Words for Wednesday
The original Words for Wednesday was begun by Delores and eventually taken over by a moveable feast of participants when Delores had computer troubles. Sadly, Delores has now closed her blog forever due to other problems.
The aim of the words is to encourage us to write. A story, a poem, whatever comes to mind.
If you are posting an entry on your own blog, please let us know so we can come along to read it and add a few encouraging words.
This month the words/prompts are supplied by River (that's me) and can be found here
This week's words/prompts are:
1. entice
2. excuse
3. blackbird
4. swaying
5. better
6. mechanical
7. disorder
and/or:
1. peeling
2. clouds
3. scrambled
4. solid
5. curio
6. float
7. fountain
use either list or both, or mix and match, just have fun.
My own offering will be on this blog on Friday.
Blackbirds are pretty things, and often musical too. I love to listen to them in the morning, whether they are swooping out of the clouds or singing from branches swaying in the breeze. Seeing them enjoying the fountain attached to our water feature is another joy.
ReplyDeleteThe practice of blackbirding is another question entirely. I shudder to think where its name comes from. Starting in the 1800s tens of thousands of Pacific Islanders were brought to Australia to work on plantations in Queensland. No doubt some of them were enticed with promises of a better life. Hundreds and thousands more were simply kidnapped, packed onto overfilled boats. The boats floated. Their lives did not.
If asked, many people would say (almost mechanically) that there is no slavery in Australia. They were wrong. And there is no excuse for this abomination. A very little peeling back of our history gives us the solid and unpalatable truth. Sadly our history is often scrambled. We choose to focus on the positive, ignoring the many, many areas where the actions of the colonists were simply cruel, driven by profit rather than humanity.
This disorder continues to this day. People from overseas are brought in to pick our fruit (when covid restrictions allow). Brought in, and underpaid. They often work in deplorable conditions and their ‘board and keep’ are deducted from their already low wages. Yes we are a multi-cultural nation, and have been so for a very long time. However the curios that we show to establish that fact have dark and untold stories attached to them…
Man's inhumanity to man is across almost every culture and every generation. Not an excuse, a lesson we all need to learn and guard against.
Deletevery excellent EC. I agree, we do have slavery, just not the whips and chains kind that most people think of.
DeleteVery well done, an approach I did not expect and yes, every country has it´s dark sides... Now we have modern slavery and it is still slavery.
DeleteGreat use of the prompts. Sad but true everywhere.
DeleteThe song 16 tonns is sadly still reality in many places, Well written.
DeleteWorking on it early, i'll be back to link up.
ReplyDeleteMy post, once it goes live, will be over here.
Deletemessymimi; I will read yours early tomorrow morning.
DeleteI'll see you later.
ReplyDeleteSusan Kane; I look forward to it.
DeleteDifficult combination of words this time.
ReplyDeleteGod bless.
Victor SE Moubarak; I agree, what was I thinking when I chose them?
DeleteIt was time to entice River up to my apartment. This time there was no excuse. A blackbird sang under swaying willows which was a better thing to witness than the noisy mechanical litter collector that moved along the paths of the park addressing the disorder created by pop music fans the day before. There was litter everywhere.
ReplyDeleteMy nose was peeling due to an absence of summer clouds. When I scrambled to my feet it was as if I had suddenly hit a solid brick wall for there was River wearing an item of antique curio jewellery that her grandmother had left her. It glistened in the sunshine. She seemed to float along to the memorial fountain where I met her and blurted out, "Wanna come up to my apartment to see my stamp collection?"
Naturally, she agreed instantly.
Yorkshire Pudding; she agreed? Perhaps the antique curio has magical protection powers. nice story.
DeleteVery clever. Loved the use of "peeling". Good story.
DeleteOh, I thougth it was her recipes, you were after? Well written and entertaining.
DeleteThe enemy jets were peeling out of the clouds as we scrambled to our stations and I tripped over a solid curio into the fountain where I found out that I float.
ReplyDeleteMike; I'm glad you are able to float. I don't much like the thought of enemy jets peeling out of the clouds. Hope it never happens here, or anywhere else. Are there jets over Ukraine? :(
DeleteVery succinct use of the prompts. Bravo Mike.
DeleteShort and well writen althought the prospects are bleak.
DeleteQUESTION A FERAL CAT by Granny Annie
ReplyDeleteSylvia did her best to entice the kitten toward her. He was very shy and he could not find an excuse to approach this silly lady. Suddenly a blackbird flew over the kitty, swaying back and forth. This frightened feline chose the better of the two evils and jumped into Sylvia's warm outstretched hands. He was practically mechanical in is moves. Could he have some kind of disorder.
Sylvia looked up at the clouds and viewed them peeling their fluff off to show an impending storm underneath. She scrambled toward the house with this yellow cat solid in her grasp. The little fellow felt like he could float. She sat the delicate kitten on the shelf as if he was a curio. He looked down and was very frightened to be on the shelf. His fear caused him to spray all around like a fountain. Now Sylvia wasn't sure she should have brought this feral stray home.
Oh, this calls for a follow-up, what happened next?
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