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New Kits on the Block…

Posted on March 20, 2020 by Sue Vincent

I’m sitting there reading, curled up with a book,
When all hell broke out, so I shot up to look…
The small dog was barking at some dark intruder…
Assessing the villain, I quickly subdued her.

We have a new problem, the small dog and me,
Two cats have moved in on the corner, you see,
They’re young and adventurous, don’t understand
That Ani objects to them prowling ‘her’ land.

They sit on the fence and look in through the door
Till the small dog explodes and can’t take any more.
She barks at the window, while they sit there quiet,
With me in the thick of it, calming the riot.

I’m trying to maintain some distance between them
And pulling the curtains closed, hoping to screen them,
The dog burrows under, the cats move in nearer,
Although the dog’s message can’t be any clearer.

Now, I know she’s gentle, for all of her bluster,
A bark is the worst that the small dog can muster,
She’d not harm a hair on a butterfly’s wing…
But faced with a feline, by God she can sing!

If I were a cat, I’d not think that she’s playing,
I do not speak dog, but I know what she’s saying,
“I’ll tolerate pigeons and cows and all that…
But such curiosity will kill the cat!”

I foresee some ‘fun’ for the small dog and me
With her herding cats and me as referee,
I do hope the cats will retreat back to their space
And leave the small dog just defending her air space.

Posted in Humour, Poetry | Tagged air space, barking, defence, dogs and cats | 37 Comments

The Last March ~ Nascent Ederren #writephoto

Posted on March 20, 2020 by Sue Vincent

It’s a lonely path, the way of kings. Beset upon from all sides by those who lust and envy the crown, or those who seek out the lands and folk to take, claim or kill.

At all points one must be on guard as they think of what will come and what will be. But that old place of standing stones is where you will feel it.

You will walk the path alone, one your ancestors have taken before you. As a babe you will walk, a humble humility to your marriage with the earth.

Continue reading at The Ederren

Posted in photo prompt, Photography | Tagged fantasy, fiction, nature, poem, prompt, Scenic, Short | 1 Comment

Hope #midnighthaiku

Posted on March 20, 2020 by Sue Vincent

Bearing Nature’s tears

Holding beauty in its heart

Life remembers hope

Posted in Photography, Poetry | Tagged haiku, hope, Life, Spring | 16 Comments

Star light star bright ~ Kerfe Roig

Posted on March 19, 2020 by Sue Vincent

Reblogged from K-Lines that Aim to Be:

raise me up
with words with singing
shout me out
pull me free
of the faceless gravity
escapeless vortex

Continue reading at K-Lines that Aim to Be

Posted in reblog | Tagged art, botticelli, collage, moon, pleiades, Poetry, shadorma, stars, tarot, The Star, venus. | 3 Comments

Thursday Photo Prompt #Writephoto

Posted on March 19, 2020 by Sue Vincent

Keep it alive

Sue Vincentis the host of Thursday Photo Prompt

Welcome to this week’s writephoto prompt.

This week’s prompt ~ Crown

(For visually challenged writers, theimage shows a well trodden pathway through a field of mown wheat. The path leads up a hill to a green mound crowned with jagged standing stones)

~*~

The path was clear

Though not easy I’d say

But I could see where I needed to go

And the bounty at the end beckoned me

I knew that there would be problems on the way

Because nothing is as easy as it looks

But what’s the challenge in things that fall in our lap

Something won with effortholds more meaning

And is more cherished for we worked harder for it

~*~

#Keepitalive

#WritePhoto

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Smorgasbord Cafe and Bookstore – Author Updates – #Reviews – #Romance P.C. Zick, #Fantasy D.Wallace Peach, #Doglovers Sue Vincent

Posted on March 19, 2020 by Sue Vincent

Reblogged with thanks to Sally Cronin at Smorgasbord for including the Small Dog’s book in her line up…and to author Anita Dawes for a wonderful review of Doggerel:

Welcome to the mid-week edition of the Cafe and Bookstore, with recent reviews for authors on the shelves.

The first author today is P.C. Zick for her romance Love on the Wind.(A Montauk Romance Book 1)

Love on the Wind (A Montauk Romance Book 1) by [Zick, P.C.]

About the book

An uptight builder. A quirky travel show host. An explosive passion that surprises them both.

Six years of traveling for her television series has left host Kiley Nelson longing for a place to call her own. Spending a weekend at her girlfriend’s beach house is the perfect reprieve, especially when she purchases property to finally settle down. But her peaceful escape is shaken when she smashes into a car containing the sinfully sexy and infuriated passenger, Jeff Hammond, who immediately melts her heart.

