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div id="1feb" class="link-block"> <a href="https://readmedium.com/sincerity-5276fe768073"> <div> <div> <h2>Sincerity</h2> <div><h3>Take a chance</h3></div> <div><p>medium.com</p></div> </div> <div> <div style="background-image: url(https://miro.readmedium.com/v2/resize:fit:320/1*ADHym7OnbLP1PqiVqtgETQ.jpeg)"></div> </div> </div> </a> </div><h2 id="4ed8">Grace’s corner</h2><div id="d4c4" class="link-block"> <a href="https://readmedium.com/your-plaque-506e35353567"> <div> <div> <h2>Your Plaque</h2> <div><h3>A Poem</h3></div> <div><p>medium.com</p></div> </div> <div> <div style="background-image: url(https://miro.readmedium.com/v2/resize:fit:320/0*O1YaOL8ITFuS_JC5)"></div> </div> </div> </a> </div><h2 id="b90d">r.j. quirk</h2><div id="e5a3" class="link-block"> <a href="https://readmedium.com/mountain-kingdom-e3a391faeba2"> <div> <div> <h2>Mountain Kingdom</h2> <div><h3>A haiku about Leostho</h3></div> <div><p>medium.com</p></div> </div> <div> <div style="background-image: url(https://miro.readmedium.com/v2/resize:fit:320/1*VsyrXsPng5cW8SZzvHWUjQ.jpeg)"></div> </div> </div> </a> </div><h2 id="b75e">Renache</h2><div id="8896" class="link-block"> <a href="https://readmedium.com/blue-black-gone-f0db2de6a4df"> <div> <div> <h2>Blue, Black, Gone</h2> <div><h3>A poem about my uncle’s suicide</h3></div> <div><p>medium.com</p></div> </div> <div> <div style="background-image: url(https://miro.readmedium.com/v2/resize:fit:320/1*ve3UqSx1d8KrTXIXV60BLw.png)"></div> </div> </div> </a> </div><h2 id="0c62">Kendra Lavelle</h2><div id="e152" class="link-block"> <a href="https://readmedium.com/humanity-df8474103460"> <div> <div> <h2>Humanity</h2> <div><h3>The day someone told me it was okay to feel sadness was the same day my life began to change</h3></div> <div><p>medium.com</p></div> </div> <div> <div style="background-image: url(https://miro.readmedium.com/v2/resize:fit:320/1*MmpbXVlVqYFCw2mcTRPcZA.png)"></div> </div> </div> </a> </div><h2 id="4929">Radha Kapadia</h2><div id="6f87" class="link-block"> <a href="https://readmedium.com/a-stone-2c7806ea09e8"> <div> <div> <h2>A Stone</h2> <div><h3>Beautiful in itself, A Stone</h3></div> <div><p>medium.com</p></div> </div> <div> <div style="background-image: url(https://miro.readmedium.com/v2/resize:fit:320/1*2WdDDadF90m0E53d2ljx6Q.jpeg)"></div> </div> </div> </a> </div><h1 id="7e9d">Five Poems I’ve read and absolutely love from Share The Love Publication</h1><p id="5173">I’ve chosen my five favourites from the publication.</p><h2 id="85a5">Rohini Singh</h2><div id="cbb4" class="link-block"> <a href="https://readmedium.com/the-new-beginning-a5296c4a2993"> <div> <div> <h2>The New Beginning</h2> <div><h3>A poem</h3></div> <div><p>medium.com</p></div> </div> <div> <div style="background-image: url(https://miro.readmedium.com/v2/resize:fit:320/1*yiO7owFSPjEB8uB_P7OwwA.jpeg)"></div> </div> </div> </a> </div><h2 id="4305">Holly Jahangiri</h2><div id="960f" class="link-block"> <a href="https://readmedium.com/the-choice-84a02384ffa6"> <div> <div> <h2>The Choice</h2> <div><h3>Life, and happiness, are a choice — to thrive, or to fall between the cracks.</h3></div> <div><p>medium.com</p></div> </div> <div> <div style="background-image: url(https://miro.readmedium.com/v2/resize:fit:320/1*zuO9ch1OtZ6oBmNfXL_oPg.jpeg)"></div> </div> </div> </a> </div><h2 id="6b50">Chirag</h2><div id="7b2f" class="link-block"> <a href="https://readmedium.com/my-home-sweet-home-2a22251ef744"> <div> <div> <h2>My Home Sweet Home</h2> <div><h3>50-word Poetry In Response To Prompts Home and Fountain Surrounded By Flowers</h3></div> <div><p>medium.com</p></div> </div> <div> <div style="background-image: url(https://miro.readmedium.com/v2/resize:fit:320/0*dPF-tysvkIMKw9H1)"></div> </div> </div> </a> </div><h2 id="ba7f">Adam M.</h2><div id="2827" class="link-block"> <a href="https://readmedium.com/nostalgia-98581e647c66"> <div> <div> <h2>Nostalgia</h2> <div><h3>A poem</h3></div> <div><p>medium.com</p></div> </div> <div> <div style="background-image: url(https://miro.readmedium.com/v2/resize:fit:320/1*6xMl_w0KTgVPvDxsOQ7OCw.jpeg)"></div> </div> </div> </a> </div><h2 id="82b7">Sumera Rizwan</h2><div id="51b9" class="link-block"> <a href="https://readmedium.com/worthless-squabbles-4f1a687109b7"> <div> <div> <h2>Worthless Squabbles</h2> <div><h3>One fine day love and friendship had a squabble It was just about their association with life Life being all mysterious…</h3></div> <div><p>medium.com</p></div> </div> <div> <div style="background-image: url(https://miro.readmedium.com/v2/resize:fit:320/1*DJhQuwih_vD8Crxb150JBA.jpeg)"></div> </div> </div> </a> </div><h1 id="420e">From the Editors</h1><p id="03d2">I have added one poem from each of the editors.</p><h2 id="52aa">Martin Rushton</h2><div id="2002" class="link-block"> <a href="https://readmedium.com/reach-for-the-stars-e947029b7a02"> <div> <div> <h2>Reach for The Stars</h2> <div><h3>A tale of the human endeavour to travel and explore. For the Stars prompt Day 1 of 7</h3></div> <div><p>medium.com</p></div> </div> <div> <div style="background-image: url(https://miro.readmedium.com/v2/resize:fit:320/1*s42dfMxtcyt0Lznwwdm96Q.jpeg)"></div> </div> </div> </a> </div><h2 id="99c0">Melissa Speed</h2><div id="ed7a" class="link-block"> <a href="https://readmedium.com/queen-of-the-iceni-99a2e90c

