Sammiscribbles weekend writing prompt #328 #Can you remember?

Between nineteen sixty and about eighty three

when the record store was the place to be

Hallmark in blue was the label sought

as to save a bit of cash their records bought

for instead of buying each band’s latest hit

they were there all together on one disc

about twenty songs on each were found

and you sang along as it went round

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Crimson’s Creative Challenge #252 #Unrequited love

Trying to do everything right

I took my fiancé up for a flight

I asked her the question down on one knee

and the ungrateful cow said to me

No but the pilot’s a bit of alright

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Evensong

So finely balanced,

the setting sun,

the robin’s song,

streaks and breast

locked in combat

in dark shadows

the neon lights eclipse

their bold display

so familiar

so ignored

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Ronovan writes #Haiku poetry prompt #478

Top down and cruisin’

in my little red corvette

American dreams

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Samiscribbles weekend writing prompt #327

Sadly nowadays I find that it seems

in the many journals that I read

their writers in trying to seem eloquent

are prone to sound magniloquent

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Designus adsimulaticius factorem

On this day

J.R.R. Tolkien, Professor of Anglo-Saxon, compiler of languages, creator of worlds, scholar and author of the books against which the majority of later fantasy novels are compared, The Hobbit, The Lord of the Rings and The Silmarillion among others, died on 2nd. September 1973 aged 81.

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Literati inclytus

On this day

The death in 1688 of John Bunyan, author of The Pilgrim’s Progress. Also in 1867, Charles Baudelaire in poverty, essayist, translator and influential poet, at the age of 46.

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Crimson’s Creative Challenge #251 #Reduce, re-use, re-cycle

Everybody laughed at me

when I said the wood store is the place to be

but they saw that you could do a lot

with all those pallets broken or not

with imagination and joinery

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Literata obscura

Born today in 1862, Maurice Maeterlink, Belgian poet and playwright best known for Pelieas et Melisandre, also the the children’s play, The Blue Bird, made into a 1940 film starring Shirley Temple, hoping to cash in on the success of A wizard of Oz, failure methinks.

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Sammiscribbles weekend writing prompt #326 #The Ten Commandments

As God so commanded Moses obeyed

whilst alone on the mountain he prayed

and when he came down two stone tablets were spied

and on this fine granite our creed was inscribed

Ten Commandments were written, five on each one

instructions on how our lives should be done

and by following these rules on how we should live

then God to his people his blessing would give

but Moses was enraged by the statues he found

and dashed the two rocks onto the ground

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