So…with talk of Spring and warmer temperatures my mind is drifting from my cold, damp neighborhood to memories of Hatteras Island and the Rodanthe Pier…and the BEACH! A favorite vacation spot! It won’t happen this year…but a girl can dream! 🙂
To see other “Neighborhoods” visit my friend Jacqueline’s blog HERE.
Photo Credit: ©Marta Shmatava
The mem’ry of that autumn night
still haunts her dreams these many years
she fills her veins with opiates
the mem’ry of that autumn night
and cries for him through groggy tears
but death has closed his ears to hear
the mem’ry of that autumn night
still haunts her dreams these many years.
~kat – 3 February 2016
A Triolet (new poetry form for me) inspired by the painting above by ©Marta Shmatava in response to Jane Dougherty’s weekly poetry challenge. If you would like to try your hand at a triolet or read other takes on this prompt, click HERE.
(A Triolet is and Eight line stanza/Eight beats to the line. The first line is the refrain and is repeated as the fourth and the seventh line. The second line is repeated as the eighth line so the first and last couplets are the same. The rhyme scheme is ABaAabAB. The capitals denote repeated lines.)
If you don’t slow down
You’ll likely arrive too soon
To an early grave!
~kat – 3 February 2016
This Haiku is inspired by Haiku Horizon’s prompt this week: Slow. To read other Haiku or enter your own click HERE.
Photo Credit: Pixabay
“Sweetie, pass me the pliers, please.”
“Which ones are those? The red handled thingamabobs?”
“No, that’s the wrench…black handle.”
“Okay. Here you go. …Carol and Tom. Do you know they have the nerve to show up together at the…”
“I’ll take that wrench now…red handle?”
“So this is a wrench. Here you go. …the party that Marge is hosting with Sue Ann. I’m not sure if she should be mad at Sue Ann or Carol..it was Sue Ann that…”
“Throw me that rag, will ya? Almost done here.”
“Danny…Which rag? You have three. The red, the green or…”
“Red’s good. Thanks babe.”
“…well Sue Ann invited the two of them. She must know it will be upsetting…”
“All done! Wanna know what I think? Tom’s a jerk and you should probably watch your back around that Sue Ann…”
“Exactly! Just what I was thinking!”
(Dan was a very smart man! A smart man indeed!)
kat ~ 3 February 2016
(173 Words)
This story is inspired by the photo above, provided by Pixabay and my friend PJ at FFfAW (Flash Fiction for Aspiring Writers). Read other stories or enter you own HERE.
Zoe in a Tutu ~ kat 2015
Stars taunt us with hope
ravenous for our wishes
childhood is lost.kat ~ 2 February 2016
(Stars taunt us with hope, ravenous for our wishes. / Ravenous for our wishes, childhood is lost.)
A Haiku for Ronovan Writes Weekly Haiku Challenge. This week’s prompts were Star & Child. Initially my head filled with innocent angelic-like cherubs hanging on moonbeams and dancing with the stars…but it felt too easy to fall into the obvious. I took a decidedly darker view. We hope our wishes upon stars will come true, but the reality that stars do not have the power to impact our lives is probably one of the first lessons learned as a child. So begins a life then of learning to appreciate the value of every experience good or bad. Loss of innocence perhaps, but a gain of wisdom in return. 🙂
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