Not all life is about life, it’s about living as well.
Playing in the in between moments of need, want, loss, and fear.
Relenting to the everyday only leads to the everyday.
For the Sijo Challenge this past week.
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“Life is a song-sing it. Life is a game-play it. Life is a challenge-meet it. Life is a dream-realize it. Life is a sacrifice-offer it. Life is love-enjoy it.” Sai Baba
Living life without achieving any of that quote is a wasted life. Why else are we here? Simply to exist? To help others exist? It’s our lives-live it.
Use the above links to discover the various interpretations of the word of the week. Don’t limit yourself to the first one that comes to mind. Expand your thinking.
Now we have the Sijo, a Korean form believed to have first been used in the fourteenth century. It is similar in structure to various Japanese forms such as Haiku. As with many forms of poetry, the Sijo became a preferred poetry form of the yangban or ruling class as well as royalty. They were written in Chinese and were originally short songs set to music. The focus of the Sijo is usually nature and contemplation. We’ll try that to begin with.
You should use the word in the title of this post as your inspiration as either a theme of the Sijo or in the poem itself.
There are:
To know how many syllables in a particular word try HowManySyllables.com.
The setting can be nature, a favorite season, or some event of your day. Something, as I mentioned above that can be contemplative in nature.
Within each of the three lines there is usually a pause. You can hear it in the example below. The bold sections are the parts after the pause, or at least as I read/hear them. Reading your Sijo out loud will help with using the correct form.
The following example is considered the oldest Sijo in existence,
The spring breeze melted snow on the hills then quickly disappeared.
I wish I could borrow it briefly to blow over my hair
And melt away the aging frost forming now about my ears.
If I’m counting right there are 15 syllables per line. I think that would be a good target but the pattern is up to you, as per the generally held thoughts on the matter.
As with all of the challenges that have been hosted here be sure to;
Progress for Reason
the journey’s purpose
to reach the destination
never stop searching
his is my entry for this weeks Haiku Poetry Challenge PAUSE and Trek.
There are details in the prompt on how to write a Haiku.
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Have you stalled in your journey of adventure? Love? Excitement? You’re not the only one. Never stop that journey, it’s almost, ALMOST, impossible to begin again.
Useful Links for Synonyms at Thesaurus.com:
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:
Respect Part One
by: Ronovan from Life
Yes
We All
Are Aware
Of Your Ogles
And Your Staring
Of Your Cat Calling
And Of Your Compare
Your Blood Flowing
In One Direction
Your Brain
Caught
Up in
Yes
Crude
Immature
And Vanity
Filled Inspection
Not Anyone’s Piece
Nor Their Property
Nor A MidNight
Boy’s Fantasy
I Am Brains
Beauty
All
You’re
Weak And
Feeble Of Mind
With Ego Fractured
Y’All Don’t Understand
Why We’re To Be A Man
A Mature Being of Life
Appreciates Beauty
Intelligence And
God’s Creative
Masterpiece
Woman Is
For Life
Honor
Love
Air
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why do we quibble
when the meaning is so deep
buried within us
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“The key to immortality is first living a life worth remembering.” Bruce Lee
I guess Bruce knew what he was talking about. Short life but lived it well and worth remembering. There are times of the year, maybe certain special dates, when I think of what I planned for my life and how I’m doing with that. Are there things worth remembering? Of course the birth of a child is worth remembering.
The firsts in your life are things you remember best. Even if not something you want to remember. Can you imagine living a life where you are constantly working on firsts? Something new almost every day?
You can’t ask me much about Firsts. The whole concussion memory loss thing kind of gets in the way. I remember first learning about my son, then his birth, and several other of his firsts. But memory loss kind of makes it easier to recall firsts because I’m doing them all over again.
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Use the above links to discover the various interpretations of the word of the week. Don’t limit yourself to the first one that comes to mind. Expand your thinking.
Now we have the Sijo, a Korean form believed to have first been used in the fourteenth century. It is similar in structure to various Japanese forms such as Haiku. As with many forms of poetry, the Sijo became a preferred poetry form of the yangban or ruling class as well as royalty. They were written in Chinese and were originally short songs set to music. The focus of the Sijo is usually nature and contemplation. We’ll try that to begin with.
You should use the word in the title of this post as your inspiration as either a theme of the Sijo or in the poem itself.
There are:
To know how many syllables in a particular word try HowManySyllables.com.
