Category: Challenges

Definitely Maybe… – for TankaTuesday Poetry Challenge #47, Esther’s Writing Prompts & Sadje’s WDYS

January 16, 2026

  “The silence was an intense roar.” ― Jack Kerouac, The Dharma Bums red throbs in a moment deeply mixed with white heat a warm embrace like the moon’s glow so cold true lies from a far closeness leaving a definitely maybe rippling behind stars’ dust © Nicole Sara   Mirror Cinquain (2 4 6 8 2 … More Definitely Maybe… – for TankaTuesday Poetry Challenge #47, Esther’s Writing Prompts & Sadje’s WDYS

Anew… – for TankaTuesday Poetry Challenge #46, “New Beginnings Puente Poetry”, 01/06/2026 & The Flower Hour #12 Photo Challenge

January 9, 2026

    Has been and Will be Forever softly entwined Magically dance With the stars in all our dreams Twinkling away in our hearts ~ “The imaginary is what tends to become real.” ~ * It is just our mind, The fidgety gatekeeper, That holds the gold key To the timeless bridge called Now Where … More Anew… – for TankaTuesday Poetry Challenge #46, “New Beginnings Puente Poetry”, 01/06/2026 & The Flower Hour #12 Photo Challenge

Happy New Year, 2026!… Cute Happy Meows & End of December 2025 Photos for Brian’s “Last on the Card”

January 1, 2026

  Wishing everyone Happy New Year, 2026!…  May the new year be joyful and bright, and may it turn your beautiful wishes and dreams into reality, that you carry deep in your heart! 💖   These past weeks I have taken quite a few photos all around the house, part of the winter holiday frolic… … More Happy New Year, 2026!… Cute Happy Meows & End of December 2025 Photos for Brian’s “Last on the Card”

Starry Steps Creations… and my “something else” timeline

December 20, 2025

  “We do not grow absolutely, chronologically. We grow sometimes in one dimension, and not in another; unevenly. We grow partially. We are relative. We are mature in one realm, childish in another. The past, present, and future mingle and pull us backward, forward, or fix us in the present. We are made up of … More Starry Steps Creations… and my “something else” timeline

Gift Gnomes Games… – for TankaTuesday Poetry Challenge, “Gift/Gifting”, 12/09/2025

December 14, 2025

  “For it is in giving that we receive.” -Francis of Assisi   golden or green wrapped gems gazillion presents waiting to be gifted turning the snowless winter days’ glum into glee all the graceful giving and grateful receiving No Grinch glances or grins! Generously, Your Gift Gnomes   © Nicole Sara   Gogyohka (5-line … More Gift Gnomes Games… – for TankaTuesday Poetry Challenge, “Gift/Gifting”, 12/09/2025

Cute Quotograph… & Promise (Rome, Italy – Part 1.) – for Esther Chilton’s Writing Prompt, “A Week of Flowers” 2025: Day 7 & “The Flower Hour” Photo Challenge

December 7, 2025

    Everything is a promise. Like a premise, a starting point and a foundation. A putting forward and an assurance… an undertaking and a venture. Every step, every thought or idea… every gesture or response, question or answer… spoken or silent, all are projections ahead, more or less anchored in a past deed, a … More Cute Quotograph… & Promise (Rome, Italy – Part 1.) – for Esther Chilton’s Writing Prompt, “A Week of Flowers” 2025: Day 7 & “The Flower Hour” Photo Challenge