Day: March 26, 2019

Tuesday Writing Prompt Challenge March 26, 2019

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Come join in on the Cafe”s – Tuesday Writing Prompt and have some fun!

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TUES PROMPTDevereaux Frazier and Beth Amanda are currently hosting the Tuesday Writing Prompt Challenge which was started by our star writer Christine Ray. We hope to offer all of you something that will spark your creativity and willingness to participate.

The prompts are designed to be quick challenges that can be written in 10 to 15minutes,  inspire you creatively, are fun, and get everyone interacting.  Please post your response to the prompt in the comments below and show your fellow posters some love and support.  All members of the Go Dog Go community, including Baristas, are welcome to participate.  Feel free to share this post on your own blogs and/or Facebook.

Today’s prompt:  

Use the phrase “footsteps of the mind”in a poem.

Happy writing!

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Quotations on Bullies

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Be sure to read the quote from Charles!!!

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“I would rather be a little nobody, then to be a evil somebody.”

                                                                 Abraham Lincoln

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“If you are neutral in situations of injustice, you have chosen the side of the oppressor. If an elephant has its foot on the tail of a mouse, and you say that you are neutral, the mouse will not appreciate your neutrality.”

                                                                Desmond Tutu

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“It is crucial to oppose bullying whenever and wherever it may be found. Turning away from it or ignoring bullying makes the observer complicit in  the bully’s actions.”

                                                               Charles F. French

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“When misguided public opinion honors what is despicable and despises what is honorable, punishes virtue and rewards vice, encourages what is harmful and discourages what is useful… “

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Art of Quotation

“When misguided public opinion honors what is despicable and despises what is honorable, punishes virtue and rewards vice, encourages what is harmful and discourages what is useful, applauds falsehood and smothers truth under indifference or insult, a nation turns its back on progress and can be restored only by the terrible lessons of catastrophe.”

Frederic Bastiat,1801-1850, French, author

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insanity

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The Lonely Author

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with every passing day
my insanity blossoms
like pink carnations
in a garden of abnormalities
for her inspirations are delusions
that cling to my mind
like a crazy apparition
in my forsaken memory
her words became my asylum
in the circus of this mind
and she the ringmaster
that caused my manic instability
oh, how the doctors fail to see
my muse clasps
unforgettable words
inside my head
with her Velcro poetry

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When Kindness Falls

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When Kindness falls on the ears of the wounded, the cleansing words show them another way. This way allows a wave of past hurts to be washed away into a void, never to be experienced again. The trickling of the words of kindness that now permeate the being of the once hurt soul, can make them believe that they are truly loved for being who they are. The words that take seconds to speak, will remain with the person for a lifetime.

When kindness falls in pools of tears as they witness tragedy, they know that this is the start of the end. When the last tear falls, they will start the change that will never allow this to happen again. As the onlookers become the leaders in implementing a new way of life for themselves and all of those around them, they see less misery and more hope. Their…

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