This is from March 1, 2017:

“He’s touching me!”

“I am not, it’s Harry, he touches everybody.”

“You’re pushing me, I’m going to fall off!”

“Well if you fall off, just join those wimpy guys inside.”

“Hey, we’re not wimps, it’s warm in here.”

“Charlie, keep your paws to yourself!”

“Uh, sorry, Kate, it’s just so crowded up here.”

“Joe, sweetie, your whiskers are tickling my nose, you’re so cute.”

“Shelly, I just love your little beady eyes, dear.”

Crowding to the right from Whitey and his brother Biggie.

“Okay everybody off to the left. Whitey’s crowding as usual.”

Tiny pops up, big ears showing. “Hey, look out there! Is it cheese? I think it’s cheese! Come on guys, let’s check it out!”

So goes a day in the life of mice.

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Fandango’s Flashback Friday — March 22nd

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• Write an ekphrastic poem inspired by the music of Liebestod, the final, dramatic music from Wagner’s 1859 opera ‘Tristan und Isolde’, which you can listen to above;
  • This opera is based on the Celtic legend of Tristan and Isolde. It is optional to tell their story in your poem, but it is not required. Your poem may be abstract if you prefer.

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Tragedy unexpected

Rising from drink

Innocence destroyed

Stirring emotions

Abandoned trust

Turmoil felt

Nuance gone

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Iintrigue manifests

Seduction begins

Obstacles entangled

Love’s infection

Death the winner

Emptiness for all

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W3 Prompt #99: Wea’ve Written Weekly

The saying goes “opposites attract”. I can agree with that to a certain point and then the initial magnetism starts to wear like rust on a car when left out in bad weather. Slowly the rust increases and the body ruins. Shiny bright attraction is the start but it takes careful care, attention and maintenance to keep something “as good as new”.

Writer’s Workshop Prompts For March 21, 2024

The Pleasure Principle (Portrait of Edward James)

Rene Magritte

Brilliant ideas have a benefactor

An artist’s much needed reactor

Giving rewards for their talent

Appreciating their palettes

How artists perform

And help them move toward

A deserved award.

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“West Dean, Sussex, England, 1907‒San Remo, Italy, 1984”

“The eccentric British poet and landscape gardener Edward James was one of the most important patrons of Surrealist art in the twentieth century. He provided financial support to artists such as Leonora Carrington, Salvador Dalí, Leonor Fini, and René Magritte during the 1930s and 1940s and assembled one of the earliest and most significant collections of Surrealism outside of France.”

“Salvador Dalí introduced James to René Magritte, who stayed with him for a summer in London. The Belgian artist completed a series of paintings for James’s Vogue Regency dining room in Wimpole Street, which were to be displayed hidden behind mirrors with lunettes by Boucher depicting the four seasons, and revealed only when illuminated from within. The Pleasure Principle (1937), shows James straight on, but he is no less visible, his head obscured by a bright light. At this time, James was financing the Surrealist publication “Minotaure”.”

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This week’s Story Starter teaser is:

Allison arrived home to discover, propped up against her front door, a mysterious package addressed to her but with no return address. She opened her door and took the package inside. She was used to getting packages and knew how to open them…in the basement where she had a sound and bomb proof room. The room was equipped with robot arms so she could place the package and then leave it. Then she would use the robotic hands to carefully open the parcel. On occasion she was saved by this method. Working for the Super Secret Spy Service was always interesting.

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Fandango’s Story Starter #141

As for technology don’t get me started…

“The key to a good relationship is to clear your internet history”

One-Liner Wednesday – Technology

24 Seasons Syllabic Poetry Challenge, No. 26, 3/19/24, Part I, The Spring Equinox (March 20 – April 3) Shunbun 春分

I like to travel in a car, the costs of fuel, insurance and the purchase itself can be time consuming and worrying. Should the politics of business or the environment effect my purchase? Should I go with a hybrid or an electric powered vehicle? Since I can no longer drive and I miss it very much, I’ll just go with design, comfort, and color in a purchase. And size doesn’t matter…

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MLMM Wordle #364

This funky little poem-dance is a creation of our own making here at dVerse, and it’s as easy as a sharp 1-2 punch: 
1) We provide a word – sharp
2) You include that word in a poem of precisely 44 words. 

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Like thorns pointed and sharp
His words slashed at her heart
Like blood dripping on her breast
Soaking, in every sentence
Like a nightmare she suffered
An initial dream dismantled
Like being buried alive
She suddenly felt suffocated
Like a faded rose, she crumpled.

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Quadrille #197: Look Sharp, Now! (Let’s write a poem.)