Generously Yours

( Written for Moonwashed Weekly Prompt – Gingered Sky )

Ages spent in quarry,

never rose higher for gold,

near the gingered sky.

Moonwashed Weekly Prompt – Gingered Sky

Good afternoon and see you next time.


Guidelines-

Welcome to Moonwashed Musings

Your Weekly Prompt – Gingered Sky

Go where the prompt leads you.

It can be any variation of the prompt and/or image. 

The screenshot below shows what Mr. Linky looks like inside. Add your name and the URL of your post. Click the box about the privacy policy (It’s blue). As everyone adds their links to Mr. Linky, you can view the other submissions by clicking on the Mr. Linky link on the challenge post. All the links will show in the order of posting.

NOTE: If you are reading this post from the WP READER, Mr. Linky will not show on the post. Please go directly to the post on amanpan.blog to add your post link.

Be sure to check out the comment links and pingbacks to view other posts inspired by today’s prompt!

Copyright © 2023 MoonwashedMusings@amanpan.blog – All rights reserved.

Image by xuuxuu from Pixabay

Magically Yours

(written for What do you see # 204- September 18, 2023)

Ambrosial taste makes
oblivious of tea-pour
magic-hand ignored.

What do you see # 204- September 18, 2023

Good evening and see you next time. 


Guidelines-  Welcome back to another WDYS prompt

What do you see, What do you see # 204- September 18, 2023

Does this picture inspire you to write something?

For the visually challenged reader, this image shows a teapot that looks a lot like the R2D2 robot of the Star Wars fame, suspended in mid-air pouring tea into a white cup. In the background you can see that it’s an outdoor scene.

Rules-

  • You can write a post on your blog and create a pingback to link to the original post.
  • Write an original story, poem or a caption.
  • There is no limit to words or format but keep it family-friendly.
  • If you post a response before next Sunday, I will be able to add it to my roundup post.
  • I will do a round-up next Sunday before the next Prompt is posted.
  • It is always helpful if you can give your post/story/poem a title.
  • There are issues with pingbacks in WordPress these days. So please paste a link of your post in the comments section so that I don’t miss anyone in the roundup post.
  • Waiting eagerly for your responses.

    Thanking you all for joining this prompt.

Please tag your responses with

#Whatdoyousee

Or

#WDYS

Contentedly Yours

( Written for Ronovan Writes #Weekly #Haiku #Poetry Prompt #Challenge 480 )

Love-harmony; nice

words, but not for person with,

an empty stomach.

Ronovan Writes #Weekly #Haiku #Poetry Prompt #Challenge 480. LOVE and Empty.

Good evening and see you next time. 


Guidelines-

Ronovan Writes #Weekly #Haiku #Poetry Prompt #Challenge 480. LOVE and Empty

I know what the first thing some will think when seeing these words, but Love and Empty can be positive things.

Empty your heart and mind of the impurities of the world and they will be filled with love. Empty your love into others.

Useful Links for Synonyms at Thesaurus.com:

LOVE

Empty

To know how many syllables in a particular word try HowManySyllables.com.

 

How to Write Haiku in English. And how to do a Pingback.

The Guidelines:

  1. Take the two words and write a Haiku. I use Haiku in English (the link shows you how) as my style, which is 5 syllables for the first line, 7 for the second, and 5 for the third, but you can use what you like.
    • The link above has links on how to write Haibun and Tanka. You can also do the 3/5/3 form if you like instead of the 5/7/5 that I usually use. Write, share, and have fun. For syllable help,
    • For syllables for each word, and different definitions, you use the definition that works for you Haiku. You can also use SYNONYMS. Go to Thesaurus.com for synonym help.
  2. Copy the link of your finished haiku URL and paste in a comment below so we can all go and visit your Haiku.
    • You can do a pingback. What’s a pingback? Place the URL from the address bar up top from this post as a link within your post. Your inclusion of the link encourages others to try the challenge, be creative, and join a community to find friends and more followers (hopefully). I honestly gain nothing with more people visiting the post. I don’t have ads running that generates revenue by your visit or by clicks on whatever WordPress has put up.
    • Click HERE for a detailed post on PINGBACKS.
  3. If you like, copy the image in this post and place it within their post, just to show the Haiku is part of this challenge.
      • I am not saying you need or even should, but if you would like to do so then go ahead.

