Crafting Poetry One Syllable at a Time
Posted on April 11, 2018 by Colleen M. Chesebro
Fun Flash Fiction from the Carrot Ranch Literary Community. This week’s endeavor was to write about “Sun-Sillies!” Grab a cup and have a read. ❤
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Have you ever thought about how silly our planet is? When it’s spring in one hemisphere, it’s fall in another. And yet, we can share stories of sun sillies across the world. We all experience the elation of sunshine and how we can respond.
Some writers found serious topics, such as melanoma. Some simply discovered seriously silly stories or crafted sheer wordplay.
The following are based on the April 5, 2018, prompt: In 99 words (no more, no less) write a silly sun story.
PART I (5-minute read)
Sun of a Gun by Bill Engleson
“Sun.”
“Beach.”
“Blanket.”
“Bingo.”
“Smoke.”
“Cigarette.”
“Bogart.”
“Bacall.”
“Bogart.”
“NO.”
“OH! Robards.”
“Shakespeare.”
“Huh?”
“Bard?”
“Oh! Jason.”
“Friday.”
“Huh?”
“The Thirteenth.”
“Huh?”
“Voorhees. The Killer.”
“Spoiler Alert!”
“You’ve never seen it?”
“Saturday.”
“Sunday.”
“Monday.”
“Tuesday.”
“Grace.”
“Slick.”
“Oil.”
“Water.”
“Beach.”
“Ball.”
“Fornicate.”
“Sex.”
“Male.”
“Postal.”
“Duh! M.A.L.E.”
“Mail.”
“Postal.”
“Going.”
“Crazy.”
“Nuts.”
“Squirrels.”
“Stew.”
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Colleen M. Chesebro is an American Poet who loves crafting paranormal fantasy and magical realism, cross-genre flash fiction, syllabic poetry, and creative nonfiction. Colleen sponsors a weekly syllabic poetry challenge, called Tanka Tuesday, on wordcraftpoetry.com where participants learn how to write traditional and current forms of haiku, senryu, haiga, tanka, gogyohka, tanka prose, renga, solo-renga, haibun, cinquain, Etheree, nonet, and shadorma poetry. Colleen's syllabic poetry has appeared in the Auroras & Blossoms Poetry Journal, and in “Hedgerow, a journal of small poems.” She’s won numerous awards from participating in the Carrot Ranch Rodeo, a yearly flash fiction contest sponsored by carrotranch.com. In 2020, she won first place in the Carrot Ranch Folk Tale or Fable category, with her story called “Why Wolf Howls at the Moon.” Colleen is a Sister of the Fey, where she pursues a pagan path through her writing. When she is not writing, she is reading. She also loves gardening and crocheting old-fashioned doilies into works of art.
Thanks for shining a light on the Sun Sillies! Hope the hatch is going well! 😉
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Spring has sprung in fairyland. 😀 I actually created a category so I could reblog the challenge recaps. I mention the challenge in my newsletter sign up too. Every little bit helps. 😀
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Thank you, Colleen! That helps! In fact, it reminds me to get my Resources Page updated. You can send me a blurb about your poetry challenge and I’ll set that up on the page.
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Oh, thank you kindly. I’ll do that. ❤️
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Good! And if you have other Sisters in your fey who might be interested, please let them know. My intent is to have a community resource page for writers to discover different prompts and blogging communities. I picture Carrot Ranch being a hub, connecting writers, but also connecting communities. Thank you! ❤
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Thanks, Charli. I’ll work on getting something together. I had to take a day off. Almost done with this blasted painting! LOL! ❤
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