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Ovi Poetry Challenge 48: PROMISE is your inspiration.

A night of old with heart so bold
Offered fair maid a band of gold
She gave him her hand to hold
And he gave her his promise.

Their castle was cold and draughty
Yet their nights were hot and lusty
She, willing and he was trusty
Happily they kept their pledge.

PART OF RONOVANWRITE’S OVI POETRY CHALLENGE

Wordless Wednesday: Guess who missed them

part of Hughsviewsandnews and Terri Webster Schrandt’s Wordless Wednesday.

One-Liner Wednesday Anniversary.

This week Linda realls her first One-Liner Wednesday which was ten years ago!

Linda’s first One-Liner which was Wednesday March 19th, 2014: You can read it here. https://lindaghill.com/2014/03/19/one-liner-wednesday-chocolate-anyone/

Linda asks when was our fitst One-Liner well I looked it up and and it was a year later and in the same month! March the 11th 2015 and here is that post https://willowdot21.wordpress.com/2015/03/11/one-liner-wednesday/

So happy 10th Anniversary to Linda’s One-Liner Wednesday and to all of us who join her. We rule 💜💜💜

Join us at One – Liner Wednesday

24 Seasons Syllabic Poetry Challenge, No. 34, 5/14/24, Part II

Here we are at the Beginning of Summer: May 5 – 20 in the 24 Seasons of the Japanese Year

Colleen’s prompt for her Tuesday Tanka Challenge this week is

“This week: Your writing invitation is to choose one of the 24 Forms for your poem. You can use the kigo words and phrases from the Part I challenge post HERE, or from the 500 Kigo Words you can use the phrases I’ve created below are three kigo phrases for the Northern Hemisphere. Use one kigo phrase in each of your three poems in whatever order you’d like.”

Northern Hemisphere: Early Summer

#1: “the month of Maying” from Rall
#2: “young leaves”
#3: “cooling on the porch”

Well I have gone very traditional this week, I do love traditional music so I have thrown two into the mix to go with my three Tanka.

Chanctonbury Ring Morris Men, Alciston, East Sussex by Kevin Gordon is licensed under CC-BY-SA 2.0

Dressed like day and night
Merry dancing men of May?
I feel it’s deeper
Hobby horse fertility
Looms in the month of Maying.

Born each side of May
Such precious hopes these young leaves
We tend them gently
And teach them to respect all
Gaia’s all-embracing ways.

Together happy
Gentle friends remembered well
Crossed the Rainbow bridge
They wait for us to join them
Cooling on the porch in May

Song Lyric Sunday: Coulda, Shoulda !

Good Sunday Morning everyone and welcome to Jim Adam’s Song Lyric Sunday again. This week’s prompt is: Songs that reached #2 on the charts, but never got to #1.

So I have chosen The Rhythm Of Night by Corona, I remember my eldest used to go to all night raves and this is one of the tracks that was big back in the day. It never reached number 1 which is strange but not everyone can be number one everytime, even The Beatles had 5 songs not make number one…the list goes on and I am not going to go there it because we’d be here forever.

The Rhythm of the Night” is a song by Italian Eurodance group Corona. It was released as their debut single in 1993 in Italy, then elsewhere the following year. The song is the title track of the group’s debut studio album, The Rhythm of the Night (1995), and was written by Francesco Bontempi, Annerley Emma Gordon, Giorgio Spagna, Pete Glenister and Mike Gaffey. It was produced by Bontempi, and the vocals were performed by Italian singer Giovanna Bersola, who is not credited on the single and does not appear in the music video. The woman who appears in the video is the group’s frontwoman Olga Souza. The video was A-listed on Music TV-channels, such as Germany’s VIVA. The song was a worldwide hit in 1994, peaking at number-one in Italy, and within the top five in most of Europe, while in the US, it fell short of the top ten, reaching number eleven on both the Billboard Hot 100 and the Cash Box Top 100.

Australia (8), Austria (6), Denmark (4), France (3), Germany (8), Iceland (4), Ireland (3), the Netherlands (5), New Zealand (7), Scotland (2), Spain (3), Switzerland (3) and the United Kingdom (2). Additionally, it was a top 20 hit in Belgium (13) and a 30 hit in Sweden (28). In the United States, “The Rhythm of the Night” reached number eleven on both the Billboard Hot 100 and the Cash Box Top 100.

