“Day three, post jab two and no headache! Yay!!!”
Ritu 2021
For Linda’s #1LinerWeds Challenge.
One Liner Wednesday – #1LinerWeds
24 Mar 2021 26 Comments
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Ronovan Writes #Weekly #Haiku #Poetry Prompt #Challenge 350 Chirp & Twilight
23 Mar 2021 19 Comments
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Ronovan’s Weekly Haiku Prompt:
Chirp & Twilight
The hours of twilight The world beginning to sleep Not the chirps of dawn Ritu 2021
#SoCS March 20, 2021 – Calligraphy
20 Mar 2021 33 Comments
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Linda’s #SoCS prompt, this week:
Your Friday prompt for Stream of Consciousness Saturday is “starts with cal.” Use a word starting with the letters “cal” as your prompt word. Have fun!
Calligraphy is going to be my word of choice, this week
I have always had a huge fascinataion with the ornate writing style, marvelling at the people who use those strokes to create such beautiful handwriting.
My own handwriting resembles a spider let loose over a piece of paper after stepping in an inkpad.
I’m not joking!
You’d think, as a teacher, I would have really neat handwriting. Well, I really don’t! I have to concentrate so hard to write my notes and feedback in children’s books, legibly, but when I aam just writing for me, there are times I forget what I actually wrote, and I can’t even read it back!
That can be a real pain when I can’t, for the life of me, read what I had written on a shopping list!
So, in lockdown, I decided to invest in a couple of courses, to learn the art of calligraphy. I got the pens, and everything.
I love the flow of the ink, but I am the one with a permnently ink stained finger, after clumsily filling the ink well!
After learning the basics, I found I was much more mindful of my writing, but the ink thing? What a faf!
Instead, I decided to learn how to brush letter, or hand letter, and I have had much more fun with that!
March 18: Flash Fiction Challenge – One Year Later
19 Mar 2021 22 Comments
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Charalie’s Carrot Ranch 99-word fiction prompt:
March 18, 2021, prompt: In 99 words (no more, no less), write a story that takes place a year later. It can be any year. Explore the past year or another significant passing of time to a character. Go where the prompt leads!
I crack my eyes open and reach over to switch off the alarm.
Sitting up, I rub the sleep from my eyes, and instinctively pick up my phone to check my messages.
The first thing I notice is the date.
A year. It’s been a whole year, since you went.
A whole year since you last told me off for grabbing my phone, first thing every morning.
A year I’ve cried myself to sleep.
I smooth my hand over your side of the bed, an indent no longer obvious.
But the indent in my heart.
That will never fill.
#Tanka Tuesday Weekly #Poetry Challenge No. 217, #ThemePrompt – Immortality
18 Mar 2021 38 Comments
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Colleen’s Syllabic Poetry Prompt. It’s a theme prompt this week:
“Immortality”
Forever with us Always in our hearts and thoughts Never forgotten Death may take people from us Memories are immortal Ritu 2021
But I Smile Anyway... 