My bit for the environment
Get Your Shoes On
You have an important task to do
It isn't the mountain ahead that wears you out, but the grain in your shoe. ~ Muhammad Ali? Robert W. Service? Anonymous?….?
The source of this quote is not known, but as Shakespeare said, ‘What’s in a name?’ Let’s respect whoever wrote it and concentrate on the essence of the quote.
A little pulse check here: how did the month of May treat you? Did it wear you out by presenting a mountain or a grain in your shoe?
Anything May have happened right? But what’s important is, did you keep going?
Ok, some fun facts now —
Do you know why this month is called May?
It is because it May rain, it May snow, it May be 70 degrees, or it Maybe 20 degrees.
Anything May happen in May. 😀
Well now, since we are leaving May behind us, anything May not happen unless we let it happen. We now have the controls. So let’s gear up and get our shoes on..
May prompt
First off, let’s applaud the poets who responded to our Let’s Get Real prompt.
Wonderful Carolyn Hastings challenged everyone to beat the AI chatbot’s poem, Maternal Love Blooms, and violà, you did that artistically with your human craft. 👏 👏👏👏
Below are our Let’s Get Real prompt submissions. Kudos to all the May flowers of Paper Poetry —
🌻Sweetbriar — a poem for Mom ~ Esther Spurrill-Jones 🌻Mother’s Daze Flowers ~ Wry Weld 🌻Sacrificial Pearl ~ Sinus Kosinus 🌻In Her Arms ~ Carolyn Hastings 🌻Mother’s Day Week Brings Something Unexpected ~ Douglas Lim 🌻Do You “Believe” or “Be + Live” Your Dreams? ~ Lilie Kaizen 🌻Warms Your Heart, Now You Bloom ~ Carolyn Hastings 🌻Children Give Birth To Mothers ~ Lilie Kaizen 🌻Mother ~ Mia Verita 🌻Forever ~ Rhonda Marrone 🌻Flower & Bud ~ Sinus Kosinus
Thank you everyone for thinking that we May beat ChatGPT and we did! Yayyy!!
June Prompt
Gearing up and getting our shoes on.
Buckle up people, we have an important task to do!
Let’s explore what it is.
🍀 5th June is World Environment Day 🍀
Just to add on that, this year’s motto is #BeatPlasticPollution.
Our prompt for June is —
🍀 Get our shoes on and do our bit for the environment.🍀
🗣Told ya, we have an important task to do!
Write about anything you do, did, or want to do for the environment around you.
Anything which pumps you up enough to put your shoes on and get the job done.
It could be, but not limited to:
🍀 Being with nature
🍀 Watering plants,
🍀 Feeding wildlife
🍀 Nurturing a garden
🍀 Planting a sapling
🍀 Taking care of one’s physical health
🍀 Taking care of one’s mental health
🍀 Taking care of elderly
🍀 Decluttering one’s space
🍀 Helping the needy
The list is endless…Be creative
Anything you can do with zeal to make the environment around you better than it is today.
You can conquer the world with the right shoes.
This means you got to get going! Get going to achieve your goals, dreams and create the environment🍀 which makes you and others in it flourish.
Results may not be instantaneous, but at least we can rest assured we did put our shoes on and did something for the environment🍀.
Poetry Prompt Details
Prompt theme: 🍀Get our shoes on and do our bit for the environment🍀
📗IMP: Please make sure to make a reference to shoes and environment in your poetry.
Title/subtitle/kicker: please use ‘🍀Get Your Shoes On🍀’ as the kicker; your choice of title and subtitle
Tags: please use ‘🍀Get Your Shoes On🍀’’ tag when submitting your story
Images: maximum two images Please note:
👉It is mandatory that at least one of your images incorporates a handwritten/handcrafted element in either paper or digital format in accordance with Paper Poetry’s submission guidelines.
Suggestions: a handwritten segment of your story, a decorative title, an illustration that depicts an aspect of your story, a digitally enhanced photo (free-to-use or personal) that relates to your story. AI-generated images are acceptable providing you include your source link as evidence in the caption or explain how the image was derived. Please refer to Paper Poetry’s homepage for further examples.
Extensions: Please include a promotional link to this prompt and invite (handle tag) up to five other writers to join the prompt.
Submission period: Thursday, June 1 (UTC-10hrs, Cook Islands 12:00am) — Friday, June 30 (UTC-10hrs, Cook Islands 11:59 pm)
We welcome new writers to join the prompt. Please leave a comment requesting to be added as a writer and include your Medium @ handle; or email us at [email protected]
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