Image by Prawny from Pixabay Bobo the Clown was very sad because his pet opossum, Huckabee, was sick. Huckabee refused to eat, and for a possum food is their world, so Bobo was worried. The circus was in Palm Beach for a week, then the troupe was shutting down for vacation. Bobo had plans to…
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Topping the Charts
image link Johnny was serving his time in the military with honor. He’d left Jeannie, his sweetheart, back home. The two exchanged frequent letters that were filled with the plans they had for marriage, home, children, career when Johnny came home. Two years into his three-year commitment, Johnny received a letter that started, “Dear John,”…
Wait
image link From the attic, the young girl watched the elderly German couple tend their garden. She awakened each morning to the sound of the sprinklers spraying the plants. Over the weeks she watched the watermelons grow from egg-sized to plate-sized to ever-larger. The old man pulled weeds in the mornings and the old woman…
#FF — A Final Bow
PHOTO PROMPT © Ted Strutz Hernando the Magnificent died on Wednesday, June 6, 1974 at age of 70. Hernando’s passion for magic and illusion began when he saw a live Harry Houdini show in 1926. Hernando traveled the east coast for 40 years and was President of the Magicians and Illusionists International Guild for the…
Heeding Haiku With Chèvrefeuille, June 26th 2019 … sun bathing with link to dVerse OLN
Sun Bathing Sunlight’s magnet pulls our clothes off as if metal. Skin burned in toaster. Our beach blankets lie close enough to cool wet sand to feel the wind’s chill. All-sized birds sunbathe; regardless, clothing optional – tan lines or no? Surf’s constant shushing is sunbather’s lullaby — soft blanket’s cradle. Sunscreen is poison; sunlight…
dVerse — Laurie Lee poet passage alchemy — Animal Kingdom Commodity
image link Laura is the host of dVerse today. Laura says: The Challenge therefore is to CHOOSE ONE of the extracts of [Laurie Lee’s] prose … and with your own alchemy, turn it into poetry. I chose to follow your tips, Laura, and used unexpected adjectives in a quatrain form with 9-syllable lines (one has…
Amos Moses
Mrs. Sweet had been teaching kindergarten for thirty years, and in all of those thirty years, she had never come across a more disruptive and dedicated-to-violence child as Amos Moses. Mrs. Sweet would watch Amos out of her room’s window in the morning before school opened. Amos would throw pea-sized pebbles that the playground was…
Tao-Talk 