What kind of world have I given you?

3 wishes

I wish I could be Tarzan,

Swinging through the trees;

Every day an excursion,

Doing as I please.

I wish I didn’t have to

Go to school every day,

Studying all day through,

Leaves little time to play.

I wish I had more birthdays,

Instead of just the one;

Parties never cease to amaze,

There ought to be more done.

Daily Prompt: Lucky Star

1. Daily Prompt: Lucky Stars | Journeyman
2. 3 Wishes; You Got To Be Kidding Me! | The Jittery Goat
3. Short of Apotheosis | Daily Prompt: Lucky Star | likereadingontrains
4. Blogger schenken Lesefreude | lady smartypants
5. Gates | Perspectives on life, universe and everything
6. Unicorn | Perspectives on life, universe and everything
7. DP Daily Prompt: Lucky Star | Sabethville
8. Daily Prompt: Lucky Star | Incidents of a Dysfunctional Spraffer
9. http://dailypost.wordpress.com/2014/02/13/daily-prompt-lucky-star/ | preethikarthik06
10. Lucky Star | An Accountant and a Mum
11. Add Love and Stir | Travel with Intent
12. rhapsodiesofmymind
13. Star light, Star bright… | Sounds of Time
14. Which Wishes Would I Wish, If I Had Wishes to Wish? | meanderedwanderings
15. A Land which says …..”GLOOM IS BANNED” | So Not Simple
16. DP: Lucky Star | Scorched Ice
17. Late Season Sailing | Exploratorius
18. Daily Prompt: Lucky Star « cognitive reflection
19. Wishing on a falling star…that won’t get you very far | snapshotsofawanderingheart
20. Things Are Going My Way « lordmikle
21. Daily Prompt: Lucky Star « Mama Bear Musings
22. Fairy Godmother Time: Daily Prompt | alienorajt
23. Three Wishes « My journey to qualify for the Boston Marathon…and everything in between…
24. If Wishes Were Butterflies, My Net Would Be Full… | The Eclectic Poet
25. Twinkle Twinkle Little Star. | My Lullabies
26. Lucky Star | Shade Walker
27. Daily Prompt: Lucky Star – 3 Wishes | Life’s So Sweet
28. I Have a Lucky Star ! | Knowledge Addiction
29. If Wishes Were Horses | Unlocking The Inner Creative
30. Three Wishes? | Post Departum Depression
31. Do You Believe In Magick? | My Little Avalon
32. Three Wishes For Me | Flowers and Breezes
33. Daily Prompt: Lucky Star[Feeling Lucky – My three wishes] | Paradise and Beyond….
34. three wishes,…… | ensuing light…
35. If | Stephanie auf Reisen: the next adventure
36. Do You Believe In Magick? « Shrine of Hecate – Ramblings of a New Age Witch
37. My Three Wishes | Step Into My Head
38. My.Vivid.Visions | Daily Prompt: Lucky Star – My 3 Wishes
39. S. Thomas Summers: Writing with Some Ink and a Hammer | On This Day – Blizzard
40. Daily Prompt: Lucky Star | Chronicles of an Anglo Swiss
41. Three Wishes in the HIV Field | Institute for Hispanic Health Equity
42. Puppy Star! | Haiku By Ku
43. Daily Prompt: Lucky Star | Basically Beyond Basic
44. wishing on a star | In The Moment
45. I’m No Beggar, But I’ll Ride That Horse! | My Author-itis
46. Wishing On A Star! « One Crazy Mom
47. Imagination, Imagination and Imagination | Life is great
48. Just By Wishing | Edward Hotspur
49. I’m a Reality Man | I’m a Writer, Yes I Am
50. I Promise I Won’t Bite You
51. Lucky star wishes were once grand: Today I just want the snow to go away and be in Candyland « psychologistmimi
52. DP: I Wish… | As I See It
53. Free to a Good Home | The Zombies Ate My Brains
54. How hard it is | Parents Are People Too
55. Daily Prompt – Lucky Star | Views Splash!
56. Daily Prompt: Make a Wish | Daily Prompt & Blogging Progress
57. Lucky Star: Daily Post | Destino
58. Lucky Star | The Nameless One
59. The Three Wishes | Must Be This Tall To Ride
60. Daily Prompt: LUCKY STAR | Duniya Ku
61. Lucky Stars? | martha0stout
62. Daily Prompt: Being Aladdin! | All Things Cute and Beautiful
63. stranded | yi-ching lin photography
64. IF WISHES WERE HORSES … | SERENDIPITY
65. we grow out of | y
66. Daily Prompt: Lucky Star | The Wandering Poet
67. …abiding by the No “I wish for endless wishes” rule? | thoughtsofrkh
68. If I Wished Upon A Star – Musings
69. A Wish in The Wind…. | My Play Nook
70. Daily Prompt: Lucky Star | justbeverity
71. If I Could Have Three Wishes | A New Life Wandering
72. Lucky Star, Lucky Strike, Lucky Rabbit’s Foot? | Lead us from the Unreal to the Real
73. Daily Prompt: Lucky Star |
74. Lucky Star | A Taswegian in Finland
75. When you wish upon a star… | The Shotgun Girls
76. The 3 Wishes WordPress Can Grant Me | Cheri Speak
77. Daily Prompt: Lucky Star | (A Day in the Life) Un Giorno Nella Vita
78. The Three Wishes | Navigate
79. Daily Prompt: Lucky Star | To Breathe is to Write
80. Wishbones & Dandelions! | melissuhhsmiles
81. The thing about wishes | Busy Mind Thinking
82. Daily Prompt: Lucky Star | scrapperjudedesigns
83. Daily Prompt: Lucky Star and An Old Joke | tnkerr-Writing Prompts and Practice
84. Daily Prompt: Lucky Star | Occasional Stuff
85. Genie in a keyboard? | 2 times pink
86. What would you do with three wishes? | Adventures with the Clawsons
87. Wishful Thinking | brookusbee
88. Happy Valentine’s Day: A Haiku And Three Wishes | Mirth and Motivation
89. How to keep anger in its place | Emotional Fitness
90. Daily prompt: Lucky star | laura-in-china
91. 3 Wishes for the employer that recently “let me go” | thejimmieG
92. This Beggar Would Ride | Visions Of a Vikzen
93. Daily prompt: Go straight to gaol, do not pass ‘Go’… | helen meikle’s scribblefest
94. Buzzy Beez
95. terminat hora diem; terminat auctor opus; the hour finishes the day; the author finishes his/her work | Buzzy Beez
96. Daily Prompt: wishes | That Montreal Girl
97. The Genie in the Beer Can | Thinking Diagonally
98. DP: LUCKY STAR | DANDELION’S DEN
99. FRIENDS AND FOE | DANDELION’S DEN
100. Daily Prompt: Lucky Star? | seikaiha’s blah-blah-blah
101. Let harini have these three wishes please? | harinivasudev
102. Wishing for Good Luck | Scene from the Hill
103. La Buveuse | field of thorns
104. La Buveuse | field of thorns
105. Threes wishes | mombox
106. Be careful what you wish for | Willow’s Corner
107. Couch to … 25K? | butterscotch palace
108. In Spite Of It All | Wiley’s Wisdom
109. Ben and | mombox
110. wishing on a star | zaji…the holistic writer
111. Can someone find me a Genie? | The Bohemian Rock Star’s “Untitled Project”
112. Suicide no. 26: Wish | derekalanwilkinson
113. “My Wish” | The Christian Gazette

