerโ. I have also
responded to Sue & Gerryโs Weekly Prompts Colour
Challenge (โBlancโ) and used one of the great images
by Kevin at The Beginning At Last/No Theme Thursday.
This is my 18 word story.
A Long Hot Soak
Written for Wordle #679,
using the 12 prompts below.
Here is my story.
sighs ใป fire ใป flip ใป ravaged ใป blue ใป floor ใป
emerge ใป masks ใป ashes ใป soak ใป skin ใป weave
A Great Working Relationship
Written for The New, Unofficial, On-Line Writerโs Guild.
This week the three prompts from Aooga at OLWG #388 are
(1) tea coloured eyes, (2) change the words of this poem,
and (3) New Mexico schmerz. We can use them as is,
as an inspiration or not at all. This is my story.
To Kiss Your Lips: A Dectina Refrain
Written for Sadjeโs What Do You See # 258,
this is my Dectina Refrain response.
Come,
my love,
lie with me
on the cool grass
beneath the pear tree,
Read love sonnets to me
till I grow warm with desire.
Now the wine has gone to my head
and I ache to feel your lips on mine.
Come, my love, lie with me on the cool grass
NARยฉ2024
#WDYS
This is โShut Up and Kiss Meโ by Mary Chapin Carpenter
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I’ve Given Up: A Dectina Refrain
Written for Sadje’s What Do You See #253
Out!
Go on!
Take your stuff
and hit the road.
You are not wanted
around here anymore.
You broke my heart with your lies.
I abhor the feel of your mouth.
My bed is not big enough for three!
Out! Go on! Take your stuff and hit the road.
NARยฉ2024
#WDYS
This is โDonโt Come Around Here No Moreโ by Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers
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In A Groove
Written for dVerse Poets Quadrille #207 Spin Cycle
Hold my hand, honey
and take me for a spin
Twirl me โround the dance floor
Iโm loving the spin Iโm in
Whisper those sweet nothings, baby
send shivers up my spine
and make my head spin, lover
tonight I’m gonna make you mine
NARยฉ2024
44 Words
This is โThat Old Black Magicโ by Louis Prima and Keely Smith, the Heppest of the Hep!
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The Condo
Written for Six Sentence Story where this week
we are challenged to use the word โfaintโ
in a story of exactly six sentences. Hereโs mine.
After the boating accident, I returned to New York but didnโt have the heart to stay in the condo where Kevin and I used to live; I drove to my parents’ beach house in Amagansett, leaving the apartment untouched, thinking to return one day when I summoned the courage.
Too many memories and sleepless nights at the beach house brought me no comfort or closure …. an impossibility since Kevin’s body was never recovered …. and I now found myself back in Manhattan staring up at the window of my old condo and seeing ghosts โฆ. ghosts of Kevin.
An overwhelming force drew me closer and I slowly entered the building and climbed the stairs to the apartment we once shared. Approaching the door, I could hear faint music, laughter and the sound of familiar voices; a man and a woman were inside, unaware of my presence as I stood outside the door for what seemed a lifetime …. and in that passage of time I knew beyond a doubt who they were.
Blood pounding in my head, I raised my fist to knock on the door, then stepped back.
Resolutely and silently, I walked away.
NARยฉ2024
This is โGhost Behind My Eyesโ by Ozzy Osbourne
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