Written for https://weeklyprompts.com/2025/12/13/weekly-prompts-weekend-challenge-prepare/ Preparing early for Christmas Roaming the roads on family trips, Everyone making time to meet Perfect feasts, family gatherings Arriving early, try not to be late Relishing in shared memories Effortless hugs show love
Author Archives: writerravenclaw
Accomplishment
Written for https://lindaghill.com/2025/12/10/one-liner-wednesday-an-accomplishment/ I celebrated an accomplishment – my 60th birthday yesterday; a meal out with my family, and a surprise gift of a week’s holiday in Italy for me and my husband – my first time on a plane, I cannot wait.
Wouldn’t Budge
Written for https://thesoundofonehandtyping.com/category/writers-workshop-2/ and the voice of a pet. I’ve been home alone for hours, and she promised to return soon. How long is that? The carpet is going threadbare from all my pacing. I cannot sit still. I go into the kitchen to see what she left on the side. Last time, I foundContinue reading “Wouldn’t Budge”
A New Dawn
Written for https://weeklyprompts.com/2025/12/06/weekly-prompts-colour-challenge-red-3/ Red has many connotations. It could mean danger, death, destruction. If a woman is wearing red in a movie or book, we ultimately think something terrible is going to happen or she is to be avoided. The earliest is Little Red Riding Hood. We should have seen that a wolf wasn’t farContinue reading “A New Dawn”
Friday Fibbing
Written for https://pensitivity101.wordpress.com/2025/12/05/fibbing-friday-5th-december/ 1. What does HG represent on the Periodic Table Hydrogen Glucose – we call it toothpaste. 2. Which actress said “Fasten your seatbelts, it’s going to be a bumpy night” Doris Day, when she was in Annie Get your Gun. 3. What is the coloured part of your eye called? Non contactContinue reading “Friday Fibbing”
A Long Way Home
This is a poem David from https://skepticskaddish.com/ where we worked together on a Rengay. It is a pleasure working with him and I love what we created. Db are David’s lines and the rest are mine. db- blocked bus morning—a lone car in the wrong placenudges me to walk dc- bright wellingtons ready foran adventureContinue reading “A Long Way Home”
Creating Characters
Written for https://girlieontheedge1.wordpress.com/2025/12/03/its-thursdays-six-sentence-story-blog-hop-48/ Picking up a pen, allowing our words to flow on the page, creating characters, with likes, dislikes, and an adventure we can control. The author shares the new setting, where there was nothing but smooth paper. Where do we get our inspiration? Perhaps our views weave into the silk thread of theirContinue reading “Creating Characters”
Be Positive
Written for https://lindaghill.com/2025/12/03/one-liner-wednesday-i-dont-think-this-is-mathing/ Wake up to a new dawn, with a positive attitude, and see the gorgeous colours light the sky like a smile from heaven.
Happy Clouds
Written for https://skepticskaddish.com/category/poetry/poetry-prompt/ This is a poem I wrote a few years ago, but it fit the brief of comedy. A picnic to share A horse and a toad, Skipped down the road, Happy clouds cooling the day, With a lump of cheese, And cake if you please, They sang in the month of May.Continue reading “Happy Clouds”
One Day
Written for https://weeklyprompts.com/2025/11/29/weekly-prompts-the-one-day-prompt-19/ A child counts the years in quarters and halves. I couldn’t wait until I was ten. Being in double figures felt like I had grown up. Sixteen, and leaving school was my next goal. Another two years until I was eighteen. Although in the drinking stakes, I was glad we didn’t haveContinue reading “One Day”
