My current submissions pending response (courtesy of the @diabolicalplots.com Submission Grinder).

The child stomps doors slam their body collapses regulation slowly returns the doors open #gogyohka #5linepoetry

I’m miffed the gift caused our rift. #7syllablesentence #rift

Grove of graves with corny epitaphs. Grave but not serious #DailyHaikuPrompt grove, corn

Moonlight glimmers Across Caribbean beach - Shimmering sand #dailyhaikuprompt sand glimmer

The skunk skirls at girl squirrels. #7syllablesentence skirl

As Anna Graham said: The eyes…they see: Astronomers are moon starers. #haiku #anagrams Eleven plus two Letters rearranged equals twelve plus one

Finger taps thrummed the desktop. #7syllablesentence thrum

A horse is a horse. Always on a steady course. Of course of course. #dailyhaikuprompt horse #MrEd

Sun set hours ago. Cows have returned to their home. It’s pasture bedtime. #dailyhaikuprompt pasture

Barb barbecued Barbie dolls. #7syllablesentence barb

Hoard your dandelion spore. #7syllablesentence spore #micropoetry

Snow kept falling in bitter cold Hot cocoa kept us warm Nestled snug by the fireplace with a paperback and a dog. A snowstorm survival recipe. #poetry #constraints #Jenny 8675309 #syllables

When SuperGrape wore a cape, everyone gaped. #7syllablesentence gape

One lonely book sits in the hotel room drawer Unread. #DailyHaikuPrompt lonely

Their May-December romance lasted less than a week. She desired flowers, beaches, and daiquiris. He wanted to curl up by the fireplace with a book. #poetryprompt

A touch of green — A lizard in a blizzard — in a sea of white. #dailyhaikuprompt blizzard

Kid to parent: “Don’t rib my sib in the crib.” #7syllablesentence

My current submissions pending response (courtesy of the @diabolicalplots.com Submission Grinder). Two fiction; two poetry.

I like this idea. My current submissions pending response (courtesy of the @diabolicalplots.com Submission Grinder) Four are short stories. Two are poems.

I am very thankful for the @diabolicalplots.com Submission Grinder. Not only is it a great tool for keeping track of my submissions, using it is encouraging me to submit more. #writing

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For parents of middle schoolers who are interested in #numerology. (Students or Parents) 67+41 =108=5*18 #genalpha #sixseven #fortyone

Converting a poem by Robert Frost into a #limerick … May I be forgiven

Goliath beetles With genes for razor sharp teeth — where scientists erred. #science #haiku #poetry #beetles

With blueberries Feeling impotent? A breakfast panacea: Cascades of pancakes #emoetry #impotent #blueskyrelay #panacea #dailyhaikuprompt #cascade

I Calmly Explain how I can’t whistle. My lips together, I blow without sound. #calm #emoetry #whistle #blueskyrelay #tetractys #micropoetry #poetry

A grave confession I lusted after the youthful departed corpse’s pungent apples. #BlueSkyRelay Lust / Departure #DailyHaikuPrompt Grave / Apple #Emoetry Youthful #HaikuHorrorPrompt Pungency

Please do not groan, but for most poets it’s known not to end a sentence with ‘preternatural’ unless you are dining on mackerel or heading to the bank with collateral for a loan #BlueskyRelay #preternatural

Slightly diminish a band… The Grateful Terminally Ill

Crimson blood drips from prison walls — bonechilling #DailyHaikuPrompt #Crimson #chill

Port with every dessert. #7syllablesentence #port

A tendency for silliness provides the resilience one needs to overcome conversational silences. #blueskyrelay #resilience

I must stock up on doubloons. Talk Like a Pirate Day’s soon. #7syllablesentence #doubloon

A man condemned to Solitary confinement hears no birdsong #dailyhaikuprompt #birdsong #blueskyrelay #solitary

Quartz Granite Porcelain Marble, Limestone — Counting the ways you can top your counter. #tetractys #blueskyrelay #limestone

I Realized I was now Out of my depth. Panicking, I dove underneath my desk. This was not helpful in the very least. I took deep breaths; Recovered slowly. Sigh. #blueskyrelay #depth #tetractys

My favorite dinner: Escargot and Brussels Sprouts - Said no one ever #dailyhaikuprompt #sprouts #snail

Dentist Chair The spray of mist does absolutely nothing to relieve the pain #DailyHaikuPrompt #mist

As Godzilla tramples lovers cower in clover covered in mud #DailyHaikuPrompt #clover #mud

Charge of the Bite Brigade 600 diners attacked each other with layered Turkish pastry. Servers to the left of them. Servers to the right of them. It became known as The Battle of Baklava. Tennyson was not present. There was no one around to immortalize the events but me. #BlueskyRelay #Charge

She flit — Left me in a snit. #7syllablesentence #flit

Twin souls galloping across decades of laughter — Boisterous friendship #DailyHaikuPrompt #Boisterous #Friendship

Barely dressed woman Tramples field of spring blossoms Wine bottle in hand #DailyHaikuPrompt #Barely #Spring #Vine #Haiku #Micropoetry

The drawn shade blocked the sunlight. The tree stopped providing shade. #7syllablesentence #shade

“Live, laugh, luff,” the sailor said. #7syllablesentence #luff

Teach the leech to reach a peach. Capische? #7syllablesentence #reach #gogyohka

The cat is on spin cycle. Soon she’ll no longer be wet. #7syllablesentence #spin #NotTrue

Boxer Aria - Sharon Olds When no one’s around, a man could go all day, in the woods, and down by the lake, and into the house and back out in the garden, without zipping his pants. The belt holds them up, around his hips, secure as any loin cloth or lava-lava, the man is free and unobserved…

scratched and clawed by an old giant's fingers this desolate, irregular landscape xxyxxy.com/blog/ruZYAnAp #poetry #tetractys #desert #sketch