Written while sitting in a lecture hall class two weeks ago. 🙂
Triggers: "These Unsaid Things", "Poetic License" Word Count: 100
Bamboo Shoots Submission for Year of the Dragon
Angry birds
Hand flutter
to the car behind, shaping the shadow form
for hope, radio-tracked. — 66 words
Bamboo Shoots awards
September Winner! The Great BR Year of the Dragon Writing Contest Rolls On : )
Congratulations to KABOCHA, our September winner in The Great BR Year of the Dragon Writing Contest. The prize is — you guessed it : ) — 10 Bamboo Bucks to use in the BR online store. Here’s KABOCHA’s award: Da mos Unwinking Sun Award: “Comfort,” by KABOCHA http://www.bambooridge.com/bambooshoot.aspx?bid=1312 Congratulations again to KABOCHA. Don’t be a…
Bamboo Shoots awards
September Winner! The Great BR Year of the Dragon Contest Rolls On : )
Congratulations to KABOCHA, our September winner in The Great BR Year of the Dragon Writing Contest. The prize is — you guessed it : ) — 10 Bamboo Bucks to use in the BR online store. Here's KABOCHA's award: Da mos Unwinking Sun Award: “Comfort,” by KABOCHA http://www.bambooridge.com/bambooshoot.aspx?bid=1312 Congratulations again to KABOCHA. Don't be a…
Bamboo Shoots Submission for Year of the Dragon
The Nag
Contest trigger for this piece is "These Unsaid Things" : 98 words
Bamboo Shoots Submission for Year of the Dragon
My 1965 World
"We Asians all looked alike then…"
Bamboo Shoots Submission for General Prose
Clinging Terror
When awake, she would insist you sit in the chair next to her lounger, cling to your hand, afraid to lose you. 99 words
Bamboo Shoots Submission for General Prose
Pigged in
My wife is from Arizona, where wild javalinas (or "collared peccaries") roam the desert. Peccaries aren't pigs, but look a lot like them. How hard it would be for a javalina native to the islands to be always correcting people…
Bamboo Shoots Submission for Year of the Dragon
Humpty Dumpty Reboot
These Unsaid Things.This is a more modern, real life version of the nursery rhyme. I am a caregiver for my aging father who is incontinent and is not able stand or walk without a walker. In one day he fell three times. The night after I had this poem rumbling in my head. 29 words.
Bamboo Shoots
Every Good Boy Does Fine
Year of the Dragon October entry — 100 words