Friday Writings #155: May Bite!

 

One of my dearest friends is petite, bubbly, energetic, and always willing to help anyone in need. People (who rarely go beyond the surface) often describe my friend as cute and sweet. People (who clearly miss what’s right in front of them) tend to see my friend as fragile, even easy to manipulate. I hope those people never hurt someone my friend loves, or let my friend catch them mistreating someone who doesn’t deserve it. Because if they do, they will soon realize what I’ve known all along—petite, bubbly, energetic, cute, and sweet can be rather vicious when pushed.   

So, my dear poets and storytellers, for today’s optional prompt, I invite you to create poetry or prose while considering the phrase “Careful: May bite!” which, as you might suspect, brings my dear friend to mind. 

As always, add the direct link to your response to Mister Linky. One post per participant, please. 369 words maximum (excluding title). You may share old or new pieces of poetry or prose, write to the prompt or to a topic of your choosing. Do take the time to visit other writers. See what bites. Let them know how you feel about it. 

next week, our Rosemary will invite us to write poetry or prose about the adventures we dream of, whether they’re real possibilities or fantasy scenarios.

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Friday Writings #154: Opposite Concepts

 

Hello, Word Artists and Admirers! When I got up this morning, I was delighted to see that it was raining. Rain is usually the opposite of what most people hope for. But when your corner of the world is going through a drought warning, a little rain is a cheery site. Okay, maybe my new corgi Jelly Bean didn't share my enthusiasm, but it brought a smile to my face anyway.

Magaly and I are trading spots again this week. This week's optional prompt is opposite concepts (light and dark, happy and sad, rich and poor, hot and cold, good and bad…). You are free to play with the prompt as you wish, or submit something else entirely, new or old, fiction or non-fiction. As always, please keep your words to 369 or fewer, and just one entry per person please. Also remember, it's a nice idea to visit your fellow contributors and leave a sunny word or two!

Next week, Magaly will be back, asking you to consider the phrase, "Careful: May bite!"

Friday Writings #153: My cup runneth over

  

 

Hello again, dear fellow Word Weavers.

Someone posted a meme on facebook the other day which I liked so much that I shared it there, and now here:

It’s very easy to think of all the truly bad situations in our world today. There are plenty of them! I don’t think we should bury our heads in the sand and ignore them, either — but that’s not what this meme advocates. It only suggests that we look also at the beauty and the wonder which are still here to be found.

When I do that — being lucky enough to live in a particularly scenic region with an abundance of natural beauty —  I always think, ‘Why would anyone ever want to live anywhere else?’ and, when I contemplate my very pleasant life, ‘My cup runneth over.’

So, for your optional prompt this week, I invite you too to turn your attention for a moment to the things you delight in, which make you feel blessed and glad to be alive in spite of all the bad, and tell us about them in your writings this week.

Guidelines, as always: 

you may give us poetry or prose, old or new, on prompt or off
post that one item to your blog
share that post via Mister Linky below
maximum word count 369 (excluding title and notes)
please read and comment on others’ efforts
talk to us in the notes here too, if you wish.

Please note, we are having lots of thunderstorms here this week, during which I unplug all devices (having lost some to lightning strikes in the past) so I might not get to look at your posts immediately. However I will get to them; I love to read you all.

Next week, Magaly will invite us to find inspiration in opposite concepts (i.e., light and dark, happy and sad, rich and poor, hot and cold, good and bad…). 

 

And here are a few scenes in my locality. (My own photos.)

Friday Writings #152: Holding Your Breath

 

Hello, Word Artists and Admirers! It's been a pretty draining week so I'm keeping this prompt extra short and sweet. Today's optional prompt is "holding your breath". Feel free to interpret it any way you'd like. But you still must keep all entries to 369 words or fewer and one entry per person, please.

Next week, Rosemary will ask us to write about what delights us.

Friday Writings #151: “a box full of darkness”

 

Greetings, dear poets and storytellers. How’s life in your bit of the world? Did you have a good Halloween? Do you celebrate Halloween? I do. I spent the day making pumpkin chili for my family and readying my mind and flesh for another surgery. As part of the mental preparation, I’ve been reading poetry and stories that celebrate silver linings (even when they’re barely there to be seeing). 

With that in mind, for today’s optional prompt, I invite you to find inspiration in the following lines, from Mary Oliver’s “The Uses of Sorrow”: 

Someone I loved once gave me
a box full of darkness. 

It took me years to understand
that this, too, was a gift. 

I’m looking forward to reading what you and your muse brew out of Oliver’s words. 

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. You may write to the prompt or to a topic of your choosing. Try visiting other poets and storytellers. Read their words. Comment on the word-tapestries they weave for us to delight in. 

for next week, Rommy will invite us to write about the phrase “holding your breath”.
 

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