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Bamboo Shoots Prompt for April 2024 Year of the Tiger Bamboo Shoots Writing Challenge Prompts
April 2024 Year of the Tiger Bamboo Shoots Writing Challenge Prompts
Aloha e. Happy Tax Season to all of you. I hope you get large returns. I got $1 back from the State this year. Score!
Now, here’s what we’re up to this month. Let’s write between 100 and 1000 words. These are some prompts.You know the story. You can use the prompts, or you can write about whatever you want to write about.
The City
Hand Washed
These Days
How To Pick Mangoes
Dawn Moment
Getting an Idea
Choke Flowers
Get Chance
Mom’s Rules
Mixed Aloha
Home Feels Like
Write in any style and any language. No translation required, but you might reach a wider audience if you do provide a translation.
Remember, any piece you enter in the monthly challenge may be selected by the editors for inclusion in a future issue of Bamboo Ridge. Good Luck, and let’s write already : )
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- Please note that you need not enter the contest challenge in order to post on Bamboo Shoots. You may post other writing if you choose. We welcome that here: Click this link to go to Shoot da Breeze.
Nighthawks
As a child he dreamed
Of being a knight in shining armor
Slaying dragons and winning
The fairest maiden in the land
Benighted by King Arthur
And assuming his seat at the round table
But of course
That was another time
The days of yore
Those good old days
When we are young
And the world is dubbed
Full of possibility
As is his practice every night
This evening
In the days of now
He chews his ham on rye
Drinks two cups of coffee
After his shift at the factory
Dresses up
His one good suit of wool
For nothing in particular
By habit and wonders
About the couple at the bar
Would he have been
Happily married anyway
Might the woman of his dreams
Come into the café now
Flutter down beside him
And would it be a fairytale
Love at first sight
But for this time
And forever after
Tonight you sit
Perched at the counter
With your solitary self
Alone again and again and again