Four seasons

Diana’s prompt guidelines

  • Theme: The changing seasons;
  • Form:Acrostic (the first letters of each line in each stanza spell out a given word);
    • Four stanzas:
      • One stanza for each of the four seasons – ‘autumn’, ‘winter’, ‘spring’, ‘summer’ (in any order);

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Feeling joy that summer has passed

Air conditioning switched off

Let in the fresh air, open windows

Leaves turning yellow, falling off

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When will winter start- you ask

In a few weeks, for a few weeks

No snow, no log fire you expect

The most is the blanket we use

Every year winter gets shorter and shorter

Really it’s just a glimpse of winter

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Spring, another micro season

Perhaps an interlude between winter and summer

Rain and blooming flowers

In the gardens to make life joyful

Now it’s time to say goodbye

Gone is the spring in a few weeks

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Summer is long, summer is hot

Understanding this, accept this beforehand will

Make life bearable as you’ll already be prepared

Make smart choices with investing in air conditioning

Except that it will be here for 3/4th or the year

Resign yourself to its high temps and humidity

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In response to; W3 # 130, hosted by David

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My favorite mug

Your Friday prompt for Stream of Consciousness Saturday is “mug.’” Use it any way you’d like. Have fun!

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Most people have a favorite mug. Mine is one that keeps my coffee warm. I don’t care what color or shape it is as long as it is big, and has lots of coffee that doesn’t cools off in 5 minutes.

Mugs with mug shots, with slogans of the best mom or the best wife are not to my taste. I like mine to be plain and completely replaceable.

Who wants a mug that they love, which has been chipped around the edges as it aged and perhaps has a crack in it too? People love it too much to throw it away or replace it and hence keep on using it despite it being broken and unhygienic in all probability.

Microwave-safe and dishwasher-safe are the qualities that every mug should have.

However, I do have a mug with temperature control that keeps my coffee or tea warm for hours. I really love to use it when traveling.

What’s your favorite mug?

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In response to; Linda’s SoCS

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No fascination for horror

 

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I must admit that I’m no fan of horror 

Not in fiction nor in real life

I try to steer away from all things scary 

It’s not that I scare easily, it’s just that 

There is no fascination for me in this genre

But there are times I scare myself silly 

When I let my imagination run wild

Thinking of things that can happen 

Things that might happen or that 

Were already happening, that I didn’t know about

It comes from having a too fertile imagination 

And can be the cause of many anxious moments 

So as a precaution, I try to cap these flights of fancy

And keep myself firmly rooted in the reality 

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First posted; September 28, 2020

Reshared for; Weekly Prompts- Fascination, hosted by Sue W and GC

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Away from the light of the truth

Reena has given us an image prompt this week.

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Eschewing the light of truth

They carry their own light

In its faint gleam, they stumble

Hiding from that what enlightens

The world and does away with

The darkness of ignorance, stupidity

Half the world hides from knowledge

Bearing the umbrella of disbelief

Living in a cocoon of make belief

How unfortunate are those who have eyes

But don’t want to see the reality

Have ears but refuse to listen

Have tongues but use them only to

Spew lies- lies that come easily to them

I seek refuge from these close-minded people

Their vicious lies and tricks

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In response to; RXC #353, hosted by Reena

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When I Pretend!

When I pretend to be happy

I feel joyful and elated for real

When I pretend to be grateful

The gratitude fills my heart for real

When I pretend that I have enough

I feel rich and blessed for real

When I pretend that my humdrum life is exciting

I start living an adventurous life for real

When I pretend my health is robust

I start feeling strong and full of vitality

When I pretend that all people are good

Why don’t they then become good for real?

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Dora’s dVerse prompt;

So your challenge is to either use repetition as a rhetorical device (repetition of a word or phrase or line) in constructing your poem

In response to Moonwashed Musings Weekly Prompt – Pretend, hosted by Eugenia

And in response to; dVerse, hosted by Dora this week.

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Playful antics of the wind

Today I would like you to choose three (or more) words from the given list and write a syllabic poem using them. Please feel free to add plural, past tense, etc. to the words as needed.

Word List:
wave
smell
the
garden
speak

I have written a tanka with five words from the list!

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The garden was lit

Sweet smelling flowers waved at

Children playing

The wind spoke to me briskly

As it blew my scarf away

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In response to; Tanka Tuesday, where Li ( Ms Jade Li) is our host this week

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Fall colors are the flowers of autumn

Satisfy your thirst for seasonal color! Write a haibun that alludes to either Fall foliage or Spring blossoms.

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The summer is reluctantly winding down as if it doesn’t want to go but knows that it has outstayed its welcome by many weeks. The autumn weather has a shorter window to perform its magic, especially in an area like ours where most trees just shed their leaves without a dramatic changing of colors.

But here and there I catch sight of a tree with yellow leaves, shining in the dim sunlight and a few bunches of them dried out and fallen on the ground.

When flowers are

Sparse – bright leaves make it up

With a display

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Of the lovely shades

Of rust, orange and yellow

These are fall flowers

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In response to; dVerse haibun, hosted by Frank this week

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Caught in a web

They waits patiently and silently

Hidden unobtrusively in darkness

Unsuspecting victims are ensnared

By trickery or by connivance with evil

Destroying innocence with false promises

Be on your guard- spot these criminals and out them immediately

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In response to; Six Sentence Story- Web, hosted by Denise

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Sharing about family vacations

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Here are this week’s questions:

1. Growing up, did your parents take you to visit your uncles, aunts and grandparents regularly?

Since my mom had passed away when we were very young, we had little contact with her family- my maternal grandparents would visit once or twice a year. But we had our paternal grandparents come and stay with us for months or we would go to their home in another city in the school vacations. We enjoyed our stay there as my younger uncle lived with my grandparents with his young family and we used to enjoy meeting and playing with them.

2. If so, did you enjoy those visits and try to get out of them?

We, at least I enjoyed, my visits with our grandparents! My grandfather was a very friendly and sweet person. He would play chess and cards with us. Told us stories from his youth and gave me the free run of his large collection of storybooks.


3. If not, did you parents take you on outings (the zoo, beach etc).

When we visited other cities, we did the touristy stuff like going to the zoo, malls, or the beach when we went to the only city by the sea in our country. At that time there was only Karachi by the seaside. Now other cities have been developed too.

4. What kind of holidays did you have with your parents?

Mostly visiting relatives. We weren’t that well off so we would stay with family. If we went to a hill station near our city, it would be a day trip. I remember trying every flavor of cone ice cream they had there.

5. Did you have pets of your own, or just a family pet?

Never had pet as a family growing up. 3 years ago we adopted a rescue kitten but he was finally let go to be an outdoor cat.

Dinky- a fully grown cat

Gratitude:

The autumn is here, and days have become shorter by at least an hour and a half from 2 months ago. The sunsets are amazing and so are the sunrises.

Sunrise reflected in our neighbors window
Sunset
Lemons

In response to; Di’s Share Your World

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