A Little Prayer

My son appeared in an assessment last week and just yesterday he has been offered admission in the “big school”. He will be joining after finishing the year at nursery. I wrote a little prayer for him as he embarks on this big step.

The world awaits you my son

To explore, learn and have fun

May you always come through,

A mother’s prayers are with you.

Would you like to be a fireman?

Hotelier, doctor or even Tarzan,

May all your dreams come true,

A mother’s prayers are with you.

You’ll face difficulties on the way

Set eyes on the goal, never stray

May you never have a day to rue

A mother’s prayers are with you.

My baby you make me so proud

You are so special, so endowed,

May the blessings always renew

A mother’s prayers are with you.

OK maybe not Tarzan but it is his favorite program these days. Also he often says he wants to make a hotel when he grows up. Works for us!

I live in a city (Poem)

I live in a city where

There are flowers but no butterflies

Where a mall can boast snow and ice

And rain induced falls from the skies.

I live in a city where

There are people next door I never see

Where family is far but visitors aplenty

And people in malls just let you be.

I live in a city where

Records are broken with a tip of a hat

Highest, tallest, biggest this, largest that

And wrongdoings are dealt with stat.

I live in a city where

You can live all your life and not belong

You go to a hotel, bring your maid along

And laws are equal for weak and strong.

I live in a city where

Designer shoes and bags are the norm

The humblest person can soon transform

And a little bit of rain is called a storm.

I live in a city where

I’ll move on from in a matter of time

This city will evolve to its most sublime

And someone else will write this rhyme.