Enterprisingly Yours

 

 

 

 

 

( Written for Reena’s Xploration Challenge #298 )

Better brittle than ductile and bent,

Better unfinished than without a dent,

Ages before getting this sharp edge,

Time gave lesson for truth and courage.

Better broken than being worn,

Better a message than noise weary or torn,

Got a numb soul and skin,

still, can Whirl a lull for the storm to spin.

Reena’s Xploration Challenge #298

Good afternoon and see you next time.


Guidelines-

Reena’s Xploration Challenge

Welcome back!

Prompt # 298

I don’t need to say much. Let the image take your pen, pencil or keyboard.

There is no restriction on format of the piece. There is no last date either, unless you wish to be featured in the Weekly Wrap.

Any post that is found to be offensive, vulgar or something that hurts common sensibilities will not be included. This needs to be a safe space.

Create a post on your blog, and copy-paste the link in Comments. In case you are using a pingback, do check back to see if it has worked.

The feminists, humanists and individualists amongst you are welcome to follow us at
Empowered Women

Highly Yours

(written for What do you see # 203- September 11, 2023)

Fly you kids! fly high,
On the bicycles of success with ethics and virtues,
fly high, touch all the skies that’s visible to you,
fly high before you are curbed and slowed,
by customs and taboos,
that seem pulling towards the roots, but,
leave you nowhere, certainly not,
amongst the roots and not on the sky, too.

Fly high before,

you are shackled,
fly for your dreams.

What do you see # 203- September 11, 2023

Good evening and see you next time.


Guidelines-

  • You can write a post on your blog and create a pingback to link to the original post.
  • Write an original story, poem or a caption.
  • There is no limit to words or format but keep it family-friendly.
  • If you post a response before next Sunday, I will be able to add it to my roundup post.
  • I will do a round-up next Sunday before the next Prompt is posted.
  • It is always helpful if you can give your post/story/poem a title.
  • There are issues with pingbacks in WordPress these days. So please paste a link of your post in the comments section so that I don’t miss anyone in the roundup post.

Please tag your responses with

#Whatdoyousee

Or

#WDYS

Blissfully Yours

(Written for Moonwashed Weekly Prompt – Unrivaled, posted on12 Sep, 2023)

Earthly dreams meet sky,

Mesmerizing colors spread,

Unrivaled blissed soul.

Moonwashed Weekly Prompt – Unrivaled

Good afternoon and see you next time. 


Guidelines-

Welcome to Moonwashed Musings

The image selection is dedicated to, Suzette B.

Your Weekly Prompt – Unrivaled

Go where the prompt leads you.

It can be any variation of the prompt and/or image. 

  • Publish a post on your own blog that responds to the prompt. Copy the URL (the HTTPS:// address on my post) and paste it into your post.
  • Copy your link into Mr. Linky below (underlined with a hyperlink). You might have to delete your previous entry.
  • Please click the small checkbox on Mr. Linky about data protection

The screenshot below shows what Mr. Linky looks like inside. Add your name and the URL of your post. Click the box about the privacy policy (It’s blue). As everyone adds their links to Mr. Linky, you can view the other submissions by clicking on the Mr. Linky link on the challenge post. All the links will show in the order of posting.

NOTE: If you are reading this post from the WP READER, Mr. Linky will not show on the post. Please go directly to the post on amanpan.blog to add your post link.

Be sure to check out the comment links and pingbacks to view other posts inspired by today’s prompt!

Copyright © 2023 MoonwashedMusings@amanpan.blog – All rights reserved.

Images used on this site are from Pixabay, Pexels, or lovethispic.com and are applied to this site per their guidelines unless otherwise stated.

linguistically Yours

 

Courtesy Latest LY

Yesterday was the Hindi day, my seriousness to my National language is highly shown by a mere fact that this blog comes a day after the actual date. 😊 For all the countrymen and even those who understand Hindi, my humble submission is that celebrating a day, maybe a fortnight or even a year would not promote it unless we start using it more often than not. It doesn’t really matter if the usage is in fragments or maybe in a blended form with the other language or dialect we speak in or be comfortable in. I personally opine that in a much diversified country like ours, only one language would be difficult to be accepted all across. Having said that, we do require a medium spread and accepted homogenously and Hindi, undoubtedly, bears all of the eligibility required for that.

