Story and Poem of the Month

One great thing about this month has been Penny4athought's challenge. I highly recommend each of its brilliant parts, and there are still two more opportunities to join in!

 

All of Lille Dante's pieces this month are fabulous, too many to list. Try :https://www.abctales.com/story/lille-dante/%E2%80%9C-song-moulin-rouge%E...

 

I am not sure if it is possible for Hudsonmoon to string two words together and they not become funny. Here he discusses soap. In need of a lathering of laughter to wash your blues away? Please read :https://www.abctales.com/story/hudsonmoon/how-terribly-strange-be-sevent...

 

Mark Say's story is topical, funny and wise :
https://www.abctales.com/story/mark-say/where-i-die

 

I have grown used to looking forward to Turlough's diary entries, and this month's are up to his high standard. However it is his inspirational IP response, describing how a bad experience can change life for the better, which is Story of the Month :
https://www.abctales.com/story/turlough/heres-you-lady-liberty

 

Poetry to me seems even harder to choose between than prose. There are too many fabulous poems to recommend them all. 

 

This one from Ralph is dazzling : https://www.abctales.com/story/ralph/steady-carry

 

Yutka's beautiful piece holds distant war within the instance of a close personal bond found through touch : https://www.abctales.com/story/yutka/my-soldier-fathers-body-brush

 

Many layered, packed with fabulous images, Soulfire writes of a language older than words, older even than us:https://www.abctales.com/story/soulfire77/language-so-old

 

After much pondering, this delicate, gorgeous work from Scozen is Poem of the Month :
https://www.abctales.com/story/scozen/inspiration-point-ip-language-flowers

 

 

This is the first month I can remember that Jenny has not posted one of her amazing poems. Wishing her to be well