Go Dog Go Cafe – Tales from the mind of Kristian

Twittering Tales – The Serenity that comes before.

Photo by MarkusmitK@pixabay.com

He sat on the railway bridge and felt a moment of serenity.

And smiled as he considered that Life was so full of vapid worthlessness; an entity of nothingness; a rotting fungus living parasitically on time.

He took a deep breath, nothing drastic, then fell under the 8:29 train.

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This tale was written for Kat Myrman’s Twittering Tales Challenge:

Twittering Tales #155 – 24 September 2019

It was also written for the Tuesday Writing Prompt from the Go Dog Go Cafe, where the word prompt was Serenity:

Tuesday Writing Prompt Challenge September 24, 2019

I have also incorporated the following word prompts:

https://wordofthedaychallenge.wordpress.com/2019/09/26/drastic/

https://onedailyprompt.wordpress.com/2019/09/26/your-daily-word-prompt-entity-september-26-2019/

FOWC with Fandango — Vapid

https://ragtagcommunity.wordpress.com/2019/09/26/rdp-thursday-fungus/

A Poem in the Style of Dr Seuss’ Cat in the Hat – A face in the wrong place – Kira’s Sunday Scribbles.

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This poem was written for two challenges, firstly, the picture challenge by Kira’s Sunday Scribbles, see picture above and link below:

https://wordofthedaychallenge.wordpress.com/2019/07/21/kiras-sunday-scribbles-48/

Secondly, this was written in the Style of Dr Seuss, The Cat in the Hat, which was the challenge set by Christine’s Daily Writing prompt on the Go Dog Go Cafe. See link below:

Christine’s Daily Writing Prompt: The Cat in the Hat

A Face in the Wrong Place.

A face is quite nice on a cat

On a cat, a face is never off place,

And a face looks OK on a rat,

So, We can all agree on that.

But a face looks decidedly crazy

When it’s sitting on top of a daisy,

On a daisy, a face just isn’t right,

In fact, it’s a terrible sight.

On anything leafy and green,

A face should never be seen,

Either on a daisy or some lovely calabrese.

This is all science gone wrong,

What next a potato in a sarong?

So, when I see a face on a daisy,

Or indeed some lovely calabrese,

I just think its genetics gone crazy.

Copyright: Kristian Fogarty 23/July/2019

Blind Victory – A Poem

This poem was written for the Tuesday Writing Prompt for the Go Dog Go Cafe, see the post here:

Tuesday Writing Prompt Challenge: Tuesday, June 18, 2019

Droplets fall from sunken eyes,

Tears shed by shadows left behind

Bodies lying bitten by flies,

Broken children of humankind.

The consequences when a peace deal dies,

The scourge of War with victory blind.

Copyright: Kristian Fogarty 18/June/2019

abstract angelic art blast — Photo by Sebastian Voortman on Pexels.com

https://wordofthedaychallenge.wordpress.com/2019/06/18/deal/

https://ragtagcommunity.wordpress.com/2019/06/18/rdp-tuesday-droplet/

What Do You See? – Is this a Musical?

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I have written this poem inspired by this picture in response to the What do you See? Challenge, see link below:

What do you See? June 4/2019

I have also included the Tuesday Writing Prompt Challenge from the Go Dog Go Cafe,

see link here:

Tuesday Writing Prompt Challenge June 4, 2019

The challenge is to write a poem (or story) with the phrase “Free Me” in it.

So here we go:

As they gathered by the light of the moon,

The Pussycat sang a line from an old Broadway Tune,

Serenading the Tomcat who stood tall on the tiles

From the rooftop, it seemed they could both see for miles.

Then into the night, they heard a loud miaow

Followed by shouting “Please Free Me Right Now”

And dangling beneath them from the gutter

A marmalade alley cat flailed like a nutter.

He shouted again “Oi, don’t act like a dope”

“The least you could do is to throw me a rope”.

It’s not hard to see how these antics inspired

Andrew Lloyd Webber, and how ‘Cats’ transpired.

Copyright: Kristian Fogarty 4/June/2019

https://ragtagcommunity.wordpress.com/2019/06/04/rdp-tuesday-line/

https://wordofthedaychallenge.wordpress.com/2019/06/04/rope/

Dreams of Dali – A poem written for the Tuesday Writing Prompt

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Image by CarolinaP from Pixabay

This poem was written for the Tuesday Writing Prompt Challenge from the Go Dog Go Cafe. See the link below:

Tuesday Writing Prompt Challenge: Tuesday, March 30, 2019

Dreams of Dali

As I slowly drift to sleep

I trip and fall into foolish dreams.

Where before I counted sheep,

Now I’m caught in torpid schemes.

Dicing with devils in denim hats

Breaking bread with brazen cats

Dancing Dangerously with diplomats.

Oh! What crazy capers my mind unleashes

When lost in a world of lucid dreaming,

Melted clocks and Dali-esque pastiches

Then Suddenly I awaken screaming.

Though darkness fills my dreaming mind,

There’s nothing darker than humankind.

