This week, for Sunday Confessionals, I would like you to create about your favourite, repeating motif – perhaps trying it out under a different light or form, continuing a series, or placing your darlings someplace they were not before.
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I am a bird lover and every room in my apartment has bird motifs. I’m highlighting the Magpie here as I think it’s strikingly beautiful even though many people think of it as a noisy pest.
Sunday confessionals : In and Out
Let’s be honest for a minute and REALLY think about this, in fact, I’ll give you several examples that will, hopefully clue you in. When your house …
When do you think cancer will be cured?
Squeeze
A tickle
Feeling fickle
Which one shall it be
Pleasing
Giggle
Laughing wiggle
His heart seizes me.
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Easy Peasy Writes
Story Starter – Saturday Mix, 24 February 2024
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The Friday Reminder and Prompt for #SoCS Feb. 24, 2024
Weekend Writing Prompt #352 – Intent
Must you leave?
Come here to rest
Lean in close, I’ll do my best
Do not wake or rise too soon
To leave me here all alone
When you do, your memory haunts
And those warm yearnings taunt
My body and my mind
When you leave me here behind.
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Fandango’s Flashback Friday — February 23rd
Tomorrow marks the second anniversary of Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine. After months of stalemate, Russia saw a victory when it occupied the eastern Ukrainian town of Avdiivka. Meanwhile, Ukrainian troops have made progress attacking Russian targets in Crimea, forcing Russia to move its Black Sea naval fleet.
🎧 NPR’s Joanna Kakissis reports on Up First that Ukraine’s progress has made the Black Sea much safer. Ukraine says its grain exports are back to pre-war levels. Kakissis spent time in Kharkiv, near the Russian border. The second-largest city in Ukraine has been building schools underground and holding classes in subway stations doubling as bomb shelters. A Ukrainian teacher tells her that students just want to play outsideand they ask her every day when the Russians will stop “bothering” them.
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4 line stanzas, as few as one stanza and up to as many as you like. 8 syllables or less per line. Rhyming is AAAb.
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Ice cream sweetness wanted, craved
Sugar cones or waffle engraved
Sugar indulgence misbehaved
Too bad I dropped it.
Clumsy fingers did not engage
Hot pavement received cooling swage
Cravings in unsatisfied stage
No pennies for another.
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I had to smile at the oxymoron prompt 👍🏻
Ovi Poetry Challenge 36: NEGATIVITY is your inspiration.
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