Tag: poetry

Flash Fiction, Haiku & Other Poetry, tutto e niente

the boy next door

Tina Stewart Brakebill

Staring out the window, I search for the final line of my verse.

Through the looking glass

Beyond the land of wonder

Alice …?

Alice cries for home? Alice mourns for me?  

I need to move away from the glass. I can’t focus. Every sound, any little movement, and I’m sure it’s her. Finally. Home for the holidays. She said she’s not interested, but she’s just confused. I can change her mind. Explain things. Show her my words. Convince her she’s meant to be with me. Mine. Forever.

Then it comes to me. The perfect ending:   

Alice dies for love.     

 (100 words)

PHOTO PROMPT ©Yvette Prior

Esther’s Writing Prompt (GLASS) immediately brought Alice in Wonderland to mind and then the Friday Fictioneers photo skewed Wonderland into an even creepier space.  

Writing Prompts
7 November 2025

 

Haiku & Other Poetry, tutto e niente

it’s dark at 4pm! (a haiku)

Tina Stewart Brakebill

in the dead of night

seduced by a false prophet

time’s veil falls again  

Photo by Ricky Esquivel on Pexels.com

 

This is my ode to the horror of the November “fall back” time change. It messes up my sleep and it really does get dark by 4:30pm. ARGGG! Thanks to Yvette and Tanka Tuesday for the inspiration to vent. 

#TankaTuesday Poetry Challenge No. 37, The Veil, 11/04/25

 

Haiku & Other Poetry, tutto e niente

I Still Miss You

Tina Stewart Brakebill

I see your face in the morning shadows

your lost voice echoing in the abyss

the memory sharp like a bramble rose

I see your face in the morning shadows

 

autumn’s gold curves in its final death throes

as fate and the future meet in a kiss  

I see your face in the morning shadows

your lost voice echoing in the abyss

Image credit; Adam Bixby @ Unsplash

Both the image and the prompt word (MISS) inspired the same feeling in me: a sense of loss. So, sorry for the melancholy, but I did enjoy the process! Thanks to the following: 

What do you see # 313- 3rd November’ 25
Today’s Prompt: Miss

Having fun with the Triolet this week. According to

https://bysarahwhiley.wordpress.com/

A Triolet is an 8-line poem where lines repeat in a beautiful rhythm:

Lines 1, 4, and 7 are the same, and lines 2 and 8 are also repeated.

The rhyme scheme looks like this: ABaAabAB (uppercase = repeated lines).

If you’d like to make it a little trickier, try writing each line with 8 syllables (iambic tetrameter, the classic French style) — or challenge yourself with 10 syllables per line (the English version). [I did 10-syllables today.]  

Haiku & Other Poetry, tutto e niente

we are the ones

Tina Stewart Brakebill

we are the ones that dwell within

watching and waiting for the end

in the dark we witness your sin

 

we are the ones that dwell within

that burn you feel under your skin

the edge of madness at the bend 

 

we are the ones that dwell within

watching and waiting for the end

Photo by Zachary DeBottis on Pexels.com

 

I enjoyed creating a triolet earlier this week for the w3 prompt, so I did it again. But this time I went with the 8-syllable version and leaned into the SPOOKY. Thanks for the added inspiration to Esther (EDGE) and dVerse poets (we are the ones that dwell within). See below for info on Triolets.

Word Prompts
Poetics: It’s Not That Scary

According to Sarah Whiley … 

A Triolet is an 8-line poem where lines repeat in a beautiful rhythm:

Lines 1, 4, and 7 are the same, and lines 2 and 8 are also repeated.

The rhyme scheme looks like this: ABaAabAB (uppercase = repeated lines).

If you’d like to make it a little trickier, try writing each line with 8 syllables (iambic tetrameter, the classic French style) — or challenge yourself with 10 syllables per line (the English version).