Tales from the mind of Kristian
Visit the darkest crevices of my mind, dare to tread where many fear to go. You may find something interesting or you may find a mirror to your soul.
This Limerick was written for Sadje’s What do you See Challenge.
Click on the link below:
What do you see # 36 – 29 June 2020
The camera, they say never lies
But so often it seems to disguise
the model’s face and its flaws
a bold nose or weak jaws
so the truth never reaches the eyes.
https://ragtagcommunity.wordpress.com/2020/07/04/rdp-saturday-eyes/
I have written this poem inspired by this picture in response to the What do you See? Challenge, see link below:
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/
This poem was written for Helene Vaillant’s ‘What do you See?’ challenge. Click on the link below to see her post:
He was feeling rather sad and low,
And sorry with his lot,
Because although it was his birthday,
His friends, they’d all forgot.
He kicked his bedroom door ajar,
And banged upon his drum,
despite this being his special day,
he sulked and sucked his thumb.
He stalked about in a dreadful mood,
Like a scorpion with a sting,
He shouted at the postman when,
He failed to deliver anything.
In a fit of hurtful rage,
he presented an ultimatum
in a letter, he sat down and wrote,
I wouldn’t dare recite it out verbatim.
It clearly showed how out of sorts
And neglected he really felt,
Oh! what truly miserable hand
It was that fate had dealt.
And as the day had nearly closed
he entered the dining room,
and there, beside a papaya
he hadn’t wanted to consume,
he saw a birthday present,
wrapped up and tied with bows.
He heaved and sighed and then he cried
The tears ran down his nose.
Then jumping out of the shadows,
His friends sang out three cheers
And then quite prompt, they did applaud
Nearly deafening his ears.
It made him feel quite bashful
And filled with deep remorse,
He had doubted they
would remember his day,
When they clearly had, of course.
Copyright: Kristian Fogarty 31/May/2019
I have included the following word prompts:
https://lightmotifs.wordpress.com/2019/05/30/three-things-challenge-pl106/
Today’s prompt: scorpion, drum, papaya
https://ragtagcommunity.wordpress.com/2019/05/31/rdp-friday-prompt/
https://onedailyprompt.wordpress.com/2019/05/31/your-daily-word-prompt-bashful-may-31-2019/
https://wordofthedaychallenge.wordpress.com/2019/05/31/applaud/
This poem was written for Helene Vaillant’s ‘What do you see’ picture challenge:
Like a fallen leaf
lying on the forest floor,
my pride in tatters,
wondering what my future has in store.
Naked in the wilderness,
gnawed by grubs of doubt,
now you left me lying here,
what is this life about?
So charming, you enticed me
but the years revealed the truth,
your hateful lies, my tortured cries,
have robbed me of my youth.
My blind desires may have been
a factor in my fall.
but knowing me for all these years,
how could you be so cruel?
I know I’ll rise above this,
emerge a butterfly from my grief,
but now, I lay discarded here,
like a fallen leaf.
Copyright: Kristian Fogarty 26/May/2019
I have also included the following word prompts:
https://wordofthedaychallenge.wordpress.com/2019/05/25/charming/
https://onedailyprompt.wordpress.com/2019/05/25/your-daily-word-prompt-wilderness-may-25-2019/
This poem was written for Helene Vaillants ‘What do you see’ Challenge. See link below:
A gleaming glorious spire
Above the darkest vault,
Are you curious to enquire,
what treasures there exalt?
At the towers very top,
With views across the land,
A splash of crimson petals
Watered by a loving hand.
The greatest prize is always seen
With effort and a heart that’s keen.
Copyright: Kristian Fogarty 15/May/2019
I have also included the following word prompts:
https://wordofthedaychallenge.wordpress.com/2019/05/15/vault/
https://ragtagcommunity.wordpress.com/2019/05/15/rdp-wednesday-splash/
This poem was written for Helene Vaillant’s What do you See Challenge on Willow Poetry.
Click on the link below if you’d like to take part:
Life Is like a child’s game
Without a match, the future’s blind.
The rules for everyone are just the same.
You must seek and ye shall find.
Copyright: Kristian Fogarty 08/May/2019
https://ragtagcommunity.wordpress.com/2019/05/07/rdp-tuesday-match/
This poem was written for Helene Vaillant’s What do you See challenge. Click on the link below to find out more, why not have a go yourself?
What do you See? April/09/2019
In natures garden, I stand serene
My mind alert, my senses keen,
Joined hand in hand with kindred hearts
We dance around while hate departs.
Those who taunt to bedevil our aims
Who bring their hatred and their flames
Will not deter us from our path
We eschew the ways of the sociopath.
a sensible ideology,
Peace and love is our theology,
I have also included the following word prompts:
https://wordofthedaychallenge.wordpress.com/2019/04/11/keen/
https://ragtagcommunity.wordpress.com/2019/04/11/rdp-thursday-bedevil/
https://onedailyprompt.wordpress.com/2019/04/11/your-daily-word-prompt-ideology-april-11-2019/
This poem was written for Helene Vaillant’s What do you see challenge:
What do you See? April 2, 2019
He’d had a prescient feeling
When his application had gone in.
The excitement sent him reeling
And made his head feel in a spin.
When the phone call came
To say he’d won the competition
He pretended all the same
That he hadn’t had a premonition.
The booked time was at midnight
The weather had been rather warm
It wasn’t a great time for his maiden flight
Particularly in a thunderstorm.
But regardless of the weather,
He put on his favourite sweatshirt
And carried his lucky eagle feather.
And prayed that no-one else gets hurt.
As the lightning struck across the sky
You’d think no one would have flown that day,
But he was a daredevil and that was why
He shouted, “Cast-off and Chocks Away!”
Copyright: Kristian Fogarty 04/April/2019
I have also included the following word prompts:
https://lightmotifs.wordpress.com/2019/04/03/three-things-challenge-pl49/
Today’s prompt: midnight, sweatshirt, application
https://wordofthedaychallenge.wordpress.com/2019/04/04/daredevil/
FOWC with Fandango — Prescient
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/
https://www.deviantart.com/alarie-tano
This poem was written in response to this picture challenge from Helene at Willow Poetry:
What do you See? March 12, 2019
Over the Bridge, rode the Knight,
In search of his prey,
Armed and ready to fight
despite the odds, Come what may.
He’d given his pledge
To Vanquish that foe,
Who some would allege,
Had brought them much woe.
He searched across the land
The dreaded dragon laid low,
Did it fear his mighty hand?
It would appear so.
For though the Knight looked
Over every hill and dale,
There was no sign whatever,
Of a Dragon, and so ends this tale.
https://wordofthedaychallenge.wordpress.com/2019/03/13/pledge/
https://onedailyprompt.wordpress.com/2019/03/13/your-daily-word-prompt-knight-march-13-2019/
