Every Wednesday I post a photo (this week it’s that one above.) You respond with something CREATIVE Here are some suggestions: An answering photo A …
Crimson’s Creative Challenge # 266
So here’s mine
Crimson’s Creative Challenge #266 #A cautionary tale
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A message to all that they should beware
if going down to the woods then please take care
for you are in the realm of the carved log bear
with his round sad face and cool dark eyes
he could give you quite a nasty surprise
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On this day,
Robert Browning, English poet who wrote, “The Last Duchess,” died in 1889
While 1821 saw the birth of Gustavia Flaubert, French novelist , author of, “Madame Bovary.”
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On this day,
Alexander Solzhenitsyn, in 1918, the Russian author of many novels and stories including , “Cancer Ward, and the perhaps semi-autobiographical novel, “The Gulag Archipelago,”, he was awarded the Nobel prize for literature in 1970.
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There were only about three hundred of us left. Despite being armed with the finest rifles that Queen Victoria’s British army could provide they had been no match for the crude assegais and shields of the thousands of proud Zulu warriors. At dusk the fighting stopped and the only sound was the rhythm of their drums, incessant in the darkness. Despite exhaustion we could not afford to sleep.
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On this day,
In 1830, the wonderful, prolific American poet, Emily Dickinson who had only seven poems published during her lifetime.
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On this day,
Born in 1608, John Milton, poet and author of, “Paradise Lost and Paradise Regained.”
In 1964, English poet Dame Edith Sitwell died aged 77, a leading light of the 1920s avant-garde.
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On this day,
In 1980, John Lennon, singer, songwriter and poet, former member of the Beatles is shot and killed whilst walking with his wife to their New York apartment.
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Every Wednesday I post a photo (this week it’s that one above.) You respond with something CREATIVE Here are some suggestions: An answering photo A …
Crimson’s Creative Challenge #265
Oh, dear,dear,dear.
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On this day,
In 1870, the death of Alexandre Dumas pere, author of, “The Count of Monte Cristo and The Three Musketeers,” swashbuckling tales of derring do.
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