The setting can be nature, a favorite season, or some event of your day. Something, as I mentioned above that can be contemplative in nature.
Within each of the three lines there is usually a pause. You can hear it in the example below. The bold sections are the parts after the pause, or at least as I read/hear them. Reading your Sijo out loud will help with using the correct form.
The following example is considered the oldest Sijo in existence,
The spring breeze melted snow on the hills then quickly disappeared.
I wish I could borrow it briefly to blow over my hair
And melt away the aging frost forming now about my ears.
If I’m counting right there are 15 syllables per line. I think that would be a good target but the pattern is up to you, as per the generally held thoughts on the matter.
As with all of the challenges that have been hosted here be sure to;
The open roads are great, until they’re no longer open. Barriers, walls, fences block paths to where and who we want to be. But gates? They can keep you out but it’s really just a big hole in the wall of the fortress that is peace, creativity, and love.
Useful Links for Synonyms at Thesaurus.com:
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:
Your friend and mine!!!
Go get it.
Hello there, my long-lost friends!
Firstly, let me apologise for not posting for around half of this year.
What can I say…
Being a full-time teacher in management, having recently been through the OFSTED debacle (we got Good, so I’m not complaining, but still, STRESS!), on top of being mum to two teens at critical points in their lives and development, as well as wife and daughter… yadda yadda… well, put it this way, it leaves little time for the creative side of me.
Still, I have news and lots of it!
Over the summer, I finally completed the manuscript for my second book, which will be book two in the Rishtay Series, following on from Marriage Unarranged.
It was sent off to several readers, my editor and my publisher, and though tweaks are still happening, we have a release date of 1st June 2023 to coincide with PRIDE month!
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“The hard part about following your purpose is the distraction everyone pulls you toward.” Kimbal Musk
The past calendar year I planned to finish a book I’ve worked on for a long, long, long, time. 10 years since the first draft. That didn’t happen. Then I decided maybe I can get another, less complicated one I’ve worked on finished by the end of March of this year. Well, unless I ignore life, that isn’t happening. But sometimes those distractions either can’t be helped, unless you are a heartless and selfish individual. Sometimes you just need to accept them and see how to work around them because those distractions can turn into the everyday part of your life.
Use the above links to discover the various interpretations of the word of the week. Don’t limit yourself to the first one that comes to mind. Expand your thinking.
Now we have the Sijo, a Korean form believed to have first been used in the fourteenth century. It is similar in structure to various Japanese forms such as Haiku. As with many forms of poetry, the Sijo became a preferred poetry form of the yangban or ruling class as well as royalty. They were written in Chinese and were originally short songs set to music. The focus of the Sijo is usually nature and contemplation. We’ll try that to begin with.
You should use the word in the title of this post as your inspiration as either a theme of the Sijo or in the poem itself.
There are:
To know how many syllables in a particular word try HowManySyllables.com.
The setting can be nature, a favorite season, or some event of your day. Something, as I mentioned above that can be contemplative in nature.
Within each of the three lines there is usually a pause. You can hear it in the example below. The bold sections are the parts after the pause, or at least as I read/hear them. Reading your Sijo out loud will help with using the correct form.
The following example is considered the oldest Sijo in existence,
The spring breeze melted snow on the hills then quickly disappeared.
I wish I could borrow it briefly to blow over my hair
And melt away the aging frost forming now about my ears.
If I’m counting right there are 15 syllables per line. I think that would be a good target but the pattern is up to you, as per the generally held thoughts on the matter.
As with all of the challenges that have been hosted here be sure to;
As I thought about this weeks words, that are more and more difficult to come up with ones I haven’t used before, I thought about my son coming to the end of his High School years. I think sometimes we felt the battles that a parent goes through to make certain their child gets the best education and understanding from a school is like a cave. It can be long, dark, and confusing. But you keep climbing to reach that light, knowing if you survive it’s well worth it. Then you kick them out in a dorm and say good luck. Not really, although he’s told me he wants to do like I did and life on my own for the last two years of university. His mother doesn’t know that so don’t say anything.
Then I thought about we, as parents, could have just caved to the the disfunction of a system only geared to one type of student. Zach is a classified gifted student that has been tracked since early middle or late elementary school by Duke University. Genius? I won’t tell you his IQ or SAT scores, but soon as the scores came out one of the best schools in the country got in touch. So we didn’t cave. We fought. We lived for 12 years of aggravation and headaches. And the light is there. Just 6 more weeks.
