Thursday photo prompt: Monochrome #writephoto

May 4, 2019 / mbrazfieldm / Leave a comment

#writephoto

Use the image below as inspiration to create a post on your own blog… poetry, prose, humour… light or dark, whatever you choose, by noon (GMT) Wednesday 8th May and link back to this post with a pingback to be included in the round-up. There is no word limit and no style requirements, except to keep it fairly family friendly.

For visually challenged writers, the image shows an ornately half-timbered house, bowed by the weight of centuries.

All posts will be featured in the round-up on Thursday May 9th at 10am GMT, linking back to the original posts of contributors. Throughout the week I will feature as many of the responses here on the Daily Echo as space allows and (more or less) in the order in which they come in.

You can find all last week’s entries in the weekly round-up. Please visit and read the stories and poems…

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Pay It Forward Thursday- May 02, 2019

May 2, 2019 / mbrazfieldm / 1 Comment

Go Dog Go Café

The baristas at Go Dog Go Cafe are big fans of Pay It Forward Thursdays. We think it is a great opportunity to give a shout-out to another writer who has wowed us or creatively inspired us. It a great way to share the love and pass it on to the readers. It also becomes a great pool for excellent reading stuff by your fellow readers of the WordPress community.

You are invited to post one link to one specific post of poetry, short story, or flash fiction, 300 words or less please, from someone else’s blog in the comments below.

Happy reading!

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“Do You?”

May 2, 2019 / mbrazfieldm / 5 Comments

there are some days when we miss our mother no matter what circumstances might have brought us apart. the spirit of this offering captures the spirit of a woman i admired and loved, but hardly knew. thank you, Jen for this amazing work of art.

Starlight and Moonbeams

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saddled shoes, shorts, bandaided knees

running where don’t know, on asphalt jungle chasing

tag your it on summer Nicky Nicky Nine doors clear

nights before the lights came on clean streets beddy-

by dreams Flintstones and Mickey Mouse.

Knee-highed socks and pigtails Camel hair coated,

camel Clarks listening to classical music to

Quell the pain, Barbie got Ken who cared some

war broke out somewhere and a Wall. Three initials JFK

something about bombs from some Niki some

place called Cuba pulling tabs on sodas personal, computers?

JFK shot! killed on Daddy’s Birthday, Marilyn selfy.

Minied skirts and loafers hoping pointed toes lost fashion

settling for Mary Jane empires buckle clips left behind.

Red Skelton, Lucy and Ralph our Heroes while

trading in mood Rings for Ouija boards twisting

through checker watching Go Go Dancers do their thing,

no go bouffant that’s, So, Aunt Jean I’ll do the locomotion,

Duck…

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Promote Yourself Monday April 29, 2019

April 29, 2019 / mbrazfieldm / Leave a comment

Go Dog Go Café

Welcome to Promote Yourself Monday. All Go Dog Go Cafe readers, guest writers, and baristas are invited to post one link to one specific post (600 words or less please!) from your blog into the comments section below.

If you post a link, be sure to read some of the other great writing people have linked to.

I Never Saw Another Butterfly, a poem written by the child, Pavel Freidman (short bio included), before he was murdered at Theresienstadt Concentration Camp

April 29, 2019 / mbrazfieldm / 5 Comments

Jamie Dedes' THE POET BY DAY Webzine

Regular Sunday Announcements are in process and will post later today, but yesterday was International Holocaust Rememberence Day. I share the poem of a child imprisoned and murdered at Theresienstadt Concentration Camp. We remember it with the hope that there will never be another genocide and that children of every race, country and creed will be allowed to fulfill their promise, to grow up, to grow old and to die in God’s time. Even as we do, there are genocides currently happening around the world, ten of which are full-blown. Ironically, “prominent scholars of the international law crime of genocide and human rights authorities take the position that Israel’s policies toward the Palestinian people could constitute a form of genocide.” Details HERE. May all sentient beings find peace.

I Never Saw Another Butterfly

by Pavel Freidman

The last, the very last,

So richly, brightly, dazzlingly yellow.

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April 27, 2019April 27, 2019 / mbrazfieldm / Leave a comment

the meager fist weakly swings at the face of unknown beast its always pathos in the middle of the ring high noon comes and no one yawns in excitement alas the night she enters the stage in my mind and the coliseum fills with eager patrons waiting for my show when the torments in my head become high end commodity at dawn washing the bruises off with rye found in the gutters i slip into my expat suit and hit the road with my naked feet because the convergence of the quantums weighs heavy on my soul

for Anthony Bourdain and me

Pay It Forward Thursday – April 25, 2019

April 25, 2019 / mbrazfieldm / Leave a comment

Go Dog Go Café

You are invited to post one link to one specific post of poetry, short story, or flash fiction, 300 words or less please, from someone else’s blog in the comments below.

Happy reading!

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Tuesday Writing Prompt Challenge April 23, 2019

April 24, 2019 / mbrazfieldm / Leave a comment

Go Dog Go Café

TUES PROMPT Devereaux Frazier and Beth Amanda are currently hosting the Tuesday Writing Prompt Challenge which was started by our star writer Christine Ray. We hope to offer all of you something that will spark your creativity and willingness to participate.

The prompts are designed to be quick challenges that can be written in 10 to 15minutes, inspire you creatively, are fun, and get everyone interacting. Please post your response to the prompt in the comments below and show your fellow posters some love and support. All members of the Go Dog Go community, including Baristas, are welcome to participate. Feel free to share this post on your own blogs and/or Facebook.

Today’s prompt:

Tell us about a time you had a “heartbeat moment.”

Happy writing!

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I Write Her Weekly Haiku/Senryu Challenge #16

April 23, 2019 / mbrazfieldm / Leave a comment

I Write Her

dani-olivier-04 Dani Olivier

Welcome back to my weekly challenge. It’s time to get your creative juices on again!
So tell me, how would you interpret this image above?

Rules

PLEASE follow them! I’d hate to not see your piece(s) represented in the recap the following week! Confused? Any questions – email me at sushibocks@gmail.com