In Fandango’s Flash Fiction Challenge this week, he posted the photo above https://fivedotoh.com/2022/12/05/fandangos-flash-fiction-challenge-196/ and challenges us to write a poem or flash fiction piece inspired by it. Here is my haiku 🙂

Friday Fictioneers

Hi everyone, well it’s time for Rochelle’s Friday Fictioneers – the inspiration for the flash fiction is an evocative photo from Bill Reynolds, I hope Bill doesn’t mind that I have made the image into black and white for my piece, you can see the full original version on the link below. My story of

Weekend Writing Prompt

Hi hope everyone is having good a weekend, Sammi has set her challenge (see link below), to write a poem or piece of prose in exactly 67 words using the word “Variation”. Here s mine entitled ‘Infinite Variation’ (I have added some info at the bottom foe anyone who is interested), thanks for stopping by:

W3 Poem Prompt

Hello ‘Weavers’, this is the 8th week of W3 hosted by David (see link below), the poem prompt this week is a lovely poem from Kunjal called ‘Rain’, which inspired me to create a Golden Shovel Poem using the first words of the poem ‘His first rain, from a little scrawny window, droplets pattering and

Always Remember – You are Enough

We are all forced to face the idea of ‘perfection’ every day, so no wonder we feel we are not good enough. Perfection doesn’t exist and we can waste precious time trying to get to that unreachable point. By chance I came across the above Jacob Nordby quote which I love and from this I

Prompt for the Week

Lady Jabberwocky’s prompt for this week is ‘Writer Self Love and Appreciation’ see below: and here is my poem:

You are Enough

We are all forced to face the idea of ‘perfection’ every day, so no wonder we feel we are not good enough. Perfection doesn’t exist and we can waste precious time trying to get to that unreachable point. By chance I came across the above Jacob Nordby quote which I love and from this I

Weekend Prompt on World Kindness Day

This weekend’s challenge from Sammi is to write a poem or prose using the word ‘ Mirror’ or a variation of it in 95 words see link below: As it’s World Kindness Day today I thought I would try to combine the two in 95 words:

Zen Inspiration

The origin of Zen – The Buddha is said to have given a “silent sermon”, he held up a flower and gazed at it, after a while, a monk called Mahakasyapa, began to smile. He is said to have been the only one who had understood the sermon. According to legend, that smile (that is

Poetry – Helping the Healing Process

I firmly believe that poetry can help the healing process, it is pertinent to think of this today the 20th anniversary of disaster that was 9/11. It was therefore no accident that after 9/11, poems could be found in many places, on the internet, in newspapers, magazines, books, read out on the television, radio and