Day: August 3, 2021

I am releasing the toxins of the past! 💋 For 8 years I was hidden and hindered by a jealous man who restrained me from wearing a bikini…crazy right? I am purging out the past and set myself free! Saying here I am world I am free! I mean hell it’s a bathingsuit….isn’t that something we all wear? This is liberating ❀ Click For pic ❀ I mean damn it’s beach wear đŸ˜ŽđŸ˜‰

~ thereluctantpoet

What do you think????

GlitzyRitzyMommy

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There Must Be Reason

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Sgeoil

“A good garden may have some weeds.”
– Thomas Fuller

We pass judgement
declare a weed
for no pretty petals
to catch the eye
 
a trespasser
hiding in the shadows
an unwelcome competitor
for sun and water

and in our view
the verdant leaf
fails to meet
the dress code

but nature speaks 
so who are we to filter
out this life -
there must be reason

©Heather Carr-Rowe

Bushboys World- Last On the Card Challenge - July 2021

Eugi's Weekly Prompt - Petals

Ragtag Daily Prompt - Filter

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Promote Yourself Mondays, August 2, 2021

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Go Dog Go Café

Welcome toPromote Yourself Monday. All Go Dog Go Cafe community members are invited to postonelink to one specific piece of their writing (600 words or less please!) they have published on their blog, Facebook page, or Instagram feed 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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Do A Random Act of Kindness

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Be Inspired..!!

It doesn’t have to be in the form of a nice compliment this time. You don’t even need to communicate it to the target person. Just do an incognito service to someone. See how this makes you feel. Think how many times you received that..

We are subjects to random acts of kindness all the time. There’s always somebody doing something nice for us without our knowledge. And sometimes they’re doing it even without knowing who we really are.

Kindness is never about the receiver’s identity. It doesn’t really matter who’s going to receive it. It matters more who’s going to give it away. Kindness is about yourself. About compassion.

Pick a random act of kindness and do it for an unknown person. And after that move on.

How To Do A Random Act Of Kindness

If you really want to do an act of kindness, congrats. It’s one of


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Weekend Writing Prompt- Vivid

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Keep it alive

Sammi Cox is the host of Weekend Writing Prompt

Vivid

Challenge

wk 219 vivid

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Vivid and real

The colors I see with my eyes closed

In psychedelic hues, swirling and mixing

Then separating into individual shade just to mingle again

They take the golden glow of the sun

Or the dark blue of the twilight at dusk

A starburst of shiny orbs lighting up the dark


Vivid and real

The colors I see with my eyes opened 

Green blending in with earthy browns, representation of life

Cloudy grey mixing with the azure sky

Illuminating and brightening, dimming and then fading


Life’s vividcolors

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Word count; 89

#Keepitalive

#WeekendWritingPrompt

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MLMM- Photo Challenge # 375

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Keep it alive

Nekneeraj is the host of Photo Challenge

@Pixabay

Use above image as inspiration for a poem or short story.

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You hurt me with unkind words

And then offer an offhand apology 

You think this will make it all better

What you don’t see is how your words hurt me

I cannot show you my heart which is broken in pieces 

I may smile, a gesture to hide my hurt

But deep inside, there is a gash which is never healed

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#Keepitalive

#PhotoChallenge

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Reena’s Xploration Challenge # 192

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Keep it alive

Reena is the host of Reena’s Xploration Challenge

PROMPT #192

It’s an image prompt.

There is no restriction on length of the piece. There is no last date either, unless you wish to be featured in the Weekly Wrap.

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Holding it with all his might

Lest that it may break free from his grasp

This is all that he has earned in his life

A little house to call his own 

An umbrella of security to guard against the rainy days

A few meager possessions, threadbare and poorly

But he had his pride intact

Pride he had in his impeccable honesty 

And a reputation that wasn’t tarnished by temptation

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Last week I played devil’s advocate, ridiculing the virtues of honesty. So it’s just fitting that this week we take pride in threadbare respectability of honest living.

#Keepitalive

#RXC

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