Fandango’s Flashback Friday

  • Leaf Cycle

    Leaf Cycle

    I wrote this in 2020 for the dVerse Poet’s Pub. Today it is being repurposed for Fandango’s Flashback Friday. Vibrant autumn leaves decorating the lawn warm-spicing the air. 2. Wintertime’s leaves scrape and scratch along the sidewalk crunch beneath my boots. 3. Tiny, hopeful buds sprouting from dewy branches robin spies a worm

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  • Sky Blue!

    Sky Blue!

    I wrote this one on May 16, 2017. Here it is again for Fandango’s Flashback Friday. My spirit danced in the love of your laughing blue eyes as we skipped hand in hand down our sidewalk. Through the yellow rays of our neighborhood’s sunlight, we passed the daffodils in bloom and yesterdays’ fuzzy-smudged hopscotch game.

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  • Ol’ Dolly

    Ol’ Dolly

    This haiku was originally written for Haiku Horizons in 2018. Now it’s being recycled for Fandango’s Flashback Friday.   A strange, old dolly made of clay, sticks, moss, and straw. Hat pins make her go              

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  • The Daredevil

    The Daredevil

    It’s Fandango’s Flashback Friday again! I crafted the piece below for the terrible poetry contest, and now it’s being recycled for #FFF. It’s that time again: The Weekly Terrible Poetry Contest hosted my Chelsea Ann Owens! Our mission is to create a senryu about a small, innocuous animal of our choice. Armadillo lies in the

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  • Got Guts?

    Got Guts?

    It’s #FFF — Fandango’s Flashback Friday! This piece was written five years ago and is being recycled today. It’s the Lucky Dip Saturday Mix over at MindLoveMisery’s Menagerie. Today we are to write a Somonka: The somonka is a Japanese form. In fact, it’s basically two tankas written as two love letters to each other (one tanka

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