Useful Links for Synonyms at Thesaurus.com:
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:
“Never confuse a single defeat with a final defeat.” F. Scott Fitzgerald
On March 26, 1920, This Side of Paradise is published and the career of the Great F. Scott Fitzgerald, one of my favorite authors, begins.
Click below to check out an article of the life and career of Fitzgerald. I didn’t know some of the information.
“Simplicity is prerequisite for reliability.” Edsger Dijkstra
The past two years have been anything but a picture of reliability for me. Well, maybe that’s a little incorrect. I know what’s going to happen in regards to the day, but that isn’t a reliable source of encouragement, creativity, or living. It’s just a source of existing.
Use the above links to discover the various interpretations of the word of the week. Don’t limit yourself to the first one that comes to mind. Expand your thinking.
Now we have the Sijo, a Korean form believed to have first been used in the fourteenth century. It is similar in structure to various Japanese forms such as Haiku. As with many forms of poetry, the Sijo became a preferred poetry form of the yangban or ruling class as well as royalty. They were written in Chinese and were originally short songs set to music. The focus of the Sijo is usually nature and contemplation. We’ll try that to begin with.
You should use the word in the title of this post as your inspiration as either a theme of the Sijo or in the poem itself.
There are:
To know how many syllables in a particular word try HowManySyllables.com.
The setting can be nature, a favorite season, or some event of your day. Something, as I mentioned above that can be contemplative in nature.
Within each of the three lines there is usually a pause. You can hear it in the example below. The bold sections are the parts after the pause, or at least as I read/hear them. Reading your Sijo out loud will help with using the correct form.
The following example is considered the oldest Sijo in existence,
The spring breeze melted snow on the hills then quickly disappeared.
I wish I could borrow it briefly to blow over my hair
And melt away the aging frost forming now about my ears.
If I’m counting right there are 15 syllables per line. I think that would be a good target but the pattern is up to you, as per the generally held thoughts on the matter.
As with all of the challenges that have been hosted here be sure to;
Here in the South we have something called Blackberry Winter. It’s the cold snap late in spring while blackberries are in bloom. Not sure if they are in bloom right now but it sure is cold. But then again it is March. The problem is, in this region it’s 70 one day and 31 the next.
Useful Links for Synonyms at Thesaurus.com:
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:
“There’s satisfaction and contentment in direction.” Manivannan
And boy is he right. When you’re floating around and it’s not your intent, you feel lost and frustrated. There is no sense of accomplishment. If your point is to relax and read a book by the sea, but you’re working in a cubicle, then maybe your not content. But if you’re working in that cubicle to get to the point where you can read a book by the sea, then maybe it’s not so much a lack of contentment as a submission to the action for the goal.
Use the above links to discover the various interpretations of the word of the week. Don’t limit yourself to the first one that comes to mind. Expand your thinking.
Now we have the Sijo, a Korean form believed to have first been used in the fourteenth century. It is similar in structure to various Japanese forms such as Haiku. As with many forms of poetry, the Sijo became a preferred poetry form of the yangban or ruling class as well as royalty. They were written in Chinese and were originally short songs set to music. The focus of the Sijo is usually nature and contemplation. We’ll try that to begin with.
You should use the word in the title of this post as your inspiration as either a theme of the Sijo or in the poem itself.
There are:
To know how many syllables in a particular word try HowManySyllables.com.
The setting can be nature, a favorite season, or some event of your day. Something, as I mentioned above that can be contemplative in nature.
Within each of the three lines there is usually a pause. You can hear it in the example below. The bold sections are the parts after the pause, or at least as I read/hear them. Reading your Sijo out loud will help with using the correct form.
The following example is considered the oldest Sijo in existence,
The spring breeze melted snow on the hills then quickly disappeared.
I wish I could borrow it briefly to blow over my hair
And melt away the aging frost forming now about my ears.
If I’m counting right there are 15 syllables per line. I think that would be a good target but the pattern is up to you, as per the generally held thoughts on the matter.