Copyright: Kristian Fogarty 30/April/2019

This poem also contains the following word prompts:

https://ragtagcommunity.wordpress.com/2019/04/30/rdp-tuesday-bread/

https://wordofthedaychallenge.wordpress.com/2019/04/30/trip/

Dreaming of Fairies

girl holding white birdcage standing behind trees — Photo by Tú Nguyễn on Pexels.com

This poem was written for the Music Monday’s Challenge and the Tuesday Writing Challenge from the Go Dog Go Cafe. You can tell I am a bit behind but catching up slowly 😉

Click on the link below to check on the Music Monday Challenge if you want to hear the piece of music that inspired the poem or if you want to take part in this new weekly challenge:

https://wordofthedaychallenge.wordpress.com/2019/04/08/music-mondays-challenge/

Click here to see the Tuesday Writing Prompt Challenge post:

Tuesday Writing Prompt Challenge April 9, 2019

The Challenge was to write a poem or story containing the words “Blurred Thoughts”.

Blurred thoughts from a mind’s torment

I feel a wave of calm content

As magic and music’s melody,

Softly washes over me.

Lapping at my conscience, keen,

from Shakespeare’s play, I glimpse a scene

A fairy tale, a fantasy theme

Transported into a Midsummer Nights Dream.

https://wordofthedaychallenge.wordpress.com/2019/04/11/keen/

What do you See? – Ghostly Footsteps.

This poem is written in response to Helene Vaillant’s What do you see Challenge:

What do you See? March/26/2019

and also the Tuesday’s Writing Prompt Challenge from the Go Dog Go Cafe, to write a poem containing the line “Footsteps of the Mind”.

Tuesday Writing Prompt Challenge March 26, 2019

As I wander through the cloisters,

Just to see what I can find,

I hear a noise come suddenly

Like the footsteps of the mind.

Are these spectres from my memories?

Or something much more sinister?

Is it a thief that haunts the shadows

With some violence to administer?

My heart beats faster as I linger

In the dim and darkening light

Then I see from out the shadows

Something Impish, bold and white.

I see it bound and run towards me

And I scream and jump a mile

Then I realise that what I feared

Is just a dog, This makes me smile.

Can there ever be a terror

Greater than the one I find

When I leave my thoughts to linger

On those footsteps in my mind?

Copyright: Kristian Fogarty 27/March/2019

I have also included the following word prompts:

Word of the Day: Impish

https://wordofthedaychallenge.wordpress.com/2019/03/27/impish/

Ragtag Daily Prompt: Thief

https://ragtagcommunity.wordpress.com/2019/03/27/rdp-wednesday-thief/

A Picture by the Sea – A poem for Kreative Kue 210

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This poem was written for the Kreative Kue challenge, see the link below:

https://keithchanning.wordpress.com/2019/03/11/kreative-kue-210/comment-page-1/#comment-11436

I think that it is such a great picture, evocative and poignant. I hope my poem does this picture justice.

I took a picture of you,

Standing in the sea,

the water lapping at your feet,

as you smiled up at me.

Those days were simply perfect,

Though we didn’t know it then,

That life, as often happens,

Would change and change again.

Not long after the picture was taken,

I said farewell to you,

I watched you sail from my life

I cried for a week or two.

That seems a lifetime ago,

In many ways it was,

Our lives have drifted far apart,

And I’m to blame, because,

I left those words unspoken,

I didn’t tell you how I felt,

And that’s why our lives were broken

By the bitter hand, fate dealt.

Each and every day I wander,

By the water’s edge, I lurk,

Gazing at the sea that took you

Into the darkness and the murk.

It’s here I took a picture of you,

Standing in that sea,

How I wish that here and now,

You were smiling next to me.

This weeks challenge from the Go Dog Go Cafe was to write something that involved Water. Well, I think this poem does that. If you wish to take part in the Tuesday Writing Prompt from the Go Dog Go Cafe click on the link below:

Tuesday Writing Prompt Challenge March 12, 2019

I have also included the following word prompt:

https://onedailyprompt.wordpress.com/2019/03/14/your-daily-word-prompt-sail-march-14-2019/

https://wordofthedaychallenge.wordpress.com/2019/03/14/justice/

An Elfchen Challenge – A new creation.

My pal, Mel of the blog Crushed Caramel, has tagged me in a new challenge. See her post below:

https://crushedcaramel.wordpress.com/2019/02/13/i-have-never-even-heard-of-an-elfchen/comment-page-1/?unapproved=6112&moderation-hash=31a298e9375e8babb6339ef4a020dffc#comment-6112

Like Mel, I had not heard of an Elfchen. I flippantly thought it was what you got when you crossed an Elf with a Munchkin, possibly with a bit of Oompaloompah thrown in for good measure.

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Well, if you’d like an excellent explanation of what an elfchen actually is, click on Mel’s post, she explains it beautifully and wrote a lovely one to demonstrate.

Here is my attempt:

Innovate,

Create something

Worthy of adulation.

A tribute to God’s

Creation.

I think that meets the requirements, and I am also quite chuffed that I have managed to include three of today’s daily prompts. I couldn’t hope for better. (Oh there goes a fourth 😉 )

I have just realised that this is also the challenge for the Go Dog Go Cafe Tuesday’s Writing Challenge! Click the link below if you’d like to take part:

Tuesday Writing Prompt Challenge February 12, 2019

https://ragtagcommunity.wordpress.com/2019/02/13/rdp-wednesday-innovative/

https://onedailyprompt.wordpress.com/2019/02/13/your-daily-word-prompt-adulation-february-13-2019/

FOWC with Fandango — Tribute

https://wordofthedaychallenge.wordpress.com/2019/02/12/hope/