
It just was’t in the cards.
~kat
This week’s Six Word Story Challenge comes from Kirst at KirstWrites. The prompt word is Game.


weeping,
the survivors,
unearthing buried mem’ries,
wounds too deep to heal unaided,
none to stop the bleeding
~kat

chamber
of mockery
whispering roar, piercing hearts
blubbering, belligerent rage
truth hid, on holiday
~kat
Congress corrupted…check. Laughing stock of the world…check. Media slandered…check. The 1% richer…check. Natural resources squandered…check. The Supreme Court’s integrity destroyed…check. Allies dismissed, enemies embraced…check, check, check. Democracy dies a slow, ugly death, does it not?

Autumn Rhapsody
she weeps fallow fronds,
flushed crimson, vermillion,
sienas, ochres,
yearning for cool eventide’s
frosted plunge, and dreams of spring
~kat
A Tanka this week for Colleen Chesebro’s Tanka Tuesday Poetry Challenge, Synonyms Only, Prompt Words: Fall (Autumn, weep, plunge) and Try (yearn, dream).

minutes
sixty seconds
tick tock so very slowly
but only when I am waiting
never when I am late
~kat