Category: #FOWC
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16 August: Transitions
A Little Brouhaha All about me, they lean,dahlias the size of dinner plates.It’s a feast of decanted pinksmacked sidewise, andstrong armed in a breeze. The air twists on scents of fermenting apples, wasps behaving like angry drunks,and all their unhinged buzzingis a premonition of autumn. Written for dVerse “Transitions” and RDP “Brouhaha” (in reference to angry, buzzing wasps) and Fandango’s…
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30 July: A Cadralor Poem
30.7.23 – A Cadralor Poem: Reading Stones I.I’m reading their stones,the old dead,remembering thoseI never knew. II.Her name is May.2-months. Sweet childwho never cried.Delicate as spring. III.Here lays Captain Morton,stood on a curving prow.Troubled by a cargo,the sea took him down. IV.A fisherman at rest,in rain and morning air.A squalling tangle of nets,his lights still…
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5 June: Battle Scars
Battle Scars Harsh sky whoseclouds hang mortal low,frost-weightedand summer forgotten. Written for 5 June Fandango’s One Word Challenge: “harsh” 17-syllables: enjambed American Sentence (sometimes you just need to break things) – Artwork is created using AI Midjourney. Imagery and poems ©Misky 2023.
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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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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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1 April: AprPAD and FOWC
A Foolish Limerick There once was a frog from PeruWho loved to sleep in a shoeHe wore a felt hatAnd beeped like a batAnd said, “I’m related to an emu!” Written for FOWC and PA “A Foolish Poem”. AI Digital Artwork is created using Midjourney. Imagery and poems ©Misky 2023 Shared on Twitter #AprPAD #FOWC #amwriting @midjourney
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24 March: A Fibonacci Poem
A Vivid Urge Ihavean urgeto fill myeyes with vivid spring,although my mind’s March hare madness. A Fibonacci sequence poem is a six line, 20 syllable poem with a syllable count by line of 1/1/2/3/5/8. Written and created for Ragtag Daily Prompt (Vivid) and Fandango’s One Word Challenge (Urge). AI Digital Artwork is created using Midjourney. Imagery and poems ©Misky…
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22 March: In-Between Rain and Wind
IN-BETWEEN RAIN AND WIND Everything’s taken on the colourof a wood pigeon.Dull splatter and wet clotted leaves,fossil-brittle and lost of their rattle. Spring they say is justaround the corner. It might be so,the yellow catkins hangand flit in the wind. And when that first scentof emerald chlorophyll fills the air, I plan to pack away…
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21 March: for Fandango’s One Word Challenge – Flash Fiction
THOSE KIDS And I say, The same kids who spray painted the pedestrian overpass are probably the same ones who poured Fairy liquid detergent into the fish pond, killed all the fish. A right luminescent stink on the hottest August day on record according to that weatherman on telly who looks like a skinny elf.…
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17 March: Navigating Blue for FOWC
Navigating Blue This will not stop this roll and pitch brave and blow. The air is a gust of birds scattered like handfuls of flowers. Muzzle your ears. From the roar. The howling blow. Close your eyes and relinquish your skin to navigating blue. Written for Fandango’s One Word Challenge. AI Digital Artwork is created using…
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