Raven's Challenge 70

It is Saturday and time to play with words supplied by Raven's Wordzzle

This week's Ten Word Challenge will be: Chorus line, clam chowder, apples, jack-in-the-box, puddles, Iran, quarry, housekeeping, speed, letter For the mini challenge: motorcycle, grandiose, summer, flying off the handle, blue jays

A Mega Challenge

Summer Dreaming

In the middle of the night or dark of day
Summer dreams do come our way
Grandiose monsters from deep inside
Motorcycles we can’t ride
Chorus lines with water guns
Shooting clam chowder at bisons
Ma and pa stuck in Iran
Quarry for a government band
Apples fall up from the tree
Then speed down on me
Jack-in-the box whose head explodes
Blue jays tearing up the roads
Puddles with letters spelling help
A housekeeping nightmare in itself
Flying off the handle is a Bee
Coming over to sting me
Now I dare not go to sleep
Less monsters begin to peep
From deep inside my overtaxed head
So I’ll just lie upon my bed.

Our Ten Word Challenge-The Convocation

Last week was the Big Dragon Lodge Convocation up at Quarry Lodge in the mountains of Pennsylvania. A letter was spent to every Dragon Lodge in the World inviting them to send three members to the gathering. Dragons came from everywhere in the world except Iran. The Iranian dragons officially don’t exist and were afraid they would be seen since so many government officials were in the streets beating protestors.
I’m afraid we drove the Lodge housekeeping staff half crazy because even though we used our considerable power to make ourselves relatively small our tails kept knocking things over. Nevertheless the Lodge was good to us and served a marvelous banquet of apples in clam chowder one of the favorite meals of dragons.
The dragons from California entertained. One hasn’t really lived until one has seen a chorus line of dragons kicking and singing “ Twinkle Twinkle Little Star” in perfect dragoness. We laughed so hard that we cried leaving great big puddles in the auditorium.
At the close we were all given a jack-in-the box with a little dragon inside to remember the time. Then we were wished God speed.

Flash 55 +

With a nod to Raven and Quilly
( This week's Raven's words were rather nice )

Friday 55 Flash Fiction is brought to you by G-man (Mr Knowitall). The idea is you write a story in exactly 55 words. If you want to take part pop over and let G-man know when you've posted your 55.

Every week a nice lady named Raven gives us fifteen words and phrases to use in a story. Here we try to use those words and phrases in a flash 55.This week's words are: Chorus line, clam chowder, apples, jack-in-the-box, puddles, Iran, quarry, housekeeping, speed, letter, motorcycle, grandiose, summer, flying off the handle, blue jays


The grandiose Chorus Line Hotel served apples and clam chowder to the summer motorcycle crowd while housekeeping head, Fransica Iran, was flying off the handle supposedly at the group from the Letter Quarry that made puddles, but in reality because her Blue Jays lacked speed and the pitcher looked like a jack-in-the-box .

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And Now for something completely different. A flash 55 quivel. Something that looks like a poem, uses at least three of Quilly’s words and has five words to a line for eleven lines. Click on the special words for definitions.

Revenge of the Geek

Niddering he was often called
Such labeling made him appalled
Fallaciloquence he saw it as
Mean and all that jazz
Many a fracas he fought
But these came to naught.
He was no foppotee indeed
Just a poor broken reed
The volgivagant group far away
Knew his wrath one day
And he made them pay.

Dragons and Poems

It is Saturday and time to play with words supplied by Raven's Wordzzle

This Week's Ten Word Challenge will be: sow, close, console, lives, minute, polish ,bass, pussy , complex, resume

For the mini challenge: bow, house, import, intern, sewer

A Mega Challenge-The Politician

From the old sewer he came
This one so close to fame
They rewrote his resume
Gave him words he should say
Let him sow them on the air
Lives were changed but he didn’t care
Minute by minute and day by day
Complex truth he pushed away
Polish the money people he would
Console after disaster as he should
Had his picture taken with his pussy cat
His old bass fiddle and high top hat
The import of course was his selection
To the house in landslide election
On the stage of life he took his bow
And then fell off in a terrible row
Caught with an intern in the Capital Wing
An that intern really did sing
You can take the man and hide his past
But the sewer catches up at last.

