Prompt Nights – Passion makes the world go round – Embracing what is us.

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I am restless tonight

I am awake, outside is silent

It is that hour I should be sleeping

I look across at you

See you looking at me

These hot nights can be like that

Keep us from slumber.

I wonder?

Do we chat?

Play?

Just be?

We move closer for the comfort of bodies

Relax into each other

Know we are safe

Being here is what we want.

Time is forgotten

Sleep can be put off

Just to be us

What more is there?

We engage in our play

Softly

Slowly

Embracing, what is us.

 

Written for: http://www.adashofsunny.com/prompt-nights-passion-makes-the-world-go-round-20/

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Music Prompt # 49: “This Is What You Came For” by Calvin Harris ft. Rihanna

Am I what you came for?

Is that you I see striding down the passage?

Eyes focused searching me out?

Then that tell-tale grin

That smile that radiates so much love.

Am I what you came for?

 

Words of embarrassed fumbling

Before we settle

Hold hands, kiss and hold one another.

We sit and take each other in.

Am I what you came for?

 

You reach out and touch my face

Yes, you find I am real

We giggle like teenagers

Remembering those wondrous days

Am I what you came for?

 

We discuss our plan

Where we shall go, how and when,

Excitedly we move towards our future

Arm in arm, ready to take it on.

Am I what you came for?

 

Written for: https://mindlovemiserysmenagerie.wordpress.com/2016/07/01/music-prompt-49-this-is-what-you-came-for-by-calvin-harris-ft-rihanna/

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Microfiction challenge #3: Shapes in the mist.

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Image: Josef Chelmonski

It was a matter of uncharted waters.

Carstairs had been driving and as always didn’t take a lot of notice of the directions just saw a turn and…..turned. By the time we woke up we were a long way off the beaten track.

Looking around we realized he was driving through a small valley. A stream flowed under a veil of mist and beside it was the strangest array of animals.

Birds I have never seen flew up from the stream, huge avian shapes that momentarily blocked out the sun.

Then the sight that took our breath away, a giant sauropod raised its head and thankfully Carstair’s had the good sense to stop for we would have crashed for sure.

We spent the afternoon exploring and photographing everything we could. This was going to be an expedition that would set us up as explorers to be reckoned with.

By nightfall we were back at base camp and eager to look over the spoils of our day. When we looked at our cameras and started to download the images only the one image was there……the misty image you see above, hardly evidence to prove what we had seen.

 

Written for: https://janedougherty.wordpress.com/2016/07/01/microfiction-challenge-3-shapes-in-the-mist/

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Write the World: July Prompt – Revolution

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It all started in such a small innocuous way. To the world at large an insignificant Archduke in a country many outside of Europe would not even be familiar with.

But it initiated a conflict we still reel from in terms of the long time consequences. What at first appeared a localized incident soon gave rise to World War One. From there flowed revolution upon revolution.

The world suddenly became smaller, as men from most countries in the western world became involved and price was enormous. Thousands died in conflicts that could at best be described as complete folly, the oxymoron, military intelligence best describing the manner in which the generals thought this war should be fought.

Revolution took shape in so many countries in different forms. In Australia the Government attempted to introduce conscription so Australia could send troops to support mother England. Twice the issue was put to a referendum and twice it was defeated and defeated by the Irish Catholics who had no allegiance to the British Empire and therefore argued that Australia had no part in the European conflict. This split the country into Protestant and Catholic factions and led to much disruption within society.

The World War also brought about the end of the British Empire as it had once been. In Russia the Russian Royal family were all assassinated, the rise of Communism sparked a new way people saw society and spread fear throughout the west.

In the years Post the First World War revolutions took place throughout Europe notably in Germany with the rise of Nazism.

Revolution brings about change, some destructive and life changing and some for the betterment of people. Revolution is about change and is still happening around us.

 

Written for: https://prejudicepolitics.com/2016/07/01/write-the-world-july-prompt/

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Word-High July 1st – Kilig

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What is it about you

That mention of your name

And I’m a flutter inside?

We met across a crowded room

Two scared souls

Tentative, unsure, fumbling words

Embarrassed we thought each other a fool.

I rejoice in my good fortune

You thrill my every day

But still the butterflies persist.

Is this the crazy thing called love?

 

Written for: https://areadingwritr.wordpress.com/2016/07/01/kilig/

 

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Thursday photo prompt – The Island #writephoto

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It wasn’t there yesterday. Or was it?

We all looked at each other in puzzlement.

There was only one way to determine its location and what it might have been.

