The original Words for Wednesday was begun by Delores and eventually taken over as a moveable feast with many participants supplying the Words.
When Delores closed her blog forever due to other problems, Elephant's Child (Sue) took over the role of coordinator.
Now, after Sue's demise, River has taken the mantle of coordinator upon her shoulders.
No matter what, how, where or who the aim of the words is to encourage
us to write. Poems, stories, subtitles, tales, jokes, haiku, crosswords,
puns, ... you're the boss.
Use all Words, some Words, one Word, or even none of them if that makes
your creative juices flow. Anything goes, only please nothing rude or
vulgar.
This month the words are given by me (Charlotte - MotherOwl) and can be found at River's blog: Drifting through Life
If you are posting an entry on your own blog, please leave a comment
on River's blog, then we can come along and read it and add a few
encouraging words.
It is also a challenge, where the old saying "The more the merrier" holds true.
So Please,
remember to follow the links, go back and read other peoples' stories.
And please leave a comment after reading. Challenges like this one
thrives on interaction, feedback and encouragement. And we ALL need
encouragement.
And for today we were given:
well
understanding
challenge
person
genuine
suffering
and/or
faith
ambition
chance
hard
design
closet
BUSY:
I have for some time been running after my own tali .. or whatever it saying goes ... been too busy. I'm off for a small break. See you all!
Dear readers and co-bloggers, now commenting is again possible on almost all blogs.
We're still waiting for the blogrolls to update, so if you think I'm slow in commenting this might be why.
While waiting for an update on this, know that I'm still reading and enjoying your blogs, albeit a bit later than any of us would like.
onsdag den 5. august 2026
mandag den 3. august 2026
Poetry Monday :: Tractor & Belated Colour26
Every Monday is Poetry Monday.
Poetry Monday is a blogging challenge started by Diane @ On the Border in February 2017, and later it was picked up by Delores @ Mumblings and Jenny @ Procrastinating Donkey.
Then Dolores took over the hosting duties; but when Dolores left the internet, Diane returned and took over hosting duty again with her and Jenny taking turns suggesting a topic.
Now Mimi @ Messymimi's Meanderings and I have taken over, as Diane seems disinclined to take up Poetry Monday again.
The prompts are now taken from 365 Days of Drawing Prompts and other Arts group. This is a Facebook group with a (drawing) prompt for each day of the year, but no worries, the prompts will still be here and at Mimi's blog. And they mostly lend themselves perfectly for poeming as well.
I have something to ask of you: If you read this and the poetry of others via the links, would you please leave a comment.
Half - if not more - the fun of these challenges is receiving the responses of others.
Today the prompt is Tractor. This is an easy prompt for me. The steers outside are filled with tractors, red Tractors, green tractors, blue tractors, all lugging a trailer, sometimes in the same colour as the tractor, but often not. The other day two busy tractors crossed one another outside de our house, going slowly in the narrow road. One loaded, one empty, one red tractor with a green trailer, one green tractor with a red trailer. I do not know why we found this so fun, but it was ... just one of these things.
The blue tractors are mostly the excat blue I found for the Colour of the Month.
Just outside my door
I see tractors galore
It is harvest time
Blue tractors that fill
trailers to the gills
It is harvest time
They swing and they sway
throughout the day
It's harvest time
The grain that it spills
end up in the bills
of sparrows and tits.
We hear the combine
fromseven to nine
around the clock.
Outside my door
there's tractors galore.
It's harvest time.
- - - - - - -UPCOMING Prompts: - - - - - - -
August 10 - Bluebell
August 17 - Sunny days
August 24 - Photography
August 31 - Xerophyte.
Poetry Monday is a blogging challenge started by Diane @ On the Border in February 2017, and later it was picked up by Delores @ Mumblings and Jenny @ Procrastinating Donkey.
Then Dolores took over the hosting duties; but when Dolores left the internet, Diane returned and took over hosting duty again with her and Jenny taking turns suggesting a topic.
