E’s Impromptu Wordle

by rugby843, posted in Uncategorized
While I was in my meeting, I was doodling on a word cloud page. I created a cute little wordle with 10 words, so I was like, “Oh! I should impromptu challenge this!” So, here ya go 🙂EM

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As always, Phil started to embellish his pain. “This red wax is impossible to navigate! When I found out I liked to dress in woman’s clothes I never thought about all the shaving!”

To Nina’s chagrin, she had no sympathy. Being a woman, she knew all too well the hurt of hair removal.

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https://wordpress.com/read/feeds/64780141/posts/3948972811

Go Dog Go Cafe – Haibun

by rugby843, posted in Uncategorized
The range of haibun is broad and frequently includes autobiography, diary, essay, prose poem, and travel journal.
A haibun is a combination of prose and haiku.
The prose is brief and simple and usually written in the present tense.
The haiku should not attempt to repeat, quote, or explain the prose.
A haibun should be titled.

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The Neighbor

My new apartment is in a building where the atmosphere resembles a hotel. Therefore I have a neighbor directly across from my “front” door that opens up into a hallway.

open, see Bobo

greeting ignored with menace

not liking wheelchairs

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This week’s prompt is to write about an encounter with an animal. Go where the prompt leads.

http://godoggocafe.com/2022/04/13/haibun-wednesday-april-13-2022/

OOPS!

by rugby843, posted in Uncategorized

I’m sorry and I offer my apology. The record I reported is not upheld and it was sad not to notice my mistake. I offer only a taciturn excuse that my tired eyes sometimes see a number and then my mind makes an amenable effort to write it. It’s only after some type of security alerts me and I realize my error. Maybe I should change my moniker to “The OLD Bag Lady”. 🙄😂

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https://pensitivity101.wordpress.com/2022/04/13/three-things-challenge-932/?like_actor=102337606&like_hmac=c5dc00f02f33c36650fb040762aac330&postid=82045&like=1&source=sub_email. Your three words today are:
UPHELD
SAD
APOLOGY

https://cyranny.com/2022/04/13/taciturn-word-of-the-day-challenge-2/?like_actor=158419803&like_hmac=f161b01236e3b71aa7b59cef3e8f4060&postid=62239&like=1&source=sub_email

https://ragtagcommunity.wordpress.com/2022/04/13/rdp-wednesday-security/?like_actor=102337606&like_hmac=47d26ae03e15826f2901db4bc03eb1ee&postid=12990&like=1&source=sub_email

https://fivedotoh.com/2022/04/13/fowc-with-fandango-amenable/?like_actor=102337606&like_hmac=a5ada57da5d7ce50d96fea259611bc82&postid=69005&like=1&source=sub_email

https://onedailyprompt.wordpress.com/2022/04/13/your-daily-word-prompt-Moniker-ydwordprompt-april-13-2022/

https://thedailyspur.wordpress.com/2022/04/12/record/?like_actor=102337606&like_hmac=4a24384aa3a160ac6a71d8f2d1a92c09&postid=3391&like=1&source=sub_email

One Liner Wednesday/A2Z Kids

by rugby843, posted in Uncategorized

I’ve probably used kids in previous years in an A to Z challenge but have to say they are a priority of mine, so here goes! I love kids and life is so much better being around them. Their hopeful outlook and positive energy rubs off on me and causes needed laughter and smiles. I am privileged to have three grown married kids and eight grandchildren—the oldest grandson now expecting my first great grandchild next month! Hallelujah! ♥️

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https://lindaghill.com/2022/04/13/one-liner-wednesday-creepy-enough/?like_actor=158419803&like_hmac=571d4f71d940185b9220e159a4f37274&postid=16107&like=1&source=sub_email

Cemetery: Caution

by rugby843, posted in Uncategorized
bone! It was supposed to be located somewhere in the “Saints Preserve Us” cemetery, at least according to the book “Gorgeous Ghost” written by Joe Joker. Apparently he had found the bone on a stormy day back in ‘55 and wrote about his experience, and anyone who held this bone would be visited by a beautiful, if not strangely ethereal, ghost.

Many a man had tried the quest and failed, or disappeared shortly after. The facts were a bit sketchy because no one took ghosts seriously. Their deaths had been reported as “natural” and the coroner’s accounts had been blacked out in certain spaces. Joe, now also passed to the great beyond, wrote about his personal experience with the bone but so far no one else had found it and Joe left no directions or map, only that it was originally found in the SPU cemetery. Was the bone cursed? Would you have a momentary pleasure with a beautiful ghost? Only Joe’s shadow knows.

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https://fivedotoh.com/2022/04/12/fandangos-story-starter-41/#like-68963

dVerse Poets Prosery

by rugby843, posted in Uncategorized
This evening I would like you to write a Prose piece which includes the line:
“Talk what you please of future spring and sun-warm’d sweet tomorrow.” – from the poem A Daughter of Eve by Christina Rossetti.
Please also include the dVerse link in your published piece.

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“Talk what you please of future spring and sun-warm’d sweet tomorrow”, but save a dream of winter for me. Bright blue clear skies with clouds brushed away by strong breezes, take my breath on a morning walk. Old skates now jostling over my well padded shoulder blades from layered sweaters and heavy coat, have been sharpened to dangerous blades. A shovel in my mittened hand, always ready to make short work of the frozen pond’s skiff from previous night’s snow, and I pause to take it in. An every day adventure; a simple, solitary respite inside a busy day of household chores. Scraping sounds of the spade pierce the pristine surroundings, and scatter a few crows previously resting silently on icy branches. I don the skates, secure long laces with bared hands, suddenly stiff from exposure. Then, awaited bliss as I begin to glide.

https://dversepoets.com/2022/04/11/prosery-when-it-comes-to-christina-rossetti/