let me in
I’m not a burden
life is short
I can’t last here long
pelting rain painful
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My Prompts 1- WDYS
WDYS 9-1-25
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Tanka Tuesday
look out my window
patio with empty pots
though hope sees blossoms
feelings of promise in vine
not nourished and still striving
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I love plants and miss flowers I could not afford this year, so pots stand empty. I thought this bit of green was a weed, but now I think it is part of a honeysuckle plant I had in this pot last year. It seems Im surrounded by a discouraging world and this plant gives me hope.
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MLMM Wordle
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Joe walked into the birthday/anniversary party, a bonus because they were married on her birthday. A celebration was indicated by all the balloons, even a banner with happy words displayed on it. Many ribbons, cards and even candles were displayed to enhance the atmosphere. In the center of the presents, a tall cake was dripping frosting from the candles. Joe, with his usual take on anything celebratory, grabbed his reluctant wife and started dancing wildly. Apparently Joe had already done some celebrating.
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MLMM Monday Wordle #440
MLMM – Tight!
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Fandango’s Flashback Friday
Limerick Time
The teacher stood angry, said “well?
Don’t you have anything to tell?”
Susan’s eyes looked down
Her red face a frown
“Sorry I don’t know how to spell”.
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Laughing Along With A Limerick
Living Poetry
Clouds
Coming
Rain will pour
Washing the washed
Laboring woman
Prays for the sun to shine
Other work has to be done
Fulfilling her imposed duty
A mother and wife often burdened
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“Clouds coming, rain will pour, washing the washed”.
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September Visual Poetry Prompt
dVerse Poets
It’s easy to go to the park, have a bountiful lunch, play on the fields, and not think of the people who made this day important. The first Labor Day was September 5, 1882, in NYC. And in 1884, congress declared the first Monday in September to be an official holiday. Only a few reasons for this day below.
Lunch atop a Skyscraper is a black-and-white photograph taken on September 20, 1932, of eleven ironworkers sitting on a steel beam of the RCA Building, 850 feet (260 meters) above the ground during the construction of Rockefeller Center in Manhattan, New York City. It was a staged photograph arranged as a publicity stunt, part of a campaign promoting the skyscraper.
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machinists iron
steel work teeters on high beams
miners give their lungs
ranchers hope for good weather
train inspectors secure rails
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sweatshop children saved
new safety rules for workers
rights for new mothers
new forty hour work weeks
paid leave for worker’s illness
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Haibun Monday 9-1-25: Labor
3TC 8-31-25
Your skin color determines
Why you are being captured
Put in a cage from their hunt
Justice takes a holiday
Freedom is now just a word
Generations recognize
This old unlawful pattern
Not thinking we’d allow it
Ever again.
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Three Things Challenge #MM168
Six Sentence Story
“What do ya have in the sack?”
“Uh, what sack” as he shifted his bag under his backpack.
“The one you’re hiding, bud!”
“I have a surprise for Patty.”
“Patty, what happened to that girl with the long blonde braids?” He grabbed the sack and opened it up, and got a shocked sick look on his face, seeing two blonde braids.
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Sunday’s Six Sentence Story Word Prompt!
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