Ronovan’s Haiku prompt this week:
More a senryu again this week, and a little saucy!
Getting some action
Quickly, whilst noone's watching
But ouch! Friction burns!
Ritu 2019
RonovanWrites #Weekly #Haiku #Poetry Prompt #Challenge #250 Action&Friction
22 Apr 2019 5 Comments
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Spidey’s Serene Sunday – Part 218
21 Apr 2019 25 Comments
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“To plant a garden is to believe in tomorrow.”
Audrey Hepburn
Thank you Spidey for an intriguing quite. I know he was looking for that for quite a while.
And it encompasses what Easter can mean in its essentiality.
Easter is a time of hope, of resurrection, of new life.
A time to believe in tomorrow.
Wishing you all a wonderful Easter Peeps, many your eggs be plentiful and your hopes fulfilled!
Not Just My Verse, Your Two Two Too!! – Bucket List
20 Apr 2019 30 Comments
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Roy, over at A Guy Named Bloke, created this super cool challenge!
IT’S CALLED NOT JUST MY VERSE, YOUR TWO TWO TOO!
Rory’s Instructions:
I will choose a topic, write four lines of Rhyming Verse then l will tag one of my readers who will in turn add four lines of Rhyming Verse to my mine and Tag one of their own readers, and then it is a case of wash rinse repeat and let’s see how far our topic goes in so far as a Rhyme?…
The Perfectly Crazy Bucket List!
Rory Starts us off:
So, so much to do, and with so little time,
I want to do everything, nothing to be missed,
But how do l plan it all, how do l define,
The perfectly crazy bucket list?
Paula’s adds:
First up is a lush tropical jungle,
Jaguars and waterfalls… all quite insane;
I do hope my parachute isn’t all bungled,
When I jump from the doorway of this airplane!
Fandango Continues:
I want to take a rocket into space,
Or maybe a submarine ride deep in the sea.
I sure hope they will save me a place,
Because that’s where I really want to be!
Cheryl Contributes:
A trip to the mountains is what l’d choose,
I’ll make sure to wear climbing shoes,
Rocks are high and edges slippery,
Wouldn’t want to fall off the perifery,
Kristian's Contribution:
I’d like see the world, visit the sands of Abu Dhabi
take a cruise down the Golden Gate Bridge in my Maserati
head to New England and catch a game at old Fenway Park,
then board a ship to Costa Rica where I can swim with a shark.
Nova's Addition
I’d travel to the desert in Egypt
And photograph the pyramids
Then board the Ciaro railway,
To the Chocolateria in Madrid.
Thank you Nova for thinking of me!
And mine...
Swimming with dolphins in the ocean deep
A worldwide cruise, though it won't be cheap
I want to write a novel, and hope it's a best seller
To see my book upon a shelf, wouldn't that be stellar?
And I would like to tag… Willow to continue the Rhyming Bucket list!
#SoCS April 20/19 – Ribs
20 Apr 2019 37 Comments
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Linda’s #SoCS prompt for this week:
Your Friday prompt for Stream of Consciousness Saturday is “rib.” Use it as a word, or find a word with “rib”in it. As always, use any way you’d like. Enjoy!
I started thinking about this… and what came to mind was Adam and Eve.
So, apparently Eve, aka Woman, was created from one of Adam’s ribs… thereby making her a suitable helper for Man…
But if you dig deeper there are quotes in the bible that suggest that it was not just his rib, but possibly more than a bone, maybe a side of Adam, that was used to create Eve.
So, not a suitable helper as such but really an equal companion that would conmplete Man
Woman was created to be “beside” man, not beneath or above him. In salvation, man is no more “worthy” and woman is no less a citizen of God’s kingdom. “There is neither . . . male and female, for you are all one in Christ Jesus”
Wikipedia
I like that thought. It has been in my mind since I wrote a flash yesterday about gender at birth, and the so called importance of a male baby within our Indian communities, and others out there.
Why? Why is that dangly genitalia so important?
It’s us women you need to actually create men nowadays. God isn’t doing his Garden of Eden magic nowadays.
Our Sikh first Guru, Guru Nanak says:
“We are born of woman, we are conceived in the womb of woman, we are engaged and married to woman. We make friendship with woman and the lineage continued because of woman. When one woman dies, we take another one, we are bound with the world through woman. Why should we talk ill of her, who gives birth to kings? The woman is born from woman; there is none without her. Only the One True Lord is without woman”
Guru Nanak
Sure, a male was meant to continue the family name, ensuring that the bloodline carried forth for more generations, but doesn’t a daughters offspring do the same, bloodline wise, anyway?
Male or female, hair shorne or tied with ribbons, breasts or dangly bits, we are equal. We were made to be equal, whether Christian, Sikh, Muslim, Jewish… any religion.
Ain’t that the truth?
Boys and girls
Girls and boys
Essentially the same
Though given different toys
Male and female
Female and male
Yet still inequalities
A very old tale
Him and her
Her and him
Together complete
Not made on a whim
A partnership
On equal ground
As God intended
Though not what's found
Differences only
To strengthen and support
Not useless foetuses
That some choose to abort
Man and woman
Woman and man
We should stand together
That was God's plan
Ritu 2019
The Annual Bloggers Bash Awards 2019 Vote is LIVE! – The Annual Bloggers Bash
19 Apr 2019 24 Comments
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Only a few days left to cast your votes Peeps!
There are so many wonderful blogs to choose from, please, get on it before the closing date of 24th April!
And if you’re feeling the Ritu-love, this blog, But I Smile Anyway, has been nominated under Best Book Review Blog – we would truly appreciate a vote!
It’s that time of year again… The 2019 Annual Bloggers Bash Awards are now open. As always, we had a huge number of nominations. So let me thank everyone who took the time to nominate t…
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