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9597"> <div> <div> <h2>Queen of the Iceni</h2> <div><h3>A poem for Boudicca</h3></div> <div><p>medium.com</p></div> </div> <div> <div style="background-image: url(https://miro.readmedium.com/v2/resize:fit:320/1*FZIWhvqFJjdBUU3ET3NAnw.jpeg)"></div> </div> </div> </a> </div><h2 id="c9d8">Neha Sandhir S</h2><div id="d8c6" class="link-block"> <a href="https://readmedium.com/love-in-its-abundance-a97bcea9fcd8"> <div> <div> <h2>Love In It’s Abundance</h2> <div><h3>In Response To The ‘Never-Ending Poem’ From Share The Love</h3></div> <div><p>medium.com</p></div> </div> <div> <div style="background-image: url(https://miro.readmedium.com/v2/resize:fit:320/1*7JI2cgYypHQY53W699l1wQ.jpeg)"></div> </div> </div> </a> </div><h2 id="f982">Victor Sarkin</h2><div id="d392" class="link-block"> <a href="https://readmedium.com/unlimited-potential-64fddac79bf4"> <div> <div> <h2>Unlimited Potential</h2> <div><h3>of human ingenuity</h3></div> <div><p>medium.com</p></div> </div> <div> <div style="background-image: url(https://miro.readmedium.com/v2/resize:fit:320/1*iJg7EAlnEDdKl002vDzDmQ.jpeg)"></div> </div> </div> </a> </div><h1 id="0bbb">‘Go on, I Dare Ya! Do a Prompt’</h1><p id="01c1">Why not shake those brain cells up a little and have a go at one of the prompts. Or have a go at all of them if you are feeling brave. So you don’t feel left out I also do the prompts.</p><p id="84e7">All prompts will be added into the prompt page. Favourites from last week.</p><h2 id="e298">Stephen Dalton</h2><div id="1d9c" class="link-block"> <a href="https://readmedium.com/my-personal-poseidon-dbc3e568afc8"> <div> <div> <h2>My Personal Poseidon</h2> <div><h3>A picture prompt from Share The Love Issue #6 by Martin Rushton</h3></div> <div><p>medium.com</p></div> </div> <div> <div style="background-image: url(https://miro.readmedium.com/v2/resize:fit:320/1*2WIy9zRAMimgZsNxraIdTw.jpeg)"></div> </div> </div> </a> </div><h2 id="1755">Susannah MacKinnie</h2><div id="2f05" class="link-block"> <a href="https://readmedium.com/hercules-labours-9fe253b14888"> <div> <div> <h2>Hercules Labours</h2> <div><h3>The True Story</h3></div> <div><p>medium.com</p></div> </div> <div> <div style="background-image: url(https://miro.readmedium.com/v2/resize:fit:320/1*urTYA-DDtpXAzi7jM9GHMA.png)"></div> </div> </div> </a> </div><figure id="28d8"><img src="https://cdn-images-1.readmedium.com/v2/resize:fit:800/1*5Hms9nYEGo-0YTYxigVp5w.jpeg"><figcaption>Image by <a href="https://pixabay.com/users/crazysazib-16976434/?utm_source=link-attribution&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=image&utm_content=5352312">ABDUS SATTAR SAZIB</a> from <a href="https://pixabay.com/?utm_source=link-attribution&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=image&utm_content=5352312">Pixabay</a></figcaption></figure><h1 id="cb7e">Prompt 1. “Picture it”</h1><p id="861b">For this, you need to write a poem in any form or a fiction piece about the picture above on an Indian-Theme.