Sitting behind the blind
Sailing your lethal ship
A slight to nature
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https://gmgblog.ca/2022/11/21/five-word-weekly-challenge-2247/
Hunter
Sitting behind the blind
Sailing your lethal ship
A slight to nature
Sitting behind the blind
Sailing your lethal ship
A slight to nature
2022 November PAD Chapbook Challenge 24
Prompt: Write a for [blank] poem. e.g. For the sake of the children or, forgive and forget.
For my Firstborn
babysitting me
thought motherhood is easy
you, my practice run
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https://www.writersdigest.com/write-better-poetry/2022-november-pad-chapbook-challenge-day-24
Save Earth
explained by the wise mother
Mother Earth complains
complaitents have fear
fear that is sustained
sustaining values ignored
values need change now
driving, cooling, water use
using rare, timed resources
resource the future
future life depends on us
us now, if ignored, will not
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https://skepticskaddish.com/2022/11/23/w3-prompt-30-weave-written-weekly/
It Doesn’t Stop
How many times are we going to read about these tragedies caused by guns? I don’t want to hear the old “guns don’t kill people, people do”!
FFtPP
Oh hi there, I must look a mess. I have been innocently dropped off the carriage and mom didn’t notice and the baby I’m caring for doesn’t realize it either. Of course he likes to squeeze me, pull my ears and tail, and has to have me by him at bedtime, but during the day he has other distractions.
Oh my, my ribbon bow is looking rather yucky, and my fir is a bit rough being dropped near a puddle, and splashed on a few times. I find it odd no stranger has picked me up or looked around for my family but who can blame them? All humans seem very accusatory these days.
Hold on, I think my baby and his carriage are coming back, looking for me! Oh happy day. I didn’t want to be left here to be picked up and put in a trash bin. After a good cleaning I will be relieved to have my ears pulled again.
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Sijo Wednesday
being thankful doesn’t take time, only the will to do it
gathering during the holiday season, is the perfect time
busy years pass too quickly, take the offered opportunity
*** Thank you to ronovanwrites.com for providing prompts for us!
2022 November PAD Chapbook Challenge 23
Prompt: write a family poem
Family is a microcosm on earth
Everyone a little different
Fitting into a smaller crowded space
Love, caring, jealousy, sorrow, repression, oppression, all exist in a small way
Feelings held to save feelings, but felt all the same
Happy families can conquer all with a generous helping of love and acceptance.
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https://www.writersdigest.com/write-better-poetry/2022-november-pad-chapbook-challenge-day-23
One Liner Wednesday
InLaws
“We go every year, it’s a thing!”
“I know, and every year we get sent to the horrid bed in the basement to sleep and I have to spend all night clinging to the side not to fall into the hole in the middle of the mattress. It’s a fate worse than death!”
“It’s not that bad, I sleep well…”.
“Of course you do, you get horizontal and you’re instantly snoring. This is our 15th anniversary, can’t we skip old home week even once?”
“I’ve already said we’re coming, as usual.”
It was hopeless every year because their wedding anniversary coincided with a hometown celebration. That wasn’t the worst part, the mother in-law was standoffish, kept strict rules, like what could be cooked in which saucepan etc.; it was a nightmare every visit. She couldn’t even set the table right according to her mil. And so it was.
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https://athling2001.wordpress.com/2022/11/21/jsw-prompt-11-21-2021/
Fandango’s Flash Fiction Challenge
Where had he put it?
Was he reading the news?
He couldn’t find it, his missing muse.
It was tragic, the poor writer was frozen in time He’d been sitting there dead, since ‘99!
No one had found him,
he always kept to himself,
a writer ‘s dilemma, never thinking of self.
It was only the story, only the words,
but now looking at him
I think that absurd.
He wasted away,
always alone
with his stale cup of coffee
amid papers and bones.
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http://fivedotoh.com/2022/11/21/fandangos-flash-fiction-challenge-194/
The Bag Lady 
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