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Happy Friday from Carol!
And welcome back to one of my favorite poet-novelists, 
Its been a while
but I took your prompt of 'tart' and turned it into some truly tragic poetry lol.
I'm currently gearing myself up to get started on the first of a trilogy of books in the fantasy genre and I've been inhabiting some characters the last few days. Also, been listening to some sad Irish music as well lol
https://steemit.com/poetry/@raj808/5-minute-freewrite-poetry-twilight-loss
In case you don't click on that gorgeous photo
and go read the poem--you should, of course, but as 
Raj, great to see you back with a freewrite poem! Love the image you include with it and, as always, I love the words. And how exciting that you're working on more fantasy fiction! Good for you but sad for us that As I get deeper into the process of writing this novel, I may disappear from steem for a time. We'll be here keeping a chair warm for you at the table!
P.S.
It took me a while to recover from this poem. The opening lines are gorgeous. The refrain, that tart steaming in the window, is a great image and a reminder of our expectations of being alive long enough to eat it (my motto: eat desert first, because you never know when a comet might take us out like the dinosaurs). Does anyone cool pies in windowsills anymore? Yes, I'm running off on tangents, trying not to think about the child taken by the pox and the final lines. You break my heart, Raj. But you do it so beautifully.
You all know how much I love butterflies so I was delighted to read a cute story about the Orange Dog caterpillar and its journey on a tree to find the perfect meal and includes an awesome photo of the caterpillar.
is also giving everyone a chance to win SBI with every freewrite he writes to keep him motivated to write a daily freewrite and to reward fellow freewriters. What a great idea! So be sure to read his fun story and find out how to enter for a chance to win SBI.
Monday's prompt, Day 584: 5 Minute Freewrite: Monday - Prompt: Nest inspired the most Freewrite Favorites.
"Nest" and "empty nest" seem to pair well this week.
, one of our Spanish freewriters, looks stunning in this mother/daughters portrait. She creates an equally beautiful sense of time and family, with roles shifting: First, the dad, nobody would touch his princess, or else!
Then the princess leaves home:
With a prince she had gone
She never said i´m sorry mom.
She was the queen of her house
As her mother was
Then, a new generation:
The princesses arrived
Now the roles have been reversed.
Already my girl has blossomed
And with that the warning
That soon she will leave the nest
The little girl in white (First Communion is the milestone I'm guessing), the baby sister, the mother: all so beautiful! And the full-circle of the generations, the inevitable emptying of the nest, are handled here with sensitivity, wisdom, and optimism. This speaks to me because our firstborn, our son the jazz musician, surprised me greatly when his departure to college left us all sobbing as if it a funeral. Live music in the house; his voice; his commentary and impromptu jokes on the narrative of daily events; sure, he's only 40 miles away. Might as well be 4,000 miles.
I just read Nest, by
. It's hard to believe he wrote that in five minutes. It's so effective, so detailed. And yet there's a really big idea behind it (probably unconsciously at work): the whimsy of nature, the hunter and the hunted, winners and losers. The bird has to eat, and that poor scurrying creature on the ground has to leave its safe cover because it also has to eat. I'm left wondering, who is watching the bird? Maybe in the next round the bird will be the loser.
This one comes with a lot of backstory. Regular followers and fans of
know the story of the hens, the foxes, the near-death experience of one, followed by the unexpected demise of the other. First, let me cite the sad tale of Betsy during this tumultuous week (for chickens and those who love them like the people they are, sort of):
And then this will make more sense:
As writers, we can all identify
with her thoughts on fitting her feelings and words into a freewrite prompt:
I wrote and wrote on this prompt today. I tried three times to use the prompt to continue a previous three part freewrite story and trashed all three attempts. Then in desperation I tried a freewrite poem. I wrote oodles and oodles for 4 minutes and 30 seconds, then spent 30 seconds throwing words out. These four lines are the only ones I decided to keep. It's a good thing I like them. I will never try to force a prompt into some box again, lesson learned.
