The Bag Lady

This was my first thought because it is spot on whenever the word company is heard in my house:😄

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The Friday Reminder and Prompt for #SoCS Nov. 1, 2025

Halloween vibes are circling young ones

Bicycling trips to graves increasing

Curiosity in minds starts its run

Ghosts and goblins arises not ceasing

Concerned parents start their ignored pleading

Monsters that have been patiently waiting

Use alluring spells constantly baiting

Children to facilitate monstrous acts

Evil characters are contemplating

But silliness covers up evil facts.

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Poetry Form: Dizain

You can tell if someone’s on the edge, on a ledge, seeking direction. Family and friends will try to help not realizing how close to it you are, how many times you shut yourself in the bathroom to soften your cries. They think they know you, and on the outside you seem fine. But I know that look, that hesitant smile, of being on the edge.

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Word Prompts

The marksman started to drool thinking of the slippers and reward after ridding the world of this interloper. The ruby slippers were rightfully his and he had caught this crook on video stealing them. Lining up the criminal’s head in the portal, gleefully pulled the trigger.

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Can You Tell A Story In…

lightning streaks show shapes

thunder raps on shutters tied

cracks in blinds distort

whispering winds speak horrors

storming all on Hallows Eve

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smoke

foggy

frightening

unfamiliar

surrounding my form

eerie feelings hover

nightmare now reality

drifting across the bedroom floor

my feet never touching the surface

“Smoke, foggy, frightening unfamiliar”.

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A tanka, 5,7,5,7,7, and a dectina refrain, 1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9 syllables. Line ten is a combination of the first four lines in quote form.

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Wea’ve Written Weekly – a poetry prompt!

Three blind mice or holiday kings

Whoever dressed them needs a lesson

Costumes are meant as children‘s things

Humor on dogs heeds to lessen

The evil scary part of the night.

Funny dogs dressed as ghosts

Never cause anyone a fright

Licking your hands, the friendly milquetoasts

A nice try for the costume tests

While tired pups lay down and rest.

What’s that you hear?

A witch’s scream?

She’s falling off her broomstick beam?

Now there’s a sight I’d like to see

Finally a fright on Hallow’s Eve!

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Monday Poetry Prompt: Halloween

Only one

Counts for the many

Peace in time

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#Easy Peasy Writes – 10/29/25

He thinks it’s only a trick. I think I’ll teach him a lesson.

“Wanna see me pull a rabbit out of my hat?” The magician tiredly reveals the empty hat. The rabbit is not in the secret box, he left the stage.

What goes around comes around.

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Sunday’s Six Sentence Story Word Prompt!

ML:
clumsy error
we broke the tiny saw blade
pumpkin carving blues
resolute autumn fervor
pumpkin finger painting instead

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CW:

a slip of the knife

turned a frown to a huge smile

Halloween goblins

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ML:
ripening gourds
seeds ready for roasting
plentiful harvest
last-minute costume ideas
warts for witches’ noses

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CW:

crunchy salty treats

pumpkin seeds at the ready

cleaning, washing done

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ML:
fireside marshmallows
melting onto graham crackers
season of the s’more
cheery trick-or-treaters
like king-size candy bars best

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CW:

gooey extra sweet

toothbrushes before their bed

this night treats abound

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#TankaTuesday Poetry Challenge No. 36, Tan-Ku, 10/28/25

School Shooting

This is no trick or treat

that is not what’s moving these small feet,

it’s grief, it’s thinking hard

on all of the friends they’ve lost in the schoolyard.

The faces are solemn,

their hearts cry out.

They cannot even imagine what this is all about.

Even the parents look subdued

gathering, in protests they never act rude,

the sidewalk regulars stay out-of-the-way

because maybe they didn’t have a child there that day.

A shock to these parents and children alike.

They do not realize the government’s spite.

To make new laws that prevent guns

In the presence of all of these little ones,

we plead, we vote, we protest and march

but all of this doesn’t move the oligarch

he cares not what happens in small towns or schools

While he secretly makes up new laws and rules.

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