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Tale Weaver/Fairy Tale Prompt #57 – Quest – A Maiden in Distress

Posted on March 17, 2016 by Michael

Bells and whistles were shattering my night. I was suddenly pleased I hadn’t turned off my alerts. I looked at my phone. Lady Myrtle Purple was missing. I rang the number the alerts alerted me to. My right hand man … Continue reading →

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Hump Day Poetry – Week 6 – Melt my Heart

Posted on March 16, 2016 by Michael

  Was it the room full of words I was lost within Where you first spied me Between the sonnets and the free verse When I spun a yarn of fairies Or was it one of my many tales of … Continue reading →

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Photo Challenge #104 – Floating

Posted on March 15, 2016 by Michael

Image: Brooke Shaden I feel myself floating, drifting up It’s eerie, I don’t understand Below me ants mill around There is confusion, I feel frantic I am suddenly afraid, is this? Beside me my mother long dead stands I feel … Continue reading →

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Haibun Monday #9 – After Midnight Mass

Posted on March 15, 2016 by Michael

Midnight Mass is over and we are on our twenty-minute walk home. I love Easter, as there’s always a full moon and its silver light to see by as we walk along. Its autumn and the evenings are not so … Continue reading →

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FFfAW-Week of March 15, 2016 – The Black Dog

Posted on March 14, 2016 by Michael

This week’s photo prompt is provided by pixabay.com “This is no place for you boy. It’s dangerous out there. One false step and you are no more. I can’t take you with me today You wait till I return I … Continue reading →

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Wordle #101 “March 14, 2016” – The Novitiate.

Posted on March 14, 2016 by Michael

This week’s words: Glare Nyctophilia (a love or preference for night, darkness) Novitiate (the state or period of being a novice of a religious order or congregation. the quarters occupied by religious novices during probation. the state or period of being a beginner in … Continue reading →

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Daily Prompt – Incomplete

Posted on March 14, 2016 by Michael

Daily Prompt – Incomplete I’m glad my life is incomplete. I’m working on the notion That as I draw my final breathe I’ll have achieved some sense Of completion. But I doubt it will happen For life is an incomplete … Continue reading →

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Prompt Nights – Guérison par la foi – Faith, healing – My Love for You

Posted on March 13, 2016 by Michael

This week we are asked to share our poetic views about faith or healing. What is that one thing in your life that represents faith or the process of healing.   I can’t say what it is Its faith isn’t … Continue reading →

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Writing Prompt #150 “The Lovers” The Girl and The Boy

Posted on March 13, 2016 by Michael

The girl from humble beginnings Held back by fears and haunting words: ‘You’re no good’, ‘you’ll ruin everything you touch’. Love became an elusive ghost She had long given up the cause. Until the boy came along. In all innocence … Continue reading →

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FLASH FICTION FOR THE PURPOSEFUL PRACTITIONER: WEEK #11 – The Middle of Nowhere

Posted on March 11, 2016 by Michael

Image: http://publicdomainarchive.com/public-domain-images-grey-black-trash-can-empty-parking-lot-white-lines-shadow/   My Uncle Darcy loved a good holiday to some unusual place. He did this most of his life and as he aged so did his mind. Even when Edgar his travelling companion died Darcy would still plan … Continue reading →

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