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13 April: 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 a road trip in 2015 to Goslar and the Hartz mountain…
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13 April: A-to-Z Challenge
K is for Katabatic Wind The stars and stormhurl down the steep,air flushed from cloudsin a chilling rush. It’s curl up with a book weather, and throw another blanket on. A-Z Challenge. Katabatic Wind: A wind that is created by air flowing downhill. Written for the A-to-Z Challenge. Declared theme for the challenge is Weather.…
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12 April: A-to-Z Challenge
J is for Jet Stream It’s a waterfallthat can’t curb its own speed.A proper wound up jolt.It’s the duty of wind. It’s kites in the sky weather, like semaphores. For A-Z Challenge. Jet Stream: strong winds concentrated in a narrow stream in the atmosphere, normally referring to horizontal, high-altitude winds. Written for the A-to-Z Challenge.…
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12 April: dVerse Prosery
“The seed of a poem lay dormant in my heart.” ~ from “Winged Words”, Valsa George You should’ve told me. Your first daughter. Eldest. The one you told, Watch over your little sister. You should’ve told me that you were dying. You should’ve known that I was not a fragile flower. My petals don’t fall…
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11 April: A-to-Z Challenge
I is for Inversion In a jar, a smoky dusty scentCharred notes of black pepperand weathered ash.We’ve put the lid on. It’s writing on the wall weather, wood smoke stings my nose. For A-Z Challenge. An Inversion: a departure from the usual increase or decrease in an atmospheric property with altitude. Specifically it almost always refers…
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10 April: A Sea Shanty
A Sea Shanty (tune: What’ll We Do with a Drunken Sailor) To sea to see, today we’re goingMisty spray off the bow is blowingHeadlong in a wind, we’re knowingFish are few today Way hey and up we’re ridingSay hey and down we’re divingMake way our nets are flyingFish are few today. Written for NaPoWriMo Day…
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10 April: A-to-Z Challenge
H is for a Heat Wave July’s a long heatwave.Prickly hot sweat.The air snapped and snarledas if itching to disconnect. It’s a rush of floral scent weather, and sunrise is a pretty blush For A-Z Challenge. Heat Wave: A period of abnormally and uncomfortably hot and unusually humid weather. Typically a heat wave lasts two or…
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9 April: Ragtag Daily Prompt “Bury”
Buried a grey squirrel races down the old oak, marks the bark with its iron claws, chases along the fence, untroubled across the slats, not a moment hesitation, no second thoughts, no tail flash in exclamation, and it disappears into the womb of the laurel, where this squirrel keeps its dregs and stash. For Ragtag Daily…
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8 April: NaPoWriMo Day 8 Twenty Little Pieces
Just Put the Blame on Pigeons And I tell her life is that pigeonthat just fell out of the tree, and she says that it’s sunshine through a daffodil, and she’s eating a hot cross bun,the butter melting down her wrist, and she licks it before it disappearsinto the cuff of her blouse, andMmmms. She…
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8 April: A-to-Z Challenge
G is for Gusty A gusty sneeze. A push.A breeze. A thrown stone.A drum roll. An autumn leaf. It’s lay siege to petals weather,wind under a white egret wing. For A-Z Challenge. Gusty: A rapid fluctuation of wind speed with variations of 10 knots or more between peaks and lulls. Written for the A-to-Z Challenge.…
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