Originally posted on Fiction Favorites: How about a tense jungle game, Lucy?” “Sounds fun. You the Puma and me the Watter Buffalo?” “As usual.” “The Puma carefully and with great skill pokes the Water Buffalo to see if it still lives.” “Very funny. Of course, the Water Buffalo lives.” “The Puma makes a thrust for…

Originally posted on The Writer Next Door | Vashti Q: “…Lives of great men all remind us???We can make our lives sublime,And, departing, leave behind us???Footprints on the sands of time…” It’s the fourth week of the month! Time for a theme prompt at Colleen’s 2020 Weekely Poetry Challenge. Pat R. from last month’s challenge picked the…

Originally posted on Robbie's inspiration: Author and blogger, Mark Bierman, hosted Day 10 of my Sir Chocolate Books tour. Thank you, Mark. Do have a look around while you are there, Mark has an excellent book too called Vanished. You can read my review here: https://www.amazon.com/gp/customer-reviews/RXWSOR0RKZSNL Thank you to 4Wills Publishing for organising this…

I love reading history and this is no exception.

Originally posted on Kitty's Verses: P.C :- Shutterstock Sleek gossamer threads, Effortlessly were they built? Infinite attempts, Trials and tribulations, If only those threads could talk, Tales of faith, recount, Resilience he possesses, Diligent weaver. Poetry Form :- Oriental Octet (5/7/5/7/7/5/7/5 syllables) This is my first attempt with this form. Thoughts behind this piece…

Originally posted on Sue Vincent's Daily Echo: Something different from Colleen this week for her poetry prompt. She asks us to create a ‘found poem’ from the following quotes, taken from Longfellow’s A Psalm of Life, chosen by Pat at Thoughts and Entanglements. Alternatively, we can create a syllabic poem using the quotes as…

Originally posted on thoughts and entanglements: as captive of time and nature eyes nudged open to this new dawn in the strife of life – as we move through time, I breathe – you breathe Pat R 6/23/20 A Gogyohka for Colleen’s Tanka Tuesday. A theme prompt in the words of Longfellow:- “…In the world’s…

Originally posted on Does writing excuse watching?: lion chooses weakestin the herd; i’m the weakestbut i still fight back for Colleen’s Tanka Tuesday

Originally posted on Tina Stewart Brakebill: rising together yesterday not forgotten but looking ahead   for the hope of tomorrow is to become transcendent Photo by Frans Van Heerden on Pexels.com Thanks to Colleen and her Tanka Tuesday Theme Prompt. Visit her site for details and great writing. My tanka was inspired by current events as…