The rules are simple. Each Saturday get the word prompt, follow the guidelines to write a 6-word story and submit it. (Read the ones that others submit and laugh, cry, or scratch your head.) The prompt for the latest Saturday (April 6) is = PRAY. I wonder what YOU would write.
Write a personal essay each day of the final week of June with the 2024 Personal Essay Writing Challenge. For today’s prompt, write an essay based on the story you will most likely tell others. “Be Prepared” “Be Prepared” was the impression I received on a Sunday as we walked from our parked car to…
Write a personal essay each day of the final week of June with the 2024 Personal Essay Challenge. For today’s prompt, write about a work experience. Knickknack, Paddy-whack, Give a Dog a Bone Very early on, when I was nine or ten, I became the chief knickknack duster of our home. My mother, a widow, worked…
Here is the 2024 April Poem-A-Day Challenge. For today’s prompt, write an emotion poem. GRATITUDEI’m so thankful; yes I amTo live in this placeAt a very slow pace.I’m so thankful; yes indeedTo have my own carNo need to go far.I’m so thankful, yes sireeA garden to tendWith many a friend.Grateful not to be in a…
Here’s the 2024 April Poem-A-Day Challenge. For today’s prompt, write a pessimistic poem. A pessimistic poem?What a thought.To be mad or sad,I will not.So sorry!Don’t worry.Tomorrow’s poem Will be on curryOr something furryOr maybe blurryA snow flurry?Or a trial jury.
Here is the 2024 April Poem-A-Day Challenge. For today’s prompt, write a “Not —?—” poem. NOT ON YOUR LIFE!Not on your life!I would not do that! Eat a garden snail.Not on your life!I would not go there! Down a deep, dark well.Not on your life!I would not read that! A smutty sex book.Not on your…
Here’s the 2024 April Poem-A-Day Challenge. Today’s prompt is to write a poetic form poem. (using one of the more than 100 types. I choose to write in the form of an ACROSTIC. WHAT I LOVEInside meLurks the desireOf rainy daysVelvet throwsEndless time.Relaxing, reveling Enjoying teaAnd a book or twoDoing what I love.ImaginingNetherworldsGloriously.(Be sure to…
Here’s the 2024 April Poem-A-Day Challenge. Today’s prompt is to write a middle poem. (A poem about you or something “in the middle.” Kerry BerryMy number 2 “Grand”With just her left handCan draw and writeBeautifully.A tall middle childSoft-spoken and mild,She’s really quite bright,Immutably.She married a Robwho has a great job.The two are quite tight,Suitably.Now “Greats”…
This is the 2024 April Poem-A-Day Challenge. For today’s prompt, write an ekphrastic poem. HUH?? (An ekphrastic poem is a poem inspired by a piece of art.) Double VisionThis painting by Dosso Dossiappeared twice like magic to me.First in the Epoch paper hereThen, the Getty Museum, virtually.”Allegory of Fortune,” ’tis named.Two naked figures are painted.Gentleman…
Here’s the 2024 April Poem-A-Day Challenge. For today’s prompt, write a living poem. Some people like to live it up, while others focus solely on being alive. Alive! Alive!”He’s alive and I’m forgiven. Heaven’s gates are open wide.”Words in a country-gospel songabout when Jesus died.It’s written by Don Francisco,(Simon Peter’s point of view),But the words…
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