Michael is the host of Mindlove’s Misery Menagerie for today’s Tale Weaver. Michael says: This week consider the notion of collapse. What does it mean to you? Intro: When I think of collapse I think of the end point in a temporal deterioration. In order to have a temporal deterioration, it suggests a structure of…
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MLMM Heeding Haiku with Chèvrefeuille — HAWK
This week’s Mindlovemisery’s Menagerie’s Heeding Haiku with Chèvrefeuille has the inspirational prompt of hawk. i Perched, her red tail wags, head swiveling to decide which snow drift to glide. ii Brown wings glide over white drifts; talons clutch the hare; sub-zero dinner. iii Winter hawk calls in the morning; there will be grief in snowy…
MLMM The Promised Skull
NEKNEERAJ of Mindlovesmisery Menagerie Photo Challenge has asked for a poem or story to go with the above image. I went with a free-form poem. Long I survey, with hollowed eyes, rubbled landscape, cloudless skies. Humans going to and fro, I watch and wait, through rain and snow. You said you’d come back, swore your…
#MLMM Heeding Haiku With Chèvrefeuille, January 23rd 2019, skating
Chevrefeuille is the host today and says: Your task is to create a haiku or haibun themed “skating”. Try to create a haiku following the classical rules (short moment, seasonword, cuttingword, 5-7-5 syllables and interchangeable first and third line) and your haibun may count a maximum of 150 words. Have fun! i Steel blades clip…
MLMM Wordle Bonus — Dragonballs Live
image link Mindlove’s Misery Menagerie’s bonus Wordle for the day is: “For the love of words!” There was quite a list of words offered, over 100, where we were challenged to write a story with as many of them as possible. I wrote one with the following 33 words: zephyr, yarrow, yield, xenolith, watercourse, wisteria, vestigial,…
Power & Control
image link Today’s Word of the Day Challenge is power. Today’s Mind Love’s Misery Menagerie asks us to consider the concept of control for Tale Weaver 206. Miranda had been employed by the hospital for 8 years as an educator on the dynamics of domestic violence (DV.) Her degree was in social work, which is…
#MLMM First Line Friday — 1/18/19
image link Your line for this week is: “Well I think it’s funny!” For years, Ginny had been brow-beaten, gaslighted, and treated as an inconvenience with a weak mind by her husband, Geoffrey. It started when they first met. Within minutes Geoffrey was correcting her speech and giving her advice about what to choose from…
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