Tag: #Mystery
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‘Fiction In A Flash Challenge’ Week #21 NEW Image Prompt! Join in the fun! #IARTG #WritingCommunity #flashfiction #writingprompts @pursoot
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Beauty disguised as decayGothic windows, painted by timeKissed by autumns warm orangeTrees stripped of their summer leavesAbove the balconyBehind dirty windowsShadows linger, layers of time live togetherUnaware of each otherObjects move by unseen handNo one owns up to having touchedLate at night, whispered words ofare we haunted, touch the interiorDo ghosts live here? ©anitadawes 2020
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Around the next corner… ~ #Poetry
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By the light of day if the truth be toldI fell through a wormhole into a strange landWhere a collector’s paradise I found.Odin’s eight-legged horse, SleipnirReady to let me ride upon his backOld power shot through the reinsImages of a long-forgotten timeLodged in my mind, a story to tell laterArthur’s sword, buried in the stoneDare…
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What is wrong with this picture?
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I had gone down to the bottom of our garden (sorry, our jungle) and was on my hands and knees, trying to remove the mystery plant (see link) from our sadly overgrown patio. It turned out to have exceptionally long tap roots which I didn’t want to break, so I hardly noticed when Anita walked…
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#Writephoto ~ Tokens
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Thursday photo prompt: Tokens #writephoto For visually challenged writers, the image shows a feather, an autumn leaf and two bright red berries or beads, left amongst the stones and plants by a stone that looks like a head with jewelled eyes… There’s a kind of déjà vua message going on hereFirst Jaye calls me into the…
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#FlashFiction Challenge for Carrot Ranch Literary Community ~ #Poetry
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July 30, 2020, prompt: In 99 words (no more, no less), write a story that uses the phrase “her crowning glory.” (Thanks to Anne Goodwin for the prompt idea.) It can be in the traditional sense of a woman’s hair or applied to any idea of a best attribute. What happens if you play with…
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#Colleen’s Weekly #Poetry Challenge
Colleen’s 2020 Weekly #Tanka Tuesday #Poetry Challenge No. 181 #SynonymsOnly “Nimble & Enigma“ KnotYour stringThen againMake your best wishSwift it will returnBy age old magic trueAgile mind, no puzzle thereThe veil will part to let it throughBeware the partnership it returnedDarkest mystery made with you in mind… ©anitadawes2020
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#Writephoto ~ Veiled #Poetry
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Thursday photo prompt: Veiled #writephoto For visually challenged writers, the image shows a green horizon, beyond which the mist veils a hill topped with strange rock formations. Driving through the canyon between the landFeeling like the filling in a sandwichI found it hard to keep my eyes on the roadThe rocks reaching high above my headShrouded…
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Mist filled Mornings… #Poetry
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Mist filled Mornings First thing in the morning When the mist covers the South Downs I wonder, is Merlin walking those hills? Hidden by mists of his own making Looking for something Anger, frustration He strikes the ground with lightning This breaks the hold on his mind Yet the gate shuts as fast Half…