This week’s writing prompt is
CHRISTMAS
Isn’t it a little early to have a prompt on Christmas, you may ask. But I’ve seen lots of Christmas trees up already, there are gifts in the shops and advent calendars ready to go up on Sunday, so perhaps it’s not too early. What do you think? What does Christmas mean to you? Spending time with family? Turkey, mince pies and Christmas cake? Santa Claus? Christmas movies? Or are you glad when it’s all over?
You don’t have to share your work, but I always enjoy seeing what you come up with if the prompt gives you inspiration. Here is the work you shared on last week’s prompt WISHES.
If we can dream it, we can do it
Wishes to fulfill, as long as we commit
Business class travel to far-flung countries
Champagne, caviar, rolex and sundries
Enjoy the early retirement on the yacht
Gorgeous hat we wear in the race in Ascot
Keep our wishes close to our hearts
Appreciate beauties and fine arts
Close our eyes and make a wish
Abracadabra swish and whish
My three wishes:
Top of the list would be to give Hubby a 100% clean bill of health, cure all ills and make him completely pain free. (Hopefully that wouldn’t use them all up)
I would wish to see a return of common sense and compassion from our new government who are doing an excellent job of trying to kill off the elderly, sick, and disabled with their policies. Top of that list would be to ensure that all pensioners over 75 got free everything, including their heating allowance, free TV licence, and medical care, without having to jump through hoops or complete 263 page forms of confusion.
Finally, a cure for cancer… ALL cancers.
Three wishes in Time
Wishes is the past form of something we can’t afford in the present so we try to believe that someday something good we desire will become true.
I wish I had my dad back.
I wish I could have talked to my mom that last month of her life, when her disease robbed her of sense and speech.
I wish we had a nation we could be proud of without all the division.
I would have three wishes 1. That the world countries would throw out any leader who wants war. 2. That the top carbon emission countries would help each other meet reduction targets. 3. That every child in the world goes to bed every night feeling full of life and love.
Why is it always three wishes? Why does everyone insist on that number? The number 3 seems to have great significance in fairy tales, for some reason…
Anyway, in this case, why three, when surely just one is enough? One must only wish for no more wishes – “I wish I didn’t wish”, in other words, which doesn’t imply that every dream and desire and little bit of avarice is instantly sated, but rather that such longings cease to exist – one wants for nothing and seeks no change, and is blissful in the moment, no matter the circumstances.
Is that too much to ask for? Probably. Maybe it’s a death wish, in its way. So be careful what you wish for.
Because you guys can share my other two wishes.
Linking People 2003:
In London where dreams softly sway,
Three wishes were granted one day!
For peace to advance,
For life’s better chance,
For cruise in the Caribbean bay!
I’ve had some luck with wishes
My life is mostly varied dishes
One day sunset hues in a wine here
Then I complain about a salmon sear
Macaroni and cheese says it is clear
Comfort food wishes are very dear
Salad, a dish so variety hued
You forget it’s a healthy food
Now soup might be an inspiration
Wishing it’s already a made creation
It takes work and imagination
To cook up wishes that cause elation
All in all wishes can come true
With perseverance and action too.
In the hush of evening’s glow,
Where dreams and stars begin to flow,
A whispered thought, a gentle sigh,
With every breath, a wish takes flight.
Upon a candle’s flickering beam,
The heart unfolds like petals’ dream,
Each thought a ship with sails unfurled,
Set course to wander, grace the world.
A wish for peace, both near and far,
To light the paths where shadows are,
For laughter’s echo in the air,
And kindness woven everywhere.
A wish to heal the aching soul,
To mend the cracks, to make us whole,
To hold a hand, to share the weight,
And turn despair to hope’s sweet fate.
A wish for love, its warm embrace,
That ribbons hearts in softest grace,
To find a spark in glances new,
And dance beneath a sky so blue.
A wish for time—may it be kind,
To savor moments, now entwined,
With every heartbeat, every glance,
To weave our stories, take a chance.
In every wish, the human thread,
A tapestry of hope we spread,
So close your eyes, let dreams unite,
In quiet whispers, wishes ignite.
Chinese Dragon Colour Palette
Red scales for good luck
Adorn his snake like body
Mythical creature
Main guest at dragon dances
And various festivals
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Shimmering in white
Twin offspring of sun and moon
Mythical creature
One symbolic of virtue
The other, death’s harbinger
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Mythical creature
Magnificent in yellow
Emperor’s right hand dragon
Provider of sage wisdom
Guiding power’s central mind
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Shining golden coat
Powerful sun deity
Mythical creature
Wishing humanity well
He brings great prosperity
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Soothing blue and green
He aids in health and healing
Nature’s guardian
Mythical creature brings spring
Stimulating life and growth
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Mythical creature
In a multicoloured coat
Fantasy art creation
Flies up to bring down rainstorms
But wishes he had bright wings
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Esther Chilton 
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