</p><h1 id="58b2">Prompt 2. “I’m Turning Japanese”</h1><p id="39f3">You guessed it! Write a haiku or tanka from the word “<b>Spices</b>”</p><p id="ac0e"><i>If you use another publication to submit to please don’t forget to include at the bottom of your poem “A prompt from Share The Love Issue 7 by <a href="https://readmedium.com/b97fe4764501?source=post_page-----3683f31cacc8----------------------">Martin Rushton</a>, tag me or use <b>#Stlprompt</b></i></p><p id="f31c">If you are submitting your prompt to us, please make sure your first tag is ‘Stlprompt’.</p><h1 id="6409">Fiction</h1><p id="3c91">I’m no expert at writing fiction. If you look at my profile it is mainly poetry. Some of our writers are already fiction writers. <a href="undefined">Alex Kilcannon</a> has written an excellent piece on how to write flash fiction. If you want to get into it then have a read.</p><div id="2b05" class="link-block"> <a href="https://readmedium.com/how-to-write-flash-fiction-e394f80dd423"> <div> <div> <h2>How to Write Flash Fiction</h2> <div><h3>5 steps to creating a satisfying short story</h3></div> <div><p>medium.com</p></div> </div> <div> <div style="background-image: url(https://miro.readmedium.com/v2/resize:fit:320/1*6FJNXm_okAjy2BdpTf15eg.jpeg)"></div> </div> </div> </a> </div><p id="877d">Also, she writes a monthly blog about her favourite fiction finds. So I’d rather support her finds than list a whole load of new ones. So make sure you support these fantastic fiction writers too.</p><div id="7b1a" class="link-block"> <a href="https://readmedium.com/favourite-fiction-finds-june-2020-8b5f2e1ad32d"> <div> <div> <h2>Favourite Fiction Finds June 2020</h2> <div><h3>Some of my favourite fiction discovered on Medium</h3></div> <div><p>medium.com</p></div> </div> <div> <div style="background-image: url(https://miro.readmedium.com/v2/resize:fit:320/1*-cnBekCR1M8CzFv3284KPA.jpeg)"></div> </div> </div> </a> </div><p id="7ba5" type="7">Don’t forget to come and join our Facebook Group and come follow our publication.</p><div id="bcd4" class="link-block"> <a href="https://medium.com/share-the-love"> <div> <div> <h2>Share The Love</h2> <div><h3>A publication that is dedicated to sharing poetry. Why not visit our facebook page</h3></div> <div><p>medium.com</p></div> </div> <div> <div style="background-image: url(https://miro.readmedium.com/v2/resize:fit:320/1*5FsQTz16oHf95Un7tUk1gA.png)"></div> </div> </div> </a> </div><h2 id="6f8f">Our Readers! Click on them and have a look at their work.</h2><p id="6e7c"><a href="undefined">Melissa Speed</a>…<a href="undefined">Gayle Kurtzer-Meyers</a>…<a href="undefined">Connie Song</a>…<a href="undefined">Tim Ebl</a>…<a href="undefined">Martine Weber</a>…<a href="undefined">Marla Bishop</a>…<a href="undefined">Francine Fallara</a>…<a href="undefined">Tarrant Smith</a>…<a href="undefined">Amber Blaize</a>…<a href="undefined">Alex Kilcannon</a>…<a href="undefined">Stephen Dalton</a>…<a href="undefined">Aimée Gramblin</a>…<a href="undefined">Suryatapa</a>…<a href="undefined">Kira Dawn</a></p></article></body>

