One of our missions at the Go Dog Café is to create an inviting and engaged community. In order to achieve that mission, we are introducing new features that allow us to get to know each other, and our writing, better. One of these new features is Guest Barista Saturday. Starting Saturday, August 3rd we … Continue reading Now Accepting Submissions for Guest Barista Saturdays
Dreaming of Home – Michele Vecchitto
Hope lives herein these remembered daysbeneath the sky, ever blue Borne of secondsof red poppies and silvery starshope lives here Faith in that beyond our meansbeyond our graspintertwined within changing minds Synchronicity, credence to the ephemeralthe Earth as She was and could beHope, hope lives here Such is my lullabyas I sing my way homenow … Continue reading Dreaming of Home – Michele Vecchitto
Promote Yourself Monday, November 11, 2019
Welcome to Promote Yourself Monday. All Go Dog Go Cafe community members are invited to post one link 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 … Continue reading Promote Yourself Monday, November 11, 2019
THE FLAMES OF AUTUMN
By Sue Vincent and Charles Robert Lindholm Can you see the first golden flames of autumn start to show as the leaves burn and turn into glorious colors as summer drifts away on the memories of yesterdays Can you smell it in the crisp morning air with the hint of a mist on the ground … Continue reading THE FLAMES OF AUTUMN
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By Charles Robert Lindholm POETRY = Scribblings Of My Heart Copyright © 2017 Charles Robert Lindholm - The Reluctant Poet All Rights Reserved - Please Come View My Archives!!
Shifting Amber- Michael Erickson
Follow me 'round the ends of this Earth, Upon outstretched wings of gold. Rest upon a bed of fresh down, And forget the coming sleep of ice. Bask in glowing leaves so burnished, As crisp Autumn's breath kisses your cheek. Lose yourself among these walls of shifting amber, Let go each laden woe. For now, … Continue reading Shifting Amber- Michael Erickson
Week Three: An Unquiet Mind Writing Prompt Challenge
This November Brave and Reckless, Go Dog Go Café, and Heretics, Lovers, and Madmen are teaming up to host An Unquiet Mind Writing Prompt Challenge. At the beginning of each week, we will provide daily writing prompts inspired by titles of memoirs and novels that explore life with mental illness. We will also provide the Goodread links for the … Continue reading Week Three: An Unquiet Mind Writing Prompt Challenge
Cloudless Bluebird Sky
“It was a beautiful bright autumn day, with air like cider and a sky so blue you could drown in it.” ― Diana Gabaldon, Outlander Under a cloudless bluebird sky picturesque autumn ambles in dressed in finest colors of amber, scarlet, gamboge, and I anticipating the thrill of cooler weather dream of nights by a fire sipping red wine and sharing with you all … Continue reading Cloudless Bluebird Sky
Hold Your Ground – prikcab (Ian Perlman)
blowing through every season it's nature’s matter no rhyme nor reason carrying to and fro sometimes taking what you’d rather not go what is received in the shift you cannot predict burdens and gifts it may seem quiet on days calm and still changes linger, don’t deny it all around … Continue reading Hold Your Ground – prikcab (Ian Perlman)
THROWBACK FRIDAY – Inky Thoughts – Eugenia
an unfortunate ebb in gratitude creates a shoulder pad attitude a flowing of virtuous thoughts must not be all for naught let’s bridle a well-inked feather share the will to come together © Franci Eugenia Hoffman A gander at me – I enjoyed a dedicated career in the insurance industry for over 20 years being … Continue reading THROWBACK FRIDAY – Inky Thoughts – Eugenia
THROWBACK FRIDAY: Play
Go outside and play - magical words when you're a child - unheard as an adult. But is it really? Go out in the world and play. Like playing a character in a theatrical performance or on film...we slip into characters from the moment we wake up. And like in many superhero films and theatre, … Continue reading THROWBACK FRIDAY: Play
