“A Mystery” is the prompt for this week’s Six Word Story Challenge from Sometimes Stellar Story…
And my take….
Photo Credit: Ed Schipul on Flicker
A scattering of rose petals beckoned…
kat 5 September 2015
Ibidem – Friday Word Of The Day Haiku Challenge
Sheesh! This challenge is becoming quite the challenge indeed! The random words on Fridays have certainly been new to me in many cases – a good thing because I love learning new things. But come on Random Powers of the Literary Universe…really?!!! Could there be a more random word than this?!!!
Which brings me to today’s word, “ibidem”. In researching its use I found it to be quite controversial in its application. Rarely seen in full text, but most often abbreviated as ibid. or ib., there are strict constraints to its use, if it is even used at all!
This word is definitely one to be stored in that dark section of my brain…you know, The Vault of Useless Information! I doubt I will ever need to use it again, but for this challenge! If you dare, give it a go yourself! I promise to lavish you with accolades for your efforts! And with that, here’s what I think about the word Ibidem!
Haiku Ibidem
Dodo of a word!
Ibidem is rarely used…
(ibid. stanza one)
kat ~ 4 September 2015
Note: The Friday word of the day Haiku Challenge takes its prompt from Dictionary.com. Haikus are three line poems with 5 syllables in lines 1 and 3 and 7 syllables in the middle.
Bridge-Move Haiku
A new Haiku challenge. Use the words bridge and move in a haiku. If you’d like to try, get all the details HERE at Renovanwrites.
Here’s my entry…
Polar opposites,
Stubborn, they refused to move.
So Love built a bridge.
kat ~ September 2015
FFfAW Challenge (100 Word Stories) – Week of 09-01-2015
FFfAW (Flash Fiction for Aspiring Writers) Challenge – Week of 09-01-2015. This week’s photo prompt is provided by Louise with The Storyteller’s Abode. Thank you Louise!
100 Words…Except for One
“I’ll see you then”, she whispered through tears on that morning when he, duffel bag flung over his shoulder, boarded the train.
But she never said, “goodbye”.
Goodbyes are for endings and they were just beginning; busy with plans for a long happy future.
When she received the letter, delivered by two uniform-clad gentleman, it occurred to her as she thanked them smiling, “I never said goodbye.”
The townsfolk say you can set your watch by her arrival to the train platform, same time each day, mumbling over and again as the train passes, “but I never said goodbye…”
Kat ~ 2 September 2015
Like Orbs Passing
Golden globe of fire and
light, Sun spends his
days from edge to edge
‘Cross panoramic spans of
Sky doing what Suns do…
Unaware that passers by
Wake in sleepy dark of
Dawn just to see him rise.
And sister moon, great
Light pretender shadow
dances on her milky
Path, twirling us from
Starlit dust as oceans swell
To kiss the sand, oblivious
Her lunacy has left us
Breathless in her wake.
Orbs that pass, that come
And go, like people do
From day to day, a smile
A smirk, a lock of eyes, we
Too project our fiery light
And sullen shadows each
To each, oblivious to
The difference that we make.
kat ~ 2 September 2015
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