father robin sits
whispers in a stiff spring breeze
movement in the grass
an errant feather loosens
in so, warns the crawling prey
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Ronovanwrites Weekly Haiku Poetry Prompt – Feather and Whisper
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MLMM Wordle – Operator?
Joe started to grumble, tightening his grip on the subpar mobile phone that never executed an internet speed of more than most common cheap cels. He bought it with the promise of a new 5G capability, even in this backwards area. It was his only link to civilization at the moment and his car was out of gas.
He sat back down in the cabin’s porch rocker, and watched the shadows in the surrounding woody area. The cry of some animal he didn’t recognize was getting closer. The only help he had was a sharp pocket knife he always carried in case of emergencies. He hoped this wasn’t going to be one of them.
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https://mindlovemiserysmenagerie.wordpress.com/2022/03/07/wordle-278/
Cheerleading
Joe, a precise English professor and parent, decided to enhance his usual orderly venacular with gusto…hollering, “get them suckers!” at his son’s high school football game.
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Skijoring…what??
Word of the Day: Occasion
Reminiscing about the early days of radio, Joe said, “yessireebob, it was quite an occasion! There were people running around in pointy foil hats, constantly looking up to the heavens…as if, you know, anyone had actually seeeeen anything”, he chuckled.
“Even Pastor Joe held nightly prayer meetings hoping to dispel the evil aliens that were rumored to be on their way to invade earth. Of course the local stores were happy to supply multiple provisions just in case it was true.
Yup, it was quite an exciting time! Same thing happened years later when the “Close Encounters” movie came out. Lordy be, people will believe anything!” smiling knowingly.
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October 30, 1938. “The War of the Worlds”—Orson Welles’s realistic radio dramatization of a Martian invasion of Earth—is broadcast on the radio on October 30, 1938. Welles was only 23 years old when his Mercury Theater company decided to update H.G. Wells’s 19th-century science fiction novel The War of the Worlds for national radio.
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Six Sentence Story – Canvas
Surveying the messy table full of artists’ brushes, he winced.
Was this worth it?
The mess, the angst, the disappointment?
Only to garner a few shillings on the street?
He stood once again in front of the incomplete canvas.
He picked up the palette, and his favorite wide brush, thinking “you betcha!”
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https://girlieontheedge1.wordpress.com/2022/03/06/sundays-six-sentence-story-word-prompt-202/
The Sunday Whirl
The white corridor lay before me. The last refugee of warm air escaped in foggy breaths. My distant target seemed like millions of moguls away and I could hear the crack of my previous attempt the year before, when I broke my femur. A few lodge staff of the ski resort had fled to my side to see if I was alive. Gadgets to carry the winter wonderland victims were assembled and I was carried into the medical unit. I was soon added to the list to track losses of customers. However, I returned, determined to tackle the black ski slope once more—probably a bad decision.
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MLMM Saturday Mix
Welcome to the Saturday Mix, 5 March 2022!
The ‘Double Take’ challenge focuses on the use of homophones* to build your writing piece. You have two sets of homophones and you are challenged to use all of them in your response – which can be poetry or prose.
Our homophone sets this week are:
fairing – streamlining
faring– state of progress
and
lends – allows to borrow
lens– convex glass
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Fairing the image into an acceptable lens, she clicked the shutter a few times to make sure the faring of shots showed the slight movements distinctly. Photographing butterflies was only a hobby of hers and lends itself to frustration at times. Such fleeting beauty is difficult to capture.
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Fandango’s Who Won the Week
My choice is Jackson Reffitt and his courage.
Fandango’s Flashback Friday 3-4-18
MLMM Tale Weaver 161 – Badlands National Park, South Dakota
Not exactly a Tale weaved here, but traveling here was a wonderful experience for my family when the kids were small. My dad grew up around here in South Dakota, Wyoming Montana and Idaho.
Located 50 miles east of Mt. Rushmore and the Black Hills, Badlands National Park consists of 244,000 acres of sharply eroded buttes, pinnacles and spires blended with the largest, protected mixed grass prairie in the United States.
The Lakota people were the first to call this place “mako sica” or “land bad.” Extreme temperatures, lack of water, and the exposed rugged terrain led to this name. In the early 1900’s, French-Canadian fur trappers called it “les mauvais terres pour traverse,” or “bad lands to travel through.”Apr 10, 2015
Frequently Asked Questions – Badlands National Park (U.S. …https://www.nps.gov › badl › faqs
For badlands to form, the land must be composed of alternating layers of hard and soft rocks and soil. When easily eroded material, such as clay or mud stone, is topped by more resistant material, such as sandstone, the harder horizontal layers offer some protection to the beds of soft deposits below.
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