
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.
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.
What a great idea, thank you for sharing! Since there aren’t any comments for me to read yet, I’ll post. I’m Vee. I love travel, and writing about life, how to cope with mental health issues and from time to time little bouts of sunshine.
Here’s one of my more popular posts: https://millenniallifecrisis.org/2019/05/03/tips-for-coping-with-anxiety-from-a-psychiatrist/
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greetings and peace from LA thanks for the opportunity
https://wordslessspoken781842219.blog/2019/04/20/sing/
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Excellent poem 🙂
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Thank you, 😊
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A beautiful song of praise….
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Thanks Ivor 😊
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Wonderful!
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I really like the form in this one. Thanks for sharing!
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Glad you liked it, Phillip. Thanks for reading 🙂
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Fascinating form and spot on!
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Thanks Eugenia! 😀
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Most welcome!
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brilliant! when one day we visit museums to see what trees are, not hard to imagine these days
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That’s a frightening thought but so true. Thanks for reading friend 🙂
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Just a little lightness, perhaps bringing you some childhood memories.
https://jengoldie493473930.wordpress.com/2019/07/30/night-daddy-for-brewnspew-cafe-challenge-rainbow-july-29-2019/
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beautiful and sweet, Jen.
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Thanks. I had great fun writing the dialogue and gathering the material. It seemed to just evolve as I went. I thank the writers I quoted.
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My pleasure, Jen.
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💜🌼
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🤗🌸
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Truly a beautiful and thoughtful poem, and article Jen and yes, I still believe in the magic of rainbows
https://ivors20.wordpress.com/2019/03/11/my-rainbow/
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Thanks so much Ivor. I think we need more magic. It helps us through.
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There is magic in every day
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Yes Ivor. We just have to look, don’t we? 😊🌼
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Yes, with stardust in pockets and sparkles in hair ✨😊
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😊🌈
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Aww! This is so sweet!
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Thank you I so glad it touched you. :)💜
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It did! You are welcome, Jen. 💙
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😊🌹
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Loved this!
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😊🌼
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Brought more than one tear to my eye. Thanks for sharing this lovely piece!
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We need more tears to clear our vision. Thank you for your lovely compliment. 🙂
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Lightness is just what we need this morning. Thanks!
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Awe thank you Phillip. I’m very happy I was able to do that for you. 🙂
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I’ve always loved that Rainbow Bridge. Thanks Jen!
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Your very welcome. Its brought comfort to me in the past.
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“Try to be a rainbow in someone’s cloud” – Maya Angelou
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Exactly 🙂 ❤🌈😊
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🌷😉
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love the sweet conversation and how the imagination is encouraged. the Norse inspired poem was excellent
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Thank you Gina 🙂 I really enjoy writing positive messages with positive relationships. You’re very kind 🙂
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you write them with much grace Jen
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Thank you. I think I write them the same way people write poetry. The conversation offers itself to me. I rarely write my stories in bits and pieces. I used to write a lot of poetry but this gives me more pleasure in the offering. It pleases me and I can reveal the lesson easier.
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writing conversation is the hardest thing for me! and so i admire how effortlessly it flowed from you. really enjoyed the lesson from this. my friend writes down her convo with her four year old and that gives us lots of laugh and lesson too!
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Yes that sounds like fun! I’m drawing from my inner child, I think. I have no children around me. The kid in me keeps knocking at my proverbial door LOL I don’t mind. She’s helping me write. Now, I’m sounding strange! lol
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haha not at all! sharing our creative process is inspiring to others.
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I guess LOL I’ve written quite a few of these child/parent stories lately. I like sharing them if they can bring a smile to people. That’s why I posted it in the Cafe. Seems it accomplished its purpose.
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most definitely!
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Thanks Gina. That gratifies me 🙂
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Hi! Something to think about this Monday…
https://randomrantsruminationsramblings.wordpress.com/2019/08/05/nelumbo/
Have a good one, cheers!!
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Beautiful. Only when that chakra is open I can write. Or so I think.
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Thanks so much!
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My pleasure.
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I shall now look at the lotus flower in completely different light.. thank you….
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Thank you, Ivor, for your kind comment!
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Beautiful and meaningful, Kunal!
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Thank you, E! 🤗
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You’re welcome!
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A stirring write!
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Thank you, L, really appreciate it
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delicate poetry Kunal, with such deep meaning.
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Thanks, Gina! Grateful for the opportunity!
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Happy Monday Everyone!!
Here is my selection for this week’s event:
https://godoggocafe.com/2019/08/05/all-i-ever-wanted/
Thanks for viewing!!
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Lovingly enjoyable…..
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Thanks so much, Ivor!
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Lovely ♥️
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Thanks so much for your sweet comment!!
xoxo
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So sweet Chuck.
