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II. Sally’s prompt guidelines

• Thematic (required): Travel;
  • Where would you like to go? What your favorite place you’ve been? Or, put into poetry some experience you’ve had while traveling!
• Form (required): Cethramtu rannaigechta moire;
  • At least three stanzas.

Cethramtu rannaigechta moire?

1. Syllabic:
   • Each verse has four lines;
   • Each line has three syllables;
2. Rhyming: The 2^nd and 4^th lines of each stanza rhyme;
3. Any number of verses.

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See the world

That’s the ploy

Be the best 

You’ll enjoy

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Army chant

Repeat phrase

Do as told

All your days

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Soldiers’ dream

Travel lots

After all

Become bots

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(Sarcastic response)

W3 Prompt #94: Wea’ve Written Weekly

one goes in without a calmness

the heart flutters without harness

you want the health that’s been promised

yearly checkups are daunting

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Ovi Poetry Challenge 35: RELIEF is your inspiration.

Artist: The Searchers

Released: 1963

Album: Meet the Searchers

One-Liner Wednesday – …and chocolate

wet snow melts around

early spring peeking grasses

icicles dripping

pussy willow valentines

February is thawing

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24 Seasons Syllabic Poetry Challenge, No. 21, 2/13/24, Part II, The Beginning of Spring (February 3 – 20) Risshun 立春 24

Simply 6 Minutes – Welcome to the Challenge: 02/13/2024 – My Take

This week’s Story Starter teaser is: He woke to the sound of whispers, not knowing if they were coming from elsewhere inside the house, or from within his own mind. He could probably decipher them. Words like drunk, again, problem, how, and tired sifted into his mind. He couldn’t blame them for talking about him. His life took a wrong turn a year ago and he could not seem to get his act together. He was not the first or be the last to drive under the influence and cause a terrible accident. Maybe today he could turn it around. Maybe.

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Fandango’s Story Starter #136

Your Weekly Prompt – Aflutter

Let the prompt word and/or image inspire you! Prompt contributions can be any variation of the prompt and/or image. 

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Moonwashed Weekly Prompt – Aflutter

After a multi-year renovation project, the Folger will re-open this summer and visitors will find a brand new poem by Rita Dove inscribed on a berm, a “continuous border of marble that wraps around the West garden walkway. Our Poetics challenge is to write a poem, as Dove was commissioned to do, for a walled entrance that addresses and welcomes visitors into a space of your choosing.

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Entrance to a high school classroom:

Come in, all you fresh inquisitive minds, and free your imagination to accomplish your dreams.

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Poetics: It’s Written in Stone

Here’s how to take part in Prosery:
–   Write a piece of flash fiction of up to or exactly 144 words, including the given line in the order in which it has been given. You may add or change punctuation, but you may not add words in between the given ones.
–   Post your Prosery on your blog and link back to this post. I would like you to write a story that includes the following line(s) from the poem by British writer Helen Dunmore:

‘…city lilacs
release their sweet, wild perfume
then bow down, heavy with rain.’

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Halls of impropriety observe the sorrowful want of woman and man forever destined to remain in their station. Outside the corridors, city lilacs release their sweet, wild perfume then bow down, heavy with rain. There are no dampened flowering bushes in these halls, only despair. A scent of hope sometimes wafts by them with an odor of old regrets, desperate dreams and the everyday nightmare of waking up in a stuporous state. Not all dreams can be realized, especially in these city halls.

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Prosery: City Lilacs

MLMM Wordle #360