Category: remembrance
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Broken Fields… #FlashFiction
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I left my love in a broken field where no flowers grow.This, written on a card with a red rose lying on top, I found on my doorstep.Who left it or why means nothing to me. I popped the rose in a small vase, dropping the card in my pocket. I left for work and…
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#Flash Fiction Challenge for Carrot Ranch Literary Community #Poetry
April 1: Flash Fiction Challenge April 1 2021, prompt: In 99 words (no more, no less), write a story about a swift passage. You can take inspiration from any source. Who is going where and why. What makes it swift? Go where the prompt leads! The red flame of life, love, spirituality, the journey taken with…
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Colleen’s Weekly #Poetry Challenge
#TANKA TUESDAY WEEKLY #POETRY CHALLENGE NO. 219, #SpecificForm This weeks prompt is all about Haiku poetry, which is nature related and Senryu poetry, which is about the human condition. Anita has chosen to write a Senryu poem.
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Ghostbusters acrostic Poem
Our tribute to Captain Tom Ground control to Major TomHold on, strap in tightOperation Nightfall is a goSending extra troopsTo new targetBombs loaded, you’re good to goUndercarriage all secureSignal left will let you knowTake off when readyEnter enemy spaceRace your way back homeSentinels line the airstrip, awaiting your arrival… © Anita Dawes 2021
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The Others… #Poetry
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The Others I was meant to remember but I could not.It felt as if a part of my mind had been cut awayHidden from meI search the dark space in betweenFinding the thin veil that separates our world.I see the missing part of my memory floating,hands reaching, trying to take it for their ownI wondered…