
Silver diamonds glint.
Upon winters foliage
Tiny sprites paint frost.

18 Jan 2021 6 Comments
in #Haiku, #Senryu, #Haiga, #Tanka, #Tanka Prose, #micropoetry, #poetry, #5lines, #Haibun, #Prose, #CinquainPoetry, #Etheree, #Nonet, #Shadorma, #Gogyoka, Poems, Ronovanwrites Tags: Frost and Glint, Nature
Silver diamonds glint.
Upon winters foliage
Tiny sprites paint frost.
17 Jan 2021 13 Comments
in #Haiku, #Senryu, #Haiga, #Tanka, #Tanka Prose, #micropoetry, #poetry, #5lines, #Haibun, #Prose, #CinquainPoetry, #Etheree, #Nonet, #Shadorma, #Gogyoka, Poems, sadness, Talking Straight Tags: cancer, fight, reality
Scream at the moon, appeal to the sun,
Beg for deliverance from this end to be undone.
Damn your luck, curse your fate
Demand a recount of the end date.
Clear these eyes, change the view.
Scrub away at this thing that is eating you.
Wash out that womb scour those ovaries
Rid this body of the death that might be.
Fight the enemy growing within
Breath deep in the MRI, it makes such a din.
Swallow the drugs a chemical mix
Throw up your pain a hug will not fix
Rant at the day and scream at the night
Don’t let Cancer win, no fight, fight, fight.
It’s a sneak a coward that hides
A sneak in the night that attacks from all sides.
17 Jan 2021 18 Comments
in JusJoJan, Just jot it January Tags: Check, LindaGHill
The Dyslexic Witch
Check, to go over a job, electrical, plumbing, mechanical, homework, an email or a letter, to make sure it is correct.
You can also put a tick in a box, next to a question, or list entry to show that things have been finished, done or accomplished. That is called a checklist.
The penultimate job I did before retiring was on a check out till, until I moved to customer service. I would run shopping through the till and take payment. I could, in those days accept cash, cheque ( like a check but spelt differently) or credit card. I used have to check the money, check the change with cash, and check signatures on cheques or cards.
Then I worked in customer service where I had to check out problems for customers, check in and out visitors and packages.
When I first started work years ago in London I was a window dresser, when I had dressed my allotted window I would have to go outside and check my work from the perspective of the person on the street!
There are always lots of checks to be done without them our lives would not be as safe. Checks at airports, ports, borders of any kind. Security checks, safety checks, time checks. You can have health checks, you can check in on people to make sure that they are okay.
Then there is the reality check! This is needed when someone gets ideas about their status! Thinks they are better than everyone else. Or is attempting to do something ridiculously dangerous or ambitious! It is like a short sharp slap…. It usually works well 😊
Oh! Yes at a club, theatre, restaurant, dance hall or hotel you can have a hat and coat check!
I think I have rambled on long enough I have probably bored you all to sleep. I have actually found this post very hard! It’s taken me all day to write this….
17 Jan 2021 Leave a comment
A lovely Story from Chel Owens.
“Tell me the story, Daddy. Tell me …when you met Mommy. Tell me when you knew.”
Arthur smiled that smile that never quite touched his eyes anymore. “When I knew what, son?”
Little Sammy squirmed atop his bedcovers. “You know, Daddy. When you knew… You know.”
Arthur almost laughed. Almost. “Okay. Okay. …Once upon a time, your dad -me- was young. I was barely an adult and was working my first job, at a bookstore…”
Arthur could still smell the scholarly breath of time and leather that greeted him each morning, could still hear the muted tinkle of the bell over the door, could still see the morning light filtering through mullioned front windows. Tomes ranging from paper romance to hardbacked alchemy built labyrinth paths between the barely-visible masonry walls. The dust of every bibliophile’s essence hung, distilled, in the motes that danced where empty spaces dared exist.
“I…
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17 Jan 2021 27 Comments
in Music, song challenges, Song Lyric Sunday Tags: David Bowie, Jim Adams, Songs beginning with DJ
It’s Sunday January 17, 2021 and time for Song Lyric Sunday. Our host Jim Adams has given us the prompt – DJ (title of song must start with the letter D or J, or even as I have picked DJ.
“DJ” is a song by English musician David Bowie, released on his 1979 album Lodger, and then as a single on 29 June 1979. A cynical comment on the cult of the DJ, the track is noted for Adrian Belew‘s guitar solo, which was recorded in multiple takes, and then mixed back together for the album track. In a biography of Talking Heads, it is said this song was an attempt by Bowie to sing like David Byrne, who was befriending Brian Eno at the time. The single was an edited version, but was still possibly too uncommercial for substantial chart success – it peaked at No. 29 in the UK and No. 106 on the Billboard Bubbling Under the Hot 100 chart in the US.
David Mallet filmed a music video for the song, featuring Bowie destroying a DJ studio, mixed with Bowie strolling around London and attracting a crowd of curious passers-by.
