It's the Saturday Mix - Lucky Dip over at MLMM! This week we'll be crafting a Tableau. Any topic. A tableau consists of one or more verses, each having six lines. Each line should have five beats. There is no set rhyme scheme, although rhyme may be present. The title should contain the word tableau. Veil [...]
Category: MindLoveMisery’s Menagerie
Carnival Glass
It's First Line Friday over at the MindLoveMisery's Menagerie blog. This week our first line is: Jaime spent the whole day browsing the antique store and left with just one thing. Jaime spent the whole day browsing the antique store and left with just one thing. And it was the perfect addition to Carmen's collection: [...]
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Eighth Grade
Today's writing prompt at Mindlovemisery's Menagerie is Make a Wish. So, I was walking along the same old dirt road I walked every day to wait for the school bus, thinking about how much I hated school. It was stupid. I wasn't good at it, nor was I interested in any of the subjects. [...]
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Got Guts?
It's the Lucky Dip Saturday Mix over at MindLoveMisery's Menagerie. Today we are to write a Somonka: The somonka is a Japanese form. In fact, it’s basically two tankas written as two love letters to each other (one tanka per love letter). This form usually demands two authors, but it is possible to have a poet take [...]
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The Woods of Io
I was a homeless, pregnant calico cat living in an upscale residential neighborhood in Mobile, Alabama. I’d had humans at one time, but they moved away and left me behind. After new people moved into our house, I realized my people weren’t coming back. I wondered for a long time what I’d done to make [...]
