The object of this challenge is to correctly use this word in any form of writing you choose - poetry, prose, fiction, article or even a letter. It is up to you. But you must use the given word correctly and in its correct context. The challenge will always come with the definition and pronunciation of the given word.
This week's "Learn-a-Word" is sublime (and it's related forms). Below is an outline of its uses through adjective, noun and verb.
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Choose a letter or combination of letters such as S of Ch and write either poem, limerick, or paragraph just put together some ideas about food items that start with the letter you have chosen.
Fresh from the oven are the Pigs in a Blanket (stuffed cabbage for those in the know), served with pickled beets; pork 'n' beans; and pretty little green peas. And with a main course like that, soup or salad is nowhere in sight!
Please save room for desert! Warm pumpkin pie topped with vanilla ice cream or a couple of sweet, creamy puddings of chocolate and tapioca are sure to please your palate!
Here comes the pineapple juice, chilled and blended with coconut rum and bananas. Pour the mixture into ice filled glasses and you're ready for the toast!
Now raise your glass for a holiday toast, with wishes of peace and prosperity to all! Happy Thanksgiving!
© October
2007
With Thanksgiving approaching for many of you in the Northern hemisphere who celebrate it, those of us downunder may choose to observe its significance in their own way.
So I would like you to write about the things for which you are thankful - in poetry, prose, short story, letter etc. In any form you wish. Just send it back through the list so we can all enjoy them.
Words to use: gratitude, blessing, abundance, bounty, love
Dear Gran,
Well...it has certainly been a long time. I was going to say "too long" but I guess in some ways it always will be. With Christmas around the corner it's the season's bounty and time of year when one feels somewhat reflective which then in turn brings on thoughts of you. I miss not being able to visit with you being so far away now that I felt the need to jot you a few lines.
The years have passed all too quickly that admittedly I've taken for granted, and for which I sincerely apologise. So much has happened since we last spoke and I have an abundance of news to share. But I'll save that for another time because my reason for this letter is to extend to you my heartfelt gratitude for the love you always shone on me, your first and only granddaughter. Even when I was precocious, your patience eased me through childhood. Your smile wiped away my tears and your laughter echoed long after it had faded away. I remember sitting at the table in your little kitchen sharing Tim Tams, Gaieties and Mint Slices while you recounted stories from your youth. Oh, how I loved to listen to them! Your face would light up and your eyes became animated that I found myself completely entranced. Grandpa would be sitting in his chair in the lounge room listening, and complaining, to Talkback Radio, but all I could hear was your laughter. I loved the sound of your laughter.
Mum says I'm alot like you, and I find that a wonderful compliment. Sometimes when I tell her a joke she smirks at me and says "You are your grandmother's granddaughter!" The things mum is horrified at you and I would be sharing a chuckle over. *g* Ah, but that's not all - you and I do share a love for chocolate and ice cream, don't we? Although lately, the dentist has too. *s*
I have some wonderful memories, and I have you to thank for them. The gift of your love has always been a blessing in my life, for which I am eternally grateful. I just wish I could share the fruits of them with you now - or would that be Tim Tams? *g* But I shall just have to be content with the knowledge that you would be proud of the person I have become. I guess just knowing I am more like you than I realised is a small consolation for not being able to share that laughter or those Tim Tams with you now. In that way I guess you are still with me.
Still if wishes were flowers I would plant a garden of them (the black thumb that I am *g*), and line a stairway to the stars if it could take me to Heaven just to see you one more time. I miss you, Gran. Even after seventeen years. But I will always have the blessing of your love and your memory. I will have those forever.
In love and gratitude always,
Christina
PS. I love you and I miss you
My Dearest Mike,
It is such a long time since we really talked and expressed the joy of friendship. I see you so rarely these days as life for both of us are very busy. At this time of year with Christmas on the horizon and the year drawing to a close, I just felt the need to write to you to say what a blessing your friendship has been through the years.
You have my eternal gratitude for the love and care you have shown to me through difficult periods of my life. When life was very tough the bounty of your smile and the abundance of your warm arms would shelter me from the storm and I shall always remember those days.
You were a shelter, a rock and a haven for me and since you moved back to London, we don't talk and I miss those hugs. I miss your booming voice, your laughter and your smile. I miss you.
Please take care of yourself and be sure to let me know if you are able to get back to Australia soon - I shall cook dinner for you and have the wine chilling. No seafood - see I remember very well the times we shared.
You were the epitome of friendship and I love you for it.
Enjoy the festive season and I shall be sure to raise a glass to "absent friends"
Love ~ as always,
Linda