Continue reading at Smorgasbord

Posted in Books, Dogs, Humour, Poetry, reblog | Tagged #Doglovers Sue Vincent, #Fantasy D.Wallace Peach, #Romance P.C. Zick | Leave a comment

On Cobbled Streets

Posted on March 19, 2020 by Sue Vincent

The Silent Eye

This image has an empty alt attribute; its file name is on-cobbled-streets-melrose-ave-croppedaa-1.jpg — Streets that are still cobbled – Bolton

The opening photo was taken in the autumn. It shows the Bolton street where my mother still lives. Born in 1930, she survived the economic depression of the inter-war years, and the bombings, doodlebugs and devastation of WW2.

I was born, at home, in a street of steeply sloping terraced houses not far from where that photo was taken. It was part of an entire hillside of Victorian terraces that filled the wedge between two of the arterial roads running out of Bolton to the west. The local name for the hill was ‘Spion Kop’ – a curious reference to a tragic battle during the Boer war (January 1900) in South Africa, where thousands of soldiers were seen ‘terraced’ up the hillside, defending the strategic point as they were slaughtered.

This image has an empty alt attribute; its file name is on-cobbled-streets-spion-kop-remembersaa-1.jpg — ‘Spion Kop’ as I remember it… it’s all gone, now

The battle was…

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Papal Bull…

Posted on March 19, 2020 by Sue Vincent

scotland trip jan 15 534

Celtic Saint instrumental in the Eucharist of Fish and Loaves?…

The Venerable Bede recorded in his Historia Ecclesiastica Gentis Anglorum, a copy of the letter written in 601AD which Pope Gregory sent to Abbot Mellitus, who was part of the papal mission to Britain. The instructions were clear… not to overthrow but to gently replace the indigenous faith:

“…that the temples of the idols in that nation ought not to be destroyed; but let the idols that are in them be destroyed; let water be consecrated and sprinkled in the said temples, let altars be erected, and relics placed there.

Continue reading at France and Vincent

Posted in france and vincent | Tagged albion, ancient sites, art, Books, Don and Wen, landscape, magic, mystery, Mythology, Photography, psychology, story, The Silent Eye, writing | Leave a comment

Thursday photo prompt: Crown #writephoto

Posted on March 19, 2020 by Sue Vincent

Welcome to this week’s writephoto prompt.

You can find all last week’s entries in the weekly round-up, which was published earlier today.

Throughout the week, I will feature as many of the responses here on the Daily Echo as time and space allows, usually in the order in which they are submitted.

Please be aware that I will be away from the computer for a few days, so responses will not be immediate this time. All posts will be featured in the round-up as soon as I am back online, linking back to the original posts of contributors.

Use the image below as inspiration to create a post on your own blog… poetry, prose, humour… light or dark, whatever you choose, as long as it is fairly family-friendly.

Submit your link by noon (GMT) Wednesday 25th March.

Link back to this post with a pingback (Hugh has an excellent tutorial here) and/or leave a link in the comments below, to be included in the round-up.

Use the #writephoto hashtag in your title so your posts can be found.

There is no word limit and no style requirements, except that your post must take inspiration from the image and/or the prompt word in the title of the post.

Feel free to use #writephoto logo or include the prompt photo in your post if you wish, or you may replace it with one of your own to illustrate your work.

By participating in the #writephoto challenge, please be aware that your post may be featured as a reblog on this blog and I will link to your post for the round-up each week.

Regular contributors are also welcome to come over as my guest and introduce themselves (click here for details).

Please note: As I do not share my political opinions on this blog, please do not use the challenge as a platform from which to share yours. Party political or racially offensive posts will not be reblogged.

This week’s prompt ~ Crown

For visually challenged writers, the image shows a well trodden pathway through a field of mown wheat. The path leads up a hill to a green mound crowned with jagged standing stones.

Posted in photo prompt, Photography, Poetry | Tagged fantasy, fiction, flash fiction, Humour, imagination, mystery, short story, symbolism, writing prompt | 82 Comments

Photo prompt round-up: Lambent #writephoto

Posted on March 19, 2020 by Sue Vincent

A moment’s wonder

Liquid silver touched with gold

Promising magic

Drawn by an earthly Eden

Called forth by the lambent light

The photo for this week’s prompt was taken on our first, fleeting visit to the Isle of Skye last year. We had ‘accidentally’ taken the road that becomes a bridge over to the island and were greeted with the most wonderful light on the sea.

Thank you to everyone who took part, visited or reblogged the posts or left comments for their authors.

A new prompt will be published later today. As always, I will reblog as many contributions as space and time allows as they come in… and all of them will be featured in the round-up next Thursday.

All the posts are listed below, so please click on the links below to read them and leave a comment for the author!

Pingbacks do not always come through… if you have written a post for this challenge and it does not appear in the round-up, please leave a link to your post in the comments and I will add it to the list.

An invitation to writephoto writers…

As there are usually too many contributions to reblog all of them every week, and so that we can get to know their writers, I would like to invite all writephoto writers to come and introduce themselves on the blog as my guest! Click here for details.

Come and join in!

Thank you to all Contributors!