2023

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Daydreaming

Although the day opened with a bright mood
Its fallacy hiding the gray
Adequate lighting along the long path
Any consequences falling astray
Flowers bloom large on their burgeoning plight
Equate to their life on the ground
No need for words or anything else
Being pugnacious and ready to bound
Out of the ground up into the sky
Like fireworks up in the air
Meaning my mind may wander away
Feeling sedate and locked in a stare

https://thedailyspur.wordpress.com/2023/03/29/photo-prompt-1047/

burgeon https://wordofthedaychallenge.wordpress.com/2023/03/29/burgeon-2/
SEDATE, ADEQUATE, EQUATE https://pensitivity101.wordpress.com/2023/03/29/three-things-challenge-m282/
fallacy https://fivedotoh.com/2023/03/29/fowc-with-fandango-fallacy/
consequences https://ragtagcommunity.wordpress.com/2023/03/29/rdp-wednesday-consequences/
mean https://thedailyspur.wordpress.com/2023/03/29/mean/
pugnacious https://onedailyprompt.wordpress.com/2023/03/29/your-daily-word-prompt-pugnacious-ydwordprompt-march-29-2023/

Christine Bialczak poetry Compilation Fandango's One Word Challenge (FOWC) Moonwashed The Cat in the Hat Fan Fiction Three Things Challenge Word of the Day Challenge

The Cat tells the truth

*The Cat in the Hat fan-fiction poetry*

With a dubious look of suspicion
And a growing pain deep in his gut
The Cat saw the pothole ahead there
he would never get out of that rut.

His car sort of bumped off the corner
The fender got only a scratch
He’d hate to tell the kids about it
He thought of a lie he could hatch.

He’d tell them he was a soldier
That he’d been called out to fight in a war
The bullets flew fast all around him
He didn’t get out of his car

He’d tell them that animals gathered
‘Round his car just to take in the sight
That lions jumped up on the tailgate
That they all gave him quite a great fright.

He’d tell them he went to a shindig
To dance until he had to drop
His stomach was full of the goodies
There was ice cream with cherries on top.

He’d tell them he fell off a mountain
But luckily landed intact
He’d pulled out the airbag so quickly
before he crashed he needed to act.

Just then the Cat had a vision
Of telling the kids the whole truth
That he had been picking up takeout
When he slid his car by the booth.

He would say that he slid it in sideways
To wait quietly for his fast food
His patience was quickly degrading
He was trying to keep his good mood.

But when the kids ran outside to see him
They didn’t notice anything wrong
So he got out fast to get playing
While the radio played a nice song.

Moonwashed Weekly Prompt #134 – 3/14/23 – Dubious https://amanpan.blog/2023/03/14/moonwashed-weekly-prompt-134-3-14-23-dubious/
FOWC with Fandango — Intact https://fivedotoh.com/2023/03/18/fowc-with-fandango-intact/
WOTD – Stomach https://wordofthedaychallenge.wordpress.com/2023/03/18/stomach/
3TC – shindig, dance, fell https://pensitivity101.wordpress.com/2023/03/18/three-things-challenge-m271/

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The Little Girl and the Cabin: Compilation 03/04/23

Once upon a time there was a girl who lived in a cabin she built by hand. When it had been spring and large leaves were prolific, she would gather the green sheets and other sprigs of wood to make her shelter more substantial. The girl wasn’t afraid of wild animals and actually loved to sprint through the trees with the squirrels and rabbits.
One day the girl went looking for her squirrel friends but noticed the forest was very quiet. There were no hopping rabbits, no sneaky foxes, and no squawking birds. The girl became very afraid. She hid quietly in her tiny cabin, hoping that whatever had taken her friends wouldn’t be able to find her. Luckily she had plenty of food and water to sustain her hiding. And there she hid.
Many years later, hunters found a miniature cabin, one that looked to be build by Snow White’s Seven Dwarfs. The cabin was empty of life but the walls were stocked high with different foods, now rotten, and cups of water, completely dry from evaporation. The cabin was talked about by the locals but no one would admit to building it and no one ever came forward to claim it. The story of the tiny cabin became a local tale reminding children to never wander in the woods alone.

sprint, sprig, spring https://pensitivity101.wordpress.com/2023/03/04/three-things-challenge-m257/
wild animal https://lindaghill.com/2023/03/03/the-friday-reminder-and-prompt-for-socs-march-4-2023/
prolific https://wordofthedaychallenge.wordpress.com/2023/03/04/prolific/
sheet https://fivedotoh.com/2023/03/04/fowc-with-fandango-sheet/

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Short, blissful day: Compilation 02/20/2023

The allure of the water, so crystal clear and blue
made my attempt at serenity actually come true
I reacted with elation, no need to feign my glee
The gauge of my happiness was easy for all to see
With twilight awaiting, near the sea, a slab of glass
I tried to interpret how time could go so fast
For the beauty in front of me was way beyond delight
Concluding my peaceful day before it came to night.