Share The Love — Issue 7

It’s a jungle out there! But we are stomping through

Indian elephants in an amazing Indian jungle. The jungle itself fascinates me. Full of animal life, dangerous yet inviting (for me anyway!). It was the Indian jungle that inspired Rudyard Kipling to write the Mowgli stories. Though I may never see the jungles myself, I can dream.

I want to take this opportunity to introduce you to the editors of Share The Love. Melissa Speed, Neha Sandhir S, and Victor Sarkin will be working with me to add your pieces.

While the team work hard to help you produce the best you can, by advising where needed, they also schedule the pieces so everyone gets an opportunity at the top. I personally read every single piece that goes through Share the Love. I clap for them and as a bonus, I share them on our Facebook page, Twitter, and LinkedIn.

We have three new sections (more info further down). Micro-Fiction (300 words or less), Flash-Fiction (1000 words or less) and Short-Stories (1000 to 1500 words). Note we cap our word count at 1500 words. Please make sure if you submit to these you use the standard Medium tags.

Stats for Share The Love (totals)

Figures are site totals, not weekly totals Time Reading (mins): Last Week — 1593 This Week — 3688 Total Views: Last Week — 4653 This Week — 9636 Unique Visitors: Last Week — 1146 This Week — 2255 Followers: Last week — 54 This Week — 105

Best Trending Poem: Connie Song

Jelly Belly

A Prompted Poem from Share the Love

medium.com

Curated on Share The Love: Alex Kilcannon

Time to Fly

Who is least ready, you or I?

medium.com

Featured Stories and Feature Pages

We really do a fair amount of prompts for you guys, and you seem to love them. I now realise that just showing the best of them in here isn't enough. We now do the Thursday Newsletter prompts 'Picture It' and 'Turning Japanese' and the weekender challenge too on top of that I started the never-ending poem. Got a feeling that won't stop for a while :). So to highlight the best, here is how it will work.

Featured Stories

At the top of our home page will be featured stories. This will contain the submission guidelines (the subtitle now includes the revision date), the two best 'Picture It', the two best 'Turning Japanese', the two best weekender challenge and the three best fiction pieces. They will stay for a week.

Feature Pages

We do not give out feature pages for just anyone. So as part of the weekender challenge, you can win a feature page. This will only be on the last weekend of the month.

Ten Poems I’ve read and absolutely love.

There are so many fantastic poems to read. I really wish I could list every single one. These are ones that just stood out to me for various reasons, have a look as there is some amazing work out there.

I will keep looking and keep reading as many poems as I possibly can. I can say though I haven’t seen one that shouldn’t be on my list. Keep up the amazing work. I wish I could write the way you do!

If you are lucky enough to be included below feel free to share the love and spread the word.

