In response to Scott’s Daily Prompt, Ripped from the headlines
The headline on the BBC news website was.
Channel migrants: Thirty rescued as man dies off French coast.
He was running from fear
From death itself
But
Died alone and cold
In the sea
Because we did not want him
We wanted to be left
To dine in peace
On our cheese and wine
Today’s prompt is.
Ripped from the headlines
Head to your favourite online news source. Pick an article with a headline that grabs you. Now, write a short story based on the article.
In response to Scott’s Daily Prompt, Clean Slate
Rain washes the slates Grey sheen shines in the sunlight Ready for the moss
Today’s prompt is.
Clean slate
Explore the room you’re in as if you’re seeing it for the first time. Pretend you know nothing. What do you see? Who is the person who lives there?
In response to Scott’s Daily Prompt, Take Two
Slightly cheating from the prompt guidance – these two pictures were taken yesterday. The first was a quick snap of our garage. We are in the process of clearing it. It was completely full of rubbish – including two big sofa’s. We need to start using it for what it intended and parking our car there.
The second picture I took as I caught sight and our hall wall. We have just rearranged the picture frames there and put up a clock. I was struck by the arrangement when looking from above.
The thing that connects the two? – Well see the poem below the images.
Time
Transforms
Order
To chaos
Utility
To waste
Decor
To ruins
Today’s prompt is.
Take two
Run outside. Take a picture of the first thing you see. Run inside. Take a picture of the second thing you see. Write about the connection between these two random objects, people, or scenes.
In response to Scott’s Daily Prompt, This is Your Life
It is quality
Not ticks on a bucket list
That will reckon us
Today’s prompt is.
This is your life
If you could read a book containing all that has happened and will ever happen in your life, would you? If you choose to read it, you must read it cover to cover.
In response to Scott’s Daily Prompt, 32 Flavours
32 Flavours
Mmm
What to try, what to try
They have mint choc chip, my favourite
But I always have that
Everyone’s telling me to try some new
Expand my horizons
I want to try rum and raisin.
But the buzz on the street is asparagus and chilli!
The kids want that new take on raspberry ripple
But it’s so expensive
Still
I feel bad, all their friends have had it
How can I deny them this?
But really my heart is set on vanilla
What to try, what to try
Time’s up!
Today’s prompt is.
32 flavours
Vanilla, chocolate, or something else
In response to Scott’s Daily Prompt, 1984
We are being watched
Because we craved attention
Saught out fame
And paid
With our privacy
Today’s prompt is.
1984
You’re locked in a room with your greatest fear. Describe what’s in the room.
In response to Scott’s Daily Prompt, Teacher’s Pet
This is dedicated to Mr Marsh – wherever he may be – who used to teach like this. He also turned me on to Stephen R Donaldson so I am doubly grateful. One of very few good teachers in my school.
Teach the solution
And the solution will be forgotten
Teach how to solve
And solutions will be found
For life
Today’s prompt is.
Teacher’s pet
Tell us about a teacher who had a real impact on your life, either for the better or the worse. How is your life different today because of him or her?
In response to Scott’s Daily Prompt, Helpless
Let go of what you can't control
They say
But what if it controls you
And won’t let go
And who are they
Anyway?
Today’s prompt is.
Helpless
Helplessness: that dull, sick feeling of not being the one at the reins. When did you last feel like that –- and what did you do about it?
In response to Scott’s Daily Prompt, My Favourite
I miss you
My favourite
Those times
Oh, those times we spent!
In the twilight hours
The world between worlds
When the world beyond
Was no more
No more cares
No more worries
Now
My life is one long slog
One long fight
Back to find
My favourite
Peace and Quiet
Today’s prompt is.
My favourite
What’s the most time you’ve ever spent apart from your favourite person? Tell us about it.
Today’s prompt is.
Call Me Ishmael
Take the first sentence from your favourite book and make it the first sentence of your post.
In response to Scott’s Daily Prompt, Quote Me
A little explanation need for this one. The quote I always come back to is one from Frank Herbert’s Dune.
The only constant is change
I come back to this when times are tough, to remind me – nothing is forever. Even the hard times will end. But also to keep perspective – I always try and think – will I care about what I am worrying about in 10 years time. If not – it’s not worth the stress now! (I know that’s easier said than done.)
With that quote in mind here is a quick Haiku inspired by it.
Even the mountains Are impermanent giants The wise realise
Today’s prompt is.
Quote me
Do you have a favourite quote that you return to again and again? What is it, and why does it move you?
Let’s kick it into touch
Bucket lists!
Resolutions!
Traditions.
All they are really for
Is to transform you
Into the perfect consumer
Leeching away
All of you.
In response to Scott’s Daily Prompt, Kick It
Today’s prompt is.
Kick it
What’s the 11th item on your bucket list?
Resolutions
Made again
Broken again
Closure?
Endings?
Realise
Instead
Endings are beginnings
We should not
Resolve
But
Revolve
In response to Scott’s Daily Prompt, Resolved
Today’s prompt is.
Resolved
Have you ever made a NewYear’s Resolution that you kept?
The brush of midnight
Sweeps darkness across the sky
Sprinkled with white stars
In response to Scott’s Daily Prompt, Stroke of Midnight
Today’s prompt is.
Stroke of Midnight
Where were you last night when 2021 turned into 2021? Is
that where you’d wanted to be?
So last year I had a plan. To not post anything new on my website. I figured that by posting all my new work I was then eliminating that work from competitions etc.
So the plan was, keep the site going by reposting old stuff, while waiting new stuff in the background.
Well, that didn’t really work. I did the posting, but very little writing in the background. I did a few poems and a few short stories but nowhere near as much as I wanted.
So what to do?
I need a kick up the proverbial butt. So I have decided to try another daily post challenge. I did one years ago, a poem a day challenge. This time I will try and do a post a day for a year based on this document. I may diverge from the suggestions but they will be the spring board.
To address my concern about eliminating myself from markets I will actually do two. One I will publish the other I will keep private.
I will also make each prompt a post that people can link back to if they want to join in.
I will also still post old posts. Let’s see how it goes.
You work hard
I struggle by
In the dark
You’re a hard-working family
To pay my bills
A silent dark
You deserve more
To keep my job
Shattered by
Respect and remuneration
My family safe
A scream so stark
Higher wage
Bills accrue
A sister torn
More tax
No breaks in sight
A mother too
Security
I am undermined
And then my turn
Here they come
By cheaper crews
To be their tool
To take your jobs
And labour pools
Alone I lived
We try to stop them
Let down by those
My family died
But the law demands
For who we fought a war
Alone I ran
Freedoms we ill afford
Belts pulled tight
Alone to hide
So we must let them in
Doors shut tight
Far away
We need your fear
As our land
Where wars don’t rage
So let us pass
Slips away
Across the sea
Stronger laws
Dreams of the past
Into a cage
And take your cash
Of golden days
And forms and forms
For a better way
Seem far away
And questions long
Altogether now
Every man for himself
And looks of scorn
Watch your backs
Seems the only way
And acts of wrong
Strengthen our national pride
So I must take a stand
Drowning in
Defend our ways
Against the tide
A stinking sea
Our traditions
That seems to me
I cry
Like class division
To rise and rise
No one pities me
And stay an island proud
To drown our island’s pride
No one pities me
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Today’s prompt is:
Scott Andrew Bailey - Author 