Month: May 2023
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23 May: dVerse Haibun Memories
Nap Time My head is sideways on the desk. My arm for a pillow. Eyes closed, says the teacher. I hear the school clock. Narrow white noise without a past tense. I watch the minute hand. It hangs still as the day. 1st grade. It’s nap time. The details are gone, but I remember without…
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22 May: FOWC Lively
Lavender Literally Ringing in Their Ears More livelythan I amat this hour. Morning windowpaneslight up.Glass clear. Beesnoisy as a main street. Dancingbetween petals,between 4 spot weaver spiders. Their cellophanewings tremble,their banded thoraxhummingsomething literal. Words: 59. Fandango’s One Word Challenge #FOWC “Lively.” AI Digital Artwork is my own, created using AI Midjourney. Imagery and poems ©Misky 2023.
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21 May: SOCS – A Cadralor Poem
To Gordes, France: A Cadralor Poem I.Listen, and you’ll hear the chiselled skinof buildings. Tight as a drum. Pick upa stick, and beat out a long ago rhythm. II.Listen to moonlight, it’s silver to dream.Meadows of sky stirred by a stick. Thoseold things, those wild things on the move. III.Listen to the slow lines of…
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20 May: for Unicorn Challenge
Pier’s End A boy jumps into briny fumesat the end of the pier, pastthe old Brighton Rock shop, where dissolved sea saltis a hollow sound of wind,and where calliope tunes and foammix with past tideson the pebble beach, and seagulls juggle the air. Written for Unicorn Challenge . This took on a direction of its own liking.…
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19 May: AI Art for 3 Word Prompt
Created for 3 Word Prompt on Twitter. AI Digital Artwork is my own, created using AI Midjourney. Imagery ©Misky 2023.
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18 May: Ragtag Daily Prompt
Light as Bees Wings The morning sun iswarm as a peal of bells.Grey squirrels spiral upand down a tree trunk,and the sky’s bursting blue. This pétillant spring airis as light as bees wings. Written for Brian’s Ragtag Daily Prompt: Pétillant . AI Digital Artwork is my own, created using AI Midjourney. Imagery and poems ©Misky 2023.
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18 May: A Thursday Door
Bushboy (Brian Dodd) shares photos of doors, but not just any doors. Spectacular doors from his journeys. Dan’s Thursday Doors opened the door on this. I love doors of all sorts. I’ve trawled through my holiday snaps and found a few to share. This door photo is from Nyman’s Garden, which is just down the road from…
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18 May: A Word
Soffit This word comes from where he stands,from where he looks up the street at workmen clambering across roof tiles,ladders and scaffolding and white vans, and he stands at the kitchen sink, sunshinein ribboned streaks through the window, and he starts saying a word, but stumbleson it, like navigating uneven pavement, and he says his…
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17 May: A.I. Skulduggery
He looked in the mirror,which confirmed it too clearly, Tides do what tides do – they turn.* *paraphrased: ~ Skulduggery Pleasant/ Derek Landy AI Digital Artwork is my own, created using AI Midjourney. Imagery and poems ©Misky 2023. For Linda Hill’s One Liner Wednesday and Fandango’s FOWC Skulduggery.
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17 May: A Haibun About Two Sisters
A Haibun About Two Sisters My mother, who in her mid-90s was nearly deaf but refused to get a hearing aid, said she had no problem hearing her sister, my aunt, and that they understood each other perfectly well, except that my aunt was stone deaf and therefore always wore a hearing aid, although it…
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