Blog Archives - Friday Flash Fiction

By Jane Reid

31/10/2014

I'm guessing this is about someone Jane lost recently.

She left us
Gently, in a morphine-eased sleep,
Her cancer-riddled body
Unable to go on.
She did not leave alone.
Friends gathered by her bed
To watch, to pray, to wait
For what we knew was coming
And it came.
She is gone.
But not gone, because we will remember
Her loving, caring spirit,
Her bright shining talent,
Her streak of naughty fun.
She will stay with us
Because she is one who cannot be forgotten.

Three Haikus, by Russell Conover

30/10/2014

I: The Writing Mindset

Authors publish works
Fearlessly without thinking
How others react.

2: Writing Inspiration

Walking down the street
I see spectacular sights
I've never witnessed.

3: A Goal of Writing

Writing can be hard
But it's also fulfilling
When things work out well.

Urban, by Eric Smith

29/10/2014

You've seen the city
Both mouths open like women in peep shows
One eye swollen shut
Receding hairline blown open in the wind
Wino puking in the winter alley or
Tawdry depot salle de bain

Handsome jeweled booted
Lady you'd like to make
Plucks Cosmo from the rack
Swept away in crowd current

Buses belching, swing around corners
Cabs hunt and peck amid motor cycle snarl
A drunk reels, falls to the
Pigeon-shit-stained sidewalk
Three races of man course about him

Saturday morning
Busman’s holiday for the dissolute
Insane mutter to themselves
Bums stumble for contact with the soft touch

To A New Grandparent, by Eric Smith

27/10/2014

Grandparents know much of life
Where they came from
Who they've become
They’ve failed and succeeded in the
Irregular rhythms of existence
And have helped and watched their
Children struggle and grow in a world
Far more complex than their own
But the new grandchild is a curious creation
A baby with a poker face
And to the grandparent the cards clutched
In the tiny fingers hold pure potential
At this moment the grandparent's life
For ill or good makes sense
And the future is secure

Emma Baird's Entry For The 2014 Haiku Of The Year Non-Competition, by Emma Baird

27/10/2014

I had never heard
Of Haiku and now I have found out about it
Isn't the FFF group interesting?

Pointless Haiku, by Gordon Lawrie

26/10/2014

Haikus are goods things
To write if you've a subject
But sadly I don't

Gordon Lawrie's Entry For 2014 Haiku Of The Year Non-Competion, by Gordon Lawrie

26/10/2014

I've not won a thing
My work is undiscovered –
There's always next year.

Gone, by Eric Smith

26/10/2014

Gone the raucous camaraderie of youth
Gone the long gay empty profligate hours
Gone the bold blithe certainty that life outlasts possessions
Gone the memory that remembers all
Gone the endless golden years ahead
Now lying behind
Cherished or rued
But gone