For Terri’s SundayStills – 28 June 2026 “Celebrating the #Future and today.”
For Terri’s SundayStills
For John’s Cellpic Sunday
For John’s Cellpic Sunday – 28 June 2026
Deliverance – Haiku 2026
puddle-sloshing trudge
waterlogged socks; sole wash-sponges
—the Red Sea parting
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Mantle – A Poem in Free Verse, Reena’s Xploration #437
The cocoon of change: a watery veil of degrees.
Warmth scatters cool on the flesh of seasons.
Each season’s script: unspoken, withheld longings,
Making peace with the mantle of change
– A talisman sheltered in an unknown space in the heart,
rarely revealed and deeply personal.
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For Reena’s Xploration #437 – 25 June 2026, this week’s prompt is a choice of one of two options or both from her provided quotes on “changing seasons and all that accompanies it!”
Option number 2 is to condense the spirit of the following paragraph into a poem of 3-20 lines:
“The seasons shift like unspoken truths—summer’s blaze softens into autumn’s hush, winter’s silence yields to spring’s renewal. In each turn, the human heart mirrors the cycle: burning with desire, retreating into reflection, and blossoming again with fragile hope.”
For Deb’s Any Which Way With Blue, CWWC26
For Deb’s #CWWC Any Which Way with Blue Along a Trail, Pathway, or Walkway
Linking with Dan at No Facilities Crayola Box of 8 – Blue #CFFC.
Fruit – A Haiku Writing Prompts #120
Dawn’s dew vanishing
the day’s fruit; festooned blossoms
gathered, fragrant, close.
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For Esther Chilton’s Writing Prompt #120 – 24 June 2026: “Close.”
Builder’s Stone – Haiku 2026 Thursday Doors
Guilhem Vellut | flickr CC2.0
the builder’s first stone
in the likeness of another—
perseverance built
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**A little bit different post this week; the featured “doors” are metal gates.
Designed as a deliberately scaled-down model of St. Peter’s Basilica in Rome, stands Mary, Queen of the World, and St. James the Great Cathedral, or Marie-Reine-du-Monde (Mary, Queen of the World, Basilica), in Montreal, Quebec, Canada (1874).
*The featured doors are the main entrance metal gates to the narthex (the narthex is the area between the entrance and the nave) at Mary, Queen of the World, Basilica, Montreal, Quebec.
The thirteen statues high above the tympanum columns at the facade’s third story are depictions of the patron saints of the Montreal parishes that originally supported the building of Mary, Queen of the World, Basilica.
Guilhem Vellut | flickr CC2.0
Trivia: #1 & #2: The iconic design that almost did not happen—The story of Mary, Queen of the World, Basilica.
And so in the late 19th century, the second bishop of Montreal decided that he wanted to build a cathedral to honor the Holy See (the Vatican). The bishop’s plan was to construct in Montreal an exact replica of Saint Peter’s Basilica, Rome, but scaled down to one-fourth the size of the original.
Then the bishop hired an architect, Victor Bourgeau, to perform the task, sending him to Rome to study St. Peter’s Basilica’s architecture in 1857. But upon his return to Montreal, the architect Victor Bourgeau flatly refused the work, remarking that building a scaled replica of St. Peter’s “could not be done.“
Years later, in 1871, the bishop, undaunted, sent a priest, a self-taught architect, Father Joseph Michaud, to St. Peter’s in Rome to observe and learn everything he could and return with a scaled model (and exact replica) of St. Peter’s Basilica.
Three months later, the self-taught architect and priest, Father Joseph Michaud, returned from Rome and presented the model replica of Saint Peter’s Basilica he had made as per the bishop’s request.
Upon his return, Father Joseph Michaud worked hand in hand with Victor Bourgeau, the original architect that had refused the work, and together they completed Mary, Queen of the World, Basilica’s construction in nineteen years (1875-1894), an accomplishment that was, for the times, a remarkable achievement.
Additional information:
Montreal Canadiens and National Hockey League legend Guy Lafleur’s national funeral was held at Mary, Queen of the World, Basilica on May 3, 2022.
And for more Thursday Doors, visit Dan Antion at No Facilities.
Wordless Wednesday
Linking with Sandee at Comedy-Plus Wordless Wednesday
Manicure – Writing Prompt #762
Returning storm clouds
rains spur on each blade of grass
roots’ dry edges feast
mowed bluegrass rise twice as high,
refreshes its manicure.
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For Brenda Warren’s Sunday Whirl Wordle #762 – 21 June 2026: wave, turning, unholy, lips, swagger, lost, dead, rise, twist, blade, feast, edges.
Trail – A Lai Poem Tanka Tuesday #70
A trail’s cobbled muse,
paths through solitude
vigils
instill-quiet moods,
scent the distant woods,
climb hills.
A stroll joy-infused
breathes beatitudes,
sips pauses.
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For Colleen Chesebro’s #Tanka Tuesday #70 on 23 June 2026, where this week’s host Melissa Lemay’s invitation is to write lai poems on any subject.
The “lai” is a syllabic poem with nine lines, with a rhyme of aab aab aab. Each line with an “a” rhyme is five syllables long, while lines with a “b” rhyme are two syllables in length.
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