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Tag Archives: Totally Optional Prompts
Oh celery
… celery intruded by means of untraceable association. Continue reading
Posted in Bland observations, Creative writing, Happy poem, Life, Literature, Nonsense, Poetry, Writing
Tagged celery, Pablo Neruda, Totally Optional Prompts
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A look around, departure & let loose poem
so foregoing the white floc and only taking a sip from the
white armagnac that had come by post from that
part of France in a small bottle labeled “eau de
muses” to prevent any kind of customs troubles Continue reading
Posted in Bland observations, Bob Dylan, Creative writing, Film, Frank O'Hara, Happy poem, Life, Literature, Love, Movies, Poetry, Sweet dreams and nightmares, Time, Writing
Tagged meme, memes, Totally Optional Prompts
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Fleeting memory
A sleeting splash grazing the side window – a blur of car rushing by – James Steerforth ( © 2008 ) For One Single Impression’s Fleeting. Also a free contribution to Totally Optional Prompts.
Posted in Bland observations, Creative writing, Life, Literature, Poetry, Writing
Tagged fleeting, memory, One Single Impression, Totally Optional Prompts
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Elegy on August Sunday
For A. It’s Sunday morning and speechless apart from the dog I already took on a walk and reprimanded to speed up a few times While I felt free to stop here and there to pick the ripest berries To … Continue reading
Posted in Bland observations, Creative writing, Film, Life, Literature, Movies, Poetry, Writing
Tagged elegy, Sunday, Totally Optional Prompts
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Culinary delight
“That tastes like deep-fried gravel!” I complained and was thrown out. It had been “nid d’hirondelle sur lit de roses” on the menu. Not a trace of bed or rose. But that wonderful gravelly feeling on teeth and tongue – … Continue reading
Posted in Creative writing, Fun, Happy poem, Life, Literature, Poetry, Writing
Tagged gravel, Guide Michelin, humor, meme, Totally Optional Prompts
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My heart, my heart
My heart, my heart don’t lie to me as you’ve done in the past Or maybe you didn’t lie to me – you heard a song and misunderstood the words – James Steerforth For Totally Optional Prompts. The prompt ‘reflections … Continue reading
Posted in Creative writing, Life, Literature, Love, Music, Poetry
Tagged heart, Totally Optional Prompts
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Tender children of the hurricane
Clad in violet, Rodrigo murmurs of the blue hammer, and how it, unbridled, and with precise swiftness, pulses, so that all butterflies fly up, a brightly colored powder cloud. And Natasha opens her beet-red mouth and lark throat, and cries … Continue reading
Posted in Creative writing, Literature, Nature, Poetry, Writing
Tagged hurricane, Totally Optional Prompts
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Tell me about something that will stay forever
“Like, will you stay forever?” Nutan said. “I’ll try. But eventually I’ll have to go. And you might have to go before that.” “Where would I go?” “Study, for example. At a school in some other town.” “I would never … Continue reading
Posted in Art, Creative writing, Flash fiction, India, Life, Literature, Time, Writing
Tagged children, painting, permanence, Totally Optional Prompts, transformation
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A tale of two cowbirds
Corinna was Orrin’s mother. What he didn’t know was that Barry was not his indigenous father. Rowland had planted his seed, determined to procreate conveniently, to only have one thing to do with it. Barry loved Orrin like his own. … Continue reading
Posted in Creative writing, Life, Literature, Poetry, Writing
Tagged cowbird, meme, Totally Optional Prompts
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What I told Clothilde
“It’s spring, and you’re late, my love.” Had she been quicker of mind, she might have asked me what her being late had to do with spring. She took it as what it was meant – a carefree acknowledgment with … Continue reading
Posted in Bland observations, Creative writing, Flash fiction, Fun, Life, Literature, Love, Writing
Tagged carefree, spring, Totally Optional Prompts
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The Maggots
At sunset, on the river bank, Krishna Loved her for the last time and left… That night in her husband’s arms, Radha felt So dead that he asked, What is wrong, Do you mind my kisses, love? and she said, … Continue reading
Posted in Life, Literature, Poetry, Stellar poetry, Writing
Tagged India, Indian poetry, Kamala Das, myth, mythology, Radha, Totally Optional Prompts
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The plunging pool at Tovara, Nayarit
In my mind now: Billy Vaughn playing a glaring Las Golondrinas Back then – The rope swing above the Tovara pool, a round hole at the end of a long, narrow passage through mangrove – and splash into the dark … Continue reading
Posted in Creative writing, Life, Literature, Nature, Poetry, Time, Writing
Tagged memory, Mexico, Nayarit, plunging, pool, Totally Optional Prompts, Tovara, travel
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