Written for https://skepticskaddish.com/2025/01/08/w3-prompt-141-weave-written-weekly/ Our prompt, this week https://brazannemuse.com/2025/01/01/an-ode-to-yesterday/ is to write a Japanese poem. Tanka: 5-line poem with syllable count of 5-7-5-7-7. Winter blues, dark days watching snow, we rest in our cosy pyjamas drinking, warm, sweet hot chocolate binge watching favourite shows
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Forgotten Lie
Written for https://lifeafter50forwomen.com/category/what-do-you-see/ ‘You okay?’ ‘Yea,’ Mandy said, peering into a perfect pristine coating. Twenty years, where the reason for running felt hollow as a forgotten lie. Hauling her duffel bag over her shoulder, she stopped. She scratched at her red cheeks; the wind biting into her face. A few steps, and she would beContinue reading “Forgotten Lie”
Fear?
Written for https://lifeafter50forwomen.com/category/sunday-poser/ I’m not sure if it is anxiety, but the one disease I am frightened of is cancer. Many of my family have died because of it. When my bowels acted weirdly, I went to the doctor. Doctors ran every conceivable test. It was only irritable bowel syndrome. Not a nice thing toContinue reading “Fear?”
Sixty
Written for https://lindaghill.com/2025/01/03/the-friday-reminder-for-socs-jusjojan-2025-daily-prompt-for-jan-4th/ Another year, and I have fifty-nine years behind me. Reaching sixty is nowhere as bad as reaching thirty. I remember sitting on a bus, thinking negatively about my following adventure.I remember sitting on a bus, twenty-nine, and thinking negatively about my following adventure. Although it wasn’t, but I felt aged. Until IContinue reading “Sixty”
Fears
Written for https://thesoulsearchersite.wordpress.com/category/6wsp/ A stride over the threshold of her home; it was time to face fragile fears and let bravery win.
Mona Lisa
Written forhttps://reinventionsreena.wordpress.com/2025/01/02/reenas-xploration-challenge-361/ https://wordofthedaychallenge.wordpress.com/category/word-of-the-day/ Every image stands, but paper robes tear with minimum effort. She drew closer to the painting, supposedly worth millions. All it contained were pixels of paint. Layers of love, to the artist. Could she recreate this? Easy enough, if she had access to the precise combination he used. ‘ ‘Okay, I’ll doContinue reading “Mona Lisa”
Positive Change
Written for https://lindaghill.com/2025/01/01/one-liner-wednesday-jusjojan25-the-1st-happy-new-year/ A January note; positive change is possible, with one step forward we can achieve our goals.
New Year
Happy New Year All, I hope 2025 is everything you hope for. I love reading your stories, poems, and outlook on life. It is brilliant to be part of a group of authors, who love writing as much as I do. I look forward to reading more next year. A happy new year each gloriousContinue reading “New Year”
2025?
Written for https://pensitivity101.wordpress.com/2024/12/30/share-your-world-30th-december-2024/ 1. Would you consider 2024 to have been a good year? It has been an eventful one. In January my fenced needed reapairing. My daughter’s ghekko and cat passed away. We decided to buy a new car (second hand). Our old car needed work. Although since getting our Chevrolet, my son hasContinue reading “2025?”
Love
Written for https://lifeafter50forwomen.com/2024/12/30/what-do-you-see-269-30th-december-2024/ A haze of pink washed across the morning, its hope pushing through the fear. The rising of the sun, each ray reaching towards a new chance. Sprinkles of light sending a positive message. Beth didn’t know what the new year would bring, but they were together. ‘You okay?’ ‘Yea, I reckon IContinue reading “Love”
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