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Hugh’s Photo Challenge: Week 10 – Faces

27 Jan 2016 24 Comments

by Ritu in Challenges Tags: Blog, Blog Post, Blogger, Blogging, Faces, Hugh's Weekly Photo Challenge

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Hugh always manages to think of great prompts for his photography challenge, and this week the topic was faces. Check out the prompt here.

Not any old face, but those faces that are not real. You know when you look at a static object, and can almost ‘see’ a figure, or features? Yes, that kind of face!

So here is my face… I read the prompt yesterday, and wondered where I may find or see a face, and my colleague had made our home corner into a castle last night… as I looked at one panel, it almost stared back at me! And with that wide open mouth, I wasn’t sure it it was showing surprise, or getting ready to eat one of the kids!

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And you know I like to add a little poetic twist… that is just my thing! A haiku this time…

Faces

Unseeing eyes stare

Tongues lick lips that never taste…

Are you really there?

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Enjoy!!!!

FFF #30 – Jealous

27 Jan 2016 25 Comments

by Ritu in Challenges, Fiction Tags: 100 words, Blog, Blog Post, Blogger, Blogging, fff, Flash Fiction, Jealous, Labyrinth

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Tuesday was prompt day from Matt The Book Blogger, and I was a little tied up to manage to post straight away last night, so here is my attempt this week!

Check out the prompt here.

This week the prompt song is Labyrinth’s Jealous.

I sat here listening to the words… really listening. What a song! I know it’s a sad one, but I loved it!

Jealous

Sitting here watching you smiling…

Happy…

Happier than you ever were with me.

Why couldn’t I give you that happiness?

Still, I can’t moan, I can’t hold it against you.

But I still feel it… jealousy.

There. I said it.

Jealous.

I never realised that all you wanted was that extra affection.

I regret all those times I shrugged your arm off my shoulders, or refused to hold your hand in public.

It was never that I was ashamed. I just felt trapped, almost.

Does that make sense?

And that trap, of my own making, lost you.

I miss you…

I hope you enjoyed my take!

Can You Love, But Not Like?

25 Jan 2016 94 Comments

by Ritu in Thoughts Opinions & Memories Tags: Blog, Blog Post, Blogger, Blogging, Like, love

Have you ever felt that way?

You love a person with all your heart, but you don’t like them?

It doesn’t have to be thinking of just romantic love, it can be a sensation that is felt across the board.

You know, when you love your parents, but when they deny you the pleasure of going out somewhere, or buying you some much coveted trainers, when you where younger, you soooo don’t like them! It’s teen angst, we are all allowed that feeling!

Or your siblings. God knows I love my brother, but there were times as youngsters, when I really didn’t like him, and I am pretty sure he didn’t like me! Those times when he got what I wanted, or got me into trouble with the parents for something, then sat there sniggering…. Ooooh I really didn’t like him then! That is a siblings prerogative, though, and more often than not, you get older and realise what they actually mean to you.

And within your romantic relationships, you can love someone, not want to live without them, but there are things they do, or maybe something happens and you really don’t like them for what they did. It may be their behaviour towards someone else, or a really bad habit. Love is strange, as you learn to accept certain things, maybe not for the right reasons, but because you love that person.

And why stop there…

What about your chidren?

I love my kids with all my heart, but sometimes when they do things I really don’t like them! It’s like when Lil Princess whines, or I hear that she may be being a little madam with some of her friends… I will never stop loving her, but I definitely don’t like her then. Does that make me a bad parent?

What do you think?

Gay Love – Kids Logic Part 47

25 Jan 2016 20 Comments

by Ritu in Kids Logic Series Tags: Blog, Blog Post, Blogger, Blogging, Gay Love, Grandparents, Kids Logic Series

Ok, so I know it is one of those things that certain people will think of…

In a same sex relationship, who is the ‘man’and who is the ‘woman’ for biological reasons, obviously!

No, my kids did not actually raise this topic on that particular issue…

Somehow, they were discussing adoption, and it moved to gay couples adopting.

For a little background info, in our Indian culture, more ore less every family member has a specific name that you call them, so you know exactly how they are related… and if you are interested, I posted about that here.

Rather than the confusion of who is nanny, or granny, or grandma, or nana, or whatever you may call your grandmother, we have names already so you know exactly which grandparent is who, so your father’s father is a Baba, or Dadaji, and father’s mother is Bibi, Bebe, Dadiji or Dadima. Your mother’s father is Nanaji, and your mother’s mother is Nanima, or Naniji.

My kids shortened them a little more, and we have Baba, Dama, Nanu and Nani.

Anyway, rather than work out who is the male or female in the relationship, when it comes to same sex partnerships, Lil Princess was more concerned with how they would know which grandparents get called Baba and Dama, and which Nanu or Nani!

I guess in a roundabout way, it comes down to the same thing, but for now it is a much simpler question, and thinking!

Ronovan’s Weekly Haiku Challenge #81 – Trill & Final

25 Jan 2016 50 Comments

by Ritu in Challenges, Poems Tags: Blog, Blog Post, Blogger, Blogging, Challenge, Haiku, poem, Ronovan's Weekly Haiku Challenge, tanka, trill & Final

I’m not sure whether our challenge day is changing, or it’s just Ron keeping up on our toes, but the challenge I usually complete on a Monday, called out to me on a Sunday this week!
Our prompt words are Trill & Final.
Check the challenge out here

The Match – A Tanka
Twenty two players
Run ragged across the pitch
Fighting exhaustion
The shrill trill of the whistle
Sounds the end of the final
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