*https://keithchanning.wordpress.com/2023/02/20/kreative-kue-394/
attempt https://fivedotoh.com/2023/02/20/fowc-with-fandango-attempt/
react, allure, feign https://pensitivity101.wordpress.com/2023/02/20/three-things-challenge-m245/
gauge https://wordofthedaychallenge.wordpress.com/2023/02/20/gauge-2/
interpret https://onedailyprompt.wordpress.com/2023/02/20/your-daily-word-prompt-interpret-ydwordprompt-february-20-2023/
twilight https://ragtagcommunity.wordpress.com/2023/02/20/rdp-monday-twilight/
slab https://thedailyspur.wordpress.com/2023/02/20/slab-2/

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Love at the Tower: Compilation 02/02/2023

The image of the city’s clock amidst the chilly air
its origin unknown for now and nobody did care
The chiming in the tower made my deepest wish come true
as if a dream had happened, I could finally sit with you
We crunched on our late breakfast, my Lucky Charms the best
compersion to my sugary desire never added to your stress
We locked our hands together and vowed to always stay attached
in the perpendicular arm embrace we were so closely latched.
We gazed at one another with no care to who could hear
Our love could show and grow some more, never more to fear.

origin https://fivedotoh.com/2023/02/02/fowc-with-fandango-origin/
https://new2writing.wordpress.com/2023/02/02/writephoto-ben/
chilly air https://alwayswrite.blog/2023/02/02/wq-5/
wish, dream, image https://pensitivity101.wordpress.com/2023/02/02/three-things-challenge-m227/
crunch https://ragtagcommunity.wordpress.com/2023/02/02/rdp-thursday-crunch/
breakfast https://thedailyspur.wordpress.com/2023/02/02/breakfast-2/
compersion https://wordofthedaychallenge.wordpress.com/2023/02/02/compersion/
perpendicular https://onedailyprompt.wordpress.com/2023/02/02/your-daily-word-prompt-perpendicular-ydwordprompt-february-2-2023/

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Little Creature Surprise: Compilation 01/29/2023

The shriek slowly faded as I walked away
Ruining my exercise that precipitates my day
The drumming continued and the peacefulness topped
Like vines along barns grown too thick to be cropped
I clung to my sweater spread right ‘cross my back
I was flummoxed to see the cement had a crack
Was it water in there hunting for a space to hide?
Like a natural trowel I impulsively tried
To look in the crack, a real tight place to see
If this was the place the cacophony might be
I employed all my senses, visions coming right back
Like the floods and the blooms of springtime’s attack
When all of a sudden I saw in that space
All the creatures were having a chummy embrace
There was music and balloons like tiny small dots
There were young little creatures banging on pots
They were celebrating something, I’d never know
But back to my exercising I had to go.

barns thick clung topped blooms walked spread drumming faded hunt peace floods https://sundaywhirl.wordpress.com/2023/01/29/wordle-590/
shriek https://wordofthedaychallenge.wordpress.com/2023/01/29/shriek/
impulsive https://onedailyprompt.wordpress.com/2023/01/29/your-daily-word-prompt-impulsive-ydwordprompt-january-29-2023/
employ https://thedailyspur.wordpress.com/2023/01/29/employ-2/
trowel, cement, water https://pensitivity101.wordpress.com/2023/01/29/three-things-challenge-m223/
flummoxed https://fivedotoh.com/2023/01/29/fowc-with-fandango-flummoxed/
precipitate https://ragtagcommunity.wordpress.com/2023/01/29/rdp-sunday-precipitate/
exercise https://lindaghill.com/2023/01/29/jusjojan-the-29th-23-the-treadmill/

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Conspiracy: Compilation 01/27/2023

You live in a world where no Gods exist
where fantasy’s real and wishes will die
Nefarious creatures you face by the dozens
to do nothing more than than leer and tell lies.
But how do you yield to a power so bold
To lurch to the front of this crowd?
Without leaving truths spun so even and fine
yet speak in harsh words so terribly loud.
Time to throw in the towel, leave through the door
put the past far from that part of your mind
Of course the best path to take this time ’round
Verify any old clues you can easily find.

