Promote Yourself Monday- May 21, 2018

Welcome to Promote Yourself Monday. All Go Dog Go Cafe readers, guest writers, and baristas are invited to post one link to one specific post (600 words or less please!) from your blog into the comments section below.

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Welcome to Promote Yourself Monday.  All Go Dog Go Cafe readers, guest writers, and baristas are invited to post one link to one specific post (600 words or less please!) from your blog into the comments section below.

If you post a link, be sure to read some of the other great writing people have linked to.

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Happiness

Come read Sarah’s – HAPPINESS

Sarah Doughty

“All I ever wanted
was to make you happy.
And I will never give up trying.”

All I ever wanted was to make you happy. Though you deny it, I know I failed. I wanted to show the world I could survive anything. And I did try. But at every turn, it feels like one step forward leads to two steps back. And with so much at stake — being a mother, a bleeding heart, an empath, a wife, a person — a living, breathing, person — a survivor, it feels as if all I can do lately is fail.

All I ever wanted was to be happy. I guess I failed at that too

But that doesn’t mean I will ever give up trying.

© Sarah Doughty

I will never give up trying.

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No Accident

Come read Nandita’s writing and you will see her words are – NO ACCIDENT.

A Tangle of Weeds

I may have stumbled upon poetry
accidentally one day
driven by extreme voices
strangulated far too long
within the confines of a stubborn mind
overthrown at last by a profusely bleeding heart.

But I am, by no means, an accidental poet.
I had poetry trapped in my veins
Lying dormant, just no escape..
Until that fated day
When it poured, never to stop again…

I am not an occasional poet either
I do not write because I like to.
I write because I have to.
There lies the difference!

If you’ve sensed pathos in my dark writings
You have also seen the delirium
of what I become
when in love;
I speak in metaphors!
I become what I speak
I speak what I bleed.
And when my poetry aches
I seek refuge in your words.

©NYM

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~*~ Hit The Right Keys #3 ~*~ (Advice on Creativity and The Arts)

Come read these great quotes on Creativity and the Arts.

Beckie's Mental Mess

 

“Do not follow where the path may lead.  Go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.”

~ Muriel Strode ~

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“Never pay attention to what critics say.  Remember, a statue has never been set up in honor of a critic.”

~ Jean Sibelius ~

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“To be truly creative, you have to work beyond what you know.  Pushing the envelope is what being an artist is all about.”

~ John Ferrie ~

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“Sometimes you’ve got to let everything go – purge yourself.  If you are unhappy with anything… whatever is bringing you down, get rid of it.  Because you’ll find that when you’re free, your true creativity, your true self-comes out.”

~ Tina Turner ~

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“If you want to work on your art, work on your life.”

~ Anton Chekhov ~

[Source: The Best Advice Ever Given by Steven D. Price ~*~ Picture courtesy…

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Reluctant to Say

Come and read – RELUCTANT TO SAY.

THE PLANTS – REPRISE

By Charles Robert Lindholm

When I Look At The Plants
You Gave Me
I Can’t Help
But Think Of You

CAVORTING WITH FOOLS – REPRISE

By Charles Robert Lindholm 

Cavorting with fools
like me
can be risky
for your future 

The most important thing you can do 🌹

Don’t Miss – THE MOST IMPORTANT THING YOU CAN DO

YOU MAKE ME WANNA

Come read the romantic poem – YOU MAKE ME WANNA.

I LEARNED OF LOVE – REPRISE

By Charles Robert Lindholm

I thought I knew what love was
but I found out that’s not true
I lived with the illusions
so long, but never knew