The Bag Lady

Jealousy

She always looked good in green

Most compliments were when seen

Wearing different shades and hues

That is why she’d always choose

Clothing that suited her red hair

Contrasting nicely with greenish fare

Only after she fell for him

Green was the unwelcomed trim

He loved her for a moment true

Then suddenly out of the blue

He met another lover girl

Danced with her for a short whirl

Then the lady who wore green

Flaming hair’s temper keen

Her body now never seen

Jealousy had turned it green.

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This Week’s Writer’s Workshop Prompts – October 22, 2024

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An evening illusion—

Look out into my yard

I want and need the dream today

Visions of fairies at play

Sometimes it takes fabrication or a wish

To keep trudging on in the everyday.

How free they are dancing in moonlight

I may try it, to manage the fight

Floating, flying in moonlight

Pretending the fantasy.

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Moonwashed Weekly Prompt – Pretend

So your challenge is to either use repetition as a rhetorical device (repetition of a word or phrase or line) in constructing your poem; or to write a poem that centers around a motto, your own or perhaps passed down in your family or in your culture, showing how it’s been used or misused. Or, if you’re ambitious, see if you can do a combination of the two (as in “Deor’s Lament” & Angelou’s “Still I Rise”).

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It’s all good

That’s what they always say

Everything may not be with us

No one says anything except

It’s all good.

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It’s all good

Mantra from a busy woman

Discarding thoughts of inadequacy

Tries to think

It’s all good.

–

It’s all good

Covers a number of feelings

Hidden thoughts lurk in your mind

Outwardly, though

It’s all good.

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Poetics: Of Mantras, Repetita Juvant

silver gleams

hard darkness contrast

textures bridge

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Photo Challenge #538

Today I would like you to choose three (or more) words from the given list and write a syllabic poem using them. Please feel free to add plural, past tense, etc. to the words as needed.

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woman!

ate your new bite

smelled the farm in your cook

soon castle gardens will ripen

harvest

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-Cinquain, 5 lines, 2,4,6,8,2 syllables

#TankaTuesday Poetry Challenge: Word Garden, 10/22/24, #syllabicpoetry

This week’s Story Starter teaser is:

The door was closed, and as I put my hand on the handle, I felt afraid of what I might find once I opened it. The sounds were slightly familiar, but couldn’t be, that would be crazy! I put my ear to the wooden facade and listened as best I could. Nah, I was hearing a tv going, so I slowly opened the door. There they were, standing in a line, entertaining my five year old son and my wife. Seven little men.

Fandango’s Story Starter #172

“Honestly George, you intentionally want to irritate me, don’t you?”

“Why, whatever do you mean? I thought a date night would go rather well.”

“Date night? What are we, sixteen? We have been married for thirty- five years and you are just now talking about date nights?”

“Now, now, you said just the other day, you said we were getting trite and needed some excitement.”

“You call this exciting? Yes I love art, but I have no idea what this is, certainly not a Monet!”

“Well, I thought this avant-garde art museum would stimulate our old ways of thinking, you know, spice us up a bit…”

“Well it certainly did stir up a conversation, but this? This is not art, it’s a kindergarten display!”

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Simply 6 Minutes – Welcome to the Challenge:10/22/2024

Truthful Tuesday: October 22nd, 2024

Halloween flames are burning

Cemeteries aglow

Something floating, turning

In the night breeze flow

It oversees the pumpkins

Guarding them from knives

Which make them into jack-o’-lanterns

With weird mouths and eyes

It’s so humiliating

Every ghost agrees

That is why they fly above

Sometimes stuck in trees

They give their lives if needed

Guarding the odd shaped squash

At Halloween they’re needed

When pumpkin carvers are awash.

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I love autumn colors best but I also enjoy a budding pink tree.

🌸

lowly crab apple

now it is your time to shine

lovely pink blossoms

deer venture out from their lairs

to munch upon your beauty

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Haibun Monday 10-21-24: Fall foliage or Spring blossoms