throw in the towel https://lindaghill.com/2023/01/27/the-friday-reminder-for-socs-jusjojan-2023-daily-prompt-jan-28th/
yield https://fivedotoh.com/2023/01/27/fowc-with-fandango-yield/
lurch, leer, face https://pensitivity101.wordpress.com/2023/01/27/three-things-challenge-m221/
nefarious https://ragtagcommunity.wordpress.com/2023/01/27/rdp-friday-nefarious/
course https://wordofthedaychallenge.wordpress.com/2023/01/27/course/
dozen https://thedailyspur.wordpress.com/2023/01/27/dozen-2/
verify https://onedailyprompt.wordpress.com/2023/01/27/your-daily-word-prompt-verify-ydwordprompt-january-27-2023/
You live in a world where no Gods exist https://reinventionsreena.wordpress.com/2023/01/26/reenas-xploration-challenge-265/

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Fair Maiden: Compilation 01/24/2023

*Boughton, George Henry; The Lady of the Snows; Walker Art Gallery;* http://www.artuk.org/artworks/the-lady-of-the-snows-97671

There, amidst a clearing in the dark woods,
stood a maiden with her hair bound up tight
A paintbrush poised beside her bundled hands
In this land its a ubiquitous sight

An ideal place exists in forests
So still, where silence hides a tranquil place
No utter madness of the modern world
No new electric nor developed space

But what is this I still can hear
a sound with feeling draws me back
a topical solution found
Where once was only a small crack

So leave us, her and I alone
to guide silent inferences here
so glory may be sent to God
to leave majestic beauty near.

paintbrush https://lindaghill.com/2023/01/23/daily-prompt-jusjojan-the-23rd-2023/
ideal https://lindaghill.com/2023/01/24/daily-prompt-jusjojan-the-24th-2023/
ubiquitous https://wordofthedaychallenge.wordpress.com/2023/01/24/ubiquitous-2/
topical https://fivedotoh.com/2023/01/24/fowc-with-fandango-topical/
madness, electric, silence https://pensitivity101.wordpress.com/2023/01/24/three-things-challenge-m218/
https://wordcraftpoetry.com/2023/01/24/tankatuesday-ekphrastic-poetry-challenge-no-304/
There, amidst a clearing in the dark woods, stood … https://jimadamsauthordotcom.wordpress.com/2023/01/24/fandango-is-recovering/

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Winter’s Depth: Compilation 01/17/2023

Limbs pruned from the large, green pine
severed from the roots
cut so deeply
As if a door has shut out all light
and an immanent cold settles
All spatial reasoning gone
rationed by the falling snow
Any breath is a deviation
from the warmth
and beauty
of spring’s sweet air
and peaceful breeze

prune, cut, sever https://pensitivity101.wordpress.com/2023/01/17/three-things-challenge-m211/
door https://fivedotoh.com/2023/01/17/fowc-with-fandango-door/
immanent https://ragtagcommunity.wordpress.com/2023/01/17/rdp-tuesday-immanent/
deviation https://thedailyspur.wordpress.com/2023/01/17/deviation-2/
ration https://onedailyprompt.wordpress.com/2023/01/17/your-daily-word-prompt-ration-ydwordprompt-january-17-2023/
spatial https://wordofthedaychallenge.wordpress.com/2023/01/17/spatial/
become the embodiment of winter. Tell us what you feel during this season. Describe a typical day in January. https://dversepoets.com/2023/01/17/poetics-the-blizzard-of-the-self/

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Realization: Compilation 01/15/2023

Despite the manifestations
To determine a moment or two
Where gratitude is not held down
Where a strong stand is taken by you

The silence is suddenly broken
When gossip is shuffled around
People around shilly-shally
You shoulder the words and the sound

You wrap your arms around slowly
An afable look on your face
And find that the truth is the one thing
That can fill nearly all of the space

Your guard is suddenly broken
A powdery dust no longer seen
Like the blade of a knife that is bent
All severe feelings is how it has been

The situation is fine now
The look on your face shows a smile
The sweet minty taste on the pallet
Once again you have gone the whole mile.

gratitude https://lindaghill.com/2023/01/15/daily-prompt-jusjojan-the-15th-2023/
determine, strong, mint https://pensitivity101.wordpress.com/2023/01/15/three-things-challenge-m209/
manifestations shoulder powdery wraps broken shuffle blade stand moment again nearly silence https://sundaywhirl.wordpress.com/2023/01/15/wordle-588/
slow https://fivedotoh.com/2023/01/15/fowc-with-fandango-slow/
gossip https://thedailyspur.wordpress.com/2023/01/15/gossip/
shilly-shally https://ragtagcommunity.wordpress.com/2023/01/15/rdp-sunday-shilly-shally/
severe https://wordofthedaychallenge.wordpress.com/2023/01/15/severe/
afable https://onedailyprompt.wordpress.com/2023/01/15/your-daily-word-prompt-affable-ydwordprompt-january-15-2023/

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