I have written a Tanka this week.
This lush verdant land
Nature’s treasures for us all
Is this eternal
Have we pushed nature too far
Will the green go for ever.
Ronovan Writes #Weekly #Haiku #Poetry Prompt #Challenge 380 EVER & Green.
18 Oct 2021 15 Comments
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#TankaTuesday Weekly #Poetry Challenge No. 247, #SynonymsOnly
12 Oct 2021 22 Comments
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WELCOME TO TANKA TUESDAY!
Are you ready to choose some syllables to use in your poetry? Willow Willers (pist’ that’s me 😃) from last month’s challenge chose the two words for this month:
Twilight & Hue.
a dusky silver
somewhere between night and day
Shades of evening sway.
Ronovan Writes #Weekly #Haiku #Poetry Prompt #Challenge 376 DANDY and Lion.
21 Sep 2021 7 Comments
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so fashionable
golden and green this year’s hues.
roaring his presence.
The Friday Reminder and Prompt for #SoCS July 31, 2021
31 Jul 2021 18 Comments
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Its Saturday again and time for LindaGHill to give us our prompt for SoCs.
Our Friday prompt for Stream of Consciousness Saturday is “the last photo you took.” Take the last photo you snapped. What’s the first word that comes to mind when you look at it? That word is your prompt. Enjoy!
GLORIOUS.
Gently, evening falls
Languid after a mixed day
Over head sleepy bird calls
Repair to nest and bush
I delight in skies of pink faye.
Over the hedge golden eyes
Userp the leaves of green like
Spirits watching us through the night.
The Friday Reminder and Prompt for #SoCS July 24, 2021
24 Jul 2021 38 Comments
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Linda,our host said : “Your Friday prompt for Stream of Consciousness Saturday is “color/colour.” Use it as a noun, a verb, or pick a color and write about it–use it any way you like. Have fun!”
Colour surrounds us, golden sunlight, silver moonlight, green fields and blue skies and seas. Nature is full of colour. Colour makes our lives we even describe our feelings in colour. When we see a rainbow we see it as magical.
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Cinnamon yellow warm
Opal white cool and calm
Languishing purple of the soul
Orange burnished hot
Ultimately colours blend
Restoring beauty to our lives.
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Below are two videos. The first one is an old advert for a colour TV. If you look through the fact it is an advert and listen to the words and look at the pictures it is beautiful. The song used is Sound And Vision by David Bowie.
The video below is an old one from 2002 by Darius Campbell. Colour Blind.
Have a happy and colourful weekend everyone 💜💜💜
Wordless Wednesday. Lost treasure found.
26 May 2021 25 Comments
in colouring, Wordless Wednesday Tags: found, Lost painting, Reminder of Dad
Ronovan Writes #Weekly #Haiku #Poetry Prompt #Challenge 359 LINES and Mix.
24 May 2021 20 Comments
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Thrown into the mix
Nature colours the blurred lines
The seasons play tricks.
Song Lyric Sunday. February 7, 2021 – Colours. Blue, Gold and Silver.
07 Feb 2021 20 Comments
in colouring, inspiration, Music, song challenges, Song Lyric Sunday, songs Tags: blue, colours, David Bowie, Gold, Jim Adams, Mary Hopkins, Silver
Good morning everyone, it’s Sunday and time for Jim Adams our dashing host to bring us our weekly prompt for Song Lyric Sunday, which is Colors or as I and my compatriates will say Colours. Jim also reminds our original host Helen Vahdati set us this prompt in 2017, hi Helen how are you 💜.
So colours hum so many to choose from which way shall I go? Oh! Yes David Bowie, Sound and Vision, “Blue , blue electric blue” and I chose my favourite version on 2013. To start with.
“Sound and Vision” by English singer-songwriter David Bowie which appeared on his 1977 album Low. The song is notable for juxtaposing an uplifting guitar and synthesizer-led instrumental track with Bowie’s withdrawn lyrics. In keeping with the minimalist approach of Low, Bowie and co-producer Tony Visconti originally recorded the track as an instrumental, bar the backing vocal (performed by Visconti’s wife, Mary Hopkin). Bowie then recorded his vocal after the rest of the band had left the studio, before trimming verses off the lyrics and leaving a relatively lengthy instrumental intro on the finished song. Selected as the first single from the album, “Sound and Vision” was used by the BBC on trailers at the time. This provided considerable exposure, much needed as Bowie opted to do nothing to promote the single himself, and helped the song to No. 3. The song was also a top ten hit in Germany, Austria and the Netherlands. However, it stalled at No. 87 in Canada and only managed No. 69 in the United States, where it signaled the end of Bowie’s short commercial honeymoon until “Let’s Dance” in 1983.
In 2013, a remix was commissioned for the Sony Xperia Z smartphone advertising campaign.[12] The new mix by Sonjay Prabhakar utilized the original lead vocals and Mary Hopkin’s backing vocal with a new piano part by Rob Gentry. A Parlophone Records digital download was released on 7 October 2013.
Here is the advert that made me fall in love with the song all over again 💜💜💜
Finally here is the original in all it glory ! With lots of photos and videos in this clip it is great! Wasn’t he so beautiful and talented!
In 1977 I had been married six years and had had two of my three lads. My husband’s job took him away a lot at no notice and he worked long hours when he was around. So Bowie and his ilk kept me sane.
“Sound And Vision”
Don’t you wonder sometimes
‘Bout sound and vision
Blue, blue, electric blue
That’s the colour of my room
Where I will live
Blue, blue
Pale blinds drawn all day
Nothing to do, nothing to say
Blue, blue
I will sit right down,
Waiting for the gift of sound and vision
And I will sing, waiting for the gift of sound and vision
Drifting into my solitude,
over my head
Don’t you wonder sometimes
‘Bout sound and vision.
Now we can’t just paint over Mary Hopkin she was an amazing singer too.
Mary Hopkin (born 3 May 1950), credited on some recordings as Mary Visconti (from her marriage to Tony Visconti), is a Welsh folk singer, best known for her 1968 UK number one single “Those Were the Days“. She was one of the earliest signings to the Beatles‘ Apple label.
Here is a song by her Gold and Silver ( also colours) from her 2013 Album Painting my Numbers.
As you can see she has a lovely voice too.
Dyin’ for the moment
When you lie again beside me
Taste the salty tears
I thought would never end
Gold and silver
Run your river deep inside me
Gold and silver stream
That glistens in my hand
Give me, give to me
Your gold and silver
Give me, give to me
Your gold, your silver
Too long apart
Our love is growin’ stronger
Two hearts, two souls
Run into one
Too soon, too fast
Our love is spillin’ over
I want you now
So take me down
Give me, give to me
Your gold and silver
Give me, give to me
Your gold, your silver.
HAPPY SUNDAY EVERYONE ☺️.
ILLUSTRATING A BOOK
24 Nov 2020 2 Comments
in Charity, colouring, Doggy Tales, Usual Muttwits Tags: Artwork, Illustrations, Zozo and Jools
For those who wonder how the stories are illustrated, edited and brought to the book, your curiosity ends here…at least I hope so.
There are many ways one may choose to create illustrations but let’s simplify it and mention two main methods; traditional and digital. Basically, traditional illustration means the artist creates them using real pens, brushes, paint, paper, canvas, water, coffee… you name it, we use it! Digital illustrations on the other hand require an electronic device (like a pad, tablet, and of course an electronic pen).
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Blood Red Rose White. Tanka.
06 Nov 2020 10 Comments
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November’s berry red
White roses adorn the bush
Late Autumn low sun
A beautiful colour mix
Harvenger of bleak winter.
