Category: Poetry

Saturday Six Word Story Prompt: Fortune

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Prompt for Week #115 December 07, 2024 to December 13, 2024

Title: Lucky Not

Six Words: B l e s s e d is a word that lives.

It’s time for Shweta Suresh’s Saturday Six Word Story Prompt! This week’s theme is “Fortune” and here are the prompt details:


Welcome to Week #115 of the Saturday Six Word Story Prompt. Click here to read the guidelines for the Saturday Six Word Story Prompt series. (Psst! I have changed the guidelines recently.)

Prompt for Week ##115 (Dec 07, 2024 – Dec 13, 2024)

Fortune

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I will do a roundup post each Saturday (or Sunday if I run out of time!). So please be sure to participate before time runs out! I can’t wait to read your stories. 😀 I hope that you’ll be back for next week’s Six Word Story Prompt. Have fun! Thank you for participating. Until next week, folks!

P.S: If you have any doubts/suggestions, please don’t hesitate to reach out. The comments section is all yours!
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My contribution simply speaks a bit about being “blessed” versus good luck or fortune–which goes back to the title for my six words: “Lucky Not.” I thought this was a fun theme for this week’s Saturday Six Word Story Prompt, and I am interested in seeing the responses. So many bloggers have been incredibly creative over the past few weeks, and I believe that will also be the case this time.

Perhaps, you want to give it a whirl, too?!

Holiday Spirit: Yours Will Be Missed, Nikki.

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#1. Basement Level: One of my neighbors’ doors– decorated for the holidays.
#2. Fourth (technically Fifth) Floor: my neighbor, Ms. Lisa’s door.
#3. My door. How do you like my doormat?

81 years of your words
channeling ties to writers
before you–Baldwin, your
brother-in-verse can breathe
easier now.

heaven has its two wordplayers
in one space again, what will
it do?
we’ll miss your timeless
poetry, your swaying voice,
and your infectious smile.

holiday havoc meshes with
upcoming winter cheer, and
a world without you can
only hold on to your spirit.

you fade into black . . .
your final number,
an encore.

Rest in Power, Nikki Giovanni. Your words live on–and through them, so do you. Amen.

gravitate

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we’re living in the last
days of working together
and both of us are losing
peace, but we don’t want
to admit it.

she thinks my leaving would
cause me to gravitate toward
another or forget her or let
go of what we’ve built, and
I’m shouting from the highest
of heights that this is
false.

we are connected in a way
that cannot be damaged.
she knows this–holding on
makes her feel like she’s
letting go.
“We are so much more than
work-related. This environment
doesn’t define us.”

and she sees, then hears
those words, but fear is
still a marker I have to fight.
“I say what I mean, and I mean
what I say. We will still be us.”

I know insecurity lies
in the depths of her beating
heart and at the base of
her troubled mind, but I’m
giving her my word.

“You can’t say I haven’t kept
my word. For as long as
you’ve known me, I have
never disappointed you.”
she admits the truth of this,
yet I still have to kick through
past culprits to show her
I am who I say I am.

tomorrow is a day we don’t
want to see.
there are mixed feelings, but
an inkling of happiness
caresses my heart.
I am changing even though I’m
scared to death.
I am moving on from a place
I’ve known for years . . .

and she thinks the gravity
of the intensity of this
change will move me away
from her, too.
try as I might, I can only
do what I have been doing.

I cannot make her believe.

Saturday Six Word Story Prompt: Resilience

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Prompt for Week #113 November 23, 2024 – November 29, 2024

Title: God-given Strength

Six Words: Stronger than my pain–God-given resilience

It’s time for Shweta Suresh’s Saturday Six Word Story Prompt! This week’s theme is “Resilience” and here are the prompt details:


Welcome to Week #113 of the Saturday Six Word Story Prompt. Click here to read the guidelines for the Saturday Six Word Story Prompt series. (Psst! I have changed the guidelines recently.)

