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#SoCS June 15/19

15 Jun 2019 41 Comments

by Ritu in #SoCS Tags: annual bloggers bash, Blog, Blog Post, Blogger, Blogging, Social, Socs, Stream Of Consciousness Saturday

Linda’s #SoCS Prompt for this week…

Your Friday prompt for Stream of Consciousness Saturday is “social.” Use it any way you’d like. Have fun!

Well, this is just an ideal prompt for me today!

As you read this, or maybe a little after you do, I shall be being very social…

It is the Annual Bloggers Bash today and, as every year, I am so excited to be able to meet all the wonderful bloggers and writers that I have befriended over the internet.

Yes, there are awards too, but that is not the biggest thing for me. What means the most, is that I get to talk to like minded individuals; share jokes, advice, and cake!

So, forgive me if this is brief, but for a change I am being social in reality not on Social Media!

The Friday Reminder and Prompt for #SoCS June 15/19

June 13: Flash Fiction Challenge – Many Hands

14 Jun 2019 28 Comments

by Ritu in #CarrotRanch Tags: 99 Words, Blog, Blog Post, Blogger, Blogging, Carrot Ranch, Charli Mills, poem

Charli’s Carrot Ranch prompt:

June 13, 2019, prompt: In 99 words (no more, no less) write a story about the work of many hands. Is it a cooperative effort or something else? Go where the prompt leads!

Many Hands Make Light Work

 Too many cooks spoil the broth, they say
 But I would like to differ, that is, if I may
 For another common saying does lurk
 Many hands, indeed, do make light work
 Surely, it is better
 To work together
 To achieve our goal
 As one big whole
 Rather than trying to be the one
 Who is named for always getting things done
 Do not always try to stake your claim
 Yet shy away from taking blame
 Working as a team is best
 You can always rely on the rest
 And what can take an hour,
 In minutes, you’ll devour

June 13: Flash Fiction Challenge

#WritePhoto – Choices

14 Jun 2019 21 Comments

by Ritu in #WritePhoto Tags: #WritePhoto, Blog, Blog Post, Blogger, Blogging, Choices, Ladybird, poem

Sue had a few different prompt photos for us for #WritePhoto this week and this was what I chose…

an old, carved stone whose recesses are stuffed with red and black ladybirds.

 Choices
 Which hole?
 You choose
 Whenever I do
 I always lose
 No matter 
 Which queue
 I’ll be 
 Sure to
 Pick wrong
 And wait
 And end
 Up late
 So, the choice
 Is yours
 Just, be quick
 Before it pours 

Ritu 2019

Thursday photo prompt reminder: Choices #writephoto

One Liner Wednesday – #1LinerWeds – Growth

12 Jun 2019 21 Comments

by Ritu in #1linerweds Tags: #1linerweds, Blog, Blog Post, Blogger, Blogging, Growth, One Liner Wednesday

A letter becomes a word, becomes a sentence, becomes a story…
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For Linda’s #1LinerWeds challenge.

Colleen’s 2019 Weekly #Tanka Tuesday #Poetry Challenge No. 131 #SynonymsOnly Beginning & Consume

11 Jun 2019 33 Comments

by Ritu in #ColleensWeeklyPoetryChallenge Tags: #ColleensWeeklyPoetryChallenge, Beginning & Consume, Blog, Blog Post, Blogger, Blogging, Colleen Chesebro, Etheree

Colleen’s back finally with her first Synonym challenge in nearly 2 months! Of course, just providing a couple of words would be far too simple, so we have two words, yes, but we can’t use them! Only synonyms allowed!

Beginning & Consume

Sad, Depressed, Depression, Sadness — Pixabay Image

At
The start
Of the year
All I wanted
Was peace and quiet
They listened and left me
At first, I revelled in it
Then the loneliness slowly came
The silence ate away at my mind
I begged them to come back, but no one came

Ritu 2019