Truthful Tuesday: October 22nd, 2024
Truthful Tuesday
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WDYS 10-21-24
Halloween flames are burning
Cemeteries aglow
Something floating, turning
In the night breeze flow
It oversees the pumpkins
Guarding them from knives
Which make them into jack-o’-lanterns
With weird mouths and eyes
It’s so humiliating
Every ghost agrees
That is why they fly above
Sometimes stuck in trees
They give their lives if needed
Guarding the odd shaped squash
At Halloween they’re needed
When pumpkin carvers are awash.
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dVerse Poets Haibun Monday
Satisfy your thirst for seasonal color! Write a haibun that alludes to either Fall foliage or Spring blossoms.
New to haibun? The form consists of one to a few paragraphs of prose—usually written in the present tense—that evoke an experience and are often non-fictional/autobiographical. They may be preceded or followed by one or more haiku—nature-based, using a seasonal image—that complement without directly repeating what the prose stated.
I love autumn colors best but I also enjoy a budding pink tree.
🌸
lowly crab apple
now it is your time to shine
lovely pink blossoms
deer venture out from their lairs
to munch upon your beauty
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Haibun Monday 10-21-24: Fall foliage or Spring blossoms
MLMM Wordle
The tree was hollow, the bark disturbed
A posted note of sadness referred
A shallow mind, a careless point
Two bottles shared, the truth appoint
The ring returned, the couple leave
See a marriage’s love deceived.
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**Di, this was the most difficult of them all, think it’s me😀
MLMM Monday Wordle #395
Limerick Time
I’ll tell a sad tale of a mole
Peeked out of his small home, a hole
It was a mistake
Got smashed by a rake
He should have stayed under the knoll.
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I started the poem with a mole
Completely forgetting the pole
I should have reread
What the prompt said
Think I’m losing my poet role.
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Laughing Along With A Limerick
Depression
Finally, it happened
Free at last
Oppressing waves that held her
In the ocean of her past
She was drowning
Breathless in her guilt.
Then suddenly lightened
Feeling she could fly
Out of the mire
Of wanting to die.
The burden now lifted
Her mind justly quieted
She feels free at last.
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No Theme Thursday: 10.17.24
OLWG 388
This week’s prompts are:
tea coloured eyes
change the words of this poem
New Mexico schmerz
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I was minding my own business sitting, waiting for my food order at what can only be described as a New Mexico schmerz, when in walked an angry guy. He had tousled black hair, tea colored eyes, and a big mouth. He sat down next to a young woman who was busily scribbling something on a napkin. Suddenly he grabbed it, read what she had written and was really mad about it. “You’ll change the words of this poem if you know what’s good for ya!” She looked cowed and got up and walked out of the restaurant. He shredded the napkin and threw it on her plate. Then he left also and they parted ways outside. I’ll never know what caused him to be upset, but my curiosity is killing me!
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OLWG# 388- Pistolettes and Etouffee at Steamboat Bill’s
The Unicorn Challenge
a single light
never meant to lessen fright
who knows what’s lurking there
behind the stone wall standing there
the scary season is upon us
monsters loose will cause a fuss
must be careful friends
you never know what might descend.
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The Unicorn Challenge-18/10/24
Six Sentence Stories – Coincidences!
Rules of the hop:
Write 6 Sentences. No more. No less.
Use the current week’s prompt word.
Link up at Wednesday’s post. Link goes live at 6:00 pm through Saturday late…
Spread the word and put in a good one to your fellow writers.
PROMPT WORD: WEB
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I was saying goodbye last evening to my family, on my patio, when my daughter suddenly looked up and said, oh that’s a beautiful web. What—over my head, over my door, a web? I am demented when it comes to spiders and webs and panicked, while they shown a light on this supposedly beautiful web. At the same time my next-door neighbor and a man came up near my patio and I said, “are you afraid of spiders, can you help me with this web? Unbelievably this man, a complete stranger, was a spider expert, and he explained that the web had been abandoned, and then went on to tell me what kind of spider it was that made that web. This is a true but definitely spooky spider story.
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Sunday’s Six Sentence Story Word Prompt!
Sammiscribbles Halloween Writing Challenge
Killing Time
I am small, tiny actually, but very upset. It is too long in between my times to shine. The old guy always gets the photo ops, the fans, songs sung about him, champagne toasts, stories galore, and what about me? I am ignored! So it’s definitely time to end him. I’m planning this for Halloween, October 31st, so my crime will be covered up by celebrations of horror, and if a teeny weeny accident should occur resulting in the old man’s demise? Well, uh, pardon me, I have to wipe the smile off my face and get serious. I’ll only be able to celebrate the end of December, when all eyes will finally be on me, only me!
13 Days of Samhain (volume v) – A Horror / Halloween Writing Prompt Challenge
The Bag Lady 
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