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Category: MindLoveMisery’s Menagerie

  • Anonymous, Inc.

    It’s Tale-weaver over at MindLoveMisery’s Menagerie.  Today our prompt is “Jobs.” ℵ Without a doubt, my most memorable job was at Anonymous, Inc. as a data entry clerk. The pay was abysmal, the work itself was about as interesting as counting carpet fibers, and there was absolutely no chance for advancement. So what made it…

  • Sorrow Incognito

    Sorrow Incognito

    This week at Heeding Haiku with Chèvrefeuille and Mindlovemisery’s Menagerie, our task is to create a traditional haiku using the theme, ‘crystals.’ ℵ like Rainbows sparkle in sunlit prism’s disguise teardrops in winter.    

  • The Special Friend

    The Special Friend

    It’s the Lucky Dip over at the MindloveMisery’s Menagerie Blog!  Today our mission is to craft a Monotetra. Monotetra The monotetra is a new poetic form developed by Michael Walker. Each stanza contains four lines in monorhyme. Each line is in tetrameter (four metrical feet) for a total of eight syllables. What makes the monotetra…

  • Sun Clouds

    Sun Clouds

    Today over at the MindloveMisery’s Menagerie Blog, it’s Heeding Haiku With Chèvrefeuille. Our Haiku prompt is stormy weather If not for the storms how could we appreciate sunshine and rainbows?  

  • Floor #13

    Floor #13

    It is First Line Friday at the Mindlovemisery’s Menagerie blog. Today’s first line is The elevator stopped on the thirteenth floor with a lurch.  The elevator stopped on the thirteenth floor with a lurch. This was nothing new, actually, since the old elevator gave a jostling lurch on every floor at which it stopped. Anyway, the doors…