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Thanks so much for your view and sweet comment, Linda!!
xoxo
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Lovingly tender!
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Thank you so much, Dear E!! So appreciate your sweet comment!
xoxo
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My pleasure, Chuck! 😀
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beautiful Charles!
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Thank you so much Gina! I always love it when my words reach out to you!!
xoxoxo
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Reblogged this on The Reluctant Poet and commented:
Come join in the fun at The Go Dog Go Cafe’s free event – Promote Yourself Monday! Come share one of your best poems/pieces with over 4,900 patron. Show off your work and tempt them to follow you?? Be sure and reblog the Event Page on your blog so your followers can promote themselves too!!
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Many thanks for the opportunity to share a post, https://kmorrispoet.com/2019/08/01/my-poem-the-poet-on-the-hill-is-on-place-of-poetry/. Best wishes – Kevin
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That is a gorgeous poem, Kevin.
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Thank you, Gabriela. I am delighted you like it. All the best – Kevin
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Lovely Kevin.
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Thank you!
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really beautiful contemplation and the setting on the hill is perfectly serene
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https://padresramblings.wordpress.com/2019/07/31/the-clouds-of-childhood/ Thanks for the opportunity
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The images the clouds create in our minds, well done…..
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Fond memories are priceless.
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love this form and how the brotehrs love and bond is expressed in your words
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Hello everyone and thank you to out lovely host.
Here is my poem “who are you? https://shortprose.blog/2019/08/04/who-are-you-poem-poetry-published/
Have a wonderful week!
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I loved your closing stanza, I melted within, on ever word
“let’s dwell in silence for a minute…
then tell me how you landed here
and who are you
my darling soneteer?”
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“Weave lies into the brocade of my sofas”
I’m smitten with this line ❤
The way this sonneteer is asked to rest his weary elbows and breathe life into himself is delightful
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such a beautiful share my dear!
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Hello all. My most recent –
https://lookinginyourwindow.com/2019/08/04/i-always-remember/
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Beautifully deep and touching
….. Well done Ian
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Thank you
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This is sort of a trip down memory lane. The way you elucidate the predicament of the speaker with just a few words is commendable, Ian. It is touching and deep, just like ivor20 said
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Thank you
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Touching and lovely piece.
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Thank you
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This is so beautiful and lyrical.
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they do fight to stay. your words really touch my heart
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Hello everyone! Thanks for this opportunity. Sharing my latest here.
https://paeansunpluggedblog.wordpress.com/2019/08/05/illusion/
Have a wonderful week ahead.
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“loneliness has no room in this room for two” – great ending!
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Thank you so much, Phillip!
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so glad you shared this one, one of my favourites from you
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Thanks a lot, Gina for your appreciation.
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Pingback: Tullawalla #11 – Ivor.Plumber/Poet
Again, A big thank you to “Go Dog Go Cafe” for this wonderful opportunity to promote my “Eleven Tullawalla Booklet and my poem “This Is What Matters”
https://ivors20.wordpress.com/2019/08/05/tullawalla-11/
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A pleasure Ivor!
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well done Ivor. #11! WOW!
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Hi,
Here is something that I wrote recently:
https://itrainsinmyheart.wordpress.com/2019/08/01/escape-plan-nayana-nair/
Hope you like it.
Have an awesome day. 🙂 😀
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The finale line was beautifully touching
“girls without heartaches to cure.”
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Thanks a lot 🙂 Glad that you liked it 🙂
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I indeed liked it, Nayana, though I don’t much like the idea of going dolly to be free from the pain and heartache. Not being able to feel helps not to feel pain anymore, but it also prevents us from feeling happiness, peace, and a host of other powerful emotions that heal the problem and don’t just put a veil on it and try to forget it 🙂
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I agree with you on that. Life is about going through all the range of these emotions and it would be pretty empty if our heart remained unaffected by them. Even the bad times make us stronger (sometimes) and sometimes end up defining who we are.
But the thought I had in mind while writing this is not about how we feel for the overall big picture of life. I believe, from my own experience and from witnessing others lives as well, that while we are suffering, while we are broken and at our most vulnerable and helpless state, no one thinks ‘ it is okay, life is about this, i should take it in good spirit’. There is no big picture that you see, and no one in that moment thinks of the wrong and right or even the repercussion of the steps we take in that state. This overall understanding and appreciation of life, most us can only do that in hindsight.
What I mean to capture was that moment by itself, that moment when you are helpless, not only because of your own sorrow, but because you are helpless to protect the ones you love from the issues of their own lives.
I am really glad that you liked my work 🙂
Thank you so much 🙂
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Yeah, no one really thinks that it’s okay and should be taken in good spirit when the noose is at its tightest. These are thoughts that usually come in hindsight. I completely understand how difficult it can be, and that there comes a time when being happy goes out of the window and the focus is on being ‘less sad’. I’ve faced many such days myself. But I still feel that shutting oneself down when it hurts doesn’t help in the long run.