Our Ten Word Challenge-A Dragon Word

In the second year of the Great Dragon War after many lives had been lost a truce was called. In the complex of the green dragons the time was used to console those who had lost loved ones and to help close that part of their life. Even though they knew that at any minute the war could resume their leader ordered the killing of the prize sow and that a great feast be made. In addition to the sow the feast was to include the last of the bass and the two pussy cats that had wandered into camp.The Polish dragons objected to the eating of the cats as they were pets in their country so the cats were spared. The head dragon announced that whatever happened in the war this would be remembered forever as the night of the green dragon feast.
"This then , According to the Sacred Book of the Dragons, is the origin of tonight’s feast", the Dragon Priest said to the congregation. Tonight we feast on the best sow and bass fish but no cats as it has always been.
The congregation responded " as it shall always be."

With a nod to Raven and Quilly
( This week's Raven's words were really fun )

Friday 55 Flash Fiction is brought to you by G-man (Mr Knowitall). The idea is you write a story in exactly 55 words. If you want to take part pop over and let G-man know when you've posted your 55.

Every week a nice lady named Raven gives us fifteen words and phrases to use in a story. Here we try to use those words and phrases in a flash 55.This week's words are : sow, close, console, lives, minute, polish ,bass, pussy , complex, resume, bow, house, import, intern, sewer

The Poor Cat

The Polish pussy pussy would sow minute traces of blood on the console as we came close to understanding the import on her life. The fact that she lives means a bow to the house intern who pulled her from the sewer , fed her Bass Complex, and got a sewer to resume stitching her up.

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And Now for something completely different. A flash 55 quivel. Something that looks like a poem, uses at least three of Quilly’s words and has five words to a line for eleven lines. Click on the special words for definitions.

The Phlyarologist

The phlyarologist talked a lot
Everything she said was rot
Risible the things she said
Talking out of her head
Mellifluous the voice she had
What she said was bad
Pulchritudinious lady though she be
Nothing she said touched me
With listeners she didn’t rate
Ineluctable her getting the gate
Summotion was her natural fate

I Speak Nonsense

The Week Nineteen words are: phlyarologist; pulchritudinious; summotion: Click on a red word for a definition.



The pulchritudinious woman was also something of a phlyarologist which caused her subsequent summotion.


A dragon that is a phlyarologist can never be considered a pulchritudinious dragon but one worthy of summotion.


A writer that insults other writers even if a pulchritudinious writer is more akin to a phlyarologist and thus worthy of summotion from the writer’s group.



With today’s pulchritudinious words you can be a writer of high class stories or a phlyarologist who writes stories worthy of summotion.



While I was drunk I told her she was a pulchritudinious lady but now I realize the booze turned me into a phlyarologist and I need to find some way to achieve summotion before she wakes up.

We invite any of you risible readers out there to try writing with Quilly's words. If you are a phlyarologist most peop0le won't even know your speaking nonsense. If your a pulchritudinious lady use these words and you will also seem wise. Warning do not use these words in your work place because they could lead to your summotion. Remember words are fun.

It is Saturday and time to play with words supplied by Raven's Wordzzle

This Week's Ten Word Challenge will be: nausea, everything is on sale, expect great things, frying pan, pledge, birds of a feather, stick, Saturday morning, liver and bacon, caterpillars
For the mini challenge:aggravation, protective, bargain basement, take me out to the ballgame, break a leg

Every week we poor dragons do the best we can to take really horrible words and turn them into something like a poem. We know that hyper-critical Quilly won't like it not that she ever trys to turn words like this into a poem.
But we like Quilly so she can just jump over this and we wrote a Mega challenge that is not a poem just for her.

A Mega Challenge-Conned Again

Liver and bacon in the frying pan
Everything is on sale man
Expect great things today
The nausea will go away
Saturday morning while it’s dark
Aggravation at the ball park
Take me out to the ball game
An empty park is not the same
Bargain Basement Baseball
With no real players at all
Birds of a feather conning me
Pledge things that will not be
Stick it to him they say
Break a leg along the way.
Protective custody put them in
Perish the thought that I should win
Caterpillars butterflies become
But me I remain just dumb.

