Category: GoDogGoCafe
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21.1.22 Where We Can Begin Again
There’s an updated version of this post for GoDogGo Cafe : Tuesday Writing Challenge . Photo by Karim MANJRA on Unsplash ©Misky 2022 Shared with #godoggocafe #amwriting #apoemaday on Twitter
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Day 16 A Genius Under the Table
A Book Called A Genius Under the Table ……. assuming that my kids are geniuses The children tinkeredwith a wishbone,pulling and not pulling,wishing the other to snap. There were days when I thought they might rip-up the sky, while I was busy, buried in life. Written for GoDogGo Café. A Book called “A Book Called A…
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Day 14: The Mirror and the Palette
The Mirror and the Palette I love lilies.Mum hated them. But that’s not why I love them, although there was that contrary friction between us from time to time. I love them becausethey smell like church. Mum hated them becausethey smell like church. When Mum’s father passed away, Grandma filled the church with white lilies.…
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Miz Quickly’s Day 12 Words
A Book Called: WE DO THIS ‘TIL WE FREE US (so we can walk with snowdrops again) Rain and sop. A walk homein a wet reddish twilight,and watched overby a corroded moon. It felt too warm for January,this passive rain that tugs meunderfoot. This lilting suckof mud, and a…
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Day 12: The Mirror and the Palette
Look how winter rearranges things. Leaves. Life. Debris. It dances deranged around trees, strips then bare, and thenknocks them down. Written for GoDogGo Café. A Book called “The Mirror and The Palette” – Constraint: The title of a book is included in the title or the body of your poem. ©Misky 2022. Shared with #amwriting #GoDOGGoCafe #GreatReadsPromptChallenge on…
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Day 12: for GoDogGo Café
A BOOK CALLED “TODAY A WOMAN WENT MAD IN THE SUPERMARKET” ….. assuming that a supermarket is a street corner on a day that was bald and brightand suddenly white, and she keepswalking, led blindfolded by the Fates. Just following her feet, step after stepinside her head, deep in a fog,…
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Day 11: GoDogGo Café and JusJoJan
A BOOK CALLED THE SWEETNESS OF WATER assuming the water is poisoned A sardonic rat sits ona stone. Watching me.Eyes like flamesand shrieking murder.Wolfish rat, who eatsa poisoned apple,inwardly grinning at his pleasure.Foolish rat, soon sleepingdeep in rooted red poppies.Your chance for a lifecrossed into ourcosmopolitan sympathies.…
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Day 10: For Go Dog Go Café
A Book Called Today a Woman Went Mad in the Supermarket …. assuming that the woman’s name is Rita She might’ve been a Rita,or a Rhoda, but for certainher name began with an R.She wore a gold necklacewith an R around her neck.Perhaps she’s called Raisin. Raisin, truly an…
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Q7: The Black and White of It
A BOOK CALLED “ALL THAT SHE CARRIED” … assuming that All is Mum’s black and white photo the contourthe contrastthe curve of her noseshe always thought it too hookedtoo crookedthis black and white woman,with black and white views. I remember looking at this photo when I was a kid, and saying…
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Day 5: A Book Called The Liar’s Dictionary for GoDogGo Café
THE LIAR’S DICTIONARY … assuming that the liar is weather because you would be forgivenits deception on those evenings when nature’s breath crinklesthe lake with shallow ripples and the moon is at its thinnestand streetlamps glow lime bright. Weather wrote the liar’s dictionary. For Go Dog Go Café . “The Liar’s Dictionary” The title…
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