MindLoveMisery’s Menagerie

  • Ticket to Paradise

    Ticket to Paradise

    Today’s writing prompt over at Mindlovemisery’s Menagerie is Train Ticket. Geoffrey was late for everything, so it was no surprise that he missed the last train to Paradise, PA. The next one was scheduled for 9:00 pm that night. “But that’s three hourrrrrs from now…” Geoffrey whined to the ticket person—Sybil, according to her name

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  • On the Rocks

    Today at the dVerse Poets pub it’s Sestina time! This complex form contains six stanzas, each with six lines and concludes with a three line envoi. The pattern of the form is as follows: 1. A,B,C,D,E,F 2. F,A,E,B,D,C 3. C,F,D,A,B,E 4. E,C,B,F,A,D 5. D,E,A,C,F,B 6. B,D,F, E,C,A 7. BE, DC, FA (The envoi of three

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  • Flower Power!

    Flower Power!

    Today at Mindlovemisery’s Menagerie, it’s Heeding Haiku With Chèvrefeuille Our prompt is to create a Haiku about daisies. A tattered daisy muscles through a sidewalk crack craving the sunlight    

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  • Darlene’s Dilemma

    Today’s writing prompt at Mindlovemisery’s Menagerie is the photo below by Julien Tabet. Her real name was Darlene, but the entire herd — including the brain-damaged shepherd — called her Baldie. Sheep could be so very cruel, she thought, as she stood munching alone in the far corner of the meadow. Most people think sheep

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  • The Secret

    Today at Mindlovemisery’s Menagerie, we have Heeding Haiku with Chèvrefeuille. Our prompt for today is “shadows on the wall.”   Our love cannot let itself be seen: a secret dance in the shadows.    

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