#FF — Au Naturale

PHOTO PROMPT © Robbie Cheadle Au Naturale With so many head shops sprouting up around town, it was inevitable that one of Rose’s friends would bring edibles to their Friday night group Scrabble game. The words used that week weren’t found in the regulation dictionary. Next morning, Jill called, opening the conversation with, “The sixth,…

dVerse — Q215 — Return

Return How you lift in arctic winds, feathers reached, flit from limb, then furl in compact chassis. A-rested cling, bob and peck silky blacks; bill-mashed oil fires your engines. Bright chirps sound against bleached, drab winter canvas, promises from forebears, carrying on, returning through seasons. My mom always believed that cardinals sighted were those who…

Fitness and Fun — Snowshoeing adventure

On Friday I was invited to a pop-up snowshoeing adventure by Cari, my fitness guru on Saturday morning. She had the snowshoes and I had the x-country ski poles that work well with them. I wore 2 layers of pants, 3 layers of shirts/hoodies, a thick hat, sturdy hiking shoes, heavy wool socks, 2 pairs…

FFF 56 (was dVerse — Q189 — Rouse Simmons) repost, update, synchronicity

November 23 in 1912, she, a schoonerbearing 5500 Christmas trees, was boundwest, across Lake Michigan for Chicago.Blizzard said no but lumber skipper said go.She foundered at Two Rivers; all sailors lost. November nights, when moon is bright, her ghost yet sails. [44 words] top image link Learn more about Rouse Simmons here. De Jackson (aka…

#FF — A Tall Tale

PHOTO PROMPT © Lisa Fox A Tall Tale Remember Lewis Carroll’s Cheshire Cat? Few know of The Nottingham Thingamajig. Please, sit back, and I will tell the tale. Once upon a time, Nicky and Finn decided to play hooky from Nottingham Middle School. Who wanted to sit in a classroom with too little heat, too…

dVerse — Tuesday Poetics — art in nature (tanka)

Meadow Argus / Photographed in Solomon Islands / Michael Sammut furry mandala starry eyes of universe rest on tattered leaf transformation’s mystery an answer without question Melissa Lemay is today’s host for dVerse’ Tuesday Poetics. Melissa says: write an ekphrastic poem to one of the given photographs taken by Michael Sammut.