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.
Hello Everyone and thank you to our host.
Here is one of my most recent poem “the miracle of you.” I hope you enjoy it.
https://shortprose.blog/2019/04/06/the-miracle-of-you-poem-poetry/
I will be back in a few hours to read your posts.
Have a fabulous week.
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I love the striking imagery!
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You are too kind, Paul. Thank you!
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My most sincere thanks, Paul. This is thanking you the second time. I think my first thank you was spammed.
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Your imagery is stunningly poetic…
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Thank you kindly!
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Absolutely marvelous. Love the soft tones of this.
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Thank you from the bottom of my heart, my dear!
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I think my comments to other posts are getting spammed. I can’t see them after posting.
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A magical piece!
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Thank you from the bottom of my heart Eugenia! I am so grateful for your wonderful comment.
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You’re welcome.
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🙂
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Happy Monday!!! Hope you enjoy this weeks post – One Heart – Not Two
https://godoggocafe.com/2019/04/08/one-heart-not-two/
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Glorious, and there’s a song for this one…..
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Love it!
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I’m pleased you like the sond
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Great love poem!
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A beautiful and romantic piece, Chuck!
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Many thanks for the opportunity to share a post, https://kmorrispoet.com/2019/04/05/good-night/. Best wishes – Kevin
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Maybe it’s hard to always to be a Gentleman
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I like a gentleman. Thanks Kevin.
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Happy new week.
Just a little thing from the other day thus time.
https://ederren.wordpress.com/2019/04/01/flowering-fields-of-fortune/
Enjoy!
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Beautifully coined, in fields of gold……
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It was a nice walk. Thank you.
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Haha Paul , I’m sure I annoy her plenty….
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That makes two of us, Ivor! It’s our duty!
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Here is my response to last weeks “Tuesday Writing prompt” (better late than never, right? 😉
https://iidorun.wordpress.com/2019/04/08/drop-growing-cascading-a-cascade-poem/
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An interesting perspective on cascading
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I’ve been thinking a lot about human interactions and wondering if the “contagion effect” can be positive. Like here on WP – everyone is so friendly and i think that positive spirit gets passed around. What if it happened in real life?
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I like how you tied these 2 prompts together. Well done.
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Thank you so much! I take too long with writing often times so I appreciate this “second chance” forum to post my responses to the prompts.
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Well done on the prompts!
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Thank you! I am glad you think so! 💐
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You’re welcome.
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Hi all.
Here is a recent short story I wrote over the weekend. I appreciate if you gave it a read and let me know what you think.
https://theunfinishedscripts.wordpress.com/2019/04/07/problem-is-were-all-going-to-die/
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A profound love story, the speed of ups and downs, but, singing in the rain, life goes on…..
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Here’s a fresh flash fiction as a part of the April A to Z challenge:
https://thedarknetizen.wordpress.com/2019/04/08/a-to-z-challenge-g-gremlins/
Happy reading! 🙂
Is anyone else here doing the challenge?
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Gremlins flying
Bringing down aircraft
I’m taking off to New York soon
I hope they don’t like a full moon
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Hey there, GDG club. Here’s a short poem on my recurring dream :
https://roshniramanan.wordpress.com/2019/04/05/recurring-dreams-of-a-search-poem/
I’m thrilled to discover new writers here! Have a wonderful week ahead 💯☺️
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Nice poem u’ve got there
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I’m so glad you think so. Thanks a ton!
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You are welcome☺
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Keep dreaming
Remain searching
Finality occurs
Not a shadow of doubt
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I really appreciate your wonderful short poem and what it conveys. Thank you so very much!
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The elusive search. Well done.
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Thanks a lot for making time to read and write here. I really appreciate it.
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Love your poem.
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Thank you so very much! I’m so grateful.
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You are welcome dear!
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Beautiful poem, my dear!
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Thank you so much for the read and comment. I really appreciate it!
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Well done! Unique and rhythmic.
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Thank you so much for taking the time to read. Have a good day!
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My pleasure!
