Driftwood
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It lay that morning
in gaping ghastliness,
aside the strangling seaweed,
clumped on my solitary
stretch of
sand.
A beached shark,
whose sharp tooth
splinters protruded
forward, in a last
gasp of
survival.
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Having just returned from a Disney world vacation, I browsed through the plethora of uploaded photos and kept coming back to this interesting piece of driftwood. So after a week away from Trifecta, I seized the opportunity to use this photo as inspiration for my response to the very interesting prompt. I hope the tooth fairy did her job and that Lisa’s son is smiling.
Written in response to the weekend Trifextra prompt: “…write a 33-word response that uses the word TOOTH. Your response can use any definition of the word but cannot tell the story of someone losing a tooth.
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Submitted also, in response to this week’s Studio 30 prompt…Shark!
Let's CUT the Crap!
Tragic. That last gasp does it.
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BCIJo (aka Joanne Edith)
That’s all I could think, seeing it on the beach. At first I thought it might have been a dead fish! Thanks for stopping by! Your comments are always appreciated…and I love your blog name!
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Let's CUT the Crap!
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Cheney
I really liked this! The picture of the driftwood is sinister, it looks covered in blood. Did it impale a shark, perhaps?
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BCIJo (aka Joanne Edith)
It is a bit disturbing! That’s the thing with driftwood…you never know where it’s been. Thanks.
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Marie
Loved the last gasp of survival. Nice imagery… Thanks for linking up (again)!
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BCIJo (aka Joanne Edith)
Thanks, Marie. I’ll be back, now that vacation is over.
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jannatwrites
I like the photo inspiration you used. Beautiful poem 🙂
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BCIJo (aka Joanne Edith)
Thanks, Janna.
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Ivy (Mommy Dourest)
This is fabulous! So imaginative an full of imagery. Nicely done!
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BCIJo (aka Joanne Edith)
Thanks, Ivy. By the way, I love your blog name. I’m in the hunt for a meaningful, memorable identity…like yours. Thanks for commenting!
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Björn Rudberg (brudberg)
Wonderful poem, escpecially the second stanza…
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BCIJo (aka Joanne Edith)
Thanks, Bjorn.
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trifectawriting
I like the different inspirations you pulled into this. Great work. Thank you for linking up!
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BCIJo (aka Joanne Edith)
Thanks. Thanks for an interesting challenge! With five grandsons, though, losing a tooth is far from boring, especially when the tooth fairy does her thing.
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Draug419
This is cool. I think the driftwood looks like a squid, but I can see a tooth too.
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BCIJo (aka Joanne Edith)
Yes…I can definitely see squid. But I stretched the imagination a bit. You found me out!
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