A Mega Challenge-Reality Show

Welcome to the Dragon Network’s Newest Saturday morning Reality Show, “ Break a Leg”
Tonight you will hear the singing group “ Birds of a Feather” sing “ Take me out to the ball game”
Followed by:
The returning group “ Nausea Stick” singing “ Liver and Bacon “
But first a word from our sponsor the “ Everything is on Sale” department stores where every floor is a bargain basement and where we pledge that you can always expect great things. This week’s special is tasty caterpillars at a price so low you we can’t mention it on television .Now! Before we meet our first contestant we want to apologize for the aggravation caused by our running out of last week’s special, dragon sized frying pans with Draflon protective coating………...

Our Ten Word Challenge- The Detective

It was Saturday Morning in central city and Detective Frank Nausea was going over the evidence they had accumulated in the case of the “ liver and bacon bandit”. He was called that because he always ordered a plate of liver and bacon to go .. When the order was ready he would pull out a gun and take all the money in the cash register along with the order. They had a bullet which was fired when the cook using a frying pan like a stick tried to knock the gun out of his hand. The bullet bounced off the frying pan and lodged in a can of Birds of a Feather Soup where the investigating officer found it.
After that the Chief went on television and said “ The community has come to expect great things from this department and I pledge that we will not rest until this man is caught.”
The next night he hit his first department store, Wiggly Woggly which is part of the “ Everything is on Sale “ chain out of Philadelphia. He went to the specialty food department and bought a dozen chocolate covered grasshoppers then at gunpoint took all the money from the register.
Well Detective Nausea thought “we’re looking for a man who likes liver and bacon and eats chocolate covered grasshoppers. There can’t be many people who fit that description. “
He was , of course, right. Aside from himself there were only two others….

Flash 55

With a nod to Raven and Quilly
( This week's Raven's words were even worse than usual )

Friday 55 Flash Fiction is brought to you by G-man (Mr Knowitall). The idea is you write a story in exactly 55 words. If you want to take part pop over and let G-man know when you've posted your 55.

Every week a nice lady named Raven gives us fifteen words and phrases to use in a story. Here we try to use those words and phrases in a flash 55.This week's words are :nausea, everything is on sale, expect great things, frying pan, pledge, birds of a feather, stick, Saturday morning, liver and bacon, caterpillars, aggravation, protective, bargain basement, take me out to the ballgame, break a leg



Birds of a feather pledged to expect things since everything is on sale but on Saturday morning the smell of liver and bacon in the frying pan caused nausea and aggravation to the protective bargain basement guard of stick Caterpillars as he sang take me out to the ballgame in real break a leg style.

And Now for something completely different. A flash 55 quivel. Something that looks like a poem, uses at least three of Quilly’s words and has five words to a line for eleven lines. Click on the special words for definitions.

The Prophet

The opsimath studied only history

Her choice a real mystery
But her claim to fame
With assiduity she did proclaim
“ obarmate that which is past
Or we just won’t last”
Isangelous she always did seem
Light from her did beam
the hitonious mob insulted her
They caused quite a stir
She was right I’m sure.

Arm Yourself with Quilly Words

It is a Quilly day. Time to take Quilly’s three words for the day and write a story. The words are opsimath; obarmate; assiduity .Click on the blue highlighted words for definitions.



One has to say that Ida though being a dragon was an opsimath as late in life she began to study new words with assiduity desiring to obarmate the wrong usage of Quilly’s words.



The frightened opsimath studied with assiduity the military manuals desiring to obarmate the attacks of his enemies.

Larry worked with assiduity to prove that Fideo could be an opsimath but obarmated himself from the so called experts and their critical comments.

I tried with assiduity to obarmate the desire to become a opsimath.

It was because of the assiduity of the sheriff who obaramate lies that the truth of the crime of the opsimath was made known.



We invite any of you risible readers out there to try writing with Quilly's words. If you have never done it before become an opsimath in Quilly's college of words. If you work at it with assiduity and obaramate against sloth you can be great. Words are fun.

