Written for https://lindaghill.com/2025/01/10/the-friday-reminder-for-socs-jusjojan-2025-daily-prompt-for-jan-11th/ It is spending time with my family, which bring me joy. I have been on a summer holiday for years, and this is the time I cherish the most. We are not rushing from work to home. We plan and share our time together, like going to the zoo, or a farm,Continue reading “Family”
Category Archives: Poems and short stories
Love
Written for https://thesoulsearchersite.wordpress.com/category/6wsp/ Foolish acts of fearing differences forget obvious obstacles and let it steer hope from its imperfect path.
Yearn
Written for https://lindaghill.com/2025/01/09/daily-prompt-jusjojan-the-9th-2025/ Step in another person’s flat shoes, and see the world with their nervous eyes. Hovering in the background, lacking the courage to say hello. Yet, all they yearn for is a friend who will understand their uniqueness. Being shy isn’t being rude. It is a human being, too apprehensive to make aContinue reading “Yearn”
Waiting
Written for https://adelectablelife.com/2025/01/08/a-happy-accident-friday-fictioneers/ Clara Strolling towards the tree, Clara’s shoulders relaxed into peace. Was this heaven? She wasn’t sure, but closing her eyes seemed easy. Dancing in between branches, purple daisies stretched, each petal linked to the other as if their tips travelled together on the same surreal journey. ‘Hi half-pint.’ His kind tone sweptContinue reading “Waiting”
Winter
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
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”
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.
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.
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?”
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