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For dVerse Bon Appétit
A Morning Recipe the pot warmed,just boiled waterno longer a strangerto tea leaves stirredinto the morning. rain drenches half truths into the weather report, clouds squeezed thin of bright clarity, a drift of milkgentle on the brim,sipped from a china cupit’s a comfort scentlike toasting bread. starlings have returned, tearing the grass, beaks of knives…
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For Twiglet #278
Full of Light We sat under the cherry tree,lost in its leaves, lost in green,our fingers stained ruby. Fill 2 bowls for a pie, Mum said. Those days, layered between clouds,it was a time to embrace. It wasas it should be. Full of light. for Twiglet #278 ©Misky 2022 Shared with #amwriting…
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9 May: Captured Moment
And I ask him, Why are you sweeping the grass? And he says, Because I can’t find the rake. ©Misky 2022 Shared with #amwriting on Twitter. Photo by Timothy Eberly on Unsplash
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8 May: 17 Syllables
An afternoon nap Can leave you feeling Empty as a bicycle Poem form: 17-syllable (w/line breaks) American Sentence. The photo is mine, taken at Snowshill Manor. ©Misky 2022 Shared with #amwriting on Twitter. Cee’s B&W photo challenge at https://ceenphotography.com/2022/05/05/cbwc-side-of-things/ photo of penny-farthings hanging from cross beams.
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8 May: Stream of Consciousness
Mum used to say that I had a hollow leg. I thought bits of myself had broke away inside me, snapped off and were rattling around in my own air, like spare change, and I never wondered why I didn’t hear my own hollowness inside my head. Like an echo when I walked. And this…
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7 May: Cee’s B&W Photo Challenge
This is a photo of Sprogø Lighthouse (built 19th C) in Denmark. It’s located on the tiny island of Sprogø, which (in the 12th C) was named Sproøe, meaning scout’s island. for Cee’s B&W Photo Challenge ©Misky 2022 with iPhone. Shared with #amwriting on Twitter
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6 May: I Do Believe I Do Believe
I remember as a child believing that when I could read I’d know lots of stuff, and I’d know truth when I saw it, but there were few facts in Henny Penny or One Fish Two Fish Red Fish Blue Fish and so I was left to believe mostly in myself. Image is from the…
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For Cee’s Macro Photo Challenge
I followed Bushboy’s link, and discovered Cee’s Midweek Madness Challenge (CMMC). The topic is Close Up or Macro. These photos are from the garden this morning, using my iPhone. (Bellis Perennis; Hostas; Mexican Orange Blossom Choisya Ternata). If you enjoy photography, have a look over at Cee’s blog at https://ceenphotography.com/2022/05/04/cmmc-may-close-up-or-macro-2/ ©Misky 2022 Shared with #amwriting…
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5 May: A Sensible Way
She felt very oldthat morning, fell victim toan illness of words, seeing and hearing thingsin bits and pieces, and wanting to put them togetherin some sensible way. ©Misky 2022 Shared with #amwriting on Twitter
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dVerse Stages of Grief
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