This meme was started by Delores a long time ago. Computer issues led her to bow out for a while. The meme was too much fun to let go, and now Words for Wednesday is provided by a number of people and has become a movable feast.
Essentially the aim is to encourage us to write. Each week we are given a choice of prompts: which can be words, phrases, music or an image. What we do with those prompts is up to us: a short story, prose, a song, a poem, or treating them with ignore... We can use some or all of the prompts, and mixing and matching is encouraged.
Some of us put our creation in comments on the post, and others post on their own blog. I would really like it if as many people as possible joined into this fun meme, which includes cheering on the other participants. If you are posting on your own blog - let me know so that I, and other participants, can come along and applaud. And huge thanks to those of you who come back, sometimes time after time to cheer other contributors on.
Huge thanks to Hilary Melton-Butcher for providing the prompts last month. The prompts will be here again this month and are provided by Charlotte (MotherOwl).
An additional prompt from Charlotte (MotherOwl) is her colour of the month to use (or not) in your take on the prompts. The colour for July is"Writing Pleasure Purple"
This week's prompts are:
- Sort
- Pollution
- Crooked
- Learned
- Wanting
- Industry
And/or
- Education
- Colour
- Withdraw
- Coach
- Bellow
- Cat
Have fun.
I will schedule the posts for the rest of the month and they will still appear.
I don't know what a BellowCat is
ReplyDeleteOr why words are joined together like that these days
Or why colour has a u
It's wrong I tell you!
Education would coach us out of this crooked way
But here we are wanting, sorting
Trying to find a way to withdraw or overcome
Or maybe adapt?
Hi Sandi - I think it's probably 'bellow' and 'cat' ... ah ha - the 'u' is our spelling - if you don't mind?! English colour, so tis not wrong over here.
DeleteWe learn as we get older don't we ... but your cocoction is brilliant - well done. Cheers Hilary
The U in colour is mine, I'm Danish, but spell in British English ;) And yes it's bellow and cat not bellowcat.
DeleteThanks for writing a educationa poem with my words.
The “u” in colour, favour, splendour etc is used in every country in the world where English is the native tongue or official language, so please refrain from telling us it is wrong. The one country that doesn’t spell correctly is out of step.
DeleteNicely done, Sandi!
DeleteSurely Sandy,
Deleteeducation would help us get off the wrong path. Thought-provoking text,
nice!!
Sandi: Un text fantàstic. ;-)
DeleteNicely done, and the spelling is just a matter of not minding the few differences, I think.
DeleteWell done with the words and creativity in your poem!
DeleteHere's mine. Happy to return and great words Charlotte - all words used!
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She was the sort of elder that would be called a crone in olden times.
Driven to wearing the colour purple inappropriately everywhere including in her hair dye and on her toenails. Crooked the neighbours called her. They all learned how to take her. She had taken on the habit of gripping a purple pipe in her mouth. Smoke belched from it adding to the pollution from the village.
Her education was questionable at best. Word had it she never went on to secondary education and had withdrawn when her father, who drove the village coach service, died.
With remarkable industry she had taken it over as she was tall for her age and already looked ancient.
Her father had trained her in use of a bellowcat which supplemented her bus income which was always left wanting.
But in the way of villages, her purple coach had become a fixture and the smoke from her pipe was tolerated without complaint for who else would want her job?
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Well done WWW - clever use of the words ... I could see the purple coach and her puffing pipe ... exactly who would want her job? Good for you - cheers Hilary
DeleteHehe thanks for this fun story. I can see her in my mind's eyd, purple all over, smoke billowing and driving a purpel coach. Thanks!
DeleteVery cleverly done.
DeleteI really liked the use of color!!
DeleteYou created fantastic images in my mind with this text!!
Molt bon ús de les paraules.
DeleteNicely done! I have a sneaking sympathy for her predilection for purple as it's all I wear if I can, too.
DeleteA wonderful story and use of purple!
DeleteHi EC and Charlotte ....
ReplyDelete"Education had taught them that the purple colour pollution swirling around was most definitely wanting. Their coach bellowed at them to get indoors, the cat rushed in too.
They knew the industry was crooked … so looked across the playing field at the purple pollutants spewing out from the chimneys.
The coach needs to sort all the players out, so they're all accounted for. Then he has to write a report … not the usual Writing for Pleasure that he so enjoys."
Cheers - I'll be back tomorrow to comment on everyone's entries ... take care - Hilary
I like what you did with bellow cat! 😀
DeleteWell done Hilary, a great take on the words!
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Everyone ran in together,
Deleteeven the cat!!
Beautiful purple images Hilary through your writings!!
An accomplished use of the prompts as always, Hilary. Industry crooked? No! Perish the thought!
DeleteHilary:
DeleteM'ha agradat com has incorporat el gat i el color.
Excellent, and yes, who would think industry would do anything which wasn't straight?
DeleteGreat use of the words!!
DeleteThanks Hilary, purple pollution sounds pretty, but not quite healthy.
ReplyDeleteIt does sound pretty!
DeleteHoping to get to the words soon and my post will be over here.
ReplyDeleteMimi:
DeleteMolt ben utilitzades les paraules.
A més, he fet una petició al teu blog. ;-)
wanting for nothing
ReplyDeletea rich kid
the sort who had
a superior education
a life coach for his persian cat
|learned wealthy parents captains of industry
who funded the movie 'the colour purple'
withdrew from conventional life
devoting his time and energy
to exposing crooked government officials
arrested for bellowing at a policeman
at a demonstration protesting
the pollution of the planet
I used all the words. This was fun. Thanks.