As with all of the challenges that have been hosted here be sure to;
Useful Links for Synonyms at Thesaurus.com:
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:
Life is an adventure, you may just not know you’ve been on one until it’s over. Practically everything we do is an adventure, at least those FIRSTS. First dates. First days of school. First jobs. First marriage (hopefully only). First child. First apartment on your own. First time driving a car alone. Adventures are everywhere, and not just the physical ones. One of the greatest, most worthwhile, and painful ones is falling in love for the first time. Is the adventure worth the pain? I suppose that’s up to you and maybe the reason for the adventure in the first place.
“Our greatest human adventure is the evolution of consciousness. We are in this life to enlarge the soul, liberate the spirit, and light up the brain.” Tom Robbins
Use the above links to discover the various interpretations of the word of the week. Don’t limit yourself to the first one that comes to mind. Expand your thinking.
Now we have the Sijo, a Korean form believed to have first been used in the fourteenth century. It is similar in structure to various Japanese forms such as Haiku. As with many forms of poetry, the Sijo became a preferred poetry form of the yangban or ruling class as well as royalty. They were written in Chinese and were originally short songs set to music. The focus of the Sijo is usually nature and contemplation. We’ll try that to begin with.
You should use the word in the title of this post as your inspiration as either a theme of the Sijo or in the poem itself.
There are:
To know how many syllables in a particular word try HowManySyllables.com.
The setting can be nature, a favorite season, or some event of your day. Something, as I mentioned above that can be contemplative in nature.
Within each of the three lines there is usually a pause. You can hear it in the example below. The bold sections are the parts after the pause, or at least as I read/hear them. Reading your Sijo out loud will help with using the correct form.
The following example is considered the oldest Sijo in existence,
The spring breeze melted snow on the hills then quickly disappeared.
I wish I could borrow it briefly to blow over my hair
And melt away the aging frost forming now about my ears.
If I’m counting right there are 15 syllables per line. I think that would be a good target but the pattern is up to you, as per the generally held thoughts on the matter.
As with all of the challenges that have been hosted here be sure to;
Useful Links for Synonyms at Thesaurus.com:
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:
I’ve learned patience, a lot. Apparently in my early adulthood I was incredibly patient as a teacher and then as a manager. In the personal life, well, I think it was the lack of others consideration of time that worked my last nerve. But I was still patient. Until for about 5 seconds I wasn’t. Then the patience would start over.
Maybe I felt young people still needed to learn things just as employees needed to learn, but adults knew to be on time, or at least knew what time was.
These days I’ve learned to be patient with myself in my memory loss, my health not allowing the things I once could do without thinking. And now taking care of my 70 year old mother while having to live an hour away from my family. A mother who I haven’t been close to in a very long time, nor have many memories of.
I am patient in the delay of my writing career.
And now my patience is being tried by a 6 month old Sheltie puppy, who is at this moment wondering what is in my pocket… nothing… but he is ever hopeful.
And yes, he likes being held like that, but only by my son and me.
“I have seen many storms in my life. Most storms have caught me by surprise, so I had to learn very quickly to look further and understand that I am not capable of controlling the weather, to exercise the art of patience and to respect the fury of nature.” – Paulo Coelho
Use the above links to discover the various interpretations of the word of the week. Don’t limit yourself to the first one that comes to mind. Expand your thinking.
Now we have the Sijo, a Korean form believed to have first been used in the fourteenth century. It is similar in structure to various Japanese forms such as Haiku. As with many forms of poetry, the Sijo became a preferred poetry form of the yangban or ruling class as well as royalty. They were written in Chinese and were originally short songs set to music. The focus of the Sijo is usually nature and contemplation. We’ll try that to begin with.
You should use the word in the title of this post as your inspiration as either a theme of the Sijo or in the poem itself.
There are:
To know how many syllables in a particular word try HowManySyllables.com.
The setting can be nature, a favorite season, or some event of your day. Something, as I mentioned above that can be contemplative in nature.
Within each of the three lines there is usually a pause. You can hear it in the example below. The bold sections are the parts after the pause, or at least as I read/hear them. Reading your Sijo out loud will help with using the correct form.
The following example is considered the oldest Sijo in existence,
The spring breeze melted snow on the hills then quickly disappeared.
I wish I could borrow it briefly to blow over my hair
And melt away the aging frost forming now about my ears.
If I’m counting right there are 15 syllables per line. I think that would be a good target but the pattern is up to you, as per the generally held thoughts on the matter.
As with all of the challenges that have been hosted here be sure to;
Useful Links for Synonyms at Thesaurus.com:
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:
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