Category Archives: Seychelles

Wet Feet

Posted on November 12, 2015 by https://vivinfrance.wordpress.com

Miz Quickly wants us to write about getting wet feet, a thing I seldom do, taking willingly to wellies where necessary.  Cold feet, yes, about lots of things, but that’s another story. A New Year ’s Day trip to an … Continue reading →

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Freedom to move

Posted on June 12, 2015 by https://vivinfrance.wordpress.com

  Ocean wild and free to roam until it meets the land, nibbles away at the edges undercuts here, tumbles rocks there creeps further in washes structures out wears away walls deposits them elsewhere. The land is always changing, but … Continue reading →

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O Deur

Posted on April 26, 2014 by https://vivinfrance.wordpress.com

Miz Quickly is seeking layers of perfume today. Here is my freewrite take on the subject. Vanilla superimposed on baking bread, Sweet Williams would do as well – to mask the odour of sanctity and disapproval in which I used … Continue reading →

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Light for Trifecta

Posted on June 11, 2013 by https://vivinfrance.wordpress.com

  Trifecta: Week Eighty-One using the following definitition, in between 33 and 333 words, LIGHT (noun) 3: a source of light: as a : a celestial body  b : candle   c : an electric light   Light a candle. First-time guests the … Continue reading →

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9 Seashore Anse à la Mouche, the Bay of the Fly.

Posted on April 9, 2012 by https://vivinfrance.wordpress.com

These are adapted from a much longer poem about a favourite place in Seychelles, for Haiku Heights, day 9 Rounded hills embrace frangipane and seaweed rot watercolour smears Watercolour smears over floating rainforest on shallows of shells Shallows of shells … Continue reading →

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Influx – wordle 13.11.11

Posted on November 13, 2011 by https://vivinfrance.wordpress.com

It took imagination to site the runway where it wouldn’t take up the valuable, buildable coastal strip.  It took strength to shovel dead coral rapidly into a long finger of new land to make an airstrip, the point being to balance … Continue reading →

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Wot no Adjectives?

Posted on November 1, 2011 by https://vivinfrance.wordpress.com

Sunshine was the order of the day – except when it rained, rained in bucketsful, splashing and spouting from every gutter. Heat was a problem – dresses touched just at the shoulder, with a fan up my skirt, or under … Continue reading →

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Sunset – for One Single Impression

Posted on October 31, 2011 by https://vivinfrance.wordpress.com

The prompt at One Single Impression, sunset, sent me in several directions :    This photograph, taken by my son, I know not where, sent my thoughts back to 1992, when we lived in Seychelles.  We used to play bridge with … Continue reading →

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Escape

Posted on August 22, 2011 by https://vivinfrance.wordpress.com

http://liv2write2day.wordpress.com/2011/08/22/monday-morning-writing-prompt-a-day-of-refreshment/ asks us to think about a place we’d choose to go or an activity we’d like to engage in for a bit of respite…if only for a day.   The first thing that sprang to mind on reading this prompt was … Continue reading →

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Victoria Market

Posted on June 24, 2011 by https://vivinfrance.wordpress.com

I’m going off prompt for a while, as there is so much poetry from the week’s workshop, waiting to be worked up.  Here’s what I wrote in response to a two-part exercise yesterday. We started off by reading some sensory poems … Continue reading →

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