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Saturday, February 28, 2015

FLASH 55 PLUS

FLASH 55


The first Sunday of a new month is upon us again, and it is time for Flash 55. 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.


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PLUS
Yellow Butterfly and Rose
Digital Painting by Abie Davis
The Minion Factory
The optional extra for this challenge is to add a single colour to your poem.
I have included Oscar Wilde's Symphony in Yellow as an example of how a colour can be central to the lyrical description:

An omnibus across the bridge
Crawls like a yellow butterfly,
And, here and there, a passer-by
Shows like a little restless midge.

Big barges full of yellow hay
Are moored against the shadowy wharf,
And, like a yellow silken scarf,
The thick fog hangs along the quay.

The yellow leaves begin to fade
And flutter from the Temple elms,
And at my feet the pale green Thames
Lies like a rod of rippled jade.



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19 comments:

  1. Magaly GuerreroFebruary 28, 2015 at 12:06 PM

    I'm grinning a bit... I didn't notice the option of adding a color, but there is some red in my poem.

    Happy Saturday, everyone. ♥

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  2. GailFebruary 28, 2015 at 4:23 PM

    Thanks.

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  3. HannahFebruary 28, 2015 at 4:53 PM

    Thank you, Kerry!

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  4. grapelingFebruary 28, 2015 at 5:21 PM

    not sure grey's a color, or absence thereof, the fade after the flash ~

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  5. AnonymousFebruary 28, 2015 at 8:01 PM

    Always been partial to pink. "Pink please."

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  6. Rosemary Nissen-WadeFebruary 28, 2015 at 8:45 PM

    Your poem is beautiful! I am on a nostalgia trip today, and didn't use the colour option.

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  7. Kerry O'ConnorMarch 1, 2015 at 12:23 AM

    Michael, your link takes us to Dear Blood. I can fix it for you.

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  8. brudbergMarch 1, 2015 at 3:37 AM

    I have been playing with some photos to bring out the red... so that's the color I selected.. I will be around..

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  9. GraceMarch 1, 2015 at 5:58 AM

    Thanks for the additional challenge Kerry ~

    Happy Sunday to all ~

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  10. hedgewitchMarch 1, 2015 at 9:06 AM

    Okay--despite other issues, I can't miss a 55. It wouldn't be right. ;_)I'll be by to read others' work as I am able.

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  11. Kerry O'ConnorMarch 1, 2015 at 9:16 AM

    I love your foggy 55, Hedge! Thanks for participating.

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  12. AnonymousMarch 1, 2015 at 9:50 AM

    A bit of prose about a blue frog :)

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  13. OutlawyerMarch 1, 2015 at 10:10 AM

    Michael, why are you sorry!?

    Mine a little strange--oh well--but it is a 55.

    Thanks, Kerry, as always. k .(Manicddaily)

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  14. JazzbumpaMarch 1, 2015 at 5:30 PM

    Mine is about death by lead poisoning, with a color.

    JzB

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  15. AnonymousMarch 1, 2015 at 7:13 PM

    I love IGwRT soooo much. Thanks for all the great prompts and to all the great prompters.

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  16. Susie ClevengerMarch 1, 2015 at 7:36 PM

    What a beautiful poem and challenge of color.

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  17. MargaretMarch 3, 2015 at 10:57 AM

    Not my 2nd poem… but it IS late. I will also post on the Tuesday Platform and will be back here to visit and comment tonight. And I am so ready for the color Yellow …. lovely poem.

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  18. OutlawyerMarch 4, 2015 at 6:51 AM

    Hey Kerry--had done another 55--I don't think anyone will go--it's a little thing, but put it up. Hope all well. Still very cold here.

    K.

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