We set off in Johnno’s motor boat skimming over the waves watching the island come closer.

It looked like any other island we’d seen in this part of the world and so we landed and went exploring.

The palm trees along the beachfront gave way to rocky outcrops and the going was very difficult. It was obvious this was once a volcano evidenced by the black dried lava flow from long ago.

Around a corner we came across a strange sight. A virtual oasis in the middle of this harsh landscape. A small valley, rich and vigorous growth, inhabited by creatures we had never seen before and guarded we soon discovered by a fierce and warlike people.

They were tall, muscular men, caught it would seem inside a time capsule where their dress told us they had lived this way for a long time. The women were also tall and lithe and moved with a graceful elegance. Around the village children ran about playing as children do.

We were greeted with great caution, these people who did not speak our language motioned for us to sit with them. They shared a meal with us, they allowed us to stay one night. The next morning, they showed us the way back to our boat and watched as we left. I had the impression they did not want us to return.

Filled with the story of our discovery we couldn’t wait to tell our tale.

But the next morning as we looked across the breakers the island was not there. We even set out to find it again but a day’s search led us nowhere. The island had vanished.

In moments of drunken stupor, we would regale all and anyone of our story much to the amusement of those around us.

 

Written for: https://scvincent.com/2016/06/30/thursday-photo-prompt-the-island-writephoto/

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Tale Weaver Prompt #74: June 30 2016: Word Associations – Joycey – Black Magic Woman

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Black Magic Woman

 

Joycey Baker was not black. She wasn’t in any way magical. She was a woman; she was sure of that in fact she checked herself daily to make sure all the bits she had qualified to make her a woman. She was also very optimistic.

She wasn’t a black magic woman but she lusted to be so.

She read all the journals and self-help books she could get her hands on to learn all she could about the black arts, black magic and how being a black woman was going to make it all the more possible.

Joycey was if anything delusional and that never stopped her believing that if she applied herself diligently to her pursuit of the black magic she was sure to come up a winner.

The first thing she discovered was that black magic was designed for evil purposes. This really did tickle her fancy as she was fed up with the family belief that she was basically God’s gift to goody two shoes.

Now Joycey knew that in the looks department she wasn’t up there in terms of stunning looks. Her mother forever sympathetic had set her mind at rest from an early age by saying it was unfortunate for Joycey that the day good looks were handed out Joycey was home sick.

But she knew that if she operated her fledgling magical skills at night then she could circumvent the black woman bit of the equation. In fact, the only way she would ever be able to manage at night even was wearing full length black cloths and her normally red hair dyed a black as black.

What she really wanted was to lure a man into her ravenous clutches. She had studied satisfying a man 101, a correspondence course which served to fill her with lustful thoughts and a desire to capture a man, any man and see if the position on page 223 really would work the very machinations of his soul into putty in her hands. As I stated earlier Joycey was an optimist.

At the weekly Black Arts gathering at the Shamrock Arms Hotel Joycey spied Peter Russell across the room. Joycey had watched Peter over the previous weeks and saw a man as naïve as her, if not more so. An ideal target.

Tonight she had come dressed to kill. She’d been out and acquired the outfit, short to show off her pudgy legs, a neckline that left little if anything to the imagination and a push up bra that was obviously working overtime with as the pundits might say, limited resources.

Dressing appropriately was important for Joycey, if the magic spell failed maybe her heavingly overburdened bosom might be the answer.

Peter came as he always did in her shorts and long socks and maroon polo shirt. Joycey sidled up to him, standing inches from him, her bosom in his direct eye line, her eyes focused on his, in her head the incantation working overtime.

To say Peter was taken aback is to put it mildly. He did a double take, his eyes honed in on Joycey’s never noticed before busty substances and as Joycey spoke the mesmerized Peter nodded in agreement that they retire to her place as she had just installed a new sound system and had Santana at the ready to get their evening off to a flying start.

She slipped a drop of her Black Magic Woman potion into his cup of herb tea and knew it was just a matter of time before Peter became the sex toy she desired he be.

With Santana belting out their greatest hit, Joycey led the drooling Peter into her bedroom, black magic woman was playing both in her lounge room and in real life in her bedroom. Peter never really knew what hit him. Joycey knew, and played it again and again.

 

Written for: https://mindlovemiserysmenagerie.wordpress.com/2016/06/30/tale-weaver-prompt-74-june-30-2016-word-associations/

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Poetics: Empire of Scents – Family Dinner

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Dive into the world of scents.

I hear the crash of the door

Young Jack enters, exuberant as always

His younger brothers follow

Wide eyed wondering what’s on the menu.