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Hello and happy Monday. Here is a piece I wrote last week, called dreams of herself. Thank you to all of you.
http://inmindandout.home.blog/2019/04/03/dreams-of-herself/
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I find it’s good to dream a lot, and so often we are the centre of our subconscious thoughts, and often we catch ourselves swimming on the colourful edge of reality….
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Just beautiful how she comes to love herself and leave those footprints. Excellent work!
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Beautiful piece.
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Thank you!!
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You’re welcome!
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Pingback: Five Shades Of Grey – Ivor.Plumber/Poet
Thank you to MidWest Fantasy, and ” Go Dog Go Cafe”, for the chance publish my poem here on “Promote Youself Monday”
https://ivors20.wordpress.com/2019/04/08/five-shades-of-grey/
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Ooo, that one was fun!
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Thank you Kim, I was inspired by a “Imagist” style poem by Gina of, Singledust, I’m nor sure whether I got the format right, but I gave it a go…..
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You are welcome. Love “Thor’s hammer roars”. Goes well with the pic!
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Wow! Love this, Ivor!
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Thank you Eugenia, the photo prompt stirred my imagination
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You’re welcome, Ivor.
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Hi everyone. I always wait for mondays and thursdays here. Monday for my posts and thursday to share the posts I enjoyed, with you all.
So for Monday here is my another post full of positivity…
https://meriabhivysktiyaan.wordpress.com/2019/03/23/five-benifits-of-being-possitive/
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Yes, being positive and happy is quite infectous
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Yes, I completely do agree with you.
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Hope everyone is having a great start to the week. Thanks again for the chance to share. https://padresramblings.wordpress.com/2019/04/06/silence/
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Sounds of silence is essential for a calm soul
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Lovely shape to a beautiful poem.
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Perfect form having each line be 1 less word until all that’s left is silence. Great!
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Thank you Go Dog Go
https://lookinginyourwindow.com/2019/04/02/always-searching-for-a-tune/
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One Of Us Cannot Be Wrong……. might be your tune…..
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Thanks for sharing this Ivor.
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My pleasure 😊
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Nicely done here.
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Just wrote this one last night!! Thank you so much for the opportunity!
https://nuthousecentral.wordpress.com/2019/04/08/norman-the-great/
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We all have our own style of special needs ………
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Hi folks,
Yes, I am married to a cheeseseller — his other obsession is apples, which a sooooooo much easier to write poems about:
https://thecheesesellerswife.wordpress.com/2019/04/06/the-wilfulness-of-apples/
🙂
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Ah, nature trying to break free
Helped by a chilly winter breeze
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Clever thinking of apples as willful.
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😀
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Ah, nature trying to break free
Helped by a chilly winter breeze
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Spring makes me think of bouquets of beauty. Here’s a poem of mine. May your week be filled with beauty writers!
https://midwestfantasy.wordpress.com/2019/04/03/bouquet-of-him/
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Beautiful!
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An excellent blend of oo la la and a lot left for the imagination.
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Love to keep everyone guessing!
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🙂
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love from LA thanks for the opportunity 🙂
https://wordslessspoken781842219.blog/yonder-stands-and-other-notes/somelogue/
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Self discovery is a process.
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Hey everybody, here’s a Monday smile from me:
https://randomrantsruminationsramblings.wordpress.com/2019/04/08/pasta-la-vista/
Thanks for hosting this! Cheers!
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I really enjoyed this post!
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Thank you!!!
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My pleasure 🙂
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Ha! This made me giggle.
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Am glad it did! Thanks very much
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Really enjoyed your pasta poem.
Always glad for a reason to smile !
Thank you.
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Thank you, good doctor! 👍
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You’re welcome.
