Away we go

What do you enjoy most about writing?

Once more into the breach dear friends

Hello, how are you? Wow it’s been a while. So tell me what have you been doing and how is everyone?

I miss you, I love you, you are my world. In this life and the next, I will find you and destroy your happiness. He was mine till you killed our love with poison words.

That is why I love writing because WORDS are powerful, wonderful, thought provoking, exciting and so many more emotive thoughts. The written word can enrage or soothe, excite or scare, teach or spread propaganda.

Used in a positive way I find words soothe me as in song words .

I write for children with tales of wonder wrapped in fact

I write for adults of facts woven with artistic licence.

I write poetry to expand and please the mind

I write fact for us to remember lives as they were before all is lost.

I write because that’s who I am.

Write a short story a week. It’s not possible to write 52 bad short stories in a row.”

Ray Bradbury

World of Words

If you could permanently ban a word from general usage, which one would it be? Why?

Hello my friend,

What a conundrum I have over this question, it reminds me of a poem I wrote sometime ago;

http://www.kimlouisepoems.com/

⬆️to find more of my poetry , granted website in dire need of an upgrade, which is on a list of must dos, somewhere

I am passionate about words, yes even the bad ones (swear and slang). Words are an expression of how we feel. Maybe a person doesn’t use words the way you do, fine, there could be many reasons, from the type of schooling received to area they live, people they mix with. So many factors involved around speech and language, please don’t confuse those two previous factors with actual WORDS.

Words are fascinating and I don’t think any should be banned, there is a rich history behind the words we speak, and shockingly some of the words we classify as awful swear words originated as medical terminology such as it was. I would never ban a word because that means we lose part of our heritage….

Baboonery: foolishness; stupidity; nonsense

Gardyloo: used in medieval Edinburgh as a warning cry when it was customary to throw slops from the windows into the streets

Gadzooks: mild oath

Whippersnapper: a young person considered to be presumptuous or overconfident

Chicken-headed. Ignorant, foolish

Nefarious: Wicked, villainous, despicable.

Just an example of some wonderful words that have or are slowly disappearing from the English Language. People think should, could, would, why and yeah, plus hundreds of slang words should disappear, I don’t agree, words are like pearls the more you learn the more you want to learn. Like Pearls of Wisdom.

I am even pro swear words for the simple reason the history that they carry, some traceable to Egyptian and Sanskrit so thousands of years. Don’t worry I won’t start swearing today , yes I promise.🤞🏻.

People have been swearing since language evolved. This has been checked with those awful things called statistics with evidence suggesting 58% of the population swears “sometimes” or “often” and less than 10% of the population report “never” or “rarely” swearing.

Wow now that’s a good short word so rather than ban a word why not learn a word a day that will give you appreciation for this wonderful world and our beautiful language whatever language that may be 😀

This is from Dictionary.com

WORD OF THE DAY KISMET

kiz-met,
noun
fate; destiny. (Meaning)
First recorded in 1840–50.
Comes from Turkish ultimately from Arabic qisma, qismat-, meaning “division, portion, lot, fate.”
Although a term from Islam, kismet is popularly used to refer to something that one believes was meant to be or the reason why such a thing happened.

EXAMPLES OF KISMET

The unexpected encounter with an old friend at the airport felt like kismet.
As he stood on the stage, delivering his award-winning speech, he couldn’t help but feel that kismet had guided him to this moment.

Well at this point if you have read all this well done. 👏. I hope you understand where my passion is coming from

Words,

Come so easy to me.

I think you understand,

Yes you see.

Expression of words,

Is an art we must keep.

Don’t shut your eyes,

Yes I see ignorance creep..

Kim-Louise 2024

What do I mean – if we don’t learn we can plead we didn’t know, which is pleading ignorance, so don’t lose the elusive words learn a new word a day.

Sorry daily prompt I did the opposite of what you asked

Well I have to go

Sending smiles across the miles

Kim-Louise

Featured

I am but one voice

So staring at this blank screen is like staring at my life,

The past once so full and rich has gone, cut off with a knife.

A Metaphor you’re thinking for something I have lost,

No, my dear, I can answer, a knife, a boot, but a fist the most.

I am now invisable, a remnant of myself,

left broken and alone gathering dust upon a shelf.

Domestic Violence is a crime and should be punished I agree,

But with PTSD and left disabled, alone in another town why should it be me?

Bitterness has turned to please Karma where have you gone?

Have you abandoned me also? I have been alone for, oh, so very long.

Or do I not exist, from the time he walked out the door?

I want to be seen, my story told, no longer invisible, it’s time now to be bold.

Take a stand, well a wheelchair for me, Abuse and Violence needs to stop NOW.

I am but one voice lost , my children and I were moved safely somehow.

We are lucky, some are not, I am not complaining , I’m alive.

Its heartbreaking to think of those that don’t survive.

So if you have been affected, or feel the pain in some way

Don’t you think its time we stood together united have our say.

Man or woman it matters not bullying should be no more

Life should be for love and laughter, show hatred out, shut the door.

Kim Louise 2021