Hereby my recommendations!
My 1st recommendation tells about the empty nest (feeling). How do you deal with it? Or is there nothing to deal with?
There are parents who have a very hard time to kick their kids out of the nest, ones that want them to stay, who leave or are left. Good or wrong? In the end, if the kid is old he/she is the only one who can tell if you did a great job as a parent.wrote an interesting post about this subject and I recommend you to read it!
Partiko link
Note from Carol
Maybe I should add a PTSD trigger alert to this one. My heart breaks for
I’m pretty sure I won’t see my son again. I will be surprised if I do. I don’t think I was too good of a mom, and I hope he can have a good life. My empty nest is in my heart, so it really does not matter where I go.
My 2nd recommendation is another description of "nest" you will find in the German freewrite written by
No need to tell you what that nest looks like. The pictures used already says a lot (I am sure all writers and book lovers agree with me). Nothing is so peaceful as your own library (my wish never came true) and please do not smoke inside! It's worth translating it!
Partiko link
If you don't know how to freewrite visit
, my 3rd recommendation!
You can call it nonsense and so did he as he wrote about the prompt nest!
As I visited his nest I read I cannot be thrown out before I can spread my songs/fly and since I can not and can and will never ski either my only option is to catch that dragon.
Partiko link
My 4th recommendation is written by
. She also used the prompt nest. This times she tells us about the time you could drive with a (transformed) car over the beach. She did at night and they did watch the turtles made their nests and even had a ride on them. Enjoy this freewrite and the picture!
Partiko link
I ran across this continuation #freewrite by
I love this post for the prompt of "rate" by
She was on a cruise last week and this post tells us all about the outrageous costs for every little thing from parking at the dock to expeditions. The trip sounds like it was so much fun, but you needed to have money to enjoy it.
Also for "rate"
gives us a glimpse of the first meeting of a couple in very few provocative words. I was so impressed with this one and want to know the rest of the story now!
And finally, this post by
got curied, and currently has a $17 payout!
This post is all about the Spring Break experience in Florida with all the craziness of that time in young lives. It's a great post and deserves the curie very much.
Check out the comment section for a lot of fun exchanges between the author and various readers. I'm very much in favor of this expansion of the 5-minute time limit to something more, and this curried piece s ahows how lucrative as well as satisfying for the author it can be, editing and polishing and earning positive feedback. As
Ha haaa, well, it isn't patented, but is something I've done for quite awhile. It's my way of still putting this out under the 5-Minute Freewrite, without getting asked to leave ( : It just feels more honest this way. And I LOVE the Freewrite, and sometimes they do end up short. But mainly, they are a real impetus to write a story on the spur of the moment, if the word triggers something in my odd little brainbox. And they sometimes end up going longer. SO...the 28 minute-er was born. I'm SO glad
Speaking of Five-ish Minute Freewrites,
has a well written, articulate, punchy story with a provocative ending. This is one of the best "for-real-only-5-minutes" freewrites I've seen:
Yes, he does confess to taking an extra minute to polish it, but still. What a natural storyteller! As fans of
This is part four of a new freewrite series--and if it doesn't get your attention, you may not be awake. Get some coffee. Read this. It's short. And while you're there, check out the first three parts, even though this works as a standalone.
Congratulations
are in order for @Felt.Buzz, 
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This one is past payout, but we'll include it.
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My recommendation is for Otter freewrite by
You may have noticed 
this week showing up in comment boxes. It was 
Hi!
Thank you
I did a wallet transfer (wrongly, it seems, twice) and inadvertently tipped myself (oops) and have "subscribed" to several Freewrite regulars, but I'm waiting to see how this works before I keep going. Someone else is sure to make sense of
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0.05 SBD/STEEM may not seem much but every steem author can have many subscribers - in this situation he will receive combined reward from all subscribers. The nice thing is that the subscription rewards are sent instantly after the new post has been created so there is no need to wait 7 days for post reward.
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