*All photographs taken by by the author/poet

Daily Prompt: We Built This City

1. Alien on the fence | The Bliss of Reality
2. Dubai World Trade Center Wedding: Amal & Mahmood | Rima Hassan
3. Street lamp hiding in the trees | The Bliss of Reality
4. Rebuilding the City – where to start | A Teacher’s Blog
5. [M.M.X.I.V. 68] Where Chicago and the North Shore Meet | Never A Worry
6. The Daily Prompt & Start With We (short story) | The Jittery Goat
7. Civilisation | ALIEN AURA’S BlOG: IT’LL BLOW YOUR MIND!
8. Making love – the role of the sacred. Civilisation | ALIEN AURA’S BlOG: IT’LL BLOW YOUR MIND!
9. DP Daily Prompt: We Built This City | Sabethville
10. S. Thomas Summers: Writing with Some Ink and a Hammer | In the Shadows
11. If I were mayor… | Sue’s Trifles
12. Once promising, the colour has started to fade. Fast. | thoughtsofrkh
13. Ogden Shmogden | Community | WANGSGARD
14. San Francisco Twenty Twelve Part One | Greg Urbano
15. My beautiful Melbourne | Purplesus’ Blog
16. No Place I’d Rather Be | snapshotsofawanderingheart
17. DAILY PROMPT: Getting back to nature | cockatooscreeching
18. Train journeys | A picture is worth 1000 words
19. Daily Prompt: We Built This City- Psychology behind embracing change | Journeyman
20. Daily Prompt: We Built This City | tnkerr-Writing Prompts and Practice
21. civilization | yi-ching lin photography
22. Daily Prompt: My Town | A Day In The Life
23. most cities are | y
24. Where I live | Kate Murray
25. If I Was A Mayor | Flowers and Breezes
26. Spring – A Haiku | My Little Avalon
27. Daily Prompt: We Built This City | Basically Beyond Basic
28. We Built This City: Civilization – Cat City | Khana’s Web
29. What’s The Word On The Street? Betting Shops, Pawn Shops & Empty Shops… | Steve Says…
30. Build Your City | Faith, Life and Compassion
31. In My City… | Life Confusions
32. Do Pgh Memes Inherently Have To Be Racist, Transphobic and Vicious?
33. what of the stories | peacefulblessedstar
34. Daily Prompt: We Built This City | Chronicles of an Anglo Swiss
35. Sitting in a P.A. Haze | Finale to an Entrance
36. I’m a Writer, Yes I Am

Weekly Writing Challenge: Lunch Posts

My son is a picky eater and when he started nursery I opted for the school lunch box in the hope that he would improve his eating habits. It was tough in the beginning and he would often come home without eating, but now since last term he eats whatever is on the menu. Still I can’t help being anxious at lunchtime….

It’s lunchtime and I’m wondering if

You’ve had your chicken and veggies too,

It’s good that you have company there

I’m alone here, can’t help missing you.

There’s still an hour till you come home,

With all the excitement of the day,

You’ve forgotten each morning when

“I don’t want to go to school” you say.

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Weekly Writing Challenge: Lunch Posts