Prompt for Week ##113 (Nov 23, 2024 – Nov 29, 2024)

Resilience

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I will do a roundup post each Saturday (or Sunday if I run out of time!). So please be sure to participate before time runs out! I can’t wait to read your stories. 😀 I hope that you’ll be back for next week’s Six Word Story Prompt. Have fun! Thank you for participating. Until next week, folks!

P.S: If you have any doubts/suggestions, please don’t hesitate to reach out. The comments section is all yours!
P.P.S: Use the tag 6WSP and don’t forget to pingback to this post!

My contribution to this week’s theme wasn’t too hard to come up with–I often say, “This steadfastness has to be heaven-sent.” So, I just had to think of a few words that would best describe how I feel about resilience and how it best describes my character regarding it.

I hope you all will participate. Head on over to Shweta’s page for the full breakdown! Happy Wednesday, beautiful people!

Saturday Six Word Story Prompt: Childhood

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Prompt for Week #112 (Nov 16, 2024 – Nov 22, 2024): CHILDHOOD

Title: My Upbringing

Six Words: Robbed of childhood–adult b e f o r e time.

It’s time for Shweta Suresh’s Saturday Six Word Story Prompt! This week’s theme is “Childhood” and here are the prompt details:

Welcome to Week #112 of the Saturday Six Word Story Prompt. Click here to read the guidelines for the Saturday Six Word Story Prompt series. (Psst! I have changed the guidelines recently.)

Prompt for Week #112 (Nov 16, 2024 – Nov 22, 2024)

Childhood

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I will do a roundup post each Saturday (or Sunday if I run out of time!). So please be sure to participate before time runs out! I can’t wait to read your stories. 😀 I hope that you’ll be back for next week’s Six Word Story Prompt. Have fun! Thank you for participating. Until next week, folks!

P.S: If you have any doubts/suggestions, please don’t hesitate to reach out. The comments section is all yours!
P.P.S: Use the tag 6WSP and don’t forget to pingback to this post!

My six-word contribution is above. I had a playful, endearing, active, and fun childhood until my parents’ divorce when I was twelve years old, and then . . . all hell broke loose. I became a parent to my much younger siblings- mothering them before I was done being mothered. It’s a heavy thing to take on a role you never asked for, however, you had to step up and perform. “Childhood” is a great theme, and I am happy I could participate. Maybe you want to as well!

Also, 18 years have passed by so quickly. I swear I blinked and here we are . . .

WordPress screen capture; 18 years of blogging. THANK YOU!

Peace and blessings, beautiful people.

Saturday Six Word Story Prompt: Believe

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Prompt for Week #111 (Nov 9, 2024 – Nov 15, 2024): BELIEVE

Title: Not By the Hands of Man

Six Words: A H I G H E R Power will save US.

I have missed actively participating in the Six Word Story Prompt (hosted by another blogger/Writer who no longer blogs). Years ago, it’s how I met so many other bloggers/writers/creatives, and I still love a good six-word story, so it is only right that I participate in Shweta Suresh’s Saturday Six Word Story Prompt! This week’s theme is “Believe” and here are the prompt details:

Welcome to Week #111 of the Saturday Six Word Story Prompt. Click here to read the guidelines for the Saturday Six Word Story Prompt series. (Psst! I have changed the guidelines recently.)

Prompt for Week #111 (Nov 9, 2024 – Nov 15, 2024)

Believe

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I will do a roundup post each Saturday (or Sunday if I run out of time!). So please be sure to participate before time runs out! I can’t wait to read your stories. 😀 I hope that you’ll be back for next week’s Six Word Story Prompt. Have fun! Thank you for participating. Until next week, folks!

P.S: If you have any doubts/suggestions, please don’t hesitate to reach out. The comments section is all yours!

P.P.S: Use the tag 6WSP and don’t forget to pingback to this post!

My six-word contribution is above. I fully believe the worst is ahead, yet the best is to come. We cannot depend on man. Man will never save us. If our faith, trust, and commitment are to/for man, we are doomed. I hope you will participate in the prompt and lend your very own six-word story to the theme, Believe.

Peace and blessings, beautiful people.