11/09/2010

Folie à Deux



'neath family tree
(loony kinfolk in full leaf)
two more, blooming daft


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This was written for The Tenth Daughter of Memory, 
where the prompt is 
"Under the Kiss of the Blood-Soaked Tree."



12 comments:

  1. hehe. nice verse...kinfolk getting loony under the tree...hmm...so many jokes i could make...smiles.

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  2. Family trees are kind of like inverted ice-burgs. Nice. -J

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  3. Loony kinfolk indeed! The family tree bears strange fruit, no question about it. Your delightful haiku answers this prompt succinctly.

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  4. Heh hehehe hehehehehehehehehe

    I shall reserve lewd comments for our phone "discourse" later.

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  5. Oh tell me about loony kinfolk and daft blooming folk.....you are singing my song, kiddo:)

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  6. Wow there could be all kinds a loony happening under that tree!! Poetic simplicity!

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  7. Well, golly gosh! I struggled and struggled all week with this muse and it never once occurred to me that a family tree is soaked with blood. Duh!!

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  8. Hahaha . . .'neath the 'spreading' chestnut tree huh?

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  9. As a matter of interest, and so I can work out how colloquial to make stories in future, can you remember the 4 or so words you had to look up while reading my story? Thanks ...

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  10. Hmmm! You must know my neighbors! Ha!

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