Month: Nov 2024
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22 Nov: Poem-a-Day Challenge
Advice is … my mother telling meto eat an apple a day.so I planted three apple trees. my father telling meto let the wind blow through me.so it does. PAD (Poem-a-Day Challenge) Day21 with Prompt: “Advice”. Some artwork is created using Midjourney AI, and is identified as such in the ALT text or captioned. Images…
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22 Nov: 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. ©Misky 2023 Shared on X #amwriting @bushboywhotweet and @DAntion
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22 Nov: Ten Things of Thankful
In no particular order: 1. I am thankful to find a crown of turkey to feed 10 in the midst of November (turkey isn’t usually seen fresh in British supermarkets in November because we don’t do Thanksgiving in UK), but I found one … and it’s hard as a rock in the freezer. 2. And…
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21 Nov: A Six – Fracturing the Now
At an Intersection Named After an English King and a SaintSix Sentence Story: Part 38.2 & 38.3 Fracturing the Now Part 38.2 “What more do you need to know – I am Hanzō.” And he’s right, of course, I don’t … I don’t need to know if he’s married; if he loves her; if she…
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21 Nov: Poem-a-Day Challenge
A Metaphor for … Grief.It’s cliffs crumbling down.Grief,holding its breath andhiding beneath open sky. It’s deepcalling to deep, and shelays down infinitiy’s griefupon winter’s flame,and it leaps to burn. Written for PAD (poem-a-day challenge) Day 20: a metaphor poem. Some artwork is created using Midjourney AI, and is identified as such in the ALT text or…
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20 Nov: Poem-a-Day Challenge
Be Prepared … There’s a hurricane in that house.Two sisters hunkered down,they know the slippery slope,the long tail of these storms. Words gone, wounds reappearing. Their mother thinks she canwalk on water, like Jesus –she goes to church on Sundays,sometimes Tuesdays, too, and while one sister watches sunrises,the other says she’ll conjureloaves of bread. Like…
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19 Nov: Poem-a-Day Challenge
Chance … is drawing a bow across strings and hitting the right note or finding someone that makes you remember that you are flesh and fire Written for PAD (Poem-a-DayChallenge) Day 18 “Chance”. Some artwork is created using Midjourney AI, and is identified as such in the ALT text or captioned. Images are copyright and not…
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19 Nov: A Six – La Pêche Melba
At an Intersection Named After an English King and a SaintSix Sentence Story: Part 38 La Pêche Melba (Note: to maintain continuity, the events in this post precede Nick The Gatekeeper’s dream.) He says it’s like the first ever day of winter; Pierre loves winter, and he’s rejuvenated wearing a white apron and working over the…
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18 Nov: Poem-a-Day Challenge
Craving is … … a fragile ring of ice forming at the edge of the birdbath, and still all you can think of is ice cream, and … your bed, when your eyes won’t stay open, even thoughpolice cars and sirens bluster from the TV, and … when you want to stop eating red meat,…
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17 Nov: Poem-a-Day Challenge
A Poem for Still Life … Moon. Trees. River. Fallen leaves.One plain brown bird whose heartRings like trinkets. Winged chorister. Each star. A far beacon breaksA new day for an old world. EveryDawn writes new poems for thee. I would not teach a nightingale to Sing sweetly, nor snout this nightFor truffles under a halo…
It's Still Life 