1. Lunch | The Magic Black Book
2. Random Bits of Conversation Overheard Over Time | I’m a Writer, Yes I Am
3. Weekly Writing Challenge: Lunch Posts | Finding Life
4. My Darling | Broken Light: A Photography Collective
5. DP Challenge Weekly Writing Challenge: Staring Off Into Space | Sabethville
6. A veteran’s fondest memory | From One Crazy Life To Another
7. Knowledge Insults My Intelligence | Bumblepuppies
8. Weekly Writing Challenge: Lunch Posts | khaula mazhar
9. Weekly DP Challenge – Lunch posts | Its all about a bit of this and that.
10. Weekly Writing Challenge: Lunch Posts | The Solidarity Ramblings Of A Wisdom Seeker
11. Lunch: Fantasy Vs. Reality | Write Through Life
12. Lunch Day One/Weekly Writing Challenge | standinginthestorm
13. Blue Monday | Stories from aside
14. Today I’ll defer to the dog | Life is Unfolding
15. Lunch, Day 1: Too Quiet « there’s this book i’m reading.
16. Lunch Break, Day 1: The Distant Banana | Stealing All the Sevens
17. DPchallenge: Lunch break…or not | Mindful Digressions
18. Weekly Writing Challenge: Lunch Post | lifethoughtenergy
19. Daily Post Challenge: Lunch Posts | Flooding August
20. Lunchtime | Living and Lovin
21. lunch, anyone? | the REmissionary
22. Free Time? | The Backwords
23. Break Time Blogging | Lyme. Autism. Alzheimer. Oh my!
24. Lunch Post #1: Purple Scholars | Rescued Insanity
25. An Innocent Affair | living my life
26. Weekly Writing Challenge: Lunch Posts – Monday | Musings
27. Lunch at the Ranch | Running Brook Reflections
28. Google + | Happy Sushi Belly
29. Lunch Post | Heart Soul and Mind
30. Lunch Time. | Babbleogue
31. Lunch on Martin Luther King Day – Evelyne Holingue
32. Lack of dialogue | Never Stationary
33. Daily Prompt: The Luckiest People | A Room of One’s Own
34. Weekly Writing Challenge: Lunch | Picayune Pieces
35. The Diner Lunch | Harmless Propaganda
36. Weekly Writing Challenge: Lunch Posts | UBeCute – Follow the child inside of you…
37. The Writer’s Lunch – Weekly Writing Challenge: Lunch Posts | I am S(t)ri…
38. Lunch Posts (Weekly Writing Challenge) | Icezine
39. All the Coolest | The Seeker’s Dungeon
40. LUNCH IS MOOT IF YOU DRINK ENOUGH COFFEE | SERENDIPITY
41. Lunch With the Birds | Cat Over Clock
42. Weekly Writing Challenge: Midnight Shift | perksofacharlie
43. It’s a race! | Quintessence Of A Daydreamer
44. Weekly challenge: Beach at noon | helen meikle’s scribblefest
45. Weekly Writing Challenge: Lunch Posts Day 1 | Reflections and Nightmares- Irene A Waters (writer and memoirist)
46. Day 1: 9am – waiting. | Abstractions of Life
47. Sing a Song for Sixpence | litadoolan
48. Weekly Writing Challenge: Lunch Posts | The Wandering Poet
49. Weekly Writing Challenge – Lunch Posts | Joe’s Musings
50. Am I the Only One Still Awake on This Airplane? | A Really Full Life
51. Tuna fish in the morning | classygallie
52. The Best Lunch | SonWorshiper
53. Lunch 2 | The Magic Black Book
54. Plan B | Sue’s Trifles
55. DP Weekly challenge – Lunch posts – I scrambled the egg dry. | Its all about a bit of this and that.
56. Do-Si-Doing With The Cat | Musings of a Soul Eclectic
57. Tasting the Flavour of Friendship! | My Diary
58. Weekly Writing Challenge – Lunch Posts | The River Mom
59. Back to the nest | The Colours of Confetti
60. The Cigarette Break | An Upturned Soul

A child is God’s opinion that the world should go on

Expanding on Carl Sandburg’s quote “A baby is God’s opinion that the world should go on.” and my tagline…

Disasters, calamities, self afflicted and God sent,

Weapons and igniting war, tons of money is spent

Among the ashes of war and hatred a child is born,

A child is God’s opinion that the world should go on.

No prejudices, no jealousies, no regrets, no hating,

A gift from God, a bundle of love, a sweet belonging,

Starting anew, as pure as an angel, each child is born,

A child is God’s opinion that the world should go on.

What if it was not fashionable anymore to procreate?

Would the world go on another day or just decimate

Let’s renew the blessings that a child brings us upon

A child is God’s opinion that the world should go on.

Fast Forward

Could life be fast forwarded?

Do we really need to see?

What happens in the future?

Is it how we thought it to be?

If I could go to the time

When my son’s turned 18,

Is he tall and handsome?

To be good is he keen?

What subjects does he study?

What hobbies does he pursue?

Does he love to read and write?

Of politics, does he have a clue?

But what is this urgency?

The future will come all the same,

Jumping into the future

We’ll be strangers in our own game.

Let’s live our lives to the fullest,

And savor each and every day.

Make our future the best

For us in every way.

