Author: rugby843

The challenge goes out around 6.00 am UK time, but pingbacks may not show immediately as they have to be approved manually and sometimes I’m late accessing my blog. I will get there, I promise!
Looking forward to reading your responses.

Your three words today are:
CHOP CHIP CHAP

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Some people love the old chap

Some thought he got a bad wrap

I think, got some of what he deserved

A little chip off his shoulder which is never reserved

A chop to his rep, though, never achieved

Because thousands of lemmings choose to believe.

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Three Things Challenge #M716

Favorite fragrances, I have a few

Looking out on a sky blue

Drifting, wafting pleasantly

Newly mown grass speaks to me

Fresh and green

Damp and clean

Nostalgia for the barefoot child

Running across green grass piles

Footprints on the porch

Green feet on small legs short

A child who loves the new mowed grass

Is such a happy lass.

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Writer’s Workshop Prompts for June 6

4 line stanzas, as few as one stanza and up to as many as you like.

8 syllables or less per line

Rhyming is AAAb. The second stanza would be CCCd. The third, EEEf. And so on. Meaning nothing in one stanza must rhyme with anything in the previous stanza. The fourth line does not rhyme.

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Image: https://startupsmagazine.co.uk/article-next-steps

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Writing, exciting adventure

Imagination surrender

Explore your vision of splendor

Aim for new steps and experiences to pen.

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Step up, advance your exposure

Search your mind, let the disclosure

As in music, you’re composing

Make symphonic word creations thrum.

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Ovi Poetry Challenge 51: STEPS is your inspiration.

Misstep break

Attention not paid

Leg faltered

Bones broken

Four months of healing needed

I’m more careful now

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W3 Prompt #110: Wea’ve Written Weekly

Normandy will forever be marked by the D-Day Landings and the Battle of Normandy that led to the liberation of France and Europe, June 6, 1944.

One-Liner Wednesday – Snakes on a plane?

Early morn

Glide smoothly on navy blue

A paddle board my ride

Light blue waves burble

Relaxing here

Among blues

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Poetry form: seox from
https://murisopsis.wordpress.com

Moonwashed Weekly Prompt – Shades of blue

The Time of Planting Grains (June 6 – 19) Boshu 芒種, First Pentad, June 6 – 10

Kigo Words for this Season

1. Your syllabic poetry writing invitation is to choose a kigo word or phrase from the seasonal kigo list on the post. Or you can select from the summer category for the Northern Hemisphere, or the winter category for the Southern Hemisphere from the 500 Kigo Words.
2. Share your kigo word on your post. If you write freestyle poetry, you must share a syllabic form, that includes a kigo word.
3. You must use one kigo word or phrase in your syllabic poem. If you share a kigo word or phrase in your freestyle poem, you must include a kigo word or phrase in your syllabic poem.
4. You DO NOT have to write a haiku. You can select from the 24 forms listed. (We all know only haiku and haibun require kigo season words). This challenge uses the kigo words for inspiration.

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Evening Garden

with the rain comes mosquitoes

fireflies glimmer after sunset

liquid drops dot the roses

white hydrangeas brighten inset

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24 Seasons Syllabic Poetry Challenge, No. 37, 6/4/24, Part I, The Time of Planting Grains (June 6 – 19) Boshu 芒種

For today’s prosery prompt, I am taking lines from Poe’s “Sleeper”, which may be read in its entirety here. Your lines are as follows:

I pray to God that she may lie
Forever with unopened eye 

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He did not start out wishing her dead. Mesmerized by her at first, only watching from afar, he didn’t consider himself a stalker, or meant nothing malevolent. That was his thinking, initially. She had a definite haughty demeanor, but he could be like that too; confident and even feeling superior at times. He did not like that about himself, but it was who he had grown up to be. Failing to outstep his parents’ influence, he was the man he secretly despised.

He followed her, not realizing the power she seemed to have over him. He approached her one evening near her home. His intent unclear, even to him. Naturally she was frightened, threatened to call the police. She reached for her phone; he struck—knife quick and deadly. Then he spoke: “I pray to God that she may lie
Forever with unopened eye”.

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https://dversepoets.com/2024/06/03/forever-with-unopened-eye/r

Sara pulled the drapery back to reveal the item she was intended to wear for the wedding ceremony. She looked down at her rather plain white dress and thought, what in the world? And it was big, colorful, looked heavy, and it would probably fall to her shoulders! She quickly pulled the drapes back over the accessory, of course, specifically chosen by her soon-to-be mother in law. What was Mrs. Peterson thinking?

Sara knew she wasn’t liked, but this was too much. She and Paul had decided what to wear early on and the entire celebration was to be low key. This “hat” was not it! Sara walked into the groom’s area and pulled Paul aside. “I realize it’s suppose to be bad luck to see each other before we say our vows, but we need to talk.”

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Photo Challenge #518

Welcome to the daily Three Things Challenge.
Use your imagination and creativity using one, two or all three words that may or may not be related. There are no restrictions regarding length, style, or genre, though please keep it family friendly.

Tag your responses with 3TC, #threethingschallenge or TTC, and you can add my logo if you wish. Your three words today are:
CATCH LOOP PIN

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Joe was always considered a “catch”- the handsome young man was “going somewhere”, older people bragged. “You can pin a star on him, folks, because he has what it takes!” Joe thought the pressure of these statements would be the end of him. It was too much. Joe left the area and never returned, keeping all of those prodigious remarks in the background. Joe joined the peace corps, stayed out of the loop of social media and enjoyed his own version of success.

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Three Things Challenge #M715