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11 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. Photo ©Misky 2023 Shared on Twitter #amwriting @bushboywhotweet and @DAntion
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11 May: On the Edge of Clouds
On the Edge of Clouds It’s still the wild west out here,a flood of sins and nature’s laws.The sky is blue as the deep sea,the landscape’s prairie-blond,and straight as a bridge span. It’s as if you could sing out, andbe heard at the edge of clouds. Heard a dog down by the river again,… although…
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10 May: One Day Between
One Day Between Meanwhile, spring dashes throughthe month in flashes of molten green,and long lashes of rain. There was one day, Monday, splashesof light slipped between shadows,it was a day of brash garden colour. One day, I would like to see Kashmir.I might plant Kashmiri coloursin my garden, and when it rains, I will only…
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9 May: for Sunday Whirl #604
I’m Dreaming In 12 Words that the house is humming,and the windowpanes rattleand comets fall from cloudslike hushed whispery water. Whoosh. And I open a book on my lap,check for a storyline, butthere’s nothing written.This moment is all mine, so I write what I know: Mary had a little lamb, and nothing more. Sunday Whirl…
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8 May: A 9 Haibun
A Haibun: About the Number 9 I am a nine. That’s my number. You see if you take my birthdate in single digits and add them together in this order (m+m+d+d+y+y+y+y) it equals 27, and if you add 2+7 it equals 9. Any number times 9 always comes back to 9, like 9×6=54 and 5+4=9.…
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7 May: For #SOC Childhood’s Song (revised)
The Ants Go Marching One by One The morning after the night thatDad got up in the middle of the nightto piddle in an empty Heinz beans tin, obviously, away from our new tent that he’d bought it at discount price becauseit was missing a support pole and pegs,but never mind about that because Dad…
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7 May: A Ragtag Sunflower
For Wednesday Ragtag’s Sunflower prompt. AI Digital Artwork is created using Midjourney. Imagery and poems ©Misky 2023
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6 May: For VV May Anthology Prompt
An Ekphrastic Poem based on John Everett Millais’s painting “The Blind Girl“ The Girl With Blind Eyes This girl has eyes that only seethe dark side of the sun. Her eyesare sunken shadows, telling herthat she lives in a grand cathedralwith spires, old saints and candles.But everyone says her eyes lie.They say she lives in…
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5 May: A Mouse’s Dream Diary
An Entry from a Mouse’s Dream Diary So it’s true. Mice do dream. Of drowning. A drowning dream. This is the season of water. Of fractious storms and troubled air. I run along the floor, pressing close to the skirting boards and wall. Avoiding wires and cords and shoes, baskets, books and magazines. Slipping under…
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5 May: A dVerse Quadrille
The Garden The garden is mapped,and nature is undone. Supplanted.Keep this. Hmm. Not that. Tug at the weeds, shiftthe soil and sift the silt. Winter’s rooted dark fadesinto tulips and bleeding hearts, as a skylark’s delicate songunwraps a silken colour seed. A quadrille poem (44 words sans title) for dVerse Poets. AI Digital Artwork is created using…