The song was credited to Francesco Bontempi, Annerley Emma Gordon, Giorgio Spagna, Pete Glenister and Mike Gaffey. In 1987 the Pete Glenister and Mike Gaffey written song “Save Me” performed by German pop duo Say When! was released. The Rhythm of the Night borrows heavily from this track, namely the music and specifically the lyrics “Round and round we go, each time I hear you say”, along with other similar lyrics shared by the two songs. As a result, the two received writing credits on The Rhythm of the Night.

At the time she got the gig, Italian singer Giovanna Bersola suffered from stage fright, and would only be doing studio work. Brazilian singer Olga Souza would be fronting the song on stage and tour instead of Bersola, as well as in its accompanying music video. Bersola told in a 2021 interview, “The studio was safe for me, it was no windows, just me and the music. It was a time when dance and euro house music was very prolific in Europe and I was living in Italy at the time, so I was singing three or four songs a day as a session voice.” According to Souza fronting the group instead of her and that they didn’t use Bersola’s image on the single cover, she felt that it suited her, “That gave me the freedom to be absolutely no one.” Bersola is no longer suffering from stage fright and now lives in New Zealand. “The Rhythm of the Night” was released in 1993 in Italy, and the following year, it was released internationally.

The song was an even bigger hit on the dance charts. It peaked at number one on the French dance chart, number two on the Canadian RPM Dance/Urban chart and the European Dance Radio chart, number three on the UK Dance Chart, and number seven on the Billboard Hot Dance Club Play chart in the United States. information Wikipedia.

Here is Giovanna Bersola stage name Jenny B actually on stage and singing Rhythm of the night and Love so free.

This is the rhythm of the night
This is the rhythm of the night

You could put some joy upon my face
Oh, sunshine in an empty place
Take me to turn to
And babe, I’ll make you stay
Oh, I can ease you of your pain
Feel you give me love again
‘Round and ’round we go
Each time I hear you say

This is the rhythm of the night
The night, oh yeah
The rhythm of the night
This is the rhythm of my life
My life, oh yeah
The rhythm of my life

Won’t you teach me how to love and learn?
There’ll be nothing left for me to yearn
Think of me burn
And let me hold your hand
I don’t wanna face the world in tears
Please think again, I’m on my knees
Sing that song to me
No reason to repent
I know you wanna say it

This is the rhythm of the night
The night, oh yeah
The rhythm of the night
This is the rhythm of my life
My life, oh yeah
The rhythm of my life

This is the rhythm of the night

This is the rhythm
This is the rhythm
This is the rhythm of the night

This is the rhythm
This is the rhythm
This is the rhythm of the night
I know you wanna say it

This is the rhythm of the night
The night, oh yeah
The rhythm of the night
This is the rhythm of my life
My life, oh yeah
The rhythm of my life
This is the rhythm of the night

Source: Musixmatch

Songwriters: Peter Wilfred Glenister / Giorgio Spagna / Annehley Gordon / Francesco Bontempi / Michael Gaffey

The Rhythm of the Night (Rapino Bros 7″ single) lyrics © Bmg Rights Management (uk) Limited, Extravaganza Publishing, Intersong Music Ltd, Bug Music Ltd, Extravaganza Publishing Srl

HAPPY SUNDAY EVERYONE 💜💜

The Friday Reminder and Prompt for #SoCS May 11, 2024

Linda has had a busy and tiring week but she has still managed to come up with our weekly SoCs prompt: “Your Friday prompt for Stream of Consciousness Saturday is “loan/lone.” Use them any way you’d like. Bonus points if you use both. Have fun!”

Here we go again the idiosyncrasies of the English language again. Two words that sound the same and yet mean vastly different things in both English english and American english.
Linda has given us Loan and Lone to play with this week.
A loan is really anything borrowed as in money, tools, equipment,clothes ect? All loans need to be payed back. If you take a loan from a business you often have to payback with interest, eg, a mortgage , bank loan or even worse a private loan. If a loan is for a family member it comes with no interest and occasionally it’s written off ( well that’s how hubby and I view it) .

