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June is here with warmer weather, flowers, sunshine, flip-flops, outdoor eating… Oh, my, so much goodness in this month!

June is also a time for the I-CAD (Index Card) challenge from Daisy Yellow, where we use an index card to create something during June and July, totalling 61 cards. I had joined this challenge for many years, but I let it go. This year I’m inspired to do it again. It’s so rewarding to see the card pile at the end of the challenge, and I really need to get my creativity mojo back.

My first one for this year. I put it together in less than 5 minutes. I prepped the background yesterday using a tea bag, and this morning I added the stickers. I like the result!

Happy new month to you!

Light

I’m always searching for light, both in the true sense of brightness and the lightness in my thoughts, my being.

Spring is coming, at least trying, the fight with winter seems never-ending. Slowly it gets there, the signs are everywhere; from the grocery store, loaded with tulips and fresh produce, to my garden where the signs are still subtle but promising.

The Earth is smiling and starting to dress up in all colours.

However, darkness lurks in the corner, waiting for an opportunity to take us down. Be wise and keep a source of light at all times.

Sharing with Sadje’s What do you see

hello!

I haven’t posted here for so long, always leaving it for next week and next week, and now it has been months since I last showed up in this space.

Spring has arrived, but not completely; it is still fighting the winter. We had some snowflakes this weekend.

Catching up on a few things I have done recently:

Long walks outdoors. The river was frozen for so long, and I love to hear the song of the water underneath the ice.

Tulips. I can’t resist and end up buying lots of them. I’m practicing my photography skills using them as a model.

Reading and writing, as always!

Baking delicious and healthy meals. And of course, drinking lots of coffee and tea.

Plants are never enough! On the left my new indoor baby, turtle string, the tiny leaves are so cute. And on the right, tulips are starting to pop up in my garden.

Hope you had a wonderful winter and are enjoying the new season.

Gateway

Enter at your own risk
You can find pleasure
You can find sorrow
It depends on your mindset

Enter at your own risk
The forest freshness
Can bring relief
But can also aggravate your feelings

Enter at your own risk
Each step counts
To be happy again or
To sustain the distress

Enter at your own risk
It’s up to you!

#WDYS

Hover

in your hands, please hold it tight
believe your mind will take flight
the love exhales discover
allows your senses to hover

Could you guess the subject in this poem?

W3 challenge

II. Mich’s prompt guidelines

Form: Tanaga
- (could be double, triple, etc.)
Theme: Love

Tanaga

Four lines (a quatrain);
Syllabic: Each line contains seven syllables (7-7-7-7);
Rhyming: It is usually a rhyming poem;
- AABB is the traditional rhyme scheme;
- Variations in rhyme scheme are allowed (like AAAA, ABAB, ABBB, AAAB, ABBA, and non-rhyming)

Winter darkness

winter darkness
gifts us with short days and long nights
winter darkness
an explosion of vast kindness
luminous as the northern lights
brings us joy and lights up our sights
winter darkness

Joining W3 – Rondelet poem

Pages


Pause
Breathe in
And breathe out
Blank pages wait
symphony of dreams
giving form to the notes
your faithful treasured freedom
jotting down the impossible
Smoothly guiding the pen through the lines
"Pause, breathe in and breathe out, blank pages wait"

Joining David’s W3 prompt:

Sarah’s prompt guidelines

Form: Dectina Refrain
Theme: ‘free’ or any variation of this word

Dectina refrain

Syllabic: Ten lines – 1/2/3/4/5/6/7/8/9/10 syllables;
Refrain: The 10^th line is comprised of the first four lines all together as one stand alone line in quotation marks.

Autumn trees

Bonded together through the roots
Outwards distinct reflections 
No men power can untie them
Devoted bonds are forever

W3 – Bond – Acrostic poem

glowing

leaves' exquisite glow
the night quickly approaches
strength of letting go
a cue for today's fading
for hope of tomorrow's dreams

A tanka for W3 prompt – strength

Sixty-four

Sixty-four
A number, a message,
Since the start
A breath and wisdom

Unexpectedly
Showing up, erasing the darkness
Harmony and peace
Self-determination

Number of squares in a chessboard
For the game players
Number of nucleotides in the genome
For the scientists

Some say it’s God’s number
Since the Tower of Babel
To I Ching
Present in many mystical things

Bringing light to the unknown