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CHARITY BEGINS AT HOME ! A Henry Preston once took the meaning of this phrase to a whole new level. Jeffrey Archer talks about him in his short story. Although written years back,still we will be able to relate to it as we live in a world full of scams 😋
Find more about this interesting story from :
http://perceptionsunplugged.in/posts/books/charity-begins-at-home/
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Thank you for the opportunity to share! If you are looking for a pottery piece writing prompt, look no further! This edition’s winner of Name that Vase, will be chosen by reader’s choice, so be sure to stop by and check out the stories in the comments, vote for your favourites, or even submit your own!
https://rakupottery.ca/2019/04/08/name-that-vase-readers-choice-edition/
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I did submit but I do not see my comment there.
I want this beautiful vase to be called “Maya” or “Maia”
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Let me see if I can find out what happened. Give me a few minutes.
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Thank you so much!!!!
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I can’t find it anywhere. Can you try again now? (sorry)!
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I will. Please let me k now if it gets through.
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I do not know what’s happening. WP refuses to connect to your site. I am so sad.
Could you please add my name on the comments?
It’s such a gorgeous vase. Blue like the most beautiful sky. I want to call it Maya or Maia as in ILLUSION .
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I will absolutely add your name and suggestion in the comments. So strange, I can’t find any reason on my end for that at all.
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Thank you from the bottom of my heart. WP can’t find any reason either.
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You know what is really bizarre? When I posted the comment it said ‘duplicate comment detected’, which must mean your original comment is in some kind of wordpress limbo LOL I have it posted now and thank you for your idea and kind words. I hope you are having a good Monday!
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It is WP. Thank you for your efforts. I really appreciate them. I love that vase so much.
Enjoy the rest of your day 😊
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Villanelle I wrote for NaPoWriMo:
https://everydaystrangeblog.wordpress.com/2019/04/05/strange-writing-villanelle-3/
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Happy Monday everyone,
Here is my poem
https://meghasworldsite.wordpress.com/2019/04/03/reluctant-follower/
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Happy Monday! Here is a senyru just posted this morning – https://amanpan.blog/2019/04/08/lost-and-found/
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Wonderful piece, Eugenia.
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Thank you! 🙂
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My pleasure!
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Here’s mine~: https://eastelmhurstagogo.wordpress.com/2019/04/07/im-on-fire-dwight-twilley-band/
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Here’s my post. I woke up this morning lost in memories, so this is not what I’d intended to offer. but, as they say “It is what it is.”
https://jengoldie493473930.wordpress.com/2019/04/01/her-name-was-alice-2/
❤🌼
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Good morning folks! Here’s a haibun about a Bishops Walk I created a few weeks ago. 🙂 https://theresaly520.wordpress.com/2019/03/26/haibun-a-bishops-walk/
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Superb post!
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Thank you very much Eugenia! 🙂
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Reblogged this on words less spoken.
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Hi everyone!
Here is one of my latest poems called ‘Cage’. I hope you’ll enjoy it.
https://painted-poems.blog/2019/04/04/cage/
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Thanks for the chance to share.
Here’s a poem on living life (or not) by design:
https://rivrvlogr.wordpress.com/2019/04/08/learning-the-hard-way/
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Hi everyone! I am a rower and my latest post is about an amazing rowing tour I took last summer from the north of France to the south of Belgium:
http://www.labeillefrancaise.net/rowing-tour-meuse-sedan/
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This is a poem about self-image and “being on the foreground of one’s own life”
http://www.alienideology.wordpress.com/poetry-a-self-portrait-redrawn
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Busy day here today! I have a lot of reading to catch up on.
Here is my piece for Day 8 of April PAD and #NaPoWriMo.
https://mkvecchitto.com/2019/04/08/lady-luck/
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Oh that green Lady Luck. Loved this!!
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Thank you!
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I really enjoyed your pollen. Thanks so much for sharing.
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Hello everyone.
Here is my poem.
https://paeansunpluggedblog.wordpress.com/2019/04/07/the-gift-of-me/
Thank you so much. Have a wonderful week ahead.
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Rory, of A Guy Called Bloke, featured my blog in his Truly Inspire series.
I can’t think of a better way to promote myself than my answers to Rory’s insightful questions.
You can read these by clicking on the link below :
https://aguycalledbloke.blog/2019/04/13/salted-caramel-truly-inspired-64/
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