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Classic Song Beginnings

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Artist: George Gershwin Awards: Grammy Award for Best Engineered Album, Classical Genres: Classical, Jazz

George Gershwin,born Jacob Gershwine; September 26, 1898 – July 11, 1937) was an American composer and pianist whose compositions spanned popular, jazz and classical genres. Among his best-known works are the orchestral compositions Rhapsody in Blue (1924) and An American in Paris (1928), the songs “Swanee” (1919) and “Fascinating Rhythm” (1924), the jazz standards “Embraceable You” (1928) and “I Got Rhythm” (1930), and the opera Porgy and Bess (1935), which included the hit “Summertime“.Gershwin moved to Hollywood and composed numerous film scores. He died in 1937, only 38 years old, of a brain tumor

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It’s giving me fits!

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Yes, WordPress! I had a poem all spaced out for Moonlight Musings, with the photo above and some type of symbol turned up I couldn’t get rid of. It ended up deleting the whole poem leaving the photo. I was trying to replace the photo and the poetry part just disappeared. I guess it’s time to screenshot everything again. All of these new things on the bottom of the screen – most I know, but odd stuff just appears. This particular symbol boxes everything in and won’t let me see the whole screen to write more. I need help — a daily plea from me for WP, but anyone know how to fix this?

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FFFC from Melissa

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For the visually challenged writer, the image depicts a gray cat with white belly and yellow eyes sitting to the left of two canvas portraits leaned up against a wall. The cat faces us and has her right ear turned slightly as if she’s heard a sound. The portraits show cats wearing a very baroque style of dress: an orange cat with bright green eyes wearing a jacket with a flouncy white neck scarf, and the gray cat with yellow eyes wearing a gown with many embellishments and a ruff collar.

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“I say Reginald, is that a portrait of your mother or is that your uncle and his wife? Quite posh! I never find any type of clothing comfortable so you would never see my image in such a fashion! By the way, you are looking sleek and mahvelus!”

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Melissa’s Fandango Flash Fiction Challenge #237

W3- Sun

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Lesley’s prompt guideline
Compose a free verse poem of any length (but consider that I am a slow reader; save the tomes for next time);
Thematic: The theme for this poem should be ~ “the SUN”

Lacking warmth we search for you

Through windy clouds peeking through

A glimpse of course always there

But we need more if you dare

Autumn makes you shy in morning

Foggy grays are now warning

Heavy rain and hail for the day

Stripping leaves in nature‘s way

With future snow and icy tours

We need more of your warm hours.

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W3 Prompt #76: Wea’ve Written Weekly

One Liner Wednesday

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“Never think that war, no matter how necessary, nor how justified, is not a crime.”
— Ernest Hemingway, 1946
Hemingway was 18 years old when he volunteered to be an ambulance driver for WWI. He suffered physically and mentally from the horrors of war. As a novelist, he used his writing to show the criminality of the war.

http://lindaghill.com/2023/10/11/one-liner-wednesday-ive-decided/

dVerse Poetics

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As you’ve probably guessed, we’re going to write about soup. You can write about soup you love (or hate), preparing or serving soup, or anything else about soup. Or if you don’t want to write about real soup, use it as a metaphor.
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A good soup has many ingredients
Appeal heightened by different flavors and colors
Chunky or slivered bits
Slices of the exotic
Taste always enhanced by variety
Enjoyed all year but
Savored against winter chills
Soup can unite the palate and senses.

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http://dversepoets.com/2023/10/10/poetics-time-for-soup/

Simply Six Minutes

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Sheila looked into the cage of her next victim. The hypodermic held so it could be easily observed by the caged person. Dressed as a nurse had little effect but her artificial right hand was obviously secured by chain mail around the wrist. She didn’t mind because it had no nerves to feel what pain it would inflict. The caged ones were not really people, only a few vagrants, useless to the outside world but easy to use here, inside. The liquid in the injection needle would be changed every few days until the desired effect was achieved. Her assistant opened the lock and she used her metal hand to grab the victim’s neck. Screams were heard by the others as the vial emptied into him.

http://christinebialczak.com/2023/10/10/simply-6-minutes-welcome-to-the-challenge-10-10-2023/

Fandango’s Story Starter+

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This week’s Story Starter teaser is:

When she looked at her cellphone, she was shocked to see she had 33 voicemail messages. The entire romance was such an abrupt chain of events and then deciding to elope? The idea was a complete mockery of her culture. The cell phone never stopped ringing in her father’s rampant attempt to reach her. It had been twelve hours since she last contacted him. Now she was afraid to. She quickly packed her bags and joined her lover in a cab to the airport.

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http://fivedotoh.com/2023/10/10/fandangos-story-starter-118/

http://fivedotoh.com/2023/10/10/fowc-with-fandango-rampant/

https://pensitivity101.wordpress.com/2023/10/10/three-things-challenge-m477/ELOPE ROMANCE CULTURE

Your Daily Word Prompt – #Abrupt- #YDWordPrompt October 10 2023

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