Tag: MindLoveMisery’s Menagerie
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Eighth Grade
Today’s writing prompt at Mindlovemisery’s Menagerie is Make a Wish. So, I was walking along the same old dirt road I walked every day to wait for the school bus, thinking about how much I hated school. It was stupid. I wasn’t good at it, nor was I interested in any of the subjects.…
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The Woods of Io
I was a homeless, pregnant calico cat living in an upscale residential neighborhood in Mobile, Alabama. I’d had humans at one time, but they moved away and left me behind. After new people moved into our house, I realized my people weren’t coming back. I wondered for a long time what I’d done to make…
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Vladimir & Vivienne
Today at MindloveMisery’s Menagerie we are asked to write a story or poem in which opposites attract. Here’s mine: ∞ Theirs was the kind of love that even Calliope could not charm into verse. Though inspired to the brink of madness, troubadours were graceless to make melody of it. Simply, it was its own symphony. Universally taboo, yet pure…
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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.
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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…
aka, The Abject Muse 