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This week’s FMF writing prompt is: TURN
Shortly after Memorial Day, I took a short drive to a local nursery to buy some starter plants for my garden. I had a few things in mind but mostly wanted to see what they had, and I could not believe my good fortune when I drove away with about 12 plants for just six dollars — plants that soon became much larger and fruitful than I ever imagined they could.
Some of the plant varieties I bought were unfamiliar to me; for example, I knew they were either tomatoes or peppers but didn’t know exactly what I was going to find when they were ready to harvest.
With one of the tomato plants, I smiled when I went outside and found small red, yellow, and green tomatoes descending on the same arm of the plant. My first thought was that it looked like a traffic light.
Then I thought about the writing life; how some of us “ripen” before others, and some of us take longer before it’s time for our gifts to be harvested.
It’s easy — especially in this day and age of constant social media — to get jealous of others who seem to be succeeding so effortlessly. And yet, maybe it’s not our turn yet. Maybe our turn is still coming, and we just need to hang onto the branch and be patient as we wait to be picked.
STOP.
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Join the link-up with your own five-minute freewrite on the prompt, TURN, below, then visit your link-up neighbor to read their post and leave an encouraging comment:Â
Very soon they’ll all be dead,
those who survived that awful day
when the light of peace had fled
from that place, so far away.
To a man, they still explain
that the day was not their turn,
but in their eyes is still the pain
of watching shipmates drown, and burn.
As it goes from living history
into archival records, stored,
will we still seek the mystery
of how a wise and loving Lord
allowed these young men in their prime
to die so long before their prime?
Three minutes. Pearl Harbor Day always gets me.
This is a good word!
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