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Home » DailyPrompt

Tag: DailyPrompt

My responses to the Wordpress Daily Prompt: published everyday.

Road Widening

by Melinda J. Irvine16 November 20171 Comment

These little snaps aren't the best shots in my collection but they do capture the essence of 'road widening' in the Philippines. Since 2014 roads all over the country are being widened 2 metres on either side. And it doesn't…

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Culture, Photo Essay DailyPrompt, PhotoChallenge, Street
little boy looking at eggs

Balut

by Melinda J. Irvine6 November 20176 November 20172 Comments

For the un-initiated, the Philippine delicacy Balut (pronounce it bah-lute) is a boiled duck egg. But the developing embryo of the chick is still inside and it has all this cooked smelly liquid that runs out when you crack it. Ewwww!…

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Culture, Finding Jerry Balut, DailyPrompt, Street Food
mountain overlooking rice fields

Sunlight

by Melinda J. Irvine5 November 20175 November 20172 Comments

for weeks our sun lay hidden, inside rain and obscurity fragmented and forgotten she lunged piercing tree leaves penetrating mountain tips and cutting cutting fine each new stem of rice banana leaf torn and palm trees shred like ribbons above…

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Free Verse, Poetry DailyPrompt, Free Verse, Poetry, sunlight

The Little Journal

by Melinda J. Irvine3 November 20173 November 2017

Whenever I'm in the National Bookstore (or any bookstore for that matter), I always seem to gravitate to the journals. Notebooks fill up very quickly in my house and I never, ever go anywhere without a journal in my bag.…

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Family, Finding Jerry, The Writing Life DailyPrompt, FindingJerry, Journaling
lady with flowers

Lady with Orange Flowers

by Melinda J. Irvine2 November 20172 November 2017

paying 10 pesos for photographs and a peek into her life Day of the Dead floral tributes hand woven (her own hands) into little bamboo baskets the hands of the poor in every bunch. © 2017 Melinda J. Irvine Daily…

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Free Verse, Photo Essay, Poetry DailyPrompt, Flowers, PhotoChallenge, Poetry

All Saints Day in the Philippines

by Melinda J. Irvine1 November 20172 November 20175 Comments

All Saints Day (November 1st) in the Philippines is a significant event. It's a day to honour the dead, remember friends and family, as well as express gratitude to ancestors and those who made sacrifices for the future of the…

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Culture All Saints Day, DailyPrompt, Death
happy halloween

Happy Halloween

by Melinda J. Irvine1 November 20171 November 2017

Jerry could never look ghoulish, he's just too damned cute. We've had such a wonderful few days in the halloween themed Iloilo City; trick or treating and playing 'Wizards'. Happy Halloween friends.  © 2017 Melinda J. Irvine Daily Prompt: Ghoulish…

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Culture, Finding Jerry DailyPrompt, Finding Jerry, Halloween

Real Market

by Melinda J. Irvine31 October 2017

weaved by hands hanging, basket & bauble beautiful © 2017 Melinda J. Irvine Daily Prompt: Fluff Weekly Photo Challenge: Rounded I'm part of Post A Day 2017 Location: Iloilo City (Philipppines)

Little Poems, Photo Essay, Poetry, Senryu DailyPrompt, market, PhotoChallenge
little boy at ballet class

Jerry’s Ballet Class

by Melinda J. Irvine30 October 201730 October 20176 Comments

One morning I was sitting at my desk working until I heard some familiar classical music emanating from where Jerry was watching Netflix on the tablet. I turned around in surprise and asked him what cartoon he was watching. "Oh…

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Finding Jerry Ballet, DailyPrompt, FindingJerry

Abandoned

by Melinda J. Irvine30 October 20172 Comments

picturing rain falls abandoned cacophony (stepping back) soiled diapers the smell human piss stepping further further further back, looking up into what looking back into what into once into when looking back seeing © 2017 Melinda J. Irvine Daily Prompt:…

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Historic Sites, Poetry DailyPrompt, Free Verse, Poetry
lights shining in a puddle

It’s Raining

by Melinda J. Irvine28 October 20171 Comment

red and purple pieces of city lights and lumes inside a street puddle © 2017 Melinda J. Irvine Daily Prompt: Surreal I'm part of Post A Day 2017 Location: Iloilo City (Philippines)

Haiku, Little Poems, Poetry DailyPrompt, Haiku, Poetry, Rain
little boy in illuminated shoes

Jerry’s New Shoes

by Melinda J. Irvine27 October 2017

flash colours interchange a nine-year-old's grinning illuminated shoes © 2017 Melinda J. Irvine Daily Prompt: Enlighten I'm part of Post A Day 2017 Location: Iloilo City (Philippines)

Finding Jerry, Little Poems, Poetry DailyPrompt, Finding Jerry, Free Verse, Poetry
she oak stump

Where She Once Stood

by Melinda J. Irvine24 October 201726 October 2017

her cracks remain she'd split into two but we did not expect the end of you © 2017 Melinda J. Irvine Daily Prompt: Expect I'm part of Post A Day 2017 Location: Nambucca Heads (Australia)

Nature, Poetry, Verse DailyPrompt, Poetry, Rivers, Verse
outside the Slim Dusty Centre in Kempsey

Slim Dusty Centre

by Melinda J. Irvine20 October 20171 Comment

Growing up listening to my father playing Slim Dusty I never fully appreciated his music until later in life. Slim grew up in a little town not half an hour from where I was born, and his childhood upbringing on…

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Culture, People DailyPrompt, Slim Dusty
before #metoo

Yes, it’s happened to #metoo

by Melinda J. Irvine19 October 20174 Comments