Tag: writing prompt

• A Very Short Story, “Sincerity”

  ….This Journal resumes… I received a letter this morning saying that my short story didn’t win the contest I’d mentioned; the judges enjoyed reading it and I enjoyed writing it very much too. The contest theme was ‘flying and falling’ with 800 words max and a contest I’d began looking into soon before entries closed, […]

  08/08/2022 4:24 pm

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• Sunset Stretch

  

  … (prose poem, to go along with photos, this one’s in a ’list style’) …Closing the day this way. Morning: I brightened every teacup. Unexpected guests arrived on time: one plumber, two plumbers, three plumbers…all day, fully revitalizing the hot water tank…and the literary salon goes on, and then another tea, dinner cooked and enjoyed […]

  07/28/2022 12:39 pm

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• Tell Me About You

  There might have been a small overflow of posts from 10 yrs ago or more come up in your email from the blog this weekend from when I was updating my WordPress plan…These were posts mysteriously restored and not an avalanche of relevant news, my apologies. I wrote this About Me yesterday to share on […]

  06/20/2022 5:22 pm

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• A Picture of a Moment in My Life in Words

  We’d recently had the shower/bath tile wall re-grouted. The workers arrive and knock, I open the door, I am probably half their height as I say hi and welcome them in. They step inside to see a giant, fluffy gray cat running away into a back bedroom at top speed, gaining more speed gradually, tripping […]

  06/20/2022 5:22 pm

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• …*

  

  …as if I’d dreamed the tea cup, but found it first and remembered the dream in my own fancy when I received it and picked it up in my hands and looked… The design is just what I would wish…Green I often turn to and admire, green that feels like new sprouts and grass and […]

  06/06/2022 12:38 pm

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• These Hands…

  In the post, A Note Found and a Bookmark and A Great First Art Show, I’d found some surprise things inside books, like a handwritten paper, so I decided to make up my own writing prompt with an idea I’d had…Whether you try this imaginary exercise or another, these free writes can be plenty of […]

  05/20/2022 11:17 am

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• A Note Found and a Bookmark and A Great First Art Show

  

  I found this bookmark in a library book I’d taken out and read yesterday, a slim blue copy of literary insight with a little biography of poet Edna St. Vincent Millay. From that book, these lines of a poem by Edna I’d not heard of spoke to me most poignantly: The stone the angel rolled […]

  05/17/2022 7:57 pm

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• A Letter to My Missing Sunglasses

  Dear Sunglasses I Lost (Maybe 6 Months Ago), Where did you go? I last saw you near my home—I think I’d put you down by the forest and forgot you there, but I can’t be too sure. The only animal I could think of might’ve taken you was a fox…I’ve never seen a fox, with […]

  04/24/2022 7:18 pm

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• Finding Things You Already Had, A Runaway Sonnet: #2

  

  It looks like a large, elegant old book, and it opens up for storage. I’ve started writing a new poem yesterday. Peeko loves to be a part of the creative process…Is that a hen, you may wonder? And now Peeko has a pen and his own separate page. As I began writing by hand, I’d […]

  10/28/2021 9:07 am

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• The Excitement of Finding Things You Already Had: #1

  

  Well, I decided to find new table mats and to replace the ones I’d burned a little years ago with a frying pan maybe twice and hadn’t picked them out specifically, also saw I wanted more color and softness. These handwoven placemats and this vintage napkin holder I found on Etsy arrived yesterday morning and […]

  10/27/2021 8:23 am

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• And The Moon’s Shiny Tonight

  It’s the Moon! You know it. A song came on my shuffle today, think my own Christmas thought, save it in my mind for a future post, keeping my hands off the blog, and then quickly check social media late that night to see Britney Spears has posted a Christmas picture. 🎄 I take a […]

  10/16/2021 10:54 am

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• H

  m* Type it yes I wush it could be back to look where you need to walk nothing else the crown is not doing what the gleam itself does could not exactly help but no hurt when there is little explanaton in that dream last night the sky was noy in and there was wreck […]

  09/18/2021 12:11 am

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• Pick Your Dream to Slip Within

  Good morning, the sun is warm to bathe in, the air is cool, the scent of coffee made by a neighbor drifts in the air and the bird calls are so quick, until one bird sings longer, more loudly, and complexly; the coffee aroma drifts near, drifts away, wind in the trees. My eyes are […]

  06/13/2021 10:16 am

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• Sleep Blogging?, Sleep Talking, And A Writing Prompt For You

  Got these two books at the free library cabinet. I had brought two to give, they fit, and there were exactly two I wanted. The one on top is a novel I’d added “to read” in the morning before I had gotten there and had seen it at the cabinet. I had seen a friend […]

  03/13/2021 12:25 pm

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