Hello, #vss365 #prompt (or Wannabe) People! Here are some sample posts that I put on my @NancyKnowsLife Twitter page for this week covering late August and early September. Of course, like many of you, I expect to publish some or all of these in a book, so I reserve the right to change wording and pictures. Typically, when I write these, I have only five minutes to find out what the word of the day is, create something in poetry or prose, find a picture, and then stick it on Twitter! That does not always bring out the best in me!
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You can play, too, by just searching for #vss365 (very short stories – every day of the year – in poetry or prose) and #prompt. When you do that, you’ll see what the word of the day is. Just follow the easy instructions from whoever the facilitator is. Here’s the link, and all are welcome, including people who’ve never written before.
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Let’s look at some examples now.
September 11, 2021
#vss365 #prompt #shore
You come from a distant #shore.
I didn’t think it would matter.
But one culture values the community;
The other values the individual.
Even our love could not overcome the fact that
The water tastes different on different shores.
Yet, I love you still.
September 11, 2021
#vss365 #prompt #shore
I believe I lived on or near a sea
once upon another lifetime.
Why else would I cry
in emotional recognition of coming home
upon seeing the ocean from the #shore
after having been raised only in mountains and cities?
September 10, 2021
#vss365 #prompt #store
September 9, 2021
#vss365 #prompt #war
Endless war throughout human history
On every continent; among almost all societies.
Makes me doubt the evolution of humankind beyond barbarity.
Yet, still, I strive as if that truth were untrue.
September 8, 2021
#vss365 #prompt #sock #tanka
Alone in my mountain cabin, I wait for the coming blizzard to #sock me in my arthritic joints as I shovel slowly.
September 7, 2021
#vss365 #prompt #mock
They say you’re a “Triple Threat.”
You can teach, preach, and sing,
And adoring congregants follow every word!
From our hideaway, I mock you.
I know your hypocrisy.
Our big secret.
September 6, 2021
#vss365 #prompt #lock #haiku
Carbuncle-crusted
Treasure chests brine in the sea.
Fish swim. The locks rust.
September 5, 2021
#vss365 #prompt #jock
All she sees is a #jock
With a temporary talent that lets me
Treat and be treated as if I were special.
She thinks I’m dumb, but accepts it since I’m popular.
Not interested in my backstory of dyslexia
And being “toughened up” by a brutal father.
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