Tag Archives: Writing

Lazy Poets Thursday Tanka

Posted on June 13, 2013 by

Remembrance Such loss during life is grief’s game playing so near but far from my heart forever striving to reach your hand is hope abandoned

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100 Word Challenge for Grown Ups Week# 92

Posted on June 10, 2013 by

I’m very late posting last weeks challenge, never mind! The prompt was YELLOW, in honour of the sun the Julia had been enjoying. The new challenge will be out today at http://jfb57.wordpress.com/ meanwhile here is, Gorse Each spring, the gorse … Continue reading →

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100 Word Challenge for Grown Ups Week# 91

Posted on May 29, 2013 by

…there’s always a sting in the tail…. This is Julia’s prompt for the 100 WCGU this week. Join in at http://jfb57.wordpress.com/2013/05/27/100-word-challenge-week91/  and here is my attempt. A tale of Tinks tail.  Faerie folk aren’t what they seem you know. Did … Continue reading →

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Planet App

Posted on May 20, 2013 by

A couple of weeks ago Sandra at http://sandraconner.wordpress.com/2013/05/07/experimental-writing-challenge/ decided to share a friends graphics as an experimental writing challenge. I like the image and had an idea straight away, but it took until this evening to do it. This is … Continue reading →

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100 Word Challenge for Grown Ups Week # 88

Posted on May 7, 2013 by

Julia acknowledges that we may take the ‘left field’ with her prompt this week so I saw this as a double edged challenge. Join in at http://jfb57.wordpress.com/2013/05/06/100-word-challenge-for-grown-ups-week88/ From the Balcony Parting is such sweet sorrow. Must I utter those words … Continue reading →

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A Book Review, How It Happened by Shazaf Fatima Haider

Posted on April 28, 2013 by

How It Happened is the debut novel by Shazaf Fatima Haider, a brilliant young woman who lives in Karachi, Pakistan where her story is set. Our narrator, 16 year old Saleha relates the tales of her brother Haroon and sister … Continue reading →

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Housekeeping

Posted on April 26, 2013 by

We have new housekeepers, that’s the name for the army of people who keep our offices clean these days. Often, they are invisible, in at the crack of dawn, in charge of vacuum cleaners, dusters and bleach and gone before … Continue reading →

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Lazy Poets Thursday Poem: Extra Lazy and Nearly Friday

Posted on April 25, 2013 by

genetic footprints lines of women walked before me ever increasing one 2 four eight sixteen don’t draw breath thirty 2 sixty four do the math seven generations trace back race back to century 18 spring seven lines ahead bounce my … Continue reading →

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100 Word Challenge for Grown Ups week# 86

Posted on April 23, 2013 by

….. the queue was so long ….. You have another 100 words to add, will you join in this week? Visit Julia at http://jfb57.wordpress.com/2013/04/22/100-word-challenge-for-grown-ups-week86/  for more info. Soup Kitchen ‘See that tall spire?’ said the woman, who wore layers of … Continue reading →

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The Lazy Poets Thursday Haiku

Posted on March 21, 2013 by

This laziness is becoming a habit and if I’m not careful Haiku will become a habit too. Waiting Waiting final frost A scattering of new seed Regeneration ~~~ Naked branches stretch Towards the beckoning sky Dark twisted fingers ~~~ Waiting … Continue reading →

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