Colleen’s Syllabic Poetry Challenge today:
We are using a photo prompt by Vashti Q. Vega.
Watching Seeing, knowing Scaled predator hunts Patient, quiet, deadly, hungry Waiting Ritu 2020 #Cinquain
Colleen’s 2020 Weekly #Tanka Tuesday #Poetry Challenge No. 178 #Cinquain #PhotoPrompt – Eye
19 May 2020 34 Comments
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#SoCS May 16/2020 – Want
16 May 2020 25 Comments
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Linds’s #SoCS prompt today:
Your Friday prompt for Stream of Consciousness Saturday is “want.” Make the word “want” the first, second, or third word of your post. Have fun!
What I want (there you go, third word!) is to know what is going on.
Actually, it is probably what everyone wants to know.
Into week eight of Lockdown, and though the government are trying to show that the end may be in sight, we, as a people, are left with a huge dose of doubt.
I’m sitting here, not really knowing what is going to happen, come this magic date of June 1st, when apparently the government thinks it will be safe to bring children back to certain classes in school.
So safe that we have to split the class.
Possibly split it again.
And not talk to the majority of my own babies who will be trying to come in.
No hugs.
No consolation hugs for the little 4 and 5 year olds who will probably be quite distressed to come back in to aa very different school scenario.
And quite possibly, not even with the teacher they are used to having.
Hell, yeah, I want to know what is going on.
Okay, enough of that virus talk, something else I want, is for my creativity to come back, properly, and my energy, and I want the phantom pains to disappear too!
Not asking for too much, am I?
May 14: Flash Fiction Challenge – Life Crossing
15 May 2020 18 Comments
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Charli’s Carrot Ranch Prompt this week:
May 14, 2020, prompt: In 99 words (no more, no less), write a story that answers the question, “What’s the first thing that comes to mind when you are in absolute danger?” Go where the prompt leads!
Life Crossing
I had only just pushed the wheels of the buggy onto the road, after checking to see all was clear, yet the roar of the engine was close. Either I had missed seeing this approaching car, or the driver wasn’t driving at the designated speed limit.
Knowing I wouldn’t be able to reach the other side, I grabbed the buggy handles and jerked it back, as fast as I could.
Heart beating as if it would break out of my ribcage, I checked inside.
Bless him, he was still asleep. But I knew our lives had flashed before me.
Dance #writephoto (and a socs rant…)
14 May 2020 58 Comments
in #WritePhoto Tags: #WritePhoto, Blog, Blog Post, Blogger, Blogging, Coronavirus, Dance, Photo Prompt, Sue Vincent
Sue’s #WritePhoto prompt this week:
Partners bowing down While facing one another Ready to perform Their first dance, after a break But, can they keep their distance? Ritu 2020
Today’s poem is less about dancing and more about my thoughts as we are preparing for maybe going back into school come June 1st.
I am a Reception teacher, the 4-5 year olds, and they, along with Year One and Year Six pupils, have been suggested as the first classes to head back to school when the time is right.
My first thoughts?
How on earth can we socially distance thirty 4-5 year olds (x2) in a classroom, and outside at playtime?
Apparently, by halfing the class numbers… and using other teachers to take smaller groups, staggering drop off and pick up times and playtimes and eating lunch in our classrooms.
Will we get PPE?
No, because the govt doesn’t think it’s worth it. (But at least my head has ordered some things, just in case.) Seems that as it is nigh on impossible to socially distance them, what’s the point? Oh, and they are less likely to suffer from COVID-19… Actually they are more likely to be asymptomatic carriers… So they may not suffer… but what about us?
Am I going to bring it back into my home?
This is the scariest part. I can’t see other members of our family, they can’t even meet their own grandparents, but we can mix as a teacher with her class. Then we all go home, and there is the potential of infecting our own loved ones, if someone in that group is carrying the infection asymptomatically.
Do I want to go back?
This is a really tough one. I desperately miss my class, and I am anxious because I know there are many who are going to be falling behind in their learning. But, are we safe? We are trying to keep abreast of learning by using online methods, but these things are not as easy for the younger children. Older kids can access the online learning much easier than the little ones. They need practical, hands on activities to help them learn. So, for my babies education sake, I do want to go back, but I am not wholly convinced yet, that it is right.
Quite honestly, I feel like a guinea pig. Are the government sending us back first, to see what happens? If a few extra children and teaching staff fall ill and/or die, will that be the cue for them to decide to close again?
I’m not sure I want to be a guinea pig…
One Liner Wednesday – #1LinerWeds – Hope
13 May 2020 21 Comments
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You can glance back, to reflect, but the best way to look, is ahead, for that’s where you can make a difference.
Ritu 2020
For Linda’s #1LinerWeds challenge.
But I Smile Anyway... 