Raven's Impossible Words

It is Saturday and time to play with words supplied by Raven's Wordzzle
This Week's Ten Word Challenge will be: swashbuckler, heads-up, dry martini, recovery, jungle gym, whiskers, bathing suit, spade, circular reasoning, abrasive
The Mini Challenge: butter wouldn’t melt in her mouth, stagnation, chart, star crossed lovers, apricot brandy

We looked at the words for today and thought is there an American Poet who would touch such words and the only one we could think of was Lawrence Ferlinghetti . So here is our version of Lawrence Ferlinghetti meets Raven.

Not The World but her end!

The star crossed lovers drinking apricot brandy
On the jungle gym looking somewhat dandy
butter wouldn’t melt in her mouth
When her whiskers all went south
Skimpy bathing suit couldn’t save her
From the spade of the grave digger.
Chart the very sick patient’s stagnation
Looks like recovery not her station
A dry martini will never save her
However abrasive the stir
He’s a heads-up doctor you know

Real swashbuckler on the go

Circular reasoning that never bends
This is the way her world ends

By Lawrence Ferlinghetti Raven

Our ten word challenge -Poor Alice

Alice Dragon wondered what humans saw in dry martini’s as she tossed back a big glass of really stagnant pond water. She was still hurting from having flown into that abrasive human device they used to torture children called a jungle gym. Why they called it that she had no idea. It certainly didn’t come from the jungle and it looked like a plumber’s nightmare. They even put them near swimming pools and children ended up playing on them in bathing suits. No wonder there were so many scratches and bruises. Sometimes she thought that Quilly lady was right, adults did want to kill kids. “Of course that could be circular reasoning she had been accused of that on more than one occasion. She was sure of her own recovery from the encounter with the thing but the children just didn’t have her skin. The heads-up thing for her to do would be to tear the thing up , to protect the kids , of course, and not because it was in her flight path. Then she could ask Dr. John who was cutting off his whiskers if he would take a spade and fill in the hole. Better yet she would ask Betty. Dr. John was just not the swashbuckler type and would probably tell her to leave the neighbor’s jungle gym alone.

Flash 55

With a nod to Raven and Quilly
( This week's Raven's words were horrible as usual)

Friday 55 Flash Fiction is brought to you by G-man (Mr Knowitall). The idea is you write a story in exactly 55 words. If you want to take part pop over and let G-man know when you've posted your 55.

Every week a nice lady named Raven gives us fifteen words and phrases to use in a story. Here we try to use those words and phrases in a flash 55.This week's words are : swashbuckler, heads-up, dry martini, recovery, jungle gym, whiskers, bathing suit, spade, circular reasoning, abrasive, butter wouldn’t melt in her mouth, stagnation, chart, star crossed lovers, apricot brandy. Note there are 27 words given out of the 55.

The star crossed lovers in bathing suits wanted a dry martini but settled for apricot brandy because of the circular reasoning of the butter wouldn’t melt in her mouth, heads –up, swashbuckler of a bartender. Spade Whiskers was in recovery after his abrasive fall from the jungle gym and in his stagnation couldn’t chart or bartend.

And Now for something completely different. A flash 55 quivel. Something that looks like a poem, uses at least three of Quilly’s words and has five words to a line for eleven lines. Click on the special words for definitions.

Family

Risible the old man looked
With his food so undercooked
Stagnicolous creatures on a plate
They didn’t look so great.
Invigilate him was the cry
Else he will surely die
With sevidical tone they spoke
Afraid he would eating choke
Acrasial children they had been
But they were his kin.
Summotion would be a sin

More Risible Quilly Words

It is a Quilly day. Time to take Quilly’s three words for the day and write a story. The words are risible, invigilate, & stagnicolous. Click on the blue highlighted words for definitions.



An old dragon trying her best to invigilate a bunch of little dragons while herself being stagnicolous can be risible...


The risible bird was stagnicolous now that she had built her nest on the most stagnant pond around away from those that would invigilate her.

Mrs. Thornapples risible job was to invigilate students testing on the many species of stagnicolus bugs.

Dragons invigilate the use of Quilly’s risible words even though they seem often to have come from stagnicolous creatures like the Creature from the Black lagoon.

He stood in the old pond filled with stagnicolous creatures and tried to invigilate the activities of some very risible students

We invite any of you risible readers out there to try writing with Quilly's words. If you aren't some kind of stanicolous creature you should be able to do it without having to have somebody invigalate you. Words are fun.