While swimming, Jesse found a toy floating in the lake. It was a puppet playing a tuba, dressed in Jesse’s high school uniform colors with a coupon for free popcorn at the next band concert.
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Can You Tell A Story In…
Can You Tell a Story in 35?
Category: Uncategorized
Encroaching
I saw a video of a female bear that was just walking along and many photographers were filming her and all she wanted was to get to a body of water. It made me sad. We are taking over wildlife habitats. We are ruining the environment while “camping” and leaving trash, etc in those areas. These campers also cause forest fires with their careless and unknowledgeable actions. The wildlife and beautiful forests were here first and their areas and homes need to be respected.
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Reena’s Exploration Challenge
PROMPT #396
It led me to think about breaking the boundaries of format.
This week, I invite you to imagine that a page in a dictionary belongs solely to you.
What are the words that you would choose to describe yourself and your life’s vision and mission. Are you happy with what you see, or would you like to tweak something?
You are free to just give a list of words or write paragraphs. You may choose to use visual formats like shape poems or word clouds. The world-wide web and AI offer a lot of options. But since it is a dictionary, we need words in the piece.
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Independent: state of not being controlled or influenced by others
Intrinsic: essential or inherent, belonging to something, or originating from within
Innate: originating in the mind, not acquired through learning or experience
Interested: showing curiosity or concern about someone or something
Imitiable: impossible to copy
Industrious: diligent and hard working
Inquisitive: curious or inquiring
Individualistic: unconventional, self reliant
Imaginative: having or showing creativity or inventiveness
Informative: providing useful or interesting information
Immediate: expeditious
Insightful: perceptive
Impatient: tendency to be quickly keyed up
Impulsive: quick and not thought out
Ineffectual: not achieving desired outcome
Insecure: not adequately fixed, lacking confidence
Insistent: not giving up, demanding
Irritable: having a tendency to be easily annoyed
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The good, the bad and the ugly page of words describing myself.
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Reena’s Xploration Challenge #396
Tanka Tuesday
Today’s challenge is to write a poem using one of the syllabic forms here: https://tankatuesday.com/tanka-tuesday-poetry-cheat-sheet-for-tanka-tuesday-poetry-challenges-2/ including personification.
What is personification?
Personification is a figure of speech that gives human qualities, emotions, or actions to inanimate objects, animals, or abstract concepts.
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presenting Lady Iris
ruffled pink skirts are rain drenched
showered and sunning to dry
yellow capes to meet her day
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Filipino Tanaga poem, 7,7,7,7.
#TankaTuesday Poetry Challenge No. 27, Personification, 08/26/25
Fandango’s Story Starter
The door to the study had been locked for years, yet tonight it stood wide open. A light shone from the study into the hall. Shadows were moving in the room and I thought I must be seeing things! I was. Robbers had broken in, gasping at the thought. I stepped closer and grabbed a heavy candelabra from the bureau in the hall. I was shocked to see dogs, about five dogs, running around in the room. Apparently the master of the hounds had broken in, using the dogs as protection.
As he saw me in the doorway, he tried to explain. “I’m owed a sum so I can retire and the master kept it in his desk, here. I only want what I’m owed. He promised I could retire and it’s been the ten years we agreed upon. I only want what is due.”
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Fandango’s Story Starter #215
How Spoiled Can We Be?
How spoiled am I? I Just retrieved some leftovers from my freezer to put in the microwave to thaw out for lunch. And then I retrieved a cold bottle of water out of my refrigerator. I ate the leftovers and then cleaned up the pan in my sink and putting what was left into garbage disposal. After I cleaned this dish, I put it in my dishwasher. This is being written on an Apple iPad, yes, also spoiled while people are starving and smaller countries and our president in all of his gold trimmed office that belongs to the people, not him, is smiling, saying it’s just business. Children dying and starving. It’s just business, and why should we care about someone in a shit hole country?
We are spoiled as we sit reading this, or any other blog. What are we going to do about it? These are the milder photos.
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Limerick Time
Julietta thought she could sing
Her voice really made their ears ring
An audition for opera
Made them try to stop her
Said “Sorry, it’s just not your thing!”
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Laughing Along With A Limerick
Living Poetry Prompt
sliver moon
shines defiantly
gold crescent
floats in black
a brave portrayal witnessed
not hidden in clouds
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Monday Poetry Prompt: Crescent Moon
MLMM Wordle
I could pretend it was cold enough that the honey bees would stay home, but I saw some trying to hover over the zoo’s dense garden of roses. The roses were bordering the primate area, a poorly planned section. Once I tried to move them along back near their hive where the honey was, but it was a failed practice. The security for the primates forbid any interaction with them or the bees, so I couldn’t do it alone. My coworker and I smoked them and were successful in pulling them back into the hive. Either the bees or the primates would have to be moved.
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MLMM Monday Wordle #439
3TC 8-25-25
“Be careful! You’re about to singe my basketball sign patch! I’m so proud of it because it will signify I have lettered in that sport.”
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Three Things Challenge #MM162
The Bag Lady 
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