Growing up, time to be independent. Written for https://thesoulsearchersite.wordpress.com/category/6wsp/ I remember when I was a child, counting my birthday in months. I longed to be independent, and live my own life. We are not protected for long. As an adult I realise those childhood memories are one of the most precious I own.
Author Archives: writerravenclaw
Keep it Simple
Written for https://lindaghill.com/2025/08/15/the-friday-reminder-and-prompt-for-socs-aug-16-2025/ Being an author is something I’ve always loved. Frome the age of five, words can create a world without moving from my home. Lately, it feels like I am trawling through fractured memories, and nothing but a swamp, filled with spikes, erases everything on the page. When I was on holiday, IContinue reading “Keep it Simple”
Different Meaning
Written for https://lindaghill.com/2025/08/13/one-liner-wednesday-sounds-like-the-start-of-a-dickens-novel/ Fan whirring in the background, there is never a comfortable level of heat to sleep. I’m not sure that heatwave has a different meaning a few years ago. I remember 1976, where there was a hosepipe ban from July, right through to the end of August. There was no break in theContinue reading “Different Meaning”
Wise Choice
Written for https://ronovanwrites.com/category/american-cinquain-prompt/ Parents Keeping children protected with a strong choice for change. Nobody can hurt our kin.
Reality
Written for https://dversepoets.com/2025/08/12/dverse-poetics-tuesday-power/ Parents hope for the power to protect children from harm. Yet if a politician makes the wrong call, using their words as a weapon? Our protection will fall as a torrent of bombs and bullets bend reality to their will. Yet there is hope for the power to protect our children fromContinue reading “Reality”
Sharing Tea
Written for https://pensitivity101.wordpress.com/2025/08/11/share-your-world-11th-august/ 1. Do you prefer bar food, a restaurant, cafe or tea rooms? I don’t mind where I go to eat. On holiday we went to a tea room, where they served scones, cream and jam, with a pot of tea. Above us they had a trellis where sparrows flew around, tempted byContinue reading “Sharing Tea”
Orvieto
Written for https://lifeafter50forwomen.com/category/what-do-you-see/ Alessandra didn’t care; she sang out of tune. Mamma Maria; her mum’s favourite song. When it played on the radio, nothing could hurt her. Italian dialects filled the air. A lost language – too painful to be spoken. Yet, in song, love shared an allowance of hope. The kitchen is for singing,Continue reading “Orvieto”
Protection
Written for https://lindaghill.com/2025/07/30/one-liner-wednesday-i-heart-tomatoes/ A badge of courage; we wear our hearts and protect our family like a mama bear would.
Childhood Share
Home
Written for https://lifeafter50forwomen.com/category/what-do-you-see/ I run across the stone bridge, which leads to my home. There are so many pleasant memories of growing up. Fishing for tadpoles, paddling in the water, Dad holding my small palm so I didn’t fall. He is waiting in one of those granite houses; As I step onto the cobbled streets,Continue reading “Home”
Writer Ravenclaw 