Colleen’s Weekly Syllabic Poetry Challenge. This week’s theme:
Dreams
Don't live a dream-free life Dream it, live it, love it Dream your goal and smash it They can come true
#Tanka Tuesday Weekly #Poetry Challenge NO. 214, #Themeprompt #Abhanga – Dreams
23 Feb 2021 27 Comments
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Ronovan Writes #Weekly #Haiku #Poetry Prompt #Challenge 346 Slip & Time
23 Feb 2021 20 Comments
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Ronovan’s Weekly Haiku Challenge:
Slip & Time
I used the traditioal 3/5/3 haiku form
Time slips by They don't stay little Enjoy them Ritu 2021
#SoCS Feb. 20, 2021 – Nerve
20 Feb 2021 43 Comments
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Linda’s #SoCS prompt this week:
Your Friday prompt for Stream of Consciousness Saturday is “nerve.” Use it any way you’d like. Have fun!
It really gets on my nerves, you know, how some people are still spouting about COVID-19 and all it’s global implications being a hoax, or a conspiracy theory. Or, that they have lockdown fatigue, and genuinely don’t care anymore, so are beginning to flout rules.
You guys. You are the ones who might end up pushing us back into more lockdowns, if you can’t understand how this thing works. Yes, it’s a virus, and there are plenty out there, but, like various illnesses, they vary in severity, and this one, well, we all know how awful it is.
Just look at the death rates, and way hopsital ICUs are packed. Or take a look at the long term side effects that some people are suffering from: Long Covid. Previously healthy folk, reduced to shells of themselves.
At least we have this vaccine. It might help a little. We may need one annually, but hey, if it gets us out of this mess, I’m game.
Shame not everyone is.
Jsut last night, Lil Man and I were out for a walk and as we walked through town, a woman passed a man she knew. She called out “You getting your vaccination, then?”
His response? “The f*** I am!” He gave her the middle finger salute and waltzed off.
I actually write a huge amount more, but had to delete it because I was getting too het up.
Seriously, my nerves are frayed, now!
(I’m glad I wrote this last night, because I wouldn’t want to spend Saturday wound up, since it’s Lil Princess’s birthday, today!)
February 18: Flash Fiction Challenge – Purpose
19 Feb 2021 43 Comments
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The Carrot Ranch Flash Fiction Challenge:
February 18, 2021, prompt:Â In 99 words (no more, no less), write a story where a character is in the right place at the right time. It may be cause for celebration! Go where the prompt leads!
We All Have A Purpose
Walking home, shoulders slumped, I wondered what my purpose was.
No one really needed me. What use was I?
Might as well just keep walking, until I walked off a cliff. No one would miss me.
A sound caught my ear.
A whimper.
I looked around. No one.
Another little yelp brought me closer to a box.
The flap was open, and inside I found him. The runt of the litter, left, abandoned.
He looked up at me with those eyes, and it was in that moment I realised that I did have someone to live for, after all.
One Liner Wednesday – #1LinerWeds
17 Feb 2021 25 Comments
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But I Smile Anyway... 