Teacher’s Pet

image link oblique glance across the living room where parental radar is on high alert. dad pays the tutor before she takes him home * sequestered passions smoldering until they reach the dark end of the street to continue the lessons   word of the day challenge — sequester

Famnimals

image link Late start tonight for Fandango’s One Word Challenge, where the word is belong. A little bit of writing, then a diamante poem. I remember reading a book by Anne Tyler, “The Accidental Tourist”, a long time ago. Later I saw the movie, which was good, starring William Hurt and Geena Davis. I don’t remember…

Chemical Table

image link Fandango’s One Word Challenge today is chemical. The first thing I thought of was a the periodic table of the chemical elements. Going to old standy wiki, I found a paragraph with several terms related to the periodic table. First putting them into a list, I waited for inspiration and it came. Today’s…

Verdict

image link   Today’s prompt is freeze.  Today’s offering is in the form of senryu .   her grim smile frozen as jury reads the verdict night, sobbing relief   word of the day challenge — freeze

which oneo?

Fandango, your question of dependent or dependant inspired my poem today  :) audio or video? pan or liddeo? fat or thineo? green or blueo? hot or coldeo? will or wonteo? laugh or cryeo? pitch or catcheo? cavatini or macaroneo? dog or cateo? cow or chickeneo? fish or clameo? salt or peppereo? flakes or wheatieseo? now…

memory of the lake

image link I tried to remember the tactility of a day at the beach as a child.  * summer at the small inland lake soft fleece blanket lays on the warm sand anchored with the cooler and our flip flops pulling off tank tops and shorts warm breeze tickles the hair on our arms and…

Dream Cave

Recently, when I did the collage for Janis Joplin saving the day in my Manifestation story, I also created this collage.  There was nothing particular in mind while searching through the boxes of cutout images, other than wanting it to have a dream-like quality to it. Then, yesterday, I read dverse prompt Meet the bar…