Sammiscribbles Weekend Writing Prompt

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She felt the rough, tarnished item, wondering why her grandfather gave her this ancient timepiece. There must be some secrets in it, or it might have been used in some historical happening. Susan was mystified, also determined to find why her grandfather insist she have it. The watch, accompanied by a diary, Susan thought might contain answers. His last entry read, “use this key”. The tiny key opened the back of the watch. She found a coded message. “Now what”, she thought.

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Weekend Writing Prompt #379 – Timepiece

W3 – Garden

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Suzanne’s prompt guidelines

  • Theme: Transformation;
  • Form: Quatern

The Quatern is a 16-line form composed of four quatrains (four-line verses), with eight syllables per line. It has a refrain that is in a different place in each quatrain. The 1st line of stanza one (S1) is the 2nd line of S2, 3rd line of S3, and 4th line of S4.

Four quatrains (four-line verses):

Syllabic: Eight syllables per line;

Rhyming: Rhyming is not required, but quaterns often follow a rhyme scheme;

Refrain: The refrain of a quarterback repeats the 1st line of stanza one (S1) as the 2nd line of S2, the 3rdline of S3, and the 4th line of S4.

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The growing season, a short one

An early planting is the key

Frost may appear on a budding

Plastic tenting may act a shield.

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As the season changes, spring warms

The growing season, a short one

Delicate snow may still intrude

Moisture is also needed now.

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Spring budding gives us a promise

Blooms open in summer sunshine

The growing season, a short one

We work to keep faith for harvest.

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Autumn comes with hard rains and hail

We quickly reap the fruit bounty

Thankful we save most from damage

The growing season a short one.

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    W3 Prompt #122: Wea’ve Written Weekly

    No Theme Thursday

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    “Snips and snails and puppy dog tails”…Marta always liked that rhyme and chuckled at the thought some children thought it scary….how delightful! Marta laughed out loud. It had been a while since she invited children into her castle. The little vermin were always running around in the trees, staring up at the black spires and even some bolder teen boys actually peered in the windows! How rude! Of course the windows were iron barred and entering through one impossible and she never looked out of them anyway. She didn’t have to.
    Marta had instincts about male personas and if they stepped near she could snap her fingers and they’d disappear. She never knew where they ended up or cared. But the little girls she observed just in case one showed potential.

    It had been a fairly boring day and she sat down at her vanity. The candles instantly lit to show an old haggard face in the glass. She’d have to make a new spell in the morning, this time she would add a few dove feathers, the blood still clinging to them for the youth potion to last longer. To be honest she thought, the entire trying to look young was getting boring. She needed to find the perfect girl to complete a fresh 100 year transformation. Oh well, off to sleep, cuddling the tarantula she kept as her favorite pet.

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    No Theme Thursday: 08.29.24

    SoCS 8-31-24

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    Never mind Friday, which seems to come faster and faster, how about the last day of August? I don’t know what happened to it, and school, already? My 18 year old granddaughter had her first week being a senior! Sounds pretty cool but I’m already thinking about missing her when she goes to South Dakota for college! Seems like this pic was taken yesterday!

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    The Friday Reminder and Prompt for #SoCS Aug. 31, 2024

    MLMM Saturday Mix

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    Joe always felt courageous, even a bit cunning, but his life experiences had turned him into a timid, simple man, never a happy one. It was a life of disappointment, from his eighteenth year when he was rejected to serve in the military. He wasn’t healthy enough, something he never knew until the army doctors found something. Most of the men in his family were military and he felt he let them all down, even though none of it was his fault. This happening seemed to set him into a life of regrets, but it was his own attitude that failed him. Joe let his dissatisfaction affect his entire life, in interviews, employment, girlfriends—every aspect of his life was affected. Now Joe is retired and sits alone in his living room, watching other people’s lives.

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    Opposing Forces – Saturday Mix, 31 August 2024