This week’s writing prompt is:
Animals
Many of us are animals lovers, with pets that we lavish with affection. But there are so many other beautiful animals – in the jungle, forest, in fields, on farms and so on. What animals come to mind for you? Cute cats? Cheeky monkeys? Little lambs?
You don’t have to share your work, but I’d love to see what you come up with if the prompt gives you inspiration. Last week’s prompt was HOLIDAYS. A few of you sent in your wonderful pieces:
Holidaze
I guess it means different things now, but when I was a kid, holidays meant going to Mississippi to see my grandmother, grandad, all my cousins, and their parents for Thanksgiving/family reunion. I don’t remember if we were there for a week or two, but to us kids, it seemed like forever. As kids, we would pick up pecans from my grandparents’ pecan orchard; my grandmother would give us a dime a bucket. We used to fight over it all the time. As we picked, we horsed around with each other, and I would dream of the delicious pie that grandmother would make with all of our pecans. Surely, she didn’t need all of them for the pie, but we didn’t know better. She probably just wanted us out of sight so the adults could carry on a proper conversation! There were five of us picking, but my younger brother wasn’t included, at the time I’m speaking of, he was too small.
Besides, my grandmother and mother wanted him with them because they were probably afraid he’d get trampled as we made a mad dash for the pecans!
Sand, sun and the sea
Everything with glee
I’m going on holiday
Visiting my mum
Drinking coco rum
All bags are packed by the way
Reunion with friends
Firenze or Ardennes
Reminiscing of the past
Of loves and heartaches
With some wine and cakes
Friends for life no need to ask
And with Him Indoors
We’re cycling outdoors
Having ice-cream in the park
Hike in the mountains
Walk beside fountains
Hand in hand we make our mark*
*Alouette
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The Philippines is the best place
To travel and to be
Where I come from and my space
Always sun and the sea
Happiest people on the earth
And you will have your money’s worth
Happiest people
Happiest people
Will always return since from birth
The Philippines is the best place
To snorkel and to swim
To relax such an easy pace
Do whatever at whim
Watch the sunset at the same hour
With spring rolls and sweet and sour
Watch the sunset
Watch the sunset
And the beach for all to scour
The Philippines is the best place
To travel any time
I wouldn’t trade it any place
Have friends there for long time
It is the shore that I call home
It may not be Paris or Rome
It is the shore
It is the shore
And I’ll always be there to roam**
**Trijan Refrain
Holidays, more memories of adventures long gone by. Camping in a tent at Easter thirty years ago.
We’d cycled up to Clitheroe in Lancashire and used our cycle trailer to carry our camping gear. The holiday started out sunny, but the wind picked up and by the time we had the tent up the snow was blowing sideways at it. I even wrote C 4 R on the snow on the side of the tent.
We went off for a cycle into town and stopped off at a tiny cinema. It was very posh, there were photos of the Queen in the ladies loo! I remember we got a bit of warmth while watching the cat from outer space.
We had dinner at the local pub and cycled back to the tent afterwards. Luckily it was downhill but we were slipping around on the falling snow. We ended up putting on extra clothes, three jumpers and an extra pair of trousers each.
We found out in the morning it had been minus 11°C. The rest of the week was almost as cold and we cycled back in deep snow!
This is a great topic. Are there any requirements wrt length and style?
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No – there are no restrictions. Any style and any length 😊
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