The Bag Lady

Here’s what to do:

• Write a poem using ONE of the portraits above painted by Thorvald Hellesen, as your inspiration. There is no required form for the poem. Be sure to give credit to Hellesen by listing his name, the name of the portrait chosen and date it was painted. You may also include the image if you choose to do so.
• Post the poem to your blog AND add the exact URL for your poem to Mr. Linky below.
• REMEMBER to either TAG dVerse in your post, or include a LINK at the end of your poem that leads readers back to dVerse.

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slightly slumped, casual presence

dressed for the opera, patient as he could manage

waiting was never his strong suit

smoking always filled a space

finally, sits up, then stands to embrace his paramour.

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http://dversepoets.com/2023/05/23/an-artist-gets-his-due/

http://lindaghill.com/2023/05/24/one-liner-wednesday-one-heck-of-a-discount/

This week’s Story Starter teaser is: WHEN THE DRIVER SUDDENLY TURNED LEFT INSTEAD OF RIGHT, I REALIZED THAT…those were not tourists coming to board the tour bus! We were not on our way to Joe’s Crab Shack for lunch, we were being kidnapped! The couple pulled out their pistols and told all of us to sit down and shut up. We did. Apparently these three criminals thought we were the rich tourists but they miscalculated. Those people were in the second bus tour.

http://fivedotoh.com/2023/05/23/fandangos-story-starter-98/

Writing anything is a challenge

Reading it over and over again

Internal strife over the result

Timing it to fit a specific prompt

Intentional choice of syllables

Now it’s time to edit the work

Grateful for a like or comment.

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https://wordcraftpoetry.com/2023/05/23/tankatuesday-weekly-poetry-challenge-no-321-5-23-23/

“This will show those bullies! I bet they’ll swim fast as they can to get away from me!”

Timmy timid they called him and he was so easy to scare that it was hardly fun anymore, but what else did they have to do? Life in a bowl was not exactly exciting. Swim, eat, poop, swim, eat, poop was pretty much the whole curriculum…Timmy was so easy to frighten it was literally child’s play! Joe had to laugh at his own joke, causing a myriad of bubbles up to the surface. He followed them up to see a shark fin, not a very big one, but a shark for Pete’s sake! What’s a shark doing in a goldfish bowl? Joe panicked and swam to his other friends. “Did you see the shark?”

Sound travels in water and Timmy started chuckling when he heard the other guys. Mission accomplished he thought.

http://christinebialczak.com/2023/05/23/simply-6-minutes-welcome-to-the-challenge-05-23-2023/

Memories of snorkeling with three children on a beach in Hawaii when the oldest found himself outside the riptide. As I swam hurriedly to him I looked down to see the biggest fish ever and I took my son and sped toward shore. I was done with deeper water.

outside the high wave

using all my body strength

he’s safe in my arms

http://dversepoets.com/2023/05/22/haibun-monday-5-22-23-memory/

I was looking for something new and found an entertaining series on Netflix named “The Recruit”. I’m on Season one episode four and it is moving right along. I’m unfamiliar with the star actor but am really liking his performance. If you are tired of trying to find some fun entertainment, try this fresh take on the CIA😂

https://rugby843.blog

a boy child

follows father’s steps

grows a man

http://ronovanwrites.com/2023/05/22/ronovan-writes-weekly-haiku-poetry-prompt-challenge-463-child-and-grow/

https://pensitivity101.wordpress.com/2023/05/22/share-your-world-22nd-may/

It was not the opposite of a stage comedy, it was the comedy. Sue and her husband advanced into the lodge banquet hall and raised eyebrows when they observed the line of greedy tourists piling a variety of food on already overloaded plates. Joe turned to her and remarked, “don’t they know a banquet means they can go back again?”

“It was probably in the list of parameters they failed to read in the small print”, Sue joked.

The lodge’s liability coverage was limited at best as they chose to eliminate any extravagant food costs.

https://mindlovemiserysmenagerie.wordpress.com/2023/05/22/wordle-323/