Her Sunday Poser, from https://lifeafter50forwomen.com/author/sadje19/ One thing I want to do in 2023, is to make my garden fit for my granddaughter to play in. My decking needs replacing, and the garden has more weeds than plants. I am getting older, and cannot put the effort in myself. My husband isn’t much of a gardenerContinue reading “New Year Resolutions”
Category Archives: Poems and short stories
Paperless
Written in response to https://girlieontheedge1.wordpress.com/2023/01/01/sundays-six-sentence-story-word-prompt-243/ PROMPT WORD: VISA The rules of the prompt are to write six sentences and use the prompt word. Paperless, her visa bill loomed large on her screen. It seemed a good idea to buy all the presents from the credit card, pay it back later, however, the gas bill also gotContinue reading “Paperless”
The Healing Process
Written for https://ronovanwrites.com/2022/12/28/ronovan-writes-sijo-wednesday-poetry-challenge-42-use-recover-as-your-inspiration-this-week/ and my attempt to write a Sijo. Three Lines 14-16 syllables per line A total of 44-46 syllables for the entire poem. Safe Snow, glorious snow, Its beauty, covering the earth, keeping it safe, allowing the land to heal, in readiness, for spring, where nature blooms, in ready to sing again.
Surprise!
Written for https://girlieontheedge1.wordpress.com/2022/12/25/sundays-six-sentence-story-word-prompt-242/ ‘Surprise!’ He did his best to look a little shocked, but it was the best and worst kept secret of all time. All those shopping trips his wife joined their children on. Telephone calls, WhatsApp messages he wasn’t a part of. Turning up was something he could do, and the joy onContinue reading “Surprise!”
Eat Your Vegetables
Written for https://ragtagcommunity.wordpress.com/2022/12/29/ragtag-daily-prompt-thursday-esculent/ Each vegetable has a place on a Christmas plate. Sprouts will cause the big debate Can you eat them? is it clear Unless there is a honey sheer. Let them have a calmer taste escape the sin of waste never going to win they’ll probably end up in the bin.
Perfection
Written in response to https://ragtagcommunity.wordpress.com/2022/12/28/rdp-wednesday-fantastic/ daily prompt. ‘Fantastic, it’s my lucky day,’ Molly said, as she picked up a toy from the table. It was perfect, a kitchen her son wanted. Taking it to the counter, she looked at the charity box on the side. She couldn’t afford much, but she couldn’t not give anything.Continue reading “Perfection”
Besties
Written for https://fivedotoh.com/2022/12/26/fandangos-flash-fiction-challenge-199/ They were fifteen when they last said goodbye to each other. Now, m Mothers to be, life had changed in so many ways. It was different, yet the same old laughter. It was a friendship they first saw at the age of twelve. One young girl, sitting on a bike rack. Another,Continue reading “Besties”
Don’t Ever Forget
Written in response to https://lifeafter50forwomen.com/author/sadje19/ Alice had been here before; a bottle that said, ‘drink me.’ A cake that said, ‘eat me.’ Now, this gift, underneath the Christmas tree, took her back to a time of Cheshire cats, and the Queen, getting her servants to paint white roses red. Growing up was strange, not aContinue reading “Don’t Ever Forget”
Christmas Fibs
Written for What were these carols about? Part 2: What were these songs really about? https://pensitivity101.wordpress.com/2022/12/23/fibbing-friday-23rd-december/ What were these carols about? 1. Away in a Manger It is where Jesus was asleep in the manger, so fast asleep, the animals didn’t wake him up. 2. Hark the Herald Angels Sing. The angels sang Jesus toContinue reading “Christmas Fibs”
Rosmarie
Written for https://wordofthedaychallenge.wordpress.com/author/cyranny/ A landscape gardener and his pride and joy was always the rose bush at the back. He planted it when he first started, his first attempt at growing anything. Now, sixty years later, it still bloomed every spring. Now it was sleeping, but when his daughter was sixteen, it would bloom again.Continue reading “Rosmarie”
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