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Your Prompt – New Beginnings. Let the prompt word and/or image inspire you!

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Moonwashed Weekly Prompt – New Beginnings

Your prompt for JusJoJan January 11th, 2024 is “olive.” Use it as a noun or an adjective, use it any way you’d like. Have fun!

Olives are something I love! Not everyone in my family agree but green olives my favorite and then the darker colorful Kalamata varieties. They are full of flavor in a tiny bite.

Daily Prompt – JusJoJan the 11th, 2024

This week’s Story Starter teaser is:

This whole crazy chain of events started when I accidentally picked up the wrong suitcase at the airport. As I approached the baggage exit, I was stopped because I set off some type of alarm. At first I ignored it because I wasn’t doing anything wrong and all of a sudden I was tackled by a security guard and slammed to the floor. I was shocked, hurt of course, and embarrassed. I was then pulled up, handcuffed and taken to a back room. The whole experience was a nightmare and I sat there while another guard opened my suitcase and started rifling through it. I looked incredulously because none of those things were mine! Then I guess they found what they were looking for and just stared at me like I was a criminal. Then the phone rang and someone must have realized it was not my suitcase after all. The person who had my suitcase was caught when the labels on it didn’t match his ticket and I thanked the gods that they were still “inconveniencing” people with that secure exit policy, even though I was a victim of it. It turns out that what set off the alarm was an illegal item that was not allowed to cross borders. Luckily it was not actually dangerous and I was shortly given my own suitcase and my freedom.

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Fandango’s Story Starter #131

Your three words today are:
HANDY USEFUL OBSOLETE

Moving around the states occupying apartments, homes and houses, is usually accompanied by having a storage unit which would be handy if you lived close to it. I have two storage units, one here near me and one in CO. It was useful when we moved there from TX but now it’s obsolete. I can imagine the items there, though some sentimental, would be of little use to me now. For the last ten years I have settled in to a small apartment and happy with what I have and need nothing. Sometimes I wistfully think of all the things stored in CO and want to see them again, but probably won’t.

Three Things Challenge #M569

4 line stanzas, as few as one stanza and up to as many as you like.

8 syllables or less per line

Rhyming is AAAb. The second stanza would be CCCd. The third, EEEf. And so on. Meaning nothing in one stanza must rhyme with anything in the previous stanza. The fourth line does not rhyme.

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thin clear ice in morning

sun melting after dawning

cold wind blows across recalling

ice will return after sunset

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Ovi Poetry Challenge 30: CHANGE is your inspiration.

One-Liner Wednesday & #JusJoJan24 the 10th – So…

This is what she was shown. Her parents wanted her to not fear. This picture of what death would be for her, just a beautiful stairway to a beautiful place. She wanted to believe it, needed to think that was how it would be. Her body would be rid of pain and soreness, with no more needles or tests or hurtful procedures. She was only a child but she knew the painting was only a dream. She hoped it would be that easy, just sleep and then float up that pretty stairway.

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This week: Your writing invitation is to compose a haibun using the kigo words and phrases from the Early Cold Part I challenge post HERE.

Here in Cheyenne, the wind dominates and in late autumn it increases, signaling the start of winter.

breezy icy clouds

stretching windy weather chill

goosebumps under fur

small dogs walking in sweaters

run back to cozy fires

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Pretending to be a friend

Sneaking onto the blanket only just rid of fur

Laying innocently on your lap

A sound heard, from the kitchen?

The can opener whirls

Fishy odors drift into the lair

Her nails are out in an elongated stretch

Not meaning (really?) to mar her perch

Leaps into a pleasing manner below the bearer of tuna.

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Poetics: Creatures of the Blank Page

Strange word today for me because it is my husband’s birthday on this date. He would have been 83, but passed away in 2013 from esophageal cancer. The survival rate if not caught early is ten percent.

Get your checkups!

Symptoms of esophageal cancer

• Weight loss.
• Painful or difficult swallowing.
• Pain behind the breastbone.
• Hoarseness and cough.
• Indigestion and heartburn.
• Anemia.
• Upper GI bleed or vomiting blood.

Daily Prompt – JusJoJan the 9th, 2024