Friday Writings #176: Slice of Life

Greetings, word lovers.

 All the days of my last few weeks have been nearly identical copies of each other: sickness, giggly gossip, exhaustion, soothing cuddling, too much time with doctors, listening to audio books, getting just well enough to sneak in a bit of house cleaning and gardening… repeat. I need a bit of variety (even if it’s just someone else’s). So, for today’s optional prompt, I invite you to let your poetry or prose be a Slice of Life.

Please, add the direct link to your response to Mister Linky. One post per participant. 369 words maximum (excluding title), for prose and for poetry. You may share old or new pieces of poetry or prose. You may write to the prompt or to a topic of your choosing. Visit other lovers of words. Read their contributions. Comment of the words their muse slices out of their lives.

next week, we will invite you to write poetry or prose inspired by comfort food.

 

Friday Writings #175: Stormy Weather

 

 

 

Hello, dear Word Weavers. How is the weather in your neck of the woods?

When I came to think of a prompt for this post, we were in the middle of a big storm here, with wild, noisy rain and thunder.

Also — like many others, including some of you — I was busy ‘writing up a storm’ with a poem a day during April. (I chose the Na/GloPoWriMo prompt site, where the prompts this year were complex, ekphrastic and AMAZING. I was astounded at what they pulled from me, and thrilled to read the brilliant writings others produced.)

Hence our (optional) prompt this time: to be inspired by the idea of storms, literal or metaphorical.

Coincidentally, on the last day of April another participant at Na/GloPoWriMo produced a haiku sequence which neatly sums up both the literal and metaphorical ideas of storms (used with permission; please do not reproduce):

 (This poet blogs at MY AUTHOR-ITIS, using the screen name PCGuyIV.) 

 

 Guidelines: One post per person, poetry or prose, old or new, on prompt or off, word limit 369 excluding title and notes.

 
For next week, let your poetry or prose be a “Slice of Life”.

So many great singers have sung this. I particularly love Lena Horne's rendition. But after all, no-one can surpass the incomparable Ella.