Wow! Amazing!
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https://rallentanda.blogspot.com/2025/07/words-for-wednesdayelephants-child-blog.html------Thanks WWW
DeleteVery clever and with all the words!!
DeleteVery well done Rallentanda - clever ... loved it - cheers Hilary
DeleteGood story well written, thanks for joining in.
DeleteTruly a terrific job. I think you have won first prize this week!
DeleteMolt ben escrit!!
DeleteVery nicely done!
DeleteExcellent! It almost sounds like an obituary of sorts, or script on a headstone.
DeleteThe Education Coach had to withdraw his cream-coloured cat from the contest as he bellowed too much.
ReplyDeleteUsually nothing hits me but something really dumb did this time!
It's great to participate, gets the juices flowing....
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DeleteSmall,
Deletesmart and with enough words!!
Brilliant Alex - certainly the brain kicked in this time ... fun to read - cheers Hilary
DeleteHehe, this made me chuckle.
DeleteM'has tret un somriure. ;-)
DeleteYou gave me a smile, thank you.
DeleteNot dumb at all! very entertaining since I also have cats/kittens that bellow at me!
DeleteSome very good stories above me here. On my laptop bellow and cat appear separately which is good because I have no idea what to do with a bellowcat. I'll see what I can come up with by Friday.
ReplyDeleteMany times in poetry and literature a lot is allowed River (it's called poetic license), at least in Greece!! Here we create words....
DeleteIt is supposed to be two separate words - I have no idea what a bellowcat would be, but hope somebody takes it on them to find out ;)
DeletePoetic license exist all over the world.
Good to read everyone.
ReplyDeleteI don't have an entry but it's fun to read what other folks write.
ReplyDeleteIt is the SORT of POLLUTION that everyone should fear. We all need continuing EDUCATION in the noxious chemicals the CROOKED decision makers of INDUSTRY spew into our soil, air and water every day. Have they LEARNED nothing? Do they not realize too that they are subject to the same hazards as the rest of us? Have they WITHDRAWN into a shell of their own making? It seems that we can BELLOW till our lungs are sore from degraded air, but we are still left WANTING. I am sure that some of the people who make decisions that affect us all so negatively have been COACHED to believe that a financial bonus is worth more than their children’s health. Their true COLOURS are revealed. The CAT is out of the bag.
ReplyDeleteDavid:
DeleteN'hi ha tants que creuen que amb diners es pot tapar tot...
Very true. Perhaps they live under the delusion their wealth will somehow protect them.
DeleteGreat use of the words, and unfortunately, MessyMimi, wealth does protect too many of them.
DeleteHi David - the cat is usually out of the bag - just no-one can see 'said cat'! No-one is interested if it doesn't affect them ... people with children shout and shout, also to little avail. Well done - cheers Hilary
DeleteI sure hope you are doing alright.
ReplyDeletePROGRÉS
ReplyDeleteEn un món on la contaminació era el nou color morat, la indústria va decidir retirar els seus productes "eco-amigables", perquè, després de tot, qui volia un planeta net? L'entrenador de l'equip ambiental havia après que, per ordenar els nostres pensaments, havíem d'acceptar la part torta de la realitat. Així, mentre un gat observava indiferent, el bram de la desídia ressonava a cada racó. En lloc d'un futur desitjat, ens vam quedar amb un present on l'educació només era un bonic adorn. "Que meravellós!", exclamaven, observant com el món es tenyia de matisos enganyosos... Però no us preocupeu, sempre podem fer un curs en línia sobre com ignorar el desastre... Això sí que és progrés!!!
Gràcies!
From Google Translate
DeleteIn a world where pollution was the new purple, the industry decided to withdraw its "eco-friendly" products, because, after all, who wanted a clean planet? The environmental team coach had learned that, in order to order our thoughts, we had to accept the crooked side of reality. So, while a cat watched indifferently, the roar of laziness echoed in every corner. Instead of a desired future, we were left with a present where education was just a beautiful ornament. "How wonderful!", they exclaimed, watching how the world was dyed with deceptive shades... But don't worry, we can always take an online course on how to ignore disaster... That's progress!!!
Many people are so busy just trying to survive, they really don't care much about anything but their next meal. The end of all the pollution and exploitation may take us all by surprise in how bad it gets.
DeleteMolta gent està tan ocupada intentant sobreviure que realment no els importa gaire res més que el seu proper àpat. La fi de tota la contaminació i l'explotació ens pot sorprendre a tots per com de malament es pot arribar a fer.
Mucha gente está tan ocupada intentando sobrevivir que en realidad no les importa nada más que su próxima comida. El fin de la contaminación y la explotación podría sorprendernos a todos por lo grave que se pone la situación.
The one positive thing I have been seeing in my social media feeds is how other countries are doing so much more to find solutions to our existing pollution issues, and energy solutions for the future. Well done with the prompts!
DeleteMimi, moltíssimes gràcies per la traducció!!!
DeleteÉs ben cert això que dius, qui no té per menjar, no pensa en res més que en sobreviure.
Here is the link.
Cindi, tens raó, per això he fet un text irònic. ;-)
DeleteMoltes gràcies!
My next chapter has been published here.
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