Now Mimi @ Messymimi's Meanderings and I have taken over, as Diane seems disinclined to take up Poetry Monday again.
The prompts are now taken from 365 Days of Drawing Prompts and other Arts group. This is a Facebook group with a (drawing) prompt for each day of the year, but no worries, the prompts will still be here and at Mimi's blog. And they mostly lend themselves perfectly for poeming as well.
I have something to ask of you: If you read this and the poetry of others via the links, would you please leave a comment.
Half - if not more - the fun of these challenges is receiving the responses of others.
Today the prompt is Tractor. This is an easy prompt for me. The steers outside are filled with tractors, red Tractors, green tractors, blue tractors, all lugging a trailer, sometimes in the same colour as the tractor, but often not. The other day two busy tractors crossed one another outside de our house, going slowly in the narrow road. One loaded, one empty, one red tractor with a green trailer, one green tractor with a red trailer. I do not know why we found this so fun, but it was ... just one of these things.
The blue tractors are mostly the excat blue I found for the Colour of the Month.
Just outside my door
I see tractors galore
It is harvest time
Blue tractors that fill
trailers to the gills
It is harvest time
They swing and they sway
throughout the day
It's harvest time
The grain that it spills
end up in the bills
of sparrows and tits.
We hear the combine
from
around the clock.
Outside my door
there's tractors galore.
It's harvest time.
- - - - - - -UPCOMING Prompts: - - - - - - -
August 10 - Bluebell
August 17 - Sunny days
August 24 - Photography
August 31 - Xerophyte.
torsdag den 30. juli 2026
Words for Wednesday ~ July 29
The original Words for Wednesday was begun by Delores and eventually taken over as a moveable feast with many participants supplying the Words.
When Delores closed her blog forever due to other problems, Elephant's Child (Sue) took over the role of coordinator.
Now, after Sue's demise, River has taken the mantle of coordinator upon her shoulders.
No matter what, how, where or who the aim of the words is to encourage us to write. Poems, stories, subtitles, tales, jokes, haiku, crosswords, puns, ... you're the boss.
Use all Words, some Words, one Word, or even none of them if that makes your creative juices flow. Anything goes, only please nothing rude or vulgar.
This month the words are given by me (Charlotte - MotherOwl) and can be found at River's blog: Drifting through Life
If you are posting an entry on your own blog, please leave a comment on River's blog, then we can come along and read it and add a few encouraging words.
It is also a challenge, where the old saying "The more the merrier" holds true.
So Please, remember to follow the links, go back and read other peoples' stories. And please leave a comment after reading. Challenges like this one thrives on interaction, feedback and encouragement. And we ALL need encouragement.
And for today we were given:
Snake,
Linen,
Cake,
Tired,
Letter,
Clip
and/or
Brush,
Matter,
Rake,
Blue,
Bush,
Read
Wednesday Hex strikes again. Today, Thursday, I used all the words for another Here & now, only not "matter" ... and for once not in the order they were given.
This was my last Wednesday supplying the Words for Wednesday. As I wrote and sent them to River back in December last year, they were as new to me as they were to you. In August the Words will be suppiled by Mimi @ Messymimi's Meanderings, and will go live there as well as at River's Drifting through Life
Yesterday the first thing on the agenda was PE, as every Wednesday. I passed a dead snake on my way to the bus stop. It was quite dead and totally flat, run over by several cars. Poor guy.
After PE, I hurried to the train station on my tired legs and caught a train direction Hillerød.
Yesterday we visited my mother's grave for her birthday.
We met up with three of the Owlets and we brushed up the grave site, where also the Owlets' paternal grandparents are buried. We straightened up the headstones, weeded, planted some new orange, white and blue flowers, laid the flagstones back in place, and raked the gravel. It looked nice when we were done.
Then we said some prayers and went leisurely back through the graveyard, reading some of the headstones - many of them commemorating former friends or acquaintances - wondering in one place why all the letters were polished up, but not the hyphens, We ended up in a nearby place where we ate pizza, spaghetti. ice-cream and cake, and reminisced and talked.
