A word prompt to get your creativity flowing this weekend. How you use the prompt is up to you. Write a piece of flash fiction, a poem, a chapter for your novel…anything you like. Or take the challenge below – there are no prizes – it’s not a competition but rather a fun writing exercise. If you want to share what you come up with, please leave a link to it in the comments. Thank you Sammi for keeping us coming back week after week.
His lips sardonic
he watched from his bench
the kitschy scene unfold before him
Like those endless commercials
or sappy movies
Two lovers run towards each other
(preferably in a meadow for better effect)
Their bodies colliding in a loving impact
arms entwine
lips meld
And you feel can feel that
for reasons unknown, they were forced apart
He wiped away a tear
Isn’t that just beautiful?
Ah, lovely! Yes, there’s a reason kitschy is enduring … it is a good feel-the-feels-mill … 😉
I liked the vivid descriptions! Could ‘see’ them running in the field, ‘feel’ them meeting each other, chest to chest. Nice!
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Thank you, my friend! I was about to leave for work and thought… I have an idea… 😉
Glad you could see and feel!
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T’was a good idea! 🙂
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😊
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Awww– so sweet. I imagine him as one of the old men I see on the park benches. He likes to hide those feelings, but. . . and I hope that couple appreciates what they have.
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That’s exactly what I was thinking? Old hardened fart with mushy insides…😉
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😀
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Beautiful. In reality we need much more of that these days.
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Thank you, Timothy. I could not agree more!
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Awww
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😊
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Lovely and very romantic take on the prompt, Dale 🙂
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Thank you, Adele
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You’re welcome, Dale 🙂
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Juxtapositions! Glad to see you are doing the prompts you want to do. Keep on keeping on! ~J
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Yes!
And yes. If it calls me, I’ll do it
Will do!
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Dear Dale,
I can see it. I can feel it. Romance, sweet romance.
Shalom and lotsa gently impacting hugs,
Rochelle
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Dear Rochelle,
I am so glad you can! It should always be “seeable” and “feelable”, dontcha think?
Shalom and Lotsa love,
Dale
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Have you been spying on me? Suddenly this old hardened fart’s gone mushy inside too!
My sixty-seven!
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Excellent! Could not ask for a better reaction?
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Thank you!
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The love lies bleeding perfectly encapsulates the hungry impact of the two lovers!
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Woot!! Love it
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I had to look up sardonic. It’s the right word. Nice one Dale.
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Wanna laugh? I looked it up to make sure that’s what I meant!
Thank you, Bill
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Good one, Dale.
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😉
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Hokey is okie-dokie!
Sardonic may lead to all relationships being plutonic.
Love seems to have cut through the shiP quite nicely in this write, Thunder!
You do fab challenges!
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Haha!
Thank you kindly, Sorceress!
You are rather generous with the praise.
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Good! Should! I’m a huge fan! ⚡️💥
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Awe shucks!! 🧚🧚
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Right at the end I wanted to say No! Keep them together. A tear came to my eye.
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But they are together! You were meant to feel that there coming together was after a long time apart. Dang. Maybe I need reword this!
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No! I’m sure it was just my interpretation when I read it. Don’t change a thing.
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All good. That’s the joy of writing – people see what they do and open us up to more than we thought when we wrote it!
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It is funny because I have gotten comments before about my writing and something is pointed out, like I meant to do it, but its all new to me!
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I know exactly what you mean.. like… I’m not that smart!! 😉
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Exactly! Hahahahaha. And I never know if I should admit it or not! Not is usually the choice.
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Right… Our lips are sealed.
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Kisses are forbidden in the covid-ridden days. But we all can dream. Like it, Dale
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Don’t get me started. I’m dying for a deep, long, slow kiss. Sigh.
But glad you like it
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Yea. Deep… long… slow… Oh.
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Sigh…
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Indeed, sigh
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A poignant take on this Dale, I really love it.
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Thank you so much, Rene. Do glad you do
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Super Dale. A feel-good poem we all can use.
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Thank you, kind sir!
There’s always room for love!
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One would hope.
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Ah, Dale, how wonderfully told and that image is perfect! Bravo, my friend! 🙂 xoxoxo
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Thank you, my friend!
I didn’t have any pictures of lovers that I could use so… Why not bleeding hearts?
xoxoxo
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Perfect choice! xoxoxoxo
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xoxo
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❤
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This was a nice read. I could see and feel the nostalgia of it all.
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Thank you, Ashley. I am so very glad you did.
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Oh the tear made it all the more emotional .. nice one 😊
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Thank you!!
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And what is left is love? Who said that? Can’t remember but I feel it sums up your lovely warm-hearted poem )
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I don’t know either snd I thank you for it! 😊
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Dale, my keyboard is wearing out – that was meant to be a smile but it don’t pick up the semi-colon too well lately! 🙂
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And yet, I felt it was there. And my and turned out snd so…
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You his the spot, Dale! Or as our DK says, you hit a nerve. A happy nerve
💋
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Thank you! Glad the happy nerve was touched!
😘
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Sometimes the emotion gets to even the most cynical watcher 🙂
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And that’s a good thing. 😊
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What a perfect image to accompany your lovely prose. Kudos!
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Thank you so much! I couldn’t find lovers that I could use…😉
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Nice. Brings up memories of what might have been but never was. Another way to feel things.
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Ahhh… Such is the way of things sometimes
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Q
This is beautiful, but you forgot the clouds. But no matter, because inside this wondrous sixty seven, you didn’t need em. Which I think is a good thing since the air quality would probably ruin any rainfall. So this is a beauty of a win/win situation.
As for this post not showing up, maybe block editor is conspiring against you for being a rebel
B
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B,
Yeah… Sixty-seven forced me to diss the clouds. However, I am rather glad in the grand scheme of things I didn’t need them.
Damn that block editor! Glad my nudge sent you 😊
MWAH!
Q
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Nope, you didn’t need them. Easier than you thought, huh?
The Block Editor WordPress World is too depressing. Even though I bypass it, still . . it’s not the same. And when you think about what they’ll toss at WP users next, yikes.
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You know… Yes it was 😉
I see so many people ripping their hair out trying to deal ans I ain’t even gonna try. I keep sending them all to the admin page!
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The admin page has become the new bomb shelter, which means those Nordic fat cats who run WP are Russia. It always comes back to Russia.
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It has! And I’m telling all who want to listen!
Fuckin Russia.
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Remember the good old days when the greatest threat to North America was a nuclear winter? Instead we got Trump as President, what the fuck.
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Jeez…yeah…
Sigh.
WTF indeed
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Cy . . .
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😘
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😘
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