the red sun goes down
a line of geese in the sky
dusk precedes the dark
Sammiscribbles weekend writing prompt #240 Guardian of the forest
Whether in a sunlit forest clearing or hidden deep within the dank, moist shade he will be found forever preening a gaudy, strutting Indian brave, proudly standing with his tail displayed, a hundred eyes are always watching throughout earth’s history was there ever found in nature a sight quite matching the splendour of each jewelled […]
Sammiscribbles weekend writing prompt #240 Guardian of the forest
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Sammiscribbles weekend writing prompt #244 #All in a day’s work
When asked about June twenty eighteen
I will always remember the scene
What I did was not being brave
Rescuing the boys who were trapped in that cave
The, “Wild Boars,” junior football team
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Crimson’s Creative Challenge #166 Spooky
Twixt bin and bench one day was found
a full three feet below the ground
some curious objects from history
giving rise to a local mystery
when asked how old no one seemed to know
but they were placed there long ago
now if you want to go and see’em
you’ll have to visit the county museum
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Sammiscribbles weekend writing prompt #243 The King and I
I’d like to tell you about a king
who was rather free with wedding rings
and got wed a full six times
giving rise to a nursery rhyme
his throne was destined for another
but untimely death befell his brother
his temerity to all was clear
but soon he began to rely on fear
and by his capricious nature
those once called friend now often traitor
Who am I?
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Ronovan writes #Decima prompt #91 #Devotions,
At six o’clock the vespers bell,
in gloomy silence through the aisle
eight black clad figures slowly file
I waking now, might fear in hell
but memory my chest would swell
as fulfilling spiritual need
I turn the page from which I read
the chosen passage of the day
while with heads bowed my brothers pray
as we avow our daily creed
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Crimson’s Creative Challenge #165 Orphan
What’s that creature down below
basking in the summer glow
it looks like a kitten to me
perhaps it floated in on the sea
shall we go down and pick it up
no look again it’s a seal pup
it’s mother’s probably quite near
she’ll look after the little dear
but if she doesn’t come back soon
well tell the warden who knows what to do
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Ronovan writes #Haiku prompt #391
We sit by the burn
and remember the old days
Spring in the Highlands
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Sammiscribbles weekend writing prompt #242 Night ritual
At the end of every evening
before switching off the lights
I check on my household pets
and bid them all Goodnight
a tank containing goldfish
two cats and dog as well
I sometimes say it to my wife
or else she gives me hell
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Crimson’s Creative Challenge 164 The lifeboat “Louisa.” https://youtu.be/HcIdT-bPNKU
In Porlock Bay there was a great squall
that cut the tow of the Forest Hall
the Watchet lifeboat couldn’t launch there
so they called the boys from Lynmouth fair
without hesitation their brave men
said we will do what we can for them,
over hill and moor they dragged their boat
and from Porlock bay set her afloat
they set off from Porlock beach
so that those poor crew they then could reach
you may not believe but this is true
how they saved the lives of that ship’s crew.
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When the pen takes control. 