Salty Cucumber

Poetry – Pattern Poem – 140 Words 137 Words. Edited from an Original Post on: Scribblers Forum – Flash Poesy 282 Image by Kevin Mc Loughlin from Pixabay

The Message

Poetry – 200 Words The MessageFrom my fragile grasp both taken,Dreams and aspiration,A frozen life without another,Choices made and I’m forsaken. A thin jacket and woolly jumper,Wrap my body’s senses duller,I lace-up boots and strut.Leaving…

Flash Fiction Poetry: The Recipe. May

A flash fiction poetry writing post composed for May. This piece is a poem, of no more than twenty-five lines, using the following words: verdant, open, silence, richness, compassion, and recipe. The Recipe The recipe,I…

Flash Fiction Writing: Borscht. March #1

A fifty-word flash fiction writing post composed for March. This piece is a brief story about war, cold, hunger, renewed friendships, and soup. Borchst Cruel weather. Despite modern material ingenuity, once cold seeps in, harder…

Bright Light

An acrostic . . . Let us start our story, way back at the beginning,Introduce conflict and concern, charm with characterisation,Exceptional skills we must show, not tell. Be erudite, entertaining as well,Handle flow and feelings,…

This Word

Another sip of freshly-pressed coffee, as feet pace around the kitchen and into the study. There’s a chill underfoot when emigrating from warm under-floor ceramic heat to room temperature carpet. A fragrant woollen floor covering…

Oh, God.

  Following on from Dylan Thomas’s birthday on 14th May, below is a piece of Flash Poesy (in Thomas motif) starting with the first line of his Fern Hill poem “Now as I was young and…”. As…