While penning this, just remembered an article by Late Khushwant Singh when he narrated an incident travelling by train (no..no not pertaining to train to Pakistan book). He said when he read something written as MDHYAPAAN NISHEDH (Liquor prohibited) in Hindi script on a first class compartment, he couldn’t make out exactly what it meant. later, on clarification by fellow passengers only he could understand that he had to officially restrict himself unless he got out of the train on his destination. He, after adding certain details, finally concluded that if only it was written as DAARU PEENA MANA HAI, probably, the impact would have been as expected and message conveyed to people at large.

I don’t, in any form or way, endorse that any language should not preserve and perennially retain its highest refined or sophisticated version for philology, word etymology or linguistic point of view, still what he said also needs to be looked into for wider acceptability propose in a diversified user’s nation.

My best wishes to all of those who write, read, speak, understand or even like Hindi with or without knowing much about it including a vast audience of Bollywood movies.

Good afternoon and see you next time.

Maturely Yours

( Written for #Poetry Challenge No. 337, 9/12/23 )

Paddle through upstream

will make you tougher, for life

is a tough ocean.

#TankaTuesday Weekly #Poetry Challenge No. 337, 9/12/23

Good evening and see you next time. 


Guidelines-

This week’s challenge is a photo prompt. This year, my friend, and photographer, Terri Webster Schrandt, from secondwindleisure.com shared her photos with us for inspiration from January through September.

The best thing about these kinds of collaborations is the many friendships forged through the love of photography and poetry. I am indebted to Terri for gifting us her time and sharing her photos. The inspiration was incredible. After 9 months, I feel like we’re ready to birth the new challenge starting on September 26, 2023. Thank you, Terri! ❤️

Don’t forget, Terri runs a weekly photo challenge called Sunday Stills. Check it out HERE.

Terri says: “I found a wonderful photo that symbolizes summers here in Spokane, as well as the testament to relationships built with our neighbors.

It also represents to me the relationships I’ve come to look forward to that were built this year through the Tanka challenge.

I took this photo two summers ago. My neighbor invited me to go kayaking with her and her daughter and granddaughter.

I took the pic of Sarah and Melia as they paddled in front of me along the Little Spokane River. I used a filter to give it an idyllic look.”

Compassionately Yours

( Written for Crimson’s Creative Challenge #253, Sep13, 2023 by Crispina Kemp )

Straw by straw I make

a nest, oblivious of,

a vicious hawk eye.

“And the saddest part is; there are far too many tiny birds with far too lesser hawk-eyes on them”

Crimson’s Creative Challenge #253

Good evening and see you next time. 


Guidelines-

Here’s how it works:

Every Wednesday I post a photo (this week it’s that one above.)
You respond with something CREATIVE

Here are some suggestions:

  • An answering photo
  • A cartoon
  • A joke
  • A caption
  • An anecdote
  • A short story (flash fiction)
  • A poem
  • A newly minted proverb, adage or saying
  • An essay
  • A song—the lyrics or the performance

You have plenty of scope and only two criteria:

  • Your creative offering is indeed yours
  • Your writing is kept to 150 words or less

If you post a link in the comments section of this post I’ll be able to find it.

Here’s wishing you inspirational explosions. And FUN

Heartily Yours (1)

(Written for Photo Challenge- Mindlovemisery’s Menagerie posted on Sep 12, 20123)

Make bridge and causeway

to connect all, before that,

Reach fragile hearts first.

Photo Challenge #481

Good evening and see you next time.


Photo Challenge Guidelines-

Use the above image as inspiration for a poem or short story.

Alternatively, if you are an artist or photographer, use this as an opportunity to showcase your own work.

You have 1 week to complete this challenge.

When you’re done, TAG the post ‘Photo Challenge’ and ‘Mindlovemisery’s Menagerie’. Create a pingback and add your link to the comments for others to read.

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