If you are interested in seeing my latest artwork, you can see my post on my website here: https://www.robbiecheadle.co.za/a-hartebeest-with-texture-robbiecheadleart/ This poem is for Don’t Hold Your Breath’s Bird of the Week challenge. You can join in here: https://anotherglobaleater.wordpress.com/2025/09/09/green-backed-tit-birds-of-the-week-invitation-lxxxiii/ Grey Loerie or the Grey go-away-bird (freestyle) Go-away-bird is back watching carefully how well I tend his … Continue readi...|
Esther Chilton’s writing challenge this week is to write about elements. You can join in here: https://estherchilton.co.uk/2025/09/03/writing-prompts-81/ Fire! There are four natural elements: air, wind, fire, and water. Individually they are fascinating. They can also be destructive and, when out of control, can wreak horror on humanity. Sometimes they combine forces, and the havoc and … Continue reading Roberta Writes – Esther Chilton’s Writing Challenge and CFFC #prose #photograph...|
The Lost Book of Zeroth by Barbara Harris Leonhard What Amazon says The Lost Book of Zeroth by Barbara Harris Leonhard is an unflinching, unconsciously poetic pull through the threads of time. Each page unfolds verses etched with sorrow, mischief, and raw transcendence. Leonhard masterfully stitches quantum images into something akin to mechanical dreams; fractured yet … Continue reading Roberta Writes – Book reviews: The Lost Book of Zeroth and Endangered Species #bookreviews #readingco...|
Punam has asked poets to write a poem about dealing with setbacks in life. You can join in here: https://dversepoets.com/2025/09/02/poetics-tuesday-lifes-lemons-and-lemonade-making/ One Way (tanka) there is only up no left or right, front or back most definately there is no going downwards only onwards and upwards Bjorn asks poets to write an American cinquain. You can … Continue reading Roberta Writes – d’Verse Life’s lemons and cinquain and my spring garden #poetry #photography→|
Today, I am delighted to introduce you to the artwork of Freya Pickard. Many readers will know Freya as a poet and the host of the bi-annual haiku challenges on https://purehaiku.wordpress.com/ and for her fantasy series, The Kaerling, which you can read more about here: https://nirunen.wordpress.com/. Artwork of Freya Pickard Tell us a bit about … Continue reading Roberta Writes – ART SERIES: An art adventure with Freya Pickard #art #watercolour #pastels→|
We are deeply grateful to you, Robbie, for so graciously offering to host us on your wonderful blog site today! When we decided to launch our new books together on the same day, Linda and I wanted to make it something special. It feels like we are making publishing history, and perhaps we are. For … Continue reading Roberta Writes – Sisters on Tour: Jan Sikes and Linda Broday #booktour #fiction #readingcommunity→|
Kim’s d’Verse quadrille challenge was to write a 44 word poem using the word rumpus. You can view other contributions here: https://dversepoets.com/2025/08/25/quadrille-230-lets-kick-up-a-rumpus/ Garden Rumpus A terrific rumpus reached my ears Was my cat stalking the birds again? Her inflicting grievous injury my fear It’s hard natural instincts to contain A gaggle of hoopoes with long … Continue reading Roberta Writes – d’Verse quadrille and It’s Noisy in Here and Thursday Door...|
Spiders get a lot of negative press everywhere. Recently, there have been a number of poems about spiders on WordPress and all of them paint spiders as scary creatures which do much harm to humans. I decided to write this post as a tribute to spiders which actually do a lot of good in this … Continue reading Roberta Writes – Reblog: In Touch With Nature – Golden Orb Spiders #spiders #southafrica #wildlife→|
My review of two very different but equally entertaining books. Detour on the Eternal Road by John W. Howell My Review Detour on the Eternal Road, the third book in this series, is Sam and James’ most challenging adventure yet. Two souls, Billy Ray Chitwood, a national car racing champion, and his guide, Dale Earnhardt, … Continue reading Book reviews – Detour on the Eternal Road and The Treacle People: Still Sticky #bookreviews #fiction #reading community→|
Melissa is hosting Tuesday’s d’Verse prompt: Where do we go from here? You can read more about it here: Our Home Walking through my house the original farmhouse for this area purported …| roberta-writes.com
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It’s been a crazy day. TC’s having some tests in hospital and the admittance took hours and hours (okay five hours but my goodness!). And then, there is work … On a much happier a…| roberta-writes.com