Monthly Archives: May 2018

May 18, 2018

42 Day 18

i can tell

how luminous you are
in deep shades of green…

you must love the rain
luxuriating in cool wetness
while I contend with frizzy locks

~kat

42 Day 18 for Jane Dougherty’s Daily Poem Challenge. Day 1 of this week’s rain was refreshing, along with a great relief due to the cold front that it pushed through. But today…three, or is it four? it’s a blur…days in, enough already. Everything is damp…my clothes, my hair, the air. What I wouldn’t give for a zero humidity sunny day. A girl can dream…

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May 17, 2018

A Change of Plans

By Kat Myrman

PHOTO PROMPT submitted by Courtney Wright. Photographer prefers to remain anonymous.

It would be winter soon. He’d managed to find enough pennies to buy duct tape to repair his boots. But duct tape would do little to mend the gaping holes in the toes of his socks. He’d make do. He always did.

She was on her way to the Good Will with her late father’s clothing, when the sight of him changed her plans. It was like Christmas in October as he donned his new jacket and sturdy boots, prancing around like a king. Suddenly, the sun beamed, bursting through the clouds.

“Thought you might be pleased, Dad,” she smiled.

~kat

100 words for Rochelle Wisoff-Fields Friday Fictioneers Flash Fiction Challenge inspired by the photo above submitted by Courtney Wright. (Photographer prefers to remain anonymous.)

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May 17, 2018

Cold Sweat – Wednesday’s Photo

By Kat Myrman

For The Daily Post’s Wednesday Photo Challenge: “Liquid”. A zoomed-in view taken with an iPhone 6s in Square View Mode. Sharpened in the PicsArt App.

From this subject not in zoom:

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May 17, 2018

On Being Present – 42 Day 17

By Kat Myrman

why the longing

never satisfied
ever striving

breathe…
everything you need
is here and now

~kat

Day 17 for Jane Dougherty’s Daily Poem Challenge “42”.

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May 16, 2018

Tour de Force

By Kat Myrman

tour de force

triumph
in grace thrusting
so to feel the sun’s kisses
the sprout bursts through concrete
éclat

~kat

A Cinquain for Colleen Chesebro’s Tanka Tuesday Poetry Challenge, using synonyms only of the words, Dignity – grace and Success – triumph, tour de force, éclat.