A word prompt to get your creativity flowing this weekend. How you use the prompt is up to you. Write a piece of flash fiction, a poem, a chapter for your novel…anything you like. Or take the challenge below – there are no prizes – it’s not a competition but rather a fun writing exercise. If you want to share what you come up with, please leave a link to it in the comments. Thank you, Sammi, for hosting!
Time for a walk, I’m short on steps
Outside my door, one tiny phlox,
a vivid purple, demands my attention
It succeeds. I photograph it and turn
right into the rain I hadn’t noticed
Big, fat drops bounce off the hot pavement
releasing petrichor
delighting my nose
God, I love that scent!
I breathe deep and keep walking
Turning the corner, a bright white cloud
Can white be vivid?
it is so bright
over there, while
thunder cracks
over here
I jump over puddles, laughing
all the way home
A Dalectable Life 
Oh yes! I hope you jumped IN some too.
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Absolutely!
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What a lovely poem it vividly displays your joy of life 💜💜💜
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Thank you, Willow. I love summer storms. 🧡🧡🧡
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Me too and we have a lot of them at the moment 💜
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Love it!
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Yes 💜
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🧡
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What a great description of your morning. 🙂 And yes, I think white can be vivid, even if you and I are the only ones who think so.
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Thank you, Gigi. And doesn’t that cloud look particularly so? I took it from under the canopy of a tree since it was raining so hard where I was!
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I love it. Rain drop, peddles and vivid white are the ways of summer.
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So glad you do. Thank you, Tim. And yes, they are the ways of summer. Love!
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Vivid poem all right, Dale. Made me smile.
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So glad it did! I love summer storms 🙂
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Sounds like you had fun! Loved the flow of this piece.
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I did! Merci ma chère Magarisa!
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Pas de souci. 😉
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🤪
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Oh, Dale that is such a beautiful and familiar feeling! Especially that scent! Your words encapsulate the essence of joy! Huge hug! xoxoxoxoxo
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Isn’t it the greatest? I love it. So glad you enjoyed my little poem… Huge hug right back at ya! xoxoxo
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Oh, very much and yes it is!!!!!!!!!!
Another one your way!
xoxoxoxoxoxo
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Oh, this was such a vivid description of summer joy! 🙂
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So very glad you enjoyed, my friend! xoxo
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Me did! 🙂
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🙂
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That’s a lovely poem. I particularly love the puddle imagery. You’ll see why on Wednesday.
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Thank you, lovely Pam. Looking forward to it!
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What a fun outing! The song immediately came to mind, “just singing in the rain.” Great response to the prompt, Dale!
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Thank you, Jan. It was so nice. I love summer storms. So glad you enjoyed… Now I’m singing… 😉
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Excellent poem, Dale. I liked all the action in this one. Yes, that white can be vivid. Beautiful photos.
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Very nicely done, Dale. I’d say you figured out vivid.
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Dear Dale,
Such a lovely and vivid summer walk. I enjoyed.
Shalom and lotsa colorful hugs,
Rochelle
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Dear Rochelle,
I am very glad you enjoyed my vivid walk 🙂
Shalom and lotsa bright love,
Dale
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It was like I was walking with you – I really wanted to splash that puddle and give you a soaking!
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That is the best compliment, Keith! And I can promise you, I would have returned the favour!
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Dale, this vivid from beginning to end. Wonderful piece!
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Thank you, dear Ina! So glad you enjoyed.
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I meant “this”is”. I’m getting scatter-brained. 🙂
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No worries… I read the invisible “is” 😉
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Q
What a beautiful summer walk! And the Gene Kelly vibe mingling with Thoreau as you amble (Where’d I get that word from again?) into the sweet embrace of a summer’s late afternoon, evening . . it was the perfect way to stroll. Imagine NOT getting this out of summer? Imagine just bitching and moaning about the heat without taking a breath and drinking in the best of it too?
After which we can bitch and moan about the heat! 😉
B
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B
Thank you… Gene and Thoreau… I like it. (Hmmm… I wonder…) Summer ambles/strolls/meanders are meant to happen with or without the raindrops, I say. It would be a very sad thing to not get this out of summer because you are right, not taking a breath and drinking the best of it would be a tragedy.
And we’ll always find a time to bitch and moan about the heat… 😉
Q
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Me twice! 😉
I agree with this. When it’s calling to you, you take the call, and then you get to stepping . . short on steps or not.
It would be very wrong, no doubt about it.
Because it’s the right thing to do! LOL
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I should think so!
Oh yes. Shortness of steps can be the incentive to go out there when you hesitate (and then wonder why you did in the first place because it is so wonderful).
At the very least, it would be sad…
Of course! What’s the point if you can’t find stuff to bitch about?
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Uh huh.
I don’t dig those days when I’m short on steps though. I like getting them rolled early on and then having gravy points.
True.
Life ain’t worth living.
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I don’t either. Big time. Get the biggest chunk in before work is best!
😊
It would be more dull.
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That’s what I say, 😉
It would be . . .
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We are in cahoots on that one.
And we don’t do dull, do we?
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Fo sho.
Never.
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Thought so.
And…. I thought so
MWAH!
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MUAH!
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Petricor…a great word among the 89. And a great encounter.
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I so love that word and what it means… Deep breath!
Thank you, Monika
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INDEED! Your photo of the flower succeeds! Thank you for sharing such a beautiful photo!
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Thank you. So very kind of you to say! 🙂
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Fabulous… ⚡️💥 Adore that it ends with Thunder and puddle jumping!
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Thank you, 🧚🏻♀️🌟
I adore that it did too 😉
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I love this. And the colour of that phlox!!!!
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Thank you, my friend. Intense, the colour… Or rather vivid 🤭😉
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Yea 🙂 🙂 🙂
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Flowers can make that fab of an impression
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That they can!
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simply adorable!!! ❤ bonne continuation et un océan d'inspiration! 🙂
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Merci chère Mélanie! J’adore marcher dans la pluie d’été 🙂
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Thank you for the reblog!
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Beautify poem!
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Thank you!
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Sorry, meant to say “beautiful” :)..
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I somehow read that anyway 😉
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