God looked at Gaia and said
“We loaned them this planet and now it’s near dead.”
Gaia cast her eyes down
“They’ve not made any repayments” she frown.
“Why are they so selfish, these creations of mine?
Did I give them too much forgetting to teach them to tow the line.”
“I think you have made a mistake
You have let them take take take.”
God looked sad and said “I don’t mean to moan “
Raising her hand Gaia said “Call in the loan “

*****

Then there is Lone as in Lone Wolf, Lone Ranger, as in alone, to be one to travel, live or work singularly.

The lone animal separated from the pack or the herd is easy prey to the hunter, man or creature. Most animals hunt in packs though of course there are those who hunt alone.

The dog walks through the town he’s been on his own for months now he’s tired of being alone. Tired of dodging kicks stealing food and having no one to love. As the sunsets he find the beach.

A lone man stands on the beach
All goals and hopes smashed and out of reach. Job, family, love and home.The bottle’s content is his only friend.
He’s cold and tired, lost all hope,
The sun sets , he’s at the end of his rope
Water laps his feet, tears burn his eyes he cannot cope.
Emptiness eats his soul the pain is deep like a cancer he is lonely.
A wet nose touches his hand, a lone dog is standing by him.
They turn away from the water and man and dog walk into the sunset together, not alone towards a new dawn.

Part of LindaGHill’s Stream of Consciousness Saturday.

Thursday Doors Writing Challenge 2024. What lies in wait.

TDWC 2024 Badge

Dan Antion has invited us to take part in “The Forth Annual Thursday Doors Writing Challenge which officially began on Wednesday, May 1st. The challenge runs the entire month of May. You can submit as many entries as you like. If you want to join the fun, pick a door, write a story, poem, novel, screenplay, musical score – anything at all – as long as it’s inspired by that door image. The completed entries and images to use are in the gallery on Dan’s page along with the Rules .

I have written a little “prosetry” an almost story/ almost poem about a hungry Vampire. Can you see her in the shadows?

What lies in wait?

In the shadows she stands jealously watching those who walk in the sun.
Fingers ripping at her skin,slowly her blood drips down her white face.
Longingly, she weaves her dreams where her hopes are spun.
Watching those who live in the light, her thoughts so dark.
She wants their bodies, she craves their souls
She needs their blood and to devour them whole.
Her eyes searching for a victim to lure
To infect a victim, her motives unpure.
She watches as a young man walking home.
The burning ache deep within her drives her to distraction.
She aches for him, she burns for him she cannot find satisfaction.
Blood lust makes her bold and brazen she steps out of the shadows to catch his eye.
He moves towards her in the shadows
Excited by what he sees. Her body barely covered by her cloak.
Attracted by her jet black eyes and her skin so white
His juices rising from deep within …a desperate need to taste her.
Come, she whispers licking her lips
He slides his hands along her hips
She acts all soft and coy
Moving her body into his, he’s suddenly filled with joy.
He thinks she likes him, that he will have his way
Unsuspecting he follows her deeper into the shadows.
Away from human hustle and lights they move away
The danger lights should be flashing , the warnings he refuses to see
Too busy to notice her eyes change colour and her lips flush blood red.
She lets him slip inside of her she still likes to feel desired
She lets him reach his highest delight, as her fangs sink in his neck.
She sucked him dry and for a second mourned before leaving him for dead.

Wordless Wednesday Blogeley 💜💜💜

part of Hugh’s and Terri Webster Schrandt’s Wordless Wednesday.

Ovi Poetry Challenge 47: THRIVE is your inspiration.

Deep within Gaia’s womb life stirs
Awakes prepared for what occurs
To grow and thrive amongst the firs
The forest fern is triumphant

Throw at me whatever you will
I shall withstand all and thrive still
I will survive your bitter pill
Smiling as I greet the sunshine

This is part of Ronovanwrites Ovi Poetry Challenge.

LindaGHill One-Liner Wednesday. Family communications.

Hubby had a doctor’s appointment today , he went early as our reception staff can be very picky if you are even a few minutes late and will send you away….. Not so the doctors you can wait ages to see them with no recourse!

Here are some of today’s WhatsApps between us while he waits and waits!

Hubby: I’ve arrived 🤣🤣

Me :👌
Hubby: Thank you 🥰❤️
Me: 💜
Hubby 10 minutes later: Still waiting 😭
Me: That’s not unusual 😲😞
Hubby: Noooooooooooo😱
Me: