The persistent rain, drizzling all week
The misty drops playing a gentle tune on our roof
Reminding our souls, how we exist softly meek
Remembering souls we’ve lost, we the leftover proof
The hovering clouds, hide thoughts of yesterday
The lifting fog, delivers today’s golden sunbeams
Reminding our hearts, why we love, why we stay
Remembering our every heartbeat, within every dream
Ivor Steven (c) Feb 2020
The midweek challenge on Weekly Prompts is T-Shirt Wisdom. An interesting subject/prompt for me, as I am a bit of a T-shirt buyer when I’m on my trips away, and the below photos are from my collection of T-shirts……. And please go and visit the fabulous “Weekly Prompts” site by clicking >>HERE
Below: My China trip T-Shirts…
Below: My cruise to the New Caledonia Islands
Below: My cruise to New Zealand
Below: The trip to New York and Philadelphia, “Dreams of the Heart”
Below: Gifts from my sister-in-law when visiting Thailand
Below: My ‘Doctor Who’ T-Shirt…. & a gift from my Canadian uncle
Below: Leonard Cohen T-Shirts (Of course)
Below: “Hanne Kah”, from Germany, who I meet at a music venue in Geelong…. A Geelong Music Festival T-Shirt, from 5 years ago, and the T-Shirt my sister bought for me, when I got home hospital, in time for Christmas 2018….
Ivor Steven (c) Feb 2020
Today’s Tuesday Writing Prompt Challenge, from the Go Dog Go Cafe team: Write a piece of prose around the phrase: “I never want that again”, … Dear readers you are most welcome to join in the fun by clicking >> Here
Old Enough, – a Senryu
Three times is enough
I never want that again
I’m nearly too old
Ivor Steven (c) Feb 2020
The Go dog Go Cafe’s Tuesday Prompt, all writers are most welcome….
Devereaux Frazier and Beth Amanda are currently hosting the Tuesday Writing Prompt Challenge which was started by our star writer Christine Ray. We hope to offer all of you something that will spark your creativity and willingness to participate.
The prompts are designed to be quick challengesthat can be written in 10 to 15minutes, inspire you creatively, are fun, and get everyone interacting. Please post your response to the prompt in the comments below and show your fellow posters some love and support. All members of the Go Dog Go community, including Baristas, are welcome to participate. Feel free to share this post on yourown blogs and/or Facebook.
Today’s prompt: Write a piece of prose around the phrase: “I never want that again”
Happy Writing!
Jigsaw, A Thousand Pieces
Life can be a giant jigsaw turntable
The jumbled picture of a unique fable
Connected by shared oblique faces
Made up of a thousand little pieces
That have run a thousand different races
Curving around thousands of warm embraces
Thousands of handshakes and well wishes
Thousands of hello and goodbye kisses
Thousands of friendly smiles
Thousands of ups and downs along bumpy miles
Thousands of grieving fears
Thousands of emotional tears
Thousands of tears we do weep
Thousands of kisses go deep
Accepting patience and persistence
Gradually pieces start falling into place
Time heals those missing ones in grace
And finally the jigsaw falls into place
Ivor Steven (c) Feb 2020
For those writers who ate a “piece of the moon” last night…. here’s a challenge for you
One of my favorite writing challenges I hosted on Brave and Reckless since I launched the blog was the Moon Ate the Dark Challenge back in 2017. I still love the prompt and would love to see what new pieces of writing or art it might inspire.
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Dear readers and followers, here’s a great opportunity for your writings to be read by other writers, and also to find and meet other writers. You are very welcome to participate, come along and visit our writer friendly site…..
Welcome to Promote Yourself Monday. All Go Dog Go Cafe community members are invited to post one link to one specific piece of their writing (600 words or less please!) they have published on their blog, Facebook page, or Instagram feed into the comments section below.
HERE >> Exlpained, the inner essence of what “Go Dog Go Cafe” is about, and what is happening here on a weekly basis
After Michelangelo died, someone found in his studio a piece of paper on which he had written a note to his apprentice, in the handwriting of his old age: ‘Draw, Antonio, draw, Antonio, draw and do not waste time.’
Annie Dillard from The Writing Life page 79.
Write, friends, write, friends, write and do not waste time. As simple as that the wisdom of the great artist and genius, Michelangelo, has been coopted for us here at the Go Dog Go Café this week. And written we have… and posted and visited and commented and liked. This has been one of the most exciting weeks yet at the Café as the original vision of the café being a friendly place filled with warm, talented and inspiring people has come to fruition. We are building a healthy and supportive writing community that has attracted many like-minded souls who journey together writing…
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This weekend over on Weekly Prompts, the weekend challenge is; Surface. Please go and visit the Weekly Prompts fabulous site by clicking >> HERE Below is my take on the prompt, Surface, with photos and my poem ‘A Book Fair’….
A Book Fair
trestle table after table
there’s rows and rows
of second-hand books
on the surface
the books appear worn
but inside their dusty covers
that untold story awaits
a magical gem for eager eyes
youngsters hungry for a fantasy tale
adults search for a mystery unseen
and hidden underneath their old surfaces
the printed word still astounds
there on display in the town’s historical hall
treasures yet to be discovered still abound
Ivor Steven (c) Feb 2020
I’m on my plumber’s ladder
scaling rung after rung
climbing higher and higher
upwards, to the sun
seeking a holy grail
(is there more than one?)
hovering in a sky full of sails
waiting, to revive our resurrection
hold on to your heart now
hold on to your soul
don’t let the world bring you down
and leave you cold …
Ivor Steven (c) Feb 2020
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