We travelled home by a bus, two trains and finally yet another bus, where one Owlet and I ran to catch it, and the Writer as always biked home.
Home again I took down the bed linen from the clothes line. Then I fed the hens some weeds, removing part of the brush growing under the clothes lines.
As one of the last thing, as I sat down at my computer to check my e-mail, I found the missing hair clip - it had been sitting right there, hidden in plain sight - for two weeks' time. Big Sis still has the other one, but she's away travelling.
When Delores closed her blog forever due to other problems, Elephant's Child (Sue) took over the role of coordinator.
Now, after Sue's demise, River has taken the mantle of coordinator upon her shoulders.
No matter what, how, where or who the aim of the words is to encourage us to write. Poems, stories, subtitles, tales, jokes, haiku, crosswords, puns, ... you're the boss.
Use all Words, some Words, one Word, or even none of them if that makes your creative juices flow. Anything goes, only please nothing rude or vulgar.
This month the words are given by me (Charlotte - MotherOwl) and can be found at River's blog: Drifting through Life
If you are posting an entry on your own blog, please leave a comment on River's blog, then we can come along and read it and add a few encouraging words.
It is also a challenge, where the old saying "The more the merrier" holds true.
So Please, remember to follow the links, go back and read other peoples' stories. And please leave a comment after reading. Challenges like this one thrives on interaction, feedback and encouragement. And we ALL need encouragement.
And for today we were given:
Snake,
Linen,
Cake,
Tired,
Letter,
Clip
and/or
Brush,
Matter,
Rake,
Blue,
Bush,
Read
Wednesday Hex strikes again. Today, Thursday, I used all the words for another Here & now, only not "matter" ... and for once not in the order they were given.
This was my last Wednesday supplying the Words for Wednesday. As I wrote and sent them to River back in December last year, they were as new to me as they were to you. In August the Words will be suppiled by Mimi @ Messymimi's Meanderings, and will go live there as well as at River's Drifting through Life
Yesterday the first thing on the agenda was PE, as every Wednesday. I passed a dead snake on my way to the bus stop. It was quite dead and totally flat, run over by several cars. Poor guy.
After PE, I hurried to the train station on my tired legs and caught a train direction Hillerød.
Yesterday we visited my mother's grave for her birthday.
We met up with three of the Owlets and we brushed up the grave site, where also the Owlets' paternal grandparents are buried. We straightened up the headstones, weeded, planted some new orange, white and blue flowers, laid the flagstones back in place, and raked the gravel. It looked nice when we were done.
Then we said some prayers and went leisurely back through the graveyard, reading some of the headstones - many of them commemorating former friends or acquaintances - wondering in one place why all the letters were polished up, but not the hyphens, We ended up in a nearby place where we ate pizza, spaghetti. ice-cream and cake, and reminisced and talked.
We travelled home by a bus, two trains and finally yet another bus, where one Owlet and I ran to catch it, and the Writer as always biked home.
Home again I took down the bed linen from the clothes line. Then I fed the hens some weeds, removing part of the brush growing under the clothes lines.
As one of the last thing, as I sat down at my computer to check my e-mail, I found the missing hair clip - it had been sitting right there, hidden in plain sight - for two weeks' time. Big Sis still has the other one, but she's away travelling.
tirsdag den 28. juli 2026
Colour of the Month ~ August ~ Månedens farve
The colour of the Month for August is ~ Månedens farve for august er
For august fik jeg endnu en grøn, så jeg lod systemet vælge en anden. Denne fine blå.
For August I originally had yet a green, after finishing, I tried another, and got this pretty blue.
For august fik jeg endnu en grøn, så jeg lod systemet vælge en anden. Denne fine blå.
For August I originally had yet a green, after finishing, I tried another, and got this pretty blue.
mandag den 27. juli 2026
Poetry Monday :: Relief
Every Monday is Poetry Monday.
