Crafting Poetry One Syllable at a Time
Posted on July 12, 2018 by Colleen M. Chesebro
Here’s the Carrot Ranch Literary Community Challenge Recap where we wrote about “buttons.” Have a read. This is some of the best flash fiction around – Don’t miss it! ❤
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Buttons hold memories of mothers and grandmothers. They hold space for the unexpected links between life and death. They call for silence, to button up, or to relax and loosen a button.
Writers followed where the buttons led.
The following is based on the July 5, 2018, prompt: In 99 words (no more, no less) write a story that includes buttons.
PART I (10-minute read)
Idiomatic, No? by Chesea Owens
Who’s got the clasp; did they ask for the
Touch of a buckle? My knuckles are
Right on the hook, yet they look so
Bright as a catch and they’re snatched since becoming that
Cute as a zipper, so chipper.
Push my Velcro; I don’t know who’d
Press the panic fastener. The last nerd?
Well, bust my stud, ’twas a dud and
Belly lacing was encasing them all.
Yet
Knob pusher was shusher; he’d
Hasp up, the yup. I say:
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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 sharing the button collection, Colleen!
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Most welcome! 💜🧡❤️
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A PERSON’S LIFE IS LIVED THROUGH A SERIES OF BUTTONS FROM THE BAPTISM TO THE SHROUD, FEEL THE WEIGHT OF A BOX OF BUTTONS, IT HAS MEANING. CHINA ALEXANDRIA, AUTHOR, POET
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I love buttons. Thanks for sharing this fun flash fiction.
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Hi, E.C. I’m glad you enjoyed. Buttons evoke many memories. ❤️
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I THINK IT IS NICE WHEN YOU GET TO AN AGE AND JUST ENJOY LIFE, ENJOY TODAY
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I so agree. Happy Friday, my friend. 😍❤️
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