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October 30, 2015

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Bat Haunts

Bat Haunts Trees poem picture

Text again, for text to speech readers:

Bat
haunts
dark trees
in leaf costume, hunting.
The full silver moon hides its eyes.

© 2015 Brenda Davis Harsham

Note: This is offered for the 5th Annual Halloweensie Writing Contest at Susanna Leonard Hill’s blog. Susanna is a children’s book writer, and she is offering awesome prizes for contest winners: critiques, magazines and books, oh my! I imagine mine is too short to be taken seriously, but if you have a 100 word or less story or poem, done by midnight tonight (I know, right? But I just found out about it half an hour ago!) with some form of the words dark, haunt and costume, then throw your hat in the ring.

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    • This is a good question, and I’m trying to be better about accessibility. I have contents above on the menu with lists of pieces, because it can be very slow loading things post by post. I have a search box, which WP makes easy. I also have categories in the sidebar, so people can search for poetry or fairy tales. I know that some people are putting descriptive text on pictures, so when you scroll over them, a text reader would read the text, but I’m not exactly sure how that works yet. I’ve always put a photo title in Alternate Text, and perhaps that’s enough, but I haven’t researched it yet. Probably making MP3s available would also be good, but I haven’t gotten that sorted yet. Other blogs offer other language translations, but I don’t know any other languages well enough to translate my own words, and I don’t trust google translate to do a good job on poetry. That about wraps up the issues on my agenda. It’s a complicated world, isn’t it? But a beautiful one.

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  4. I actually like bats. Good luck. I’m kinda ‘Halloweeny-ed out’ these days. And I missed the dead line…
    I have been watching less TV, but I just never seem to have enough time to do everything…
    Hope all is well with you and yours – Thanks for stopping by.
    The last time WP did some sort of update, well it seemed a bunch of folks dropped off the face of the net.
    I just can’t follow everyone, but I do try to return visits.

    Hugs. Jules.

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  8. My counter is: The bat picked up by sonar an image of something to eat,
    It was the blood of a man sitting on a toilet seat.
    The neck extended bent reading the news of the day,
    The bat landed on his bald spot and fanged away

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  10. I’m always amazed at what you can say in (well) less the 100 words. I think I use more to order fast food. Kudus for printing the text for screen readers. I only recently came to realize how important that is for some people.

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