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Bastet’s Shadorma Photo Prompt #4 – April 20, 2014 – Easter Moon

Posted on April 20, 2014 by Michael

A shadorma is composed of six non-rhyming lines (sestina or sextet) and the syllable pattern is 3-5-3-3-7-5.    Full moon Out of the darkness Mystery Intriguing Marking the Easter season Illuminating.  Written for:  http://mindlovemiserysmenagerie.wordpress.com/2014/04/19/bastets-shadorma-photo-prompt-4-april-20-2014/      

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Prompt 52 Soul-scarring Regret – A New Beginning/Past Regret

Posted on April 20, 2014 by Michael

In the darkness that followed I felt an overwhelming emptiness. Then as quickly as it was dark it was light A blinding over powering glow, radiating from…?   So bright as to be opposite to darkness No sense of where … Continue reading →

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You Have Touched My Soul

Posted on April 16, 2014 by Michael

You have touched my soul Your words sit eloquently within me I am enamoured by what you say You reach out, I respond I am fortunate I know.   You have touched my soul When I least expected it What … Continue reading →

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Haibun Thinking: Week 13 – The Monkey Cage

Posted on April 15, 2014 by Michael

My brother and I stand back and look happily on the now half finished monkey cage. There’s a good week before the cage has to be completed. My brother stands back in his working clothes, dusty from the dust generated … Continue reading →

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Photo Challenge #4 “Figments of Inertia” – Hectic Days

Posted on April 15, 2014 by Michael

Some days are so hectic All these children Why I ask myself?   blahblahblahgimmegimmegimmeiwannaiwannaiwannahehitmehehitmehehitme gurglegurglegurglewahwahwahjurjurjurblahblahbladgimmegimmegimme wahwahwahhahahahapokepokepokeitsmineitsmineitsminenononogoawaygoawaygo   Where’s your father? He’s in the pub. How will I cope?   blahblahblahgimmegimmegimmeiwannaiwannaiwannahehitmehehitmehehitme gurglegurglegurglewahwahwahjurjurjurblahblahbladgimmegimmegimme wahwahwahhahahahapokepokepokeitsmineitsmineitsminenononogoawaygoawaygo   Please pick up your mess. Wait till … Continue reading →

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Poem 115 – Solitude

Posted on April 14, 2014 by Michael

Awakening A car goes by Silence I lie still What day is it? Oh Saturday. Shopping More silence.   Time to reflect Time to gather self Time to take stock Time for me.   My aloneness Is ok I am … Continue reading →

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Prompt 51 Complete Bafflement – Emotions

Posted on April 13, 2014 by Michael

Why you? Why me? I ask myself this every day. How did this happen? What occurred to plunge me into this confusion? This disbelief? My emotions thrown into disarray. What began in all innocence Has blown out to a situation … Continue reading →

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All in a word – Come on Darl!

Posted on April 13, 2014 by Michael

Darl? Darl? Have you mown the lawn yet? Darl? Darl? What? I said Darl have you mown the lawn yet? Darl it has to be mown. The Roberts-Koch’s will be here at three and you know what they are like, … Continue reading →

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Meeting The Bar – DIY – Inventing Your Own Form – Once Upon a Time

Posted on April 10, 2014 by Michael

Once upon a time when I was young The paper came in the mornings My mother made me breakfast.   Presidents and Popes Who won who lost? All on toast.   My days centred around school A mile or so … Continue reading →

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Weekly Writing Challenge: Fifty – Skipping a Step

Posted on April 9, 2014 by Michael

For this week’s WordPress weekly writing challenge, you must write a fifty-word story. Not five thousand, not five hundred, but precisely fifty words. My heart beats, expectation, I see you, you move towards me and my knees melt, you are so … Continue reading →

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