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Tale Weaver #39 – Shadows – The Malevolent Shadow

Posted on November 12, 2015 by Michael

Image: © Rose’s Garden Weave a tale in which your shadow or shadows play a significant role. Imagine your shadow can communicate, decides it is sick of you and wants to leave, argues with you about life decisions, vanishes……becomes a … Continue reading →

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SoCS Nov. 7/15 – ‘cat’

Posted on November 7, 2015 by Michael

This week’s prompt word: “cat” in any shape or form… It was a catastrophe of catastrophic proportions. I looked at her and she at me and we both burst into laughter. On the floor was her prize and joy. Though … Continue reading →

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Music Friday Prompt #15 “Daughter” by Loudon Wainwright – Three Daughters

Posted on November 6, 2015 by Michael

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VkI-07rzEnA First one born into a world that was so certain Where I thought this baby thing would be easy But you didn’t read the memo You led me up a path of discovery Wonder and at times utter frustration … Continue reading →

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Tale Weaver #38: Tales Twice Told – Watching the Arrivals

Posted on November 5, 2015 by Michael

You see them all at the train station every morning. From 5.30 through 8.30 they come and go hurrying quickly into the city. The weird and wacky, the sad and the happy, the focused and the dreamers, the lovers and … Continue reading →

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FFfAW-Week of 11-03-2015 – Jason

Posted on November 3, 2015 by Michael

My teacher was right, this is hell. She didn’t say anything about this dimension though. I get up to heaven and God says Jason you’ve been a bad boy. I say God I just got wiped out in a car … Continue reading →

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SoCS Oct 31/15 – strange/stranger/strangest

Posted on November 1, 2015 by Michael

This week’s prompt: “strange/stranger/strangest.” It’s the strangest thing when you realise you are losing control of your body when it begins to operate independently of all directions you give it. Stranger still when it defies all attempts to behave in … Continue reading →

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Writing Prompt #130 “Collage 9″- Being Everything

Posted on October 25, 2015 by Michael

We never believed it possible To love like never before To feel we’d gone beyond any known reality. My voice you said ‘Is so lovely Like a cushion for me to lay my head on.’ Those languid afternoons After a … Continue reading →

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SoCS Oct 23/15 – Beef

Posted on October 24, 2015 by Michael

My mother and father were great lovers of a side of beef. She and dad had a thing about beef; in simple terms they couldn’t get enough of the stuff. Every meal was beef in one form or other. Braised, … Continue reading →

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Music Prompt #14: “Kettering” performed by The Antlers – Baggage

Posted on October 23, 2015 by Michael

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IgLm2gInV4A Could it have been better? That you came when you said you would. That you carried your baggage through my door In an endless steam of suitcases Each labelled Trauma one – trauma 2. Should I have expected any … Continue reading →

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poetry 101 rehab: rain

Posted on October 20, 2015 by Michael

‘Listen to the falling rain listen to it fall’ That lyric line from my childhood Has stayed with me. I loved playing the song, I loved the rain. Though when there is too much And water starts up my backyard … Continue reading →

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