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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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4 May: An Erasure Poem
She was sinuousnessas a plastic shopping bag,a pair of underpants,or the twist of emotion. During April, I participated in a 30-day Found Poetry Challenge, sourcing text from the book Jaws by Peter Benchley. My method involved layers, changing the top layer’s opacity, and then erasing parts of that image to reveal text from the lower…
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4 May: The Allotment
Allotment If I wrote a book, I’d call it Allotment, andthere’d be a young woman who tendedher compost bin as if nothing else mattered.She’d wear a green frayed edge jumper. And there’d be a young man who dreamedof marrying her. They’d have lots of children,grow their own veggies, always organic,and keep hens that would eat…
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