Anyway, your analogy with dolls was quite appealing 🙂
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I agree that some of the approach we have to deal with sorrow, are unhealthy and can end us making a long term damage to ourselves.
Glad that you liked it 🙂 Thanks 🙂
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This is a most intriguing piece! I enjoyed it.
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Thank you so much 🙂 Means a lot 🙂
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This is so wistful and poignant, and the title says it all.
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Glad that you liked it 🙂
Thank you so much 🙂
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we can sit under the shade of broken wooden chair. – love this line, it has hidden meaning so vital for the poetry
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Thank you much dear 🙂
Really glad that you liked it (and that you took notice of those lines). Means a lot 🙂
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Thank you once again!
https://letscuratethoughts.wordpress.com/2019/08/03/the-old-man/
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Oh, we all strive to grow old gracefully and with courage…….
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And so we should. 😊
Reminiscence is a de facto occurrence at so many stages of life. Toggling with what if(s) is beautiful yet scary. This was an example of someone captured in those moments at a later age.
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And so very well done….
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Thank you! 😊
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The imagery you used for time and the metaphor of waves made me see this old man as time itself – while his life might seem like trudging, it is a bit like time as he too moves constantly, not too fast, not too slow 🙂
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I am glad you saw that!
While working on this piece, a line which came to my memory was the one famously used by Sir Walter Scott and Charles Dickens, “time and tide wait for no man”.
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Also, I like your handle. I don’t think you are “agyani” but having an anyani approach to life makes you grow so much more. 😊
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Not many people get the reason I chose that as the blog handle. I’m glad you understand! And yes, I too feel that it opens the door to a lot more growth 😄
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love the flow of your poem, like you were telling a story, growing old in the body but the mind struggling to stay present. beautifully expressed
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Thank you for reading and commenting Gina! Absolutely that was the intent.
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Thank you for reading. 😊
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This is such a brilliant initiative. Thank you for allowing us not only to showcase our works but also connect with others!
This is a little story I wrote a couple weeks ago when I last visited this mental asylum:
https://wp.me/pabwLm-7L
😀
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I liked this piece. The way you narrated your encounter made me want to know more about the person and the story.
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Thank you for reading and sharing your views, Pallavi. This is just one instalment from this thing I have on my blog where a writer visits mental patients every week. His encounters show that our ideas and conceptions around words like ‘mental illness’, ‘insane’, etc are a bit ill-informed and shallow
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Honestly confronting, and how the unknown scares us, and our own perceptions are unknown too
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Exactly, our perceptions are unknown too! Dialogues helps us understand where we are at 🙃
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It’s always a pleasure to be here! https://andrewmcdowellauthor.com/2018/05/22/distinguishable-characters/
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well said and written Andrew, we often discuss minor and major characters in my book club meets, sometimes the minor character outshines the rest due to one particular description by the writer. I often think the minor character is also a nuance of the author/writer’s personality.
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Thank you.
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A horror haiku from last week:
http://everyday-strange.com/2019/07/29/strange-writing-horror-haiku-48/
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Brrr, cold storage….
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Ha, thanks for reading!
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the line midnight blue is intoxicating
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Thank you!
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Here is a short story.
https://johawkthewriter.com/2019/08/03/a-real-rock-star-flash-fiction-challenge/
Have a great week everyone.
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Like the rock of ages, may the real rock star, keep on rockin’
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Love it Ivor. Thanks for reading.
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Love the time shift here!
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Thank you for reading and commenting my friend. ❤
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My pleasure. Thanks for participating!
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loved this one for the title, titles are so important!!
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They really are. This one seemed rock solid. 🙂
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Here is a quick and brief analysis of Tolkien’s character Bilbo Baggins, and why so much of his success in The Hobbit was due to pure luck: https://hisnamewaszach.wordpress.com/2019/05/27/bilbo-baggins-was-he-too-lucky/
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your description reminds of a colleague i work with!
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Funny! Maybe there’s more people who feel like I do
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When I first read the book ages ago, that thought did cross my ind but i thought that hey the hero has to survive till the end right! LOL!
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I appreciate the opportunity: https://theabjectmuse.me/2019/05/14/hammer-meets-nail/
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“It was a magic moment for Mack and Naylene—a moment just begging for a monkey wrench.”
– What a great line!!
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Thanks so much Phillip!
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Brilliantly amusing, I thoroughly enjoyed this piece, the plumber here had a knowing smirk.
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Hah! Thanks so much, ivor20.
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wonderfully original names that make the story so engaging
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Reblogged this on Brave & Reckless and commented:
It is Promote Yourself Monday on the Go Dog Go Cafe. Stop by, drop a link to a piece you have written, and get introduced to some great writers!
