Bamboo Shoots Submission for Year of the Rat -- October Contest
How To Get To My House
How To Get To My House Go past the gate whitewashed from hawked gobs See the words scribbled in fear to offend, JAP …
Bamboo Shoots Submission for Year of the Rat -- October Contest
Memories of the Moon And Bon Dance Ed
Memories of the Moon and Bon Dance Ed Bon Dance Ed and I make the circuit every season, He rides shotgun for my navigation to temples tucked away In valleys,…
Bamboo Shoots Prompt for Year of the Rat -- October Contest
Fourth and Last Writing Contest Prompt for October
The Japs, my mysterious kin, Had just bombed Pearl Harbor. Each night thereafter, Each home Was allowed one blackened light. So, windows were tarred And cracks under doors were Stuffed…
Bamboo Shoots Submission for Year of the Rat -- October Contest
Haiku
Fragile tree limbs cup The weight of the yellow moon Cane erupts through the soil
Bamboo Shoots Submission for Year of the Rat, Year of the Rat -- October Contest
Shanghai Tower
I wouldn’t get caught dead in Dubai, so probably then in the end the tallest building I’ll ever have visited in my lifetime is the Shanghai Tower. I went there…
Bamboo Shoots Prompt for Year of the Rat -- October Contest
Third Monday Writing Contest Prompts for October
Use any ideas you come up from these excerpts as writing prompts. Let your mind wander, and let’s write. Scales glisten; pink whiskers jut out. Some are the color…
Bamboo Shoots Submission for Year of the Rat -- October Contest
October Words
October Words (Sing to the tune of “Battle of New Orleans”.) The Buckaroo says we should take him by surprise And write whatever words we see Within our inner eye,…
Bamboo Shoots Prompt for Year of the Rat -- October Contest
Second Monday Writing Contest Prompts for October : )
When I started getting interested in girls, I used to go bananas over the chicks in my school but could never seem to score any of them. I’d watch movies…
Bamboo Shoots Submission for Year of the Rat -- October Contest
Aloha Tower Clock in Covid-19 Time
(At 5:10 pm Saturday in Honolulu, Hawaii, it is 5:10 am Sunday in Paris, France), a twelve-hour parenthesis conjoining (this week’s last day with last week’s first) or vice-versa (first…
Bamboo Shoots Submission for Year of the Rat -- October Contest
Stop the Clock
Stop the Clock Benevolent Time sat cross-legged on the mantle smiling, saying she’d push it over, her index finger often faking flicking it, when, to my surprise, this Time she…
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