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Amazing Earth Watching earth from plane Planet glides in slow motion Our amazing home.

**** Make them Dance Life is far too short, Make sure to say, ‘I 💖 you’, While you bake the cake, Plan the trip, read the book and Play the tune that makes them dance. **** Thursday Doors is a weekly feature allowing door lovers to come together to admire and share their favorite doorContinue reading “#ThursdayDoors #Tanka ‘Make them Dance’”

**** The Girl in Blue ‘Follow me’, she says, She’s the girl in blue, the girl Who’s in love with you. ‘I’d go to Land’s End’, you say, As you watch her run away. ****

Horse watches walkers, Standing under shady tree, Weary of strangers Who run, shout and take photos, Disrupting silent Sunday.

Unspeakable crimes, Fragments of memory lost Just before I died. **** Review coming soon…

**** Never give up, no, Get up when you hit the ground, Find your way forward, Never let them keep you down. Focus like eagle, fly high. *** I was feeling a little low today, so just in case any of you are in need of some motivation, too, I hope my Tanka, inspired byContinue reading “Sia – Never Give Up @YouTube #Tanka”

This post was written as part of the Word of the day Challenge. The word for today is Fog. My entry is almost, but not quite, a Tanka, poetic licence… She became a tree, Because she preferred the woods To concrete and glass. Her feet were her roots, her hair A tangled mesh of branches,Continue reading “Word of the Day, ‘Fog’ #Tanka”

The Wishing Well What do you wish for? Whisper your deepest secret, Now go and find it! Grasp it firmly with both hands, Be thankful and hold on tight! **** Today I was thinking about how sometimes we wish things would happen and we think it’s enough just to wish for it, but we doContinue reading “#SilentSunday ‘The Wishing Well’ #Tanka”

I was thinking about how easy it is to lose my temper, get angry, or feel upset and vulnerable. So, I was tempted to build a safety wall to protect my fragile emotional response and keep my feelings safe, but I realised I run the risk of becoming as hard as the wall I wantedContinue reading “#SilentSunday ‘Don’t let anyone make you hard’ #sixwords”