Poetry Monday is a blogging challenge started by Diane @ On the Border in February 2017, and later it was picked up by Delores @ Mumblings and Jenny @ Procrastinating Donkey.
Then Dolores took over the hosting duties; but when Dolores left the internet, Diane returned and took over hosting duty again with her and Jenny taking turns suggesting a topic.
Now Mimi @ Messymimi's Meanderings and I have taken over, as Diane has returned home from her travels some time ago, but seems disinclined to take up Poetry Monday again.
I find this sad, because she reached many more poetry-writing bloggers than Mimi and I do.
The prompts are now taken from 365 Days of Drawing Prompts and other Arts group. This is a Facebook group with a (drawing) prompt for each day of the year, but no worries, the prompts will still be here and at Mimi's blog. And they mostly lend themselves perfectly for poeming as well.
I have something to ask of you: If you read this and the poetry of others via the links, would you please leave a comment.
Half - if not more - the fun of these challenges is receiving the responses of others.
Today's prompt is Relief
Sometimes, when I have no idea what to do with the words, I simply find all words that rhyme with it, and mostly a nonsense verse takes form. This happened today as well.
I asked for rhymes on Relief - which I suspect can be pronounced in two different ways with different meanings. And I was given: Belief - Broadleaf - Debrief - Flyleaf - Khalif - Longleaf - Massif - Motif - Serif - and Beef!
Longleaf and Broadleaf sounds like pipeweeds from the Hobbit, I looked them up, and the truth is more plain.
It turned into this:
Last week we had beef
now it's a relief
to write of a leaf
Although my belief
is that the Khalif
would rather have beef
than slender longleaf.
I see a motif
in every broadleaf
oh, what a relief!
- - - - - - -UPCOMING Prompts: - - - - - - -
August 3 - Tractors
August 10 - Bluebell
August 17 - Sunny days
August 24 - Photography
August 31 - Xerophyte.
Poetry Monday is a blogging challenge started by Diane @ On the Border in February 2017, and later it was picked up by Delores @ Mumblings and Jenny @ Procrastinating Donkey.
Then Dolores took over the hosting duties; but when Dolores left the internet, Diane returned and took over hosting duty again with her and Jenny taking turns suggesting a topic.
Now Mimi @ Messymimi's Meanderings and I have taken over, as Diane has returned home from her travels some time ago, but seems disinclined to take up Poetry Monday again.
I find this sad, because she reached many more poetry-writing bloggers than Mimi and I do.
The prompts are now taken from 365 Days of Drawing Prompts and other Arts group. This is a Facebook group with a (drawing) prompt for each day of the year, but no worries, the prompts will still be here and at Mimi's blog. And they mostly lend themselves perfectly for poeming as well.
I have something to ask of you: If you read this and the poetry of others via the links, would you please leave a comment.
Half - if not more - the fun of these challenges is receiving the responses of others.
-- 🍳 -- 🥩 -- 🥕 -- 🐟 -- 🍥 -- 🌿 -- 🍚 --
Today's prompt is Relief
Sometimes, when I have no idea what to do with the words, I simply find all words that rhyme with it, and mostly a nonsense verse takes form. This happened today as well.
I asked for rhymes on Relief - which I suspect can be pronounced in two different ways with different meanings. And I was given: Belief - Broadleaf - Debrief - Flyleaf - Khalif - Longleaf - Massif - Motif - Serif - and Beef!
Longleaf and Broadleaf sounds like pipeweeds from the Hobbit, I looked them up, and the truth is more plain.
It turned into this:
Last week we had beef
now it's a relief
to write of a leaf
Although my belief
is that the Khalif
would rather have beef
than slender longleaf.
I see a motif
in every broadleaf
oh, what a relief!
- - - - - - -UPCOMING Prompts: - - - - - - -
August 3 - Tractors
August 10 - Bluebell
August 17 - Sunny days
August 24 - Photography
August 31 - Xerophyte.
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