Ergo, the Ogre

This Time

It’s Quadrille Monday over at the dVerse Poets Pub. This time our word prompt is some form of the word “blue.”

The Blues won’t last,

they tell me, this too

shall pass, and soon

sunshine’ll sneak itself through.

What do they know?

Nothin.’

‘Cause they don’t know you.

If they did, they’d know

(just like I do) that this time

The Blues ain’t

goin’ no-damn-where.

Ergo, the Ogre
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44 responses to “This Time”

  1. kim881 Avatar
    kim881

    A very bluesy quadrille, Susan! I especially like the line ‘sunshine’ll sneak itself through’ – I always hope it will, but more often than not it doesn’t..

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  2. Grace Avatar
    Grace

    Sometimes it feels like it is not going anywhere. Here is a little bit of sunshine coming your way, smiles.

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    1. The Abject Muse Avatar
      The Abject Muse

      Thanks, Grace!

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  3. Frank J. Tassone Avatar
    Frank J. Tassone

    It’s like that sometimes, the Blues! Well done!

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    1. The Abject Muse Avatar
      The Abject Muse

      Thanks, Frank! :-)

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  4. revivedwriter Avatar
    revivedwriter

    Unfortunately, this feels true. I like the way you wrote it. :)

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    1. The Abject Muse Avatar
      The Abject Muse

      Yep, it’s true alright. Glad you enjoyed it, revived writer!

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  5. Glenn A. Buttkus Avatar
    Glenn A. Buttkus

    Alas, another foray into the “blues”. I like the transition from pollyanna to hardball. Your piece could be sung.

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    1. The Abject Muse Avatar
      The Abject Muse

      Thanks, Glenn. I always wondered how songwriters manage to write songs… Nice compliment!

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  6. sanaarizvi Avatar
    sanaarizvi

    I love the bluesy feel to this one, Susan :) especially; “sunshine’ll sneak itself through.”

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    1. The Abject Muse Avatar
      The Abject Muse

      Thanks so much, sanaarizvi. This one just kind of wrote itself.

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  7. Linda Kruschke Avatar
    Linda Kruschke

    Awesome write! So much attitude for only 44 little words.

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    1. The Abject Muse Avatar
      The Abject Muse

      Thanks so much, Linda!

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  8. Victoria Stuart Avatar
    Victoria Stuart

    O”If they did, they’d know

    (just like I do) that this time

    The Blues ain’t

    goin’ no-damn-where.” So real, so lyrical and down to earth!

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    1. The Abject Muse Avatar
      The Abject Muse

      Thank you, Victoria. Much appreciated!

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  9. marialberg Avatar
    marialberg

    This has a wonderful rhythm that I could feel reverberate.

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    1. The Abject Muse Avatar
      The Abject Muse

      Thanks, marialberg!

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  10. msjadeli Avatar
    msjadeli

    I love the blues vernacular you used here. With certain people you know the blues is here to stay.

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    1. The Abject Muse Avatar
      The Abject Muse

      Ain’t it the truth? ;-)

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      1. msjadeli Avatar
        msjadeli

        :)

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  11. Beverly Crawford Avatar
    Beverly Crawford

    Yep. Sometimes those blues are hard to shake. Good luck with that.

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    1. The Abject Muse Avatar
      The Abject Muse

      Yep! Thanks, I’ll need it. :-)

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  12. Arcadia Maria Avatar
    Arcadia Maria

    Nice take on the prompt.

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    1. The Abject Muse Avatar
      The Abject Muse

      Thanks so much, Arcadia Maria.

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  13. gillena cox Avatar
    gillena cox

    Stuck in the blues, now why does that feel familiar

    Much💙love

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    1. The Abject Muse Avatar
      The Abject Muse

      Thank you gillena!

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  14. Jane Dougherty Avatar
    Jane Dougherty

    A good example of platitudes not necessarily being right! Good one :)

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    1. The Abject Muse Avatar
      The Abject Muse

      Thanks, Jane!

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      1. Jane Dougherty Avatar
        Jane Dougherty

        :)

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  15. rivrvlogr Avatar
    rivrvlogr

    Definitely bluesy. Well done.

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    1. The Abject Muse Avatar
      The Abject Muse

      Thank you!

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  16. katiemiafrederick Avatar
    katiemiafrederick

    Patience
    For Blues
    Love’s
    Dream True..:)

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  17. Mason Bushell Avatar
    Mason Bushell

    Nicely done! I have lots of blues through being a failure. They always lift but come right back again.

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  18. The Abject Muse Avatar
    The Abject Muse

    Same here. Seems like I spend more time in the Blues than anywhere else.

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    1. Mason Bushell Avatar
      Mason Bushell

      I wrote a large series and its useless thats the source of my blues.

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      1. The Abject Muse Avatar
        The Abject Muse

        Why do you say it’s useless?

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      2. Mason Bushell Avatar
        Mason Bushell

        It’ll never be published. I got screwed by three publishers. A forth will never get the opportunity.

        To self-publish properly and sell a few books I need more money than a I’ll ever have.

        So its unpublishable and useless.

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  19. The Abject Muse Avatar
    The Abject Muse

    Sorry to hear. At least you got publishers interested! I can’t even do that. I self-published my books on CreateSpace/Amazon Kindle. It’s basically free; I just pay a guy in Australia $120.00 to format the manuscripts. They did okay, but like you I don’t have the $$$ to market them properly. What is your book about?

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    1. Mason Bushell Avatar
      Mason Bushell

      I have a 20 book mystery series about a head waitress turn skeauth thanks to her detective grandfather.

      I need edits, illustrations, formats, covers drawn. I need 2k a book 40k to be successful. It just wobt ever happen.

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      1. The Abject Muse Avatar
        The Abject Muse

        Wow. Twenty books! I’ll bet it’s awesome. What kind of editing do you need? For images I either took pix of whatever myself or used what I could find online and credited the owner. In any case, it sucks you got screwed over by publishers.

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      2. Mason Bushell Avatar
        Mason Bushell

        I need editing where the editor just does punctuation and grammer. I’ve

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      3. Mason Bushell Avatar
        Mason Bushell

        I’ve decided if I ever try again it will be if I can get everything made proper with real hand drawn cocwrs and such as I imagine them.

        Publisher one stole the book. Two ruined it. Three held it to ransom. Real decent publishers dont exist anymore sadly.

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      4. The Abject Muse Avatar
        The Abject Muse

        I hope you don’t give up on it. It’s a shame honest publishers are so hard to come by.

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  20. Mason Bushell Avatar
    Mason Bushell

    I’m just doing short stories now, they wont go into a book either. I did that with my Compendium of Characters and it sold very few copies. No sense spending and losing money I don’t have on further publications. For me, the only reason I continue to write is because I cant switch of the creativity – if I try I get as miserable as hell, lol

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