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It's Quadrille Monday over at the dVerse Poets Pub. This week, our writing prompt is the word "abide." "Love will abide" — until it gets tired of waiting for never until it nearly starves from subsisting on scraps of attention so grudgingly thrown until it finally realizes that its been had and rips that heart [...]
It's First Line Friday over at the MindLovesMisery Menagerie. Today's prompt is, Dominic bowed his head to hide his face. Dominic bowed his head to hide his face. It was too late; they'd already seen him. The whistles, comments, and blatant stares spewed forth like projectile vomit from both men and women. From construction workers [...]
It's Fandango's Flashback Friday! Here's one I had written on this very day in 2018. Welcome to dVerse Poetics. Anmol (HA) will be your host for today. And we have a lot to talk about and read today — so let’s all get a nice drink, sit back and relax, and explore desire. Finally, there [...]
It's Quadrille Monday over aat the dVerse Poets Pub. This week, it's The Happiness Project! *** They say it comes from within — happiness. Unless the within Is without. Where rainbows are gray music is lonely silence laughter is as unlikely as Chamicuro. Longing is non-existent when within is without love can't won't live in [...]
It's time for Fandango's Friday Flashback! How about you? Why don’t you reach back into your own archives and highlight a post that you wrote on this very date in a previous year? You can repost your Friday Flashback post on your blog and pingback to Fandango's origina post at https://fivedotoh.com/2020/10/16/fandangos-friday-flashback-october-16/ This week at Mindlovemisery's [...]
There was pregnant pause fit for an ellipsis at the Plath Institute for the Punctuationally Perplexed. Apostrophes dangled in mid-air—like modifiers—pondering their functions. Were they in for possession, or did their presence suggest a multitude of charges? Commas found themselves scattered, unsure of where to go and how many of them were necessary. Meanwhile, the semi-colons, colons and em-dashes jockeyed for position in the awkward [...]
To Monte, it seemed as if they'd been walking for days. He wished they could stop for a snack & a drink of water, but apparently The Guy was on some sort of mission. Since they'd begun their journey he'd barely acknowledged Monte's existence. Ever since the motorized machine stopped moving and they started on their [...]
Dagmar Bezhyumanka was a woman on a mission to flush out true love from its hiding place. She'd exhausted the traditional methods: blind dates, fix-ups, singles' bars, even hanging out in the produce section of the Jewel-Osco on Sunday mornings in hopes of snagging Mr. Right. No luck. Men in Chicago were more sophisticated than the dim [...]
It's Song Lyric Sunday again! This week, Jim Adams has given us the words Fiancé/Husband/Lover/Wife to use as prompts. So, the somg I chose is "If You Wanna be Happy," by Jimmy Soul. Lyrics If You Wanna Be Happy Jimmy Soul If you wanna be happy for the rest of your lifeNever make a pretty [...]
Here it is, Fibbing Friday again. Time sure flies when you give it a pair of wings! Join us by clicking here. What is the Battle of Little Big Horn better known as? Does size really matter? Who wrote the Gettysburg Address? Some guy from PA. Who said, “And so, my fellow Americans: ask not [...]