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Here’s a poem from last week in response to a writing challenge – https://amanpan.com/2019/08/01/perspective/
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Love your poem
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Thank you so much!
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Welcome ♥️
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Does science have enough time left 🤓
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And will they ever find the real truth? 😎
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No probably, I like the mystery of not knowing….
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ah yes, loved this one E!
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😀
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I hope you enjoy this piece inspired by the writing prompt ‘When God Was a Woman’
https://braveandrecklessblog.com/2019/08/02/featured-post-when-god-was-a-woman-christine-e-ray/
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Frankly forthright and profound, and I like your concept
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Thank you Ivor!
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the wise words in your poem Christine echo the trial of women in the bible. I guess that’s why we have a special place in Proverbs 31 and wisdom is a woman’s 7 pillared house. God as a woman assigned these qualities to us, i love how you created this poem.
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Thank you for allowing me to share! Here is my link to “Choose Wisely”
https://thebrokeninsideofme.com/2019/08/04/choose-wisely/
xoxo
♥️me
Thebrokeninsideofme.com
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Yes – what are we going to choose now?
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I choose the good. Thank you for taking the time to read and comment ♥️
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My choice
Is of course
My voice
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the lists for good always outweigh the bad
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Thanks for this opportunity! Here’s a piece that i’m most of you will enjoy.
http://www.kaleidoscopeofmylife.com/2019/03/13/vasudev-in-my-neighbourhood/
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A Fascinating article, thank you for sharing
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Thank you 🙂
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My pleasure
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I would still be mulling his advice as well!
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thank you so much for introducing me to this culture!
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Reblogged this on Charmed Chaos and commented:
Good Morning everyone! It’s Promote Yourself Monday at the Go Dog Go Cafe. Pop over to the site, read and share one of your poems/stories with others. Have a great week- Linda
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Happy Monday all! It’s going to be a hot one here in Arizona today- 111 Degrees F. Here is one I wrote last week, and I am looking forward to reading what you have shared! https://charmedchaos.com/2019/08/02/tangled/
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Sensual and just as hot as this Texas heat 😍
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Thank you!
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My pleasure, thanks for sharing!
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May the fire always burn
For two hearts in turn
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Delightfully steamy Linda!
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Me and heat are old frenemies. Definitely enjoyed this.
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Thank you!
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sizzling!
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Thanks so much! Here’s one I wrote last week from a prompt. Turned out better than I expected. Enjoy!
https://phillipkscott.com/2019/08/01/typewriter/
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Yes, this is why we write, the fascination of seeing our thoughts roll out on the paper in front of our eyes.
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I am a fan!
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Thanks 🙂
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enjoyed this very much! words becoming feelings, colours and just flying off your page. i see this poem could be an excellent spoken word piece. really loved your creativity here
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Thanks so much 🙂
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Here’s one of my most recent flash fiction pieces, which I greatly enjoyed writing: https://eluminoracreations.wordpress.com/2019/07/28/flash-fiction-five-children-rdp/. Thanks for reading!
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Cleverly insightful and raw….
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Thank you! 🙂
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You definitely left me wanting to know more about them and how they all ended up at that moment together
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really good flash! lots of detail packed in few lines, but enough to get my imagination running wild. brilliant!
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Thank you! I plan to write more about them.
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Here is something I wrote today. Thank you so much for allowing us to share our work here 🙂💕
https://poetryforhealing.com/2019/08/05/destination-unknown/
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Lovely Christine!
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Nicely done!
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Thanks Christine
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oh yes! the journey is the prize, precious words Christine!
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Thank you my dear Gina💕
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Hello 🙂
I’m a short story writer from Sacramento. New to blogging. This is a portion of a short story about dealing with post-partum depression, but it’s not depressing, I promise!
https://kellepeach.wordpress.com/2019/08/03/motherhood/
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welcome K! that was quite a piece!
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Thank you for reading 😀
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https://beckiesmentalmess.blog/2019/06/18/phoenix-poetry/
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Very inspiring Beckie
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Thank you so very much! 🤗
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i take great encouragement from this, thank you
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Thank you, I’m so happy this spoke to you in a positive way. God Bless 🙏
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very much!
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My first time sharing on promote yourself. Hope you enjoy.
https://sirhanz.home.blog/2019/08/03/thinking-about-not-thinking/
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Thanks for joining in!
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😊
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Welcome Sirhanz!
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Thanks! I really do appreciate the welcome.
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lovely poem, welcome!
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Glad you liked it!😁
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hi all. Here’s mine~: https://eastelmhurstagogo.wordpress.com/2019/08/01/ultimate-torment/
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intriguing words!
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Thanks
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Thank you for this bro
https://somekid.family.blog/
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