Michael is the host of Mindlovemisery’s Menagerie’s Tale Weaver. Micheal says: So this week consider the notion of a wedding to be the topic for you to write about. Wedding is a word that is so full of myriad emotions that range from extreme joy to extreme dread. For me, the word wedding is synonymous…
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#MM Music Challenges — Eli’s Comin’ and Telephone Line
Jim Adams is the dedicated host of Mindlovemisery’s Menagerie’s Music Challenges. Jim says: The challenge today is to focus on this song and use it for inspiration in any form of creative expression (including but not limited to short stories, poems, lyrics, artwork, photography, (etc.). Thank you, Jim, for the excellent essay and song that…
Saturday Mix – Sound Bite, 8 June 2019 — Night Hunters — added to dVerse 6/19/19
Adding this to dVerse‘ Open Link Night. Check out dVerse and read great poetry. This poem is written in the time where humans were hunter-gatherers. Warning: The content may be upsetting or objectionable to some readers. Night Hunters Golden disk, wolves howl — Night’s risk, hunting, humans prowl. Ten wolves chasing, humans, two, I ran…
MM Music Challenge — Teach Your Children Well
In college I was taught that a human being was a mesh of their biopsychosocial components. I believe this is true. I also believe that “social science” is inexact at best and actively harmful at worst. A person is a custom-designed, ever-changing, unique palette of biological influence (e.g. genes, chromosomes, physical attributes), psychological influence (e.g….
Tale Weaver – #225 – Reflection – May 30th — Journey into the Mirror
“Woman Looking into Mirror” by Elizavella Designs I chose to write a poem in the triquatrain form, which was created by Robert L. Huntsman. Journey into the Mirror Walking through a mirror’s door, vortex of what’s come before Swirling twixt the times, the places, and the seasons Depending on who you think you be,…
Saturday Mix – Mad About Metaphor, 25 May 2019 — Coffee Talk
My first job aside from babysitting was at 17 years old, in a small, family-owned bakery on a small-town main street. One half of the storefront had the baked goods cases and built-in cabinets (where the back was open to the back, so bread could be slid in from there.) The other half of the…
Tale Weaver # 224 – Estrangement – May 23rd.
Michael is the host of Mindlovemisery’s Menagerie’s Tale Weaver. Michael says: This week I am asking you to explore the concept of estrangement. It happens to so many of us.We may be estranged from family, from children, from friends and the reasons can be obvious and they can be mysterious and frustrating. From the dictionary:…
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