25 Dec 2018 25 Comments
in #ColleensWeeklyPoetryChallenge Tags: #ColleensWeeklyPoetryChallenge, Blog, Blog Post, Blogger, Blogging, Colleen Chesebro, Haiku, Micro Poetry
It’s Tuesday, and that means Colleen’s Tanka Challenge! Of course, just providing a couple of words would be far too simple, so we have twowords, yes, but we can’t use them! Only synonyms allowed!
Today I use a traditional Japanese Haiku form with a 3/5/3 syllable count!
Elation
Celebrating faith
Pure rapture
Ritu 2018
22 Dec 2018 35 Comments
in #SoCS Tags: #SoCS, Blog, Blog Post, Blogger, Blogging, Linda G Hill, Stream Of Consciousness Saturday, Tin
Linda’s prompt for SoCS this week…
Your Friday prompt for Stream of Consciousness Saturday is “tin.” Use it as a word or find a word with “tin” in it, and base your post on that word. Bonus points if you start your post with that word. Enjoy!
Starting from the new year, I am going to be making some changes in my life.
First things first, I need to remove all the tins of biscuits and boxes of chocolates that I was gifted by the lovely children in school…
Speaking of biscuit tins, aren’t some of those tins just amazing? I was given one that looks like a retro radio this year. So cool!
The other thing I need to do is take a partial blogging break… It has to be done. If I am going to get this manuscript ready for an agent/editor, I’ll need to cut back on my weekly challenges, of which I have one almost daily to take part in… That will be a toughie, but it’s got to be done…
So there you have it It won’t be goodbye… I will be back, after I finish writing…
20 Dec 2018 61 Comments
in #WritePhoto, Poems Tags: #WritePhoto, Blog, Blog Post, Blogger, Blogging, Photo Prompt, Poetry, Setting
Sue’s #Writephoto prompt this week…
Sun Set
I love the orange hues
That take away the blues
Then soon the moon shines bright
And stars come out to play
I love the evening sky
Time to sit and ponder why
As you sit and hold me tight
There are no words to say
I love the setting sun
Just think of all the fun
That happens when the night
Takes over from the day
Ritu 2018
19 Dec 2018 49 Comments
in #1linerweds, #onelinerwednesday Tags: #1linerweds, #onelinerwednesday, Blog, Blog Post, Blogger, Blogging, Linda G Hill, Shanked, Street, Teenagers
“You don’t know anything now mum: nowadays in the streets, its ‘shank or be shanked’.”
Lil Man
A worrying phrase coming from a thirteen year old ‘innocent’…
We were discussing an old mate of his who has become a nasty piece of work, and Lil Man mentioned that he was moving to his school… Me – not a happy bunny.
I was trying to get him to understand how he needs to choose his friends wisely or there are characters who will lead him astray.
The conversation was very teen angsty on his behalf, and there was no middle ground or attempting to understand that he just needs to learn to walk away…
No.
I got the above ‘quote’ flung at me.
Shank, for those you who may not know, is to be stabbed with a makeshift knife.
Scaring the living daylights out of me…
For Linda’s #1LinerWeds.
18 Dec 2018 21 Comments
in #ColleensWeeklyPoetryChallenge Tags: #ColleensWeeklyPoetryChallenge, Blog, Blog Post, Blogger, Blogging, Colleen Chesebro, Haiku
It’s Tuesday, and that means Colleen’s Tanka Challenge! Of course, just providing a couple of words would be far too simple, so we have twowords, yes, but we can’t use them! Only synonyms allowed!
Wings flutter quickly
A chorus of vibrations
Natures beauty glides
Ritu 2018
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