Daily Prompt: Fast Forward

1. Enjoying your moment « From One Crazy Life To Another
2. Just before the Suddenlies | A Teacher’s Blog
3. Prayer of a young soul | Perspectives on life, universe and everything
4. DP Daily Prompt: Fast Forward | Sabethville
5. A Reason For No Daily Prompt Today | The Jittery Goat
6. Living In The Moment – Creating A Future | Shrine of Hecate – Ramblings of a New Age Witch
7. Escapism | dandelionsinwind
8. This Moment | My Little Avalon
9. Daily Prompt: Fast Forward | Incidents of a Dysfunctional Spraffer
10. Fast Forward to the Future: A Haiku; Saturday, January 11, 2014 | LisaRosier.com
11. Jumping forward in time | Post Departum Depression
12. A future without chronic illness | Daily Prompt: Fast Forward | Ireland, Multiple Sclerosis & Me
13. The Recovery Time Machine | THE OVERCOMING
14. The Future | Kate Murray
15. daily prompt: fast forward | aimanss…
16. S. Thomas Summers | Godzilla is My Writing Coach
17. Where To? | Flowers and Breezes
18. Daily Prompt: Fast Forward « Mama Bear Musings
19. Fast Forward | Momma Said There’d Be Days Like This
20. Daily Prompt: Fast Forward | tnkerr-Writing Prompts and Practice
21. Past the Hurdles « Mon Cache
22. Fast Forward to Waking up From Surgery | My Play Nook
23. Hope to Reality | meanderedwanderings
24. A World of Humanity | all my likes
25. “Butterflies are Free” | Hope* the happy hugger
26. Daily Prompt : Forward | Chronicles of a Public Transit User
27. Daily Prompt: Fast Forward | Finding Life
28. Daily Prompt: Fast Forward | Chronicles of an Anglo Swiss
29. Yesterday, Today, Tomorrow… | LenzExperiments
30. Running deer (Forward) | photo potpourri
31. Fast Forward to February | Heart And A Half
32. Daily Prompt: Fast Forward | Under the Monkey Tree
33. Fast Forward Amish Race | Lisa’s Kansa Muse ~ Dreamy abstraction in a 100 year old Four Square Farm House
34. Daily Prompt: Fast Forward | Petite Powerhouse
35. Daily Prompt: Fast Forward | “The Ish,” presented by the Bohemian Rock Star
36. FORWARD….March!! | Active Army Wife
37. Daily Prompt: Fast Forward | Heron There & Everywhere
38. Fast Forward | Raspberry’s Daydreams
39. It’s My re-Birthday! | Haiku By Ku
40. Daily Prompt Challenge ~ Forward | soletusknow
41. Life Love Lily
42. DP: >> | Scorched Ice
43. Twenty-seven year bore | shame
44. Tomorrow | Life is great
45. Fast Forward | johnny ojanpera
46. To rewind or fast forward… | From diapers and tutus to meetings and boardrooms
47. Fate | Daily Prompt | Word Disorder
48. Evidence | The Land Slide Photography
49. Daily Prompt: Fast Forward | A Clueless Monkey’s Thoughts
50. Fast Forward | The Nameless One
51. “Pee here now.”/Daily Prompt | I’m a Writer, Yes I Am
52. No words. | Dreams to Reality !
53. Daily Prompts: Forward | A Life That is Full and Felt | Gradual Thought
54. Daily Prompt: Fast Forward. Must I? | Mishe en Place
55. My future in Friday Night Lights | The Flavored Word
56. The needs of the small people | TJ Barker
57. 2015 « ayimas
58. Daily Prompt: Fast Forward | I really just pretend to know stuff
59. Daily Prompt: Fast Forward | A Room of One’s Own
60. I Am Enough | sunshine in winter
61. A Distorted Mind. | W.T.F.
62. Why I Can’t Enjoy Sundays | Because Dragons Don’t Phase Me
63. Daily Prompt: Fast Forward | Occasional Stuff
64. Prompted Ponderings – ‘Fast Forward, Daily Prompt’ | Hemsleberrious
65. B.O.G.O. Part 2~ The Frozen North | The Fiction of Michael R. Wilson
66. Forward in time? | Willow’s Corner
67. Keep Moving Forward | The Christian Gazette
68. Always… | Words ‘n Pics…
69. Heroism and Moving Forward.. | Life Objectified.
70. Apocalypse | vic briggs
71. Daily Prompt: Pictures Showing Fast Forward! | Daily Prompt & Blogging Progress
72. Fast Forward | The untold, the unsaid…
73. Good Prompt Today! Daily Prompt: Fast Forward | King Pollux the Writer
74. Is Cruelty To Animals Increasing? Fast Forward To Utopia | lynnesartandsoul
75. Back to the Future? | The Silver Leaf Journal
76. Activate warp speed | 2 times pink
77. DAILY PROMPT: FAST FORWARD | DANDELION’S DEN
78. Rumo ao último dia | Sonhos desencontrados
79. To the Future! | The Cutter Rambles
80. Forward Thinking | Leonas Lines–Poetry Plus
81. Daily Prompt: Fast Forward | Nola Roots, Texas Heart
82. A place of our own | Life Of A Cosmetologist!
83. Fast forward | Life as a country bumpkin…not a city girl
84. Daily Prompt: Fast Forward | Basically Beyond Basic
85. Daily Prompt: Forward | Lines of Orenda
86. Living in A Moment | Wiley’s Wisdom
87. Blue Chip | lifewithgreeneyes