image link He told me God lived on Bubblegum Mountains, the strawberry peaks that greeted the sun first each morning in the summer. Naive I was but I had a few questions for The Almighty so I set off across meadows filled with flowers and grains, streams with boulders and crawdads, then across a sweltering…
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Dark Angel for earthweal
At age of five became I blindBad nerves to blame that made me screamCursed I our God for act unkindYet all, my friend, ’twas not as seemed The act upon heaped thoughts unkindTurned out to have a brighter themeThrough haunts did stray the other fiveTo caves of dreams with golden seams Each night I searched…
50 Word Thursday — Hungry for Beans
As the smiling tourist had his photo taken with the exhibit’s totem leader, neither the tourist nor his friend noticed the wall totem poles inching closer. It was only looking at the snapshots on the phone that they both looked up…. just in time to realize they were surrounded in a cage of wood. The…
I Believe in Bernie
“Bernie! Bernie! Bernie! Bernie!,” chanted the crowd. Bernie Sanders had just been declared the winner of the 2020 Presidential election in the United States. Two months earlier, the former POTUS had been impeached and then tried and convicted for a stream of federal crimes that lead to his being put on ice at Sing-Sing until…
#FF — Terminal
PHOTO PROMPT © Rochelle Wisoff-Fields Terminal Left doctor’s office with the news, I won’t wear out this pair of shoes. Another Spring I’ll never see, Way station to eternity. If you’re to say goodbye to me Please do it now, flight leaves at three. So many things I want to say To you, my love….
Heeding Haiku With Chèvrefeuille, June 19th 2019, summer solstice
Summer’s Goddess Blesses with her golden orb Heals us with her light * Golden zenith rains On fields of blossoming green — Cornucopia * Darkness gets cheated While long summer days play Owlsongs are cut short * Solstice strawberries Are the deepest red — and sweet! Shortcake’s dance partner * Spring’s asparagus gone Solstice berries…
Twittering Tales #141 – 18 June 2019 — Peeping Tom
Photo by Nathan Dumlao at Unsplash.com Peeping Tom Tom was a curious boy – until he saw what he shouldn’t. Ma told him to mind his own business, but he couldn’t resist the sounds on the other side of the fence. Just a tiny peep was all he needed. It was the last thing he…
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