The Courtier

image by walkerssk on pixabay

Wow! Is this guy the king or is he the king
Strutting his stuff in a lazuli ruff
Flashing his colours, outshining all others
His strident screech with piercing reach
Crest held erect
In every detail this guy is correct
Yet for all his dazzling eyes
He’s forever grounded, can’t reach the skies


53 words written for Sammi’s Weekend Writing Prompt: Dazzling

 

 

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CCC196: Exhausted

I tell you, that Zeus, he chased me all over Crete.

And the Aegean islands.

All through Greece.

And Italy.

I tell you, I’m exhausted. But he didn’t get me. See that white cow over there? Europa; she didn’t run fast enough.

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Crimson’s Creative Challenge #196

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
If you include Crimson’s Creative Challenge as a heading, WP Search will find it (theory)
by ‘Searching’ in the WP Reader (fingers crossed)

Here’s wishing you inspirational explosions. And FUN

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Tuesday Treats: Butterflies and Fungi

Enjoy…

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Yay!  And…

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That’s all for now folks. Hope you’ve enjoyed.

Next week in the midst of the heat we’re off to the coast

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Monday’s Flowers

An overflow from yesterday’s post…flowers galore

Establishing shot (riparian)

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And edging on arable…

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Hope you enjoyed this little extra. Tomorrow’s Tuesdays Treats treats us to Butterflies & Fungi!

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Sunday Picture Post: Where the Water Pools

26th July we walk out of Norwich along Marriott’s Way…until we cross the small River Tud. There beside the Tud is where the water pools and the fairies play. Step quietly now, we don’t want to disturb them

The Tud…

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One of the several pools all hidden amongst the trees

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And another. We stop here for lunch

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Sometimes here we see a swan, sometimes a family of ducks. Today we see…wait for it

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These…

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So enchanted, the day passes unnoticed until we realise it’s time to catch a bus back to Norwich

More photos tomorrow…

 

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Breaking…

1st August 2022

Waves, another title from the list Maria Antonia has given us for #2022picoftheweek

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Hissing Sid and Sexy Sue

image from pixabay

It was pure chance
That Sid and Sue got up to dance
Sensuously slithering across the floor
Around them screams, encore, encore
Such sibilance, intense pleasure Sid endured


28 words written for Sammi’s Weekend Writing Prompt: Sibilance

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CCC195: Don’t Go Into the Tangled Wood

Mother said I had to be good
And not go into the Tangled Wood
She said, when I asked her why
Bats aren’t alone at night when they fly
And the others would equally see you die
She said at the centre of the wood
Where the Old Hag Stone stood
Was a pool that sparkled bright
Alight with glints by day and night
And once you’ve seen it you can’t look away
That’s a spell cast by the fae.
Mother said I had to be good
And not go into the Tangled Wood
For if I’m spell-cast by the fae
They’d up with me and fly me away

And I’d die.

(Of course, I disobeyed)

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Crimson’s Creative Challenge #195

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
If you include Crimson’s Creative Challenge as a heading, WP Search will find it (theory)
by ‘Searching’ in the WP Reader (fingers crossed)

Here’s wishing you inspirational explosions. And FUN


I could tell you what’s the photo of, but I’d rather leave it open for you to interpret

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