Crafting Poetry One Syllable at a Time
Posted on July 20, 2016 by Ronovan
Come one, come all, to the greatest show on Earth! Okay, so it’s the greatest Writer’s Quote Wednesday Writing Challenge challenge on Earth. Some people can be so literal. Oh yeah, this is a literary type challenge. Go figure.
If you missed out on reading last week’s entries for the theme of Memories, click here to go there. And if you are a participant you really should be visiting all your fellow entrants.
It’s easy to join in:
This weeks theme is:
“There can be hope only for a society which acts as one big family, not as many separate ones.” Anwar Sadat
From Wikipedia: Muhammad Anwar el-Sadat (Arabic: محمد أنور السادات Muḥammad Anwar as-Sādāt Egyptian Arabic pronunciation: [mæˈħæmmæd ˈʔɑnwɑɾ essæˈdæːt]; 25 December 1918 – 6 October 1981) was the third President of Egypt, serving from 15 October 1970 until his assassination by fundamentalist army officers on 6 October 1981. Sadat was a senior member of the Free Officers who overthrew King Farouk in the Egyptian Revolution of 1952, and a close confidant of President Gamal Abdel Nasser, under whom he served as Vice President twice and whom he succeeded as President in 1970.
From the strangest places comes the most appropriate quotes for US social circumstances. After seeing this quote I think it only natural to take a step back from everything going on in the US and other parts of the world and think, “What on earth are we doing?”
We for some reason think of ourselves as better than other nations in many ways, yet we head down similar paths of nations who had disasters. But who will admit there is a faulty outlook in the situation? Both sides are wrong, but neither will admit it.
See you in the comments!
Ronovan
Remember, Colleen and I alternate weeks here on her blog hosting the challenge.
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Colleen M. Chesebro is an American Poet who loves crafting paranormal fantasy and magical realism, cross-genre flash fiction, syllabic poetry, and creative nonfiction. Colleen sponsors a weekly syllabic poetry challenge, called Tanka Tuesday, on wordcraftpoetry.com where participants learn how to write traditional and current forms of haiku, senryu, haiga, tanka, gogyohka, tanka prose, renga, solo-renga, haibun, cinquain, Etheree, nonet, and shadorma poetry. Colleen's syllabic poetry has appeared in the Auroras & Blossoms Poetry Journal, and in “Hedgerow, a journal of small poems.” She’s won numerous awards from participating in the Carrot Ranch Rodeo, a yearly flash fiction contest sponsored by carrotranch.com. In 2020, she won first place in the Carrot Ranch Folk Tale or Fable category, with her story called “Why Wolf Howls at the Moon.” Colleen is a Sister of the Fey, where she pursues a pagan path through her writing. When she is not writing, she is reading. She also loves gardening and crocheting old-fashioned doilies into works of art.
Good prompt and post. It is time to smash the lie once and for all! The one that says, good and bad lies in pigment or origin… there is only one race on earth… the human one.
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Nice one Colleen! We all need hope and peace in these crazy times of mindless killing every where.
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https://ellenbest24.wordpress.com/2016/07/20/hope/
My contribution to the word hope.
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I love that quote Ron, it is particularly poignant at the moment 🙂
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thanks for the prompt 🙂 we all need hope
https://ladyleemanila.wordpress.com/2016/07/20/writers-quote-wednesday-writing-challenge-theme-hope-wqwwc/
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Here is my link for this week 🙂
http://www.judyedwinamartin.com/writers-quote-writing-challenge-hope/
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Great word, Ron! Thanks to both of you for hosting another week of ‘Writers Quote Wednesday’! Here’s my contribution this week. http://wp.me/p3eYyj-1kj Have a great day!
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My entry https://finallyawriter.com/2016/07/20/wqwwc-writers-quote-wednesday-writing-challenge-hope/
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It’s been a hectic week. I did a 2-in-1.
https://rantingalong.wordpress.com/2016/07/20/wqwwc-writers-quote-wednesday-writing-challenge-hope/
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http://wp.me/p4ayEo-1vo here is my short link, in case the ping back doesn’t work! I hope it does, though…
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https://methodtwomadness.wordpress.com/2016/07/21/hopepoetsforpeace/
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Reblogged this on Kate McClelland.
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Hi Colleen and Ron
The pingbacks didn’t display my post, so here’s my contribution again http://wp.me/p48sX4-4h4
Thanks
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