“D.J.”
I’m home, lost my job,
and incurably ill
You think this is easy realism
I’ve got a girl out there, I suppose
I think she’s dancing
Feel like Dan Dare lies down
I think she’s dancing, what do I know?
I am a D.J., I am what I play
Can’t turn around no, can’t turn around
I am a D.J., I am what I play
Can’t turn around no, can’t turn around
I am a D.J., I am what I play
I got believers (kiss-kiss)
Believing me
One more weekend of lights
and evening faces
Fast food, living nostalgia
Humble pie or bitter fruit
I am a D.J., I am what I play
Can’t turn around no, can’t turn around no
I am a D.J., I am what I say
Can’t turn around no, can’t turn around,
I am a D.J., I am what I play
I’ve got believers (kiss-kiss)
Believing me
I am a D.J., I am what I play
Can turn around no, can’t turn around
I am a D.J., I am what I play
Can turn around no, can’t turn around
I am a D.J., I am what I play
Can turn around no (kiss-kiss)
Time flies when you’re having fun
Break his heart, break her heart
He used to be my boss and now he is a puppet dancer
I am a D.J., and I’ve got believers
I’ve got believers
I’ve got believers
I’ve got believers in me
I’ve got believers
I am a D.J., I am what I play
I am a D.J.
Happy Sunday Everyone.
16 Jan 2021 16 Comments
in #Haiku, #Senryu, #Haiga, #Tanka, #Tanka Prose, #micropoetry, #poetry, #5lines, #Haibun, #Prose, #CinquainPoetry, #Etheree, #Nonet, #Shadorma, #Gogyoka, JusJoJan, Just jot it January, Poems, rant, SoCs Tags: First thing, Last thing, LindaGHill, Positive not positive
Your prompt for #JusJoJan and Stream of Consciousness Saturday is: “first thing.” Start your post with the words, “first thing” and go from there. Bonus points if you end your post with the last thing. Have fun!
First thing this year I determined things were going to be different. Things were going to get better! Positive thinking I told myself.
Okay we are in Lockdown I have got used to that by now. Then the first thing that started to dash my spirits was the climbing deaths and numbers of people seriously ill in hospital. Also the rising numbers of positive cases not only here but world .
The first thing I must say now is sorry for moaning, yet come to think of it I am just stating facts.
As far as I can see things are not improving yet and I can’t see them doing so for a long while yet.
I had better stop this rant oops ramble through this post as sounding boring or depressing everyone is , as my intent, the last thing!
First thing, last thing Tanka.
First thing I started
With hope to move swiftly on.
My intention was
Not to moan or to complain
No on my mind the last thing.
The Dyslexic Witch
16 Jan 2021 9 Comments
in photo prompt, photos Tags: Collescium, Reveal, Rome, Travel Challenge
© willowdot21.
This photo is the Collescium in Rome. We visited in May 2015.
We walked miles and saw so much! The weather was brilliant and we had also had some wonderful food and wine!
We stayed at an hotel that was in the grounds of a monastery it was set in beautiful gardens and there was a seminary and a church. There were lots of Nuns and Priests there on business and holiday, there were two groups of young people on Lecture Tours one group from the US, there were families and couples and of course us! It was quite a mix. It was a lovely hotel and the staff were excellent , polite cheerful and happy to help.
We had not picked the hotel because it was Catholic, we picked it for it’s location , a two minute walk from the Metro and really good restaurants. We visited The Pantheon, The Colosseum, The Forum, The Spanish Steps, The Borgesie Park,The Vatican, Sistine Chapel, The Vatican Museum and the Trevi Fountain . St Paul’s Basilica and St Paul’s Square, Argentina Square, Circus Maximus and Monumento Nazionale a Vittorio Emanuele II (National Monument to Victor Emmanuel II ( which the locals call either the Typewriter or The Wedding cake) and more!! PHEW!!
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15 Jan 2021 4 Comments
in photo prompt, photos Tags: Day9, Mexico, Reveal, Travel Challenge
This beautiful view is Mexico, Riviera Maya. We have been there twice it is a beautiful place. The Riviera Maya is a stretch of Caribbean coastline on Mexico’s northeastern Yucatán Peninsula. It’s known for its numerous all-inclusive resorts, such as those in the town of Playa del Carmen, and its long beaches. To the south, Tulum is home to yoga retreats and the preserved ruins of an ancient Mayan port city.
14 Jan 2021 11 Comments
in #Haiku, #Senryu, #Haiga, #Tanka, #Tanka Prose, #micropoetry, #poetry, #5lines, #Haibun, #Prose, #CinquainPoetry, #Etheree, #Nonet, #Shadorma, #Gogyoka, JusJoJan, Just jot it January, Poems Tags: LindaGHill', Neighbours
Neighbours are people who live next door.
Every road is full of mixed souls
In each house a family
Good or bad they will be
Helping hands or not
Beneficial
Often kind
Unkind
Rare
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