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Sunday, April 3, 2016

Flash 55 PLUS!

Greetings to all poets and friends!
It is time for this month's Flash 55 Challenge. The rules of this prompt have not changed: Write a piece of poetry or prose on a subject of your choice in precisely 55 WORDS.

Source: Bored Panda
Copyright John Atkinson
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PLUS!



For the OPTIONAL EXTRA part of this challenge, I invite you to consider The Classics in whichever form appeals to you: NovelsMusicArt. I have used the term loosely in these examples, but if you prefer to kick it old school, then here is information regarding the Greek and Roman Classics.



21 comments:

  1. My first time posting a Flash 55 here. I have no idea why this inspired me to tilt at windmills so quickly, but it did. And here you have it.

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  2. Still on my tablet. I have a creation for today's prompt at poetry of the netherworld.blogspot.com

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  3. What a challenge...turning a Flash 55 into a poem...Loved it.


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  4. Apologies... For some reason, I am finding my comments on Wordpress blogs seem to disappear. Just happened again with Raivenne's post...

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  5. Hope I got the prompt right! Enjoyed writing the response regardless :)

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  6. Now responses to Kim and Adam have disappeared too. I think I'll just respond to Blogger blogs...Apologies again.

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  7. Cara, the link you gave me takes me to a 2012 page and I can't find the post you mean to be linked up here. Please paste the URL of the poem your want linked and I'll happily do so.

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  8. Gemma, Just to let you know, I can see your comment on Raivenne's post.

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  9. I am not very "versed" in the classics so I have chosen a more recent book for my first attempt at Flash 55 Plus and our third day of NaPoWriMo

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  10. Adam, I can't see your blog. When I hit the link it says it cannot be displayed.

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  11. Susie, I was able to visit Adam's site.

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  12. 55, light on the classics, from me. April, so far, so good!

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  13. hey all y'all, back a bit later. always love a 55... ~

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  14. I did a combination of this one and the prompt over at Poetic Asides (Three ___), and -- a bit of a stretch -- to write on the general subject of attention all this month.

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  15. Ha, for once I wrote a short poem and thought it might work for flash 55. But when I counted the words, there were only 25-ish, and I didnt want to clutter it up with 30 more.....this rather astounds me, wordy as I am. Smiles. Enjoying all of yours to the max though!

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  16. So funny. Cant wait to read these and revisit and try my hand at it at a later date... on a mini weekend getaway with the kids...

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  17. Great prompt! I'll have to read all these lovely poems in the morning. G'night all.

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  18. Ah. this was delightful! I completely abandoned all hope of thinking about actual literary/poetic classics. My Emily Dickenson went all to the Dickens. But anyway... Love y'all! Amy

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  19. I'm finally feeling better! I thought I'd be sick forever! Lol! Now that I am better spring is back on my mind so I wrote about it. I didn't do the Plus part but I did the 55 with "Spring Forth." I'm trying to do a prompt a day but not sure I'll get them all done. I will be around to read just give me some time. Have a good week Toads! Hugs!

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