TJ’s prompt this week…
Or the word Mushrooms…
I used my artistic licence…
Sea of umbrellas
As far as the eye can see
Resembling funghiRitu 2016
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TJ’s Household Haiku – Mushrooms
30 Jul 2016 36 Comments
in Challenges, Poems Tags: #TJ's Household Haiku Challenge, Blog, Blog Post, Blogger, Blogging, Haiku, Haiku Hub, mushrooms
#SoCS July 30/16 – Art
30 Jul 2016 63 Comments
in Thoughts Opinions & Memories Tags: Art, Blog, Blog Post, Blogger, Blogging, Linda G Hill, Socs
Linda’s prompt…
Your Friday prompt for Stream of Consciousness Saturday is: “art.” Write a post regarding “art,” be it an object or a name. Note: I’m not asking you to draw something, but if you’d like to, we’d love to see that too! Enjoy!
So tonight I am suffering from a real headache… I think it is a side effect of this detox tea I am drinking… sorry, TMI, but bad tummy all day followed by headache from hell, not great!
And during this suffering of mine, I had to accompany my mother in law to a special ladies afternoon. It is a time of year called Teeyan, celebrated in Punjab, when women, old and young, married or single, get together back in their villages, and enjoy time with no one there to stop them. They sing, dance, eat, chat, and enjoy the time with their friends and cousins.
We were encouraged to let our hair down, sort of ” what goes on tour, stays on tour” kinda thing! That meant, for many of the elder ladies, to dance, unashamedly, and sing slightly raucous songs, or tell dirty jokes… all was forgiven today!
What does this have to do with art? I can hear you…
There is art involved, from the singing and dancing, to the pretty hairstyles lovingly crafted by the women.
But one form of art I had to mention was the henna painting. Lil Princess was dying to have her hands decorated with henna, so I managed to take some photos of the Henna Artist in action, and the finished result, along with my hand too!
There you have it. ART!
Thursday Photo Prompt – Crypt – #writephoto
28 Jul 2016 24 Comments
in Challenges, Poems Tags: #WritePhoto, Blog, Blog Post, Blogger, Blogging, Crypt, Sue Vincent
Sue has given us another wonderful photo to use as a prompt this week.
Crypt Spa
Uniform tombs lay
Dormitory of the dead
Try not to wake them
Such celebrated persons
Need uninterrupted restRitu 2016
#WRITESPIRATION #93 UNDERWATER BALLROOM
28 Jul 2016 48 Comments
in Challenges, Fiction Tags: #Writespiration, Blog, Blog Post, Blogger, Blogging, Flash Fiction, Sacha Black, Underwater Ballroom
That Sacha… She’s back with another doozie of a prompt for Writespiration #93…
Your challenge this week is to set a piece of flash fiction under water. Write a story in less than 200 words. Paste in the comments or use a pingback and submit before 7th August.
Here’s my take… it is partly autobiographical… Yes, I have Scuba Dived, and yes I was a nervous wreck… but I did it, and what an amazing experience!!!!
Strictly Swim Dancing
They danced. Oh, how they danced.
And to think, I had been too scared to come here.
I would have missed Nature’s beautiful show!
Barely an hour had passed since I had been floundering in the shallow end of a swimming pool, trying to fathom how to use the breathing apparatus on this darned Scuba diving tank. Finally, I was swimming under the water like a boss!… Then they transferred us to the sea, and the sand kicking up in my face was too much. I couldn’t do it.
I told the lovely instructor to continue without me, that I would sit it out on the beach, while the rest of the group continued, but he was having none of it.
He held my hand, and led me onto the boat that was to take us to deeper waters. And he waited for me to fall into the ocean, guiding me every second of the way.
And boy, was I glad he did! Looking out of my goggles, at the myriad of fish waltzing around me was amazing.
It was like watching a thousand dancers in one ballroom, synchronised to the millisecond.
An underwater performance I’d never forget.
Ever!
99 words!
Reminiscing…
26 Jul 2016 100 Comments
in Thoughts Opinions & Memories Tags: blast from the past, Blog, Blog Post, Blogger, Blogging, Memories, old photos, school uniform
My darling mother had got a few boxes of things ready for me to go through this time.
There were old photos and various paper items. Things from my past. Things that would hold significance for me.
I haven’t finished yet but it has been such fun going through the photos!
I’ll share these with you…. little Ritu going to school for the first time in her oversized blazer, with the tweed coats and bobble hat we had to wear in the winter and the straw hats as our summer attire!!!
Pink and maroon uniform… wasn’t I lucky?!
