Tag Archives: acceptance

Photo Challenge #32 “Contained”

Posted on October 28, 2014 by Michael

Diphylla@Deviant Art Safely contained Petrified to step out Afraid to venture A fairy-tale princess You wish, Cocooned in your own fish bowl. I’ve watched you Read your words Your self-flagellation A pretence, A barrier Figment of your imagination. Is it … Continue reading →

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Prompt #78 “Persephone”

Posted on October 26, 2014 by Michael

Today we are asked to view this video and use it to create our own piece of writing: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ku1HJ2DI7Xk Obliged to spend a part of every year there Like living in the past Remember when…? I wanted to believe you … Continue reading →

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Fairytale Prompt #31 – Tilly

Posted on October 24, 2014 by Michael

It’s the wicked witches fault. I have to say that straight out. I wouldn’t be here if not for her anal ways. Lady Theodora is my boss, I call her the wicked witch as her stare can melt butter and … Continue reading →

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Meeting the Bar ~ I’ve Got a Little List – Shopping

Posted on October 23, 2014 by Michael

Across the breakfast table She winks, smiles, snarls An impish grin Got the list? Waving it in the air I read: Eggs, ham, butter A packet of beans, Ice-cream, 6 titbats. What are titbats? To play tit with? She laughs … Continue reading →

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Haibun Thinking – October 21st 2014 – Woman and Child

Posted on October 21, 2014 by Michael

Image by Anja Partin The mother and child looked at me across the wasteland between them and me. The autumn leaves swirled around her ankles, the child cling desperately to her mother. The mothers bare feet shuffle amount the leaves, … Continue reading →

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Scribe’s Cave Picture Prompt #44 – A Partial Person.

Posted on October 20, 2014 by Michael

My Aunt lost her leg in the great leg debacle of 96. A combination of bad luck and bad medicine. She lived with the shame, of being, as she put it, a half woman. In 01 she was given a … Continue reading →

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Wordle #31 – Crunchy Bones

Posted on October 20, 2014 by Michael

This weeks words are: Cenotaph Currency Neighbor Lichen Feast Crunch Recede Invisible Enamel Slope Murder Dismiss My neighbour is an odd man, as are most of the people in our street, me included, then again you know me and its … Continue reading →

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SoCS October 18/14 – The Shape of Things

Posted on October 17, 2014 by Michael

This weeks prompt is: Shape It was they said the shape of things. Hotter days, colder nights. Humbug we all said. It had always been hot in summer and cold in winter. Where we lived was like that every year. … Continue reading →

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Fairytale Prompt #30 – The Word Fairy

Posted on October 17, 2014 by Michael

Photo by Kristy Mitchell In the top of my garden just beyond my Grandmother’s birdbath is the home of the word fairy. She lives in splendid comfort, her home like a hoarders dream with bits of paper covering every available … Continue reading →

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Scribe’s Cave Picture Prompt #43

Posted on October 13, 2014 by Michael

c.1925. Tanning babies at the Chicago Orphan Asylum to offset winter rickets My name is Esme Osborne; I am a single woman of means working in this orphanage tanning the little tykes. It always gives me a giggle to see … Continue reading →

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