Daughters arrive, sons rush in

It’s a family dinner

Two birthdays: one 36 one 3…….

They exclaim delight in the aromas they meet

Dinner is cooked

Across the room floats a parmigiana sauce

Mingled with a mushroom cream

A honey mustard sits nearby

Ready to sate every pallet if touches.

They wander to the stove

Their noses awakening their appetites,

Dad’s cooking has improved they say.

Dinner is about choices

Which taste to sample first

They take small chicken pieces,

Smother them in a chosen sauce.

By evenings end

Fierce debate over which was preferred

Each has a favourite

Leftovers will provide another meal.

At nights end I am left with

The perfume of the kitchen

Comforting my senses.

 

Written for: https://dversepoets.com/2016/06/28/poetics-empire-of-scents/

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JackieP’s Random Tuesday Flash Fiction Challenge.

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The Haunted Attic

Bang! Crash!

Every night as we sat to dinner, the same terrible sounds from above. Dad would leap up and run up the attic stairs and return shaking his head having found nothing.

Grandma would sit cutting up her vegies, never taking any notice of the kerfuffle around her. When we asked what the dickens was going on she’d shrug and say “Attic Fairies.”

We all thought Grandma was whacko anyway so we paid her little attention.

One night after a particularly loud disturbance overhead Grandma took my hand and led me to the attic stairs. It was time she was saying for me to understand what was happening in the attic.

We entered the darkness and brushing away the cobwebs around the old light switch and she flicked on the light illuminating the attic, our storage place full of stuff we no longer used.

She shut the door to the stairs and clapped her hands. There was a movement in the far corner and a figure emerged only to stumble and fall on its face. The small little man dragged himself up from the dust and stood before us, looked over his shoulder and indicated for another to emerge as well. A female form stepped forward and lifted a hand only to knock an old lamp off an older box.

They stood before Grandma, their faces with sharp features and they looked very respectfully at Grandma.

“Stumblefoot and Bumblehand,” announced Grandma waving a hand in the direction of the two dusty figures. “These are what the noise is all about. They are Attic Fairies and have lived her a long time. Only I know about them, and now you do too.”

I was speechless as she introduced the two dusty fairies to me declaring that I would now be their protector.

“What?” I asked.

“My days are numbered,” she said, looking down on the two fairies before her. “Despite their noisy ways they are harmless and they are worth having around. You ever think about coming up here and finding what you want? They have the ability to know where it is and lead you in that direction. Though you don’t know it at the time. Very useful an attic fairy, two is a luxury.

I stood there mute. Then Grandma announced she was pleased I had agreed and spoke to the two fairies in a tongue I’d never heard before. When she was finished they bowed before me and Stumblefoot stepped forward careful not to bump into anything and shook my hand. Bumblehand curtsied and smiled a dusty smile showing a mouth full of immaculately white teeth.

“Good,” said Grandma, “Come now Michael there are things you need to know. But first not a word. Ever.”

I nodded not sure I knew what I was agreeing to. The next few weeks were very interesting; I have to say.

 

Written for: https://tobreatheistowrite.com/2016/06/28/another-tuesday-another-challenge/

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Photo Challenge #119 – Jane and Louise

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Image: Ann Mansolino

Jane sees Louise

Louise sees Jane

They rush towards each other

Jane very business like

Power suited to the hilt

Louise in jeans, smart and efficient.

‘They know,’ says Louise

‘They know everything.’

‘How could they?’ asks Jane

‘The kids snitched on you

Said they heard the rumours

The tell-tale lies you were spreading.’

‘It’s impossible.’ says Jane. ‘What will mummy and daddy say?’

‘It’s the least of your issues,’ says Louise

‘The social media is having a field day

You are persona non-gratia.’

‘How did it get out?’ Jane wonders.

‘The boss’s son spilt the beans,’ says Louise

‘Told one then another.

You should never have seduced him

Left your knickers on his bedstead.

He filmed it all

It was just a matter of time.’

Jane is mortified

The pretense over.

She’ll go on pretending

Being the professional, the executive

The unemployable

An outcast, unwanted, a pariah.

She’ll continue to dress the part

Bury her head in the sand

Deny everything in her reality.

In the shop window she sees a new business outfit,

Holding her already overdrawn credit card

She enters, flashes her irresistible professional smile

Impressive as always.

Inside the pain increases

She dies a little more

As she sinks further

Into the morass of her making.

 

Written for: https://mindlovemiserysmenagerie.wordpress.com/2016/06/28/photo-challenge-119/

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