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Written for Esther’s “Can You Tell A Story In” –
exactly 39 words using the four prompt words
shown below. In 39 words, here’s my flash.
peacock, newsletter, cymbals, and toothpaste
Continue reading “A Winning Smile”Written for dVerse Poetics – “The Smile In A Simile” –
hosted this week by Dora. This is my response.
Written for dVerse Poets Quadrille
Monday – #227 where our host,
De Jackson, has offered up the
word “smile”. Here is my quadrille.
Written for Thursday Inspiration #304 –
“evil”. Here’s my inspired response.
Written for Esther’s Laughing Along
With A Limerick #251 incorporating
the word ‘built’. This is my limerick.
Written for Shweta’s Saturday Six Word Story
Prompt #152 – based on the word ‘smile’.
Here’s where the prompt word took me.
Written for Ovi Poetry Challenge #69;
our inspiration word is “spice”. Here is my ovi.
It’s said love makes the world go ‘round
A loving couple altar bound
Their forever love have they found
What a very happy day!
What is the special joy of life
A happy man, a happy wife
A recipe with lots of spice
Who could ask for more?
Keep fighting to a minimum
Lovemaking to a maximum
Your lives will never be humdrum
And you’ll smile all the while!
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This is “Love Makes The World Go ‘Round” by Deon Jackson
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There are few things better than waking up feeling happy and in a good mood. It doesn’t matter how you got to that happy place, as long as it didn’t result in someone else’s unhappiness. If you woke up feeling glum, chum, I’m sure this piece of fun from the Bluebird of Bitterness will take that frown and turn it upside down! Looking for a smile? Click here!
This is Rufus Wainwright doing his best Judy Garland singing “Get Happy”. Check out those gorgeous gams!
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Lisa is serving as host for today’s dVerse Prosery prompt.
We are to write a piece of up to 144 words and include the line
“But that smile was the last smile to come upon her face”.
This is my response for Lisa’s dVerse Prosery prompt.
We were living in Tennessee with my Aunt Luella and Uncle Boz after my mam and pap were killed in the South Carrollton, Kentucky train wreck of 1917. Just five days before Christmas and our family was torn apart. My mam and Aunt Luella were sisters; mam’s death nearly destroyed Auntie.
Back in January we all had such high hopes for 1917. My cousin Henry, Aunt Luella and Uncle Boz’s firstborn, was set to graduate high school in June, the first one in the family with that distinction. Aunt Luella was so proud of Henry, she couldn’t help smiling thinking of Henry’s bright future.
But that smile was the last smile to come upon her face.
Henry enlisted in the army one month before graduation. He died in the Battle of Cambrai on Thanksgiving Day.
We lost too much that year.
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144 Words
This is Stephen Foster’s “My Old Kentucky Home” sung by Paul Robeson
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