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Topically Distracted
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Topically Distracted
When WordPress put us out to dry,
turning a deaf ear to our cry
not to suspend the Daily Post,
I think it disillusioned most.
Yet, so many rose to hear our plight
that now I labor day and night
to fulfill the prompts they host.
I fear offending if I don’t post.
So though outside the air’s a balm,
the flowers lush, the scene all calm,
I feel my obligation’s rush.
I feel each lined-up prompting’s crush.
Each jostles to be first in line
like a regular at opening time.
So though outside it’s tropical,
and therefore very topical,
I cannot feel the scene before me.
Sun, trees, water only bore me.
Even the palm trees do not sway.
No wind rustles them today.
And though the prompt is “tropical,”
my mind is stuck on “topical.”
I must admit that I’m distracted.
With prompts, I fear, I’m over-facted!
Here are seven prompt sites that have grown up in answer to WordPress’s abandonment, plus two I’ve been posting on for some time:
https://fivedotoh.com/ Fandango’s prompt today is tropical. This is a well-set-up daily prompt site that is easy to post on. It needs followers. Give it a try. I’d like to see it succeed. It is posted daily, just past midnight Pacific time, so if you like an early start, this is a good prompt site for you.
https://weeklyprompts.com/ This site publishes a weekly prompt.
https://flakback.wordpress.com/ Alan Grace has set up a site recycling WP prompts from two years ago. This should work out well for beginning bloggers who haven’t already done these prompts.
https://onewomansquest.org/2018/06/04/v-j-s-weekly-challenge-1-shift/ This is a once a week prompt that I used for the first time yesterday. It was an intriguing prompt that was very unusual and fun to write to and I look forward to getting into the habit of posting there once a week.
https://dailyaddictions542855004.wordpress.com/ Daily Addictions is another reliable and easy-to-use site that makes use of Mr. Linky.
https://ragtagcommunity.wordpress.com/ This is a very good daily prompt site run by seven bloggers who were part of the WordPress Daily Prompt community and who wanted to see the daily prompts continue. You’ll recognize many of the names who post there, now.
https://gratefulsinglemoms.com/category/daily-writing-prompts/ embeecee recommends this prompt site, saying that it isn’t always a daily prompt. I haven’t used it yet.
https://dversepoets.com/ This is another poetry prompt site I love that predated WordPress’s retirement.They post two prompts a week and make use of a Mr. Linky site to link your poems to.
https://ceenphotography.com/ Cee posts a number of prompts, many of them photo prompts, but some that include prompts to be written as well. Hers are the prompts I’ve followed the longest. They are thought-provoking and she has a large following and an easy-to-use linkup page.
If you know of other prompt sites I’ve forgotten or have not yet come across, please list links to them in the comments below.
Men in Trees: Sunday Trees June 3, 2018
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For a few weeks last month, it seems like I was always looking up to see a man in one of my trees. They were like tamed teams of monkeys: trimming my palm trees, cutting back the huamuchile tree in my vacant lot, or men from the electric company trimming my giant royal poinciana from where it had grown around electrical wires.
For Sunday Trees 342
Saturated with Color
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What do these super- color-saturated photos have in common? All were taken from a table— one at a friend’s house where we gathered for a meeting of our writing group, the other two from the outside patio of a restaurant in Chapala named “Delicias.” Can you spot the bird in the third photo?
For the Thursday Special prompt: Saturation
Tuesday Photo Challenge: Broken
BROKEN ↓
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Fragment
FIXED ↓
(Addicted to a happy ending.)
Travel Theme: Names
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Names. How could we define songs, magazines, labels on drawers, families, poets, products, books, events and places without them?
For: https://wheresmybackpack.com/2017/10/09/travel-theme-names/
Orderly Beauty
Cee’s Black and White Challenge: A or B
“B” is For:
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Bubbles,
Brooches,
Baubles and Beads,
Bellies,
Boats
and Bullies!
For Cee’s A or B Challenge
Shadow Play
You’ll get a much better view of the photos if you click on one and view them as a gallery.
The photo prompt this week was shadow.
“Hugh’s Weekly Photo Challenge: Week 19 – “Gap”
“Gap-toothed she was and sure to please!” (One of my favorite lines from The Canterbury Tales! He is describing the bawdy wife of Bath.)
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This gap between the tree trunk and wall was just wide enough to hide Yoli’s big chick sucker for her Easter Egg hunt.
This gap in the roof of the “Fly Cafe” (more about this later) is the fault of Hurricane Patricia.
This makeshift mens room is more gap than room. Again, you’ll see more about this story in a later post.
http://hughsviewsandnews.com/2016/03/29/hughs-weekly-photography-challenge-week-19-gap/
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