Nina Woodcock

Luna

Daylight ebbs away as night sinks in. The lunar orb casts her shadow, while stars watch waves lapping at the shore…

medium.com

Christina M. Ward

Flowers in the Sky

a free verse poem, #flowerweek

medium.com

Holly Jahangiri

Rage

The sweetness belies a hard, bitter, toxic core.

medium.com

Jasmine Poulton

Third Lake

If you follow the sound of water crashing over rocks I think you’ll find me

medium.com

Adam M.

Sincerity

Take a chance

medium.com

Grace’s corner

Your Plaque

A Poem

medium.com

r.j. quirk

Mountain Kingdom

A haiku about Leostho

medium.com

Renache

Blue, Black, Gone

A poem about my uncle’s suicide

medium.com

Kendra Lavelle

Humanity

The day someone told me it was okay to feel sadness was the same day my life began to change

medium.com

Radha Kapadia

A Stone

Beautiful in itself, A Stone

medium.com

Five Poems I’ve read and absolutely love from Share The Love Publication

I’ve chosen my five favourites from the publication.

Rohini Singh

The New Beginning

A poem

medium.com

Holly Jahangiri

The Choice

Life, and happiness, are a choice — to thrive, or to fall between the cracks.

medium.com

Chirag

My Home Sweet Home

50-word Poetry In Response To Prompts Home and Fountain Surrounded By Flowers

medium.com

Adam M.

Nostalgia

A poem

medium.com

Sumera Rizwan

Worthless Squabbles

One fine day love and friendship had a squabble It was just about their association with life Life being all mysterious…

medium.com

From the Editors

I have added one poem from each of the editors.

Martin Rushton

Reach for The Stars

A tale of the human endeavour to travel and explore. For the Stars prompt Day 1 of 7

medium.com

Melissa Speed

Queen of the Iceni

A poem for Boudicca

medium.com

Neha Sandhir S

Love In It’s Abundance

In Response To The ‘Never-Ending Poem’ From Share The Love

medium.com

Victor Sarkin

Unlimited Potential

of human ingenuity

medium.com

‘Go on, I Dare Ya! Do a Prompt’

Why not shake those brain cells up a little and have a go at one of the prompts. Or have a go at all of them if you are feeling brave. So you don’t feel left out I also do the prompts.

All prompts will be added into the prompt page. Favourites from last week.

Stephen Dalton

My Personal Poseidon

A picture prompt from Share The Love Issue #6 by Martin Rushton

medium.com

Susannah MacKinnie

Hercules Labours

The True Story

medium.com

Image by ABDUS SATTAR SAZIB from Pixabay

Prompt 1. “Picture it”

For this, you need to write a poem in any form or a fiction piece about the picture above on an Indian-Theme.

Prompt 2. “I’m Turning Japanese”

You guessed it! Write a haiku or tanka from the word “Spices”

If you use another publication to submit to please don’t forget to include at the bottom of your poem “A prompt from Share The Love Issue 7 by Martin Rushton, tag me or use #Stlprompt

If you are submitting your prompt to us, please make sure your first tag is ‘Stlprompt’.

Fiction

I’m no expert at writing fiction. If you look at my profile it is mainly poetry. Some of our writers are already fiction writers. Alex Kilcannon has written an excellent piece on how to write flash fiction. If you want to get into it then have a read.

How to Write Flash Fiction

5 steps to creating a satisfying short story

medium.com

Also, she writes a monthly blog about her favourite fiction finds. So I’d rather support her finds than list a whole load of new ones. So make sure you support these fantastic fiction writers too.

Favourite Fiction Finds June 2020

Some of my favourite fiction discovered on Medium

medium.com

Don’t forget to come and join our Facebook Group and come follow our publication.

Share The Love

A publication that is dedicated to sharing poetry. Why not visit our facebook page

medium.com

Our Readers! Click on them and have a look at their work.

Melissa Speed…Gayle Kurtzer-Meyers…Connie Song…Tim Ebl…Martine Weber…Marla Bishop…Francine Fallara…Tarrant Smith…Amber Blaize…Alex Kilcannon…Stephen Dalton…Aimée Gramblin…Suryatapa…Kira Dawn