Relaxed like a summer meadow. Violet blossoms of green-winged orchids. Blue blooms of meadow sage. Green grass intertwined with them. The first three colors of the rainbow – Relaxed like a summer meadow. Yellow flowers of tall buttercup. Orange pot marigold borrowed from a garden. Finally field poppy the red warden. The second three colors of the rainbow – Relaxed like a summer meadow. I am, finally, after all colors of the rainbow.   Take care, Helena Smole, author of: – a fantasy novel with romance Vivvy and Izzy the Dwarf: A series about relationships – Balancing the Beast, a...

the sick- crave labor’s sweat they toil away till frail frolic is their silent way to solace © Helena Smole   This Crapsey Cinquain is a part of Tanka Tuesday Weekly #Poetry Challenge.

Words are like children. You have to take care of them, but they also have a mind of their own. Take loanwords for example. They have a life of their own once imported from a language to another language. In Slovene we often try to find a Slovene new word to replace a loanword, but it does not always work. Sometimes we keep both the loanword and the Slovene replacement. They might even slightly differ in meaning over time. In other cases one of them prevails and the other once dies. Let us take a look at a few examples. In Slovene we use both laptop and prenosnik. They mean the exact same thing:...

Like a little pearl-white snowdrop A child-soul out of the snow will pop. Rubbing her emerald-green eyes And looking up to the sunny skies.   One might gather power and money, But misses out on all the life’s honey, Unless she keeps the child within Happy and cheerful in her own skin.   A child-heart beats determined and wild, Only in her chest there is a goodness nest. She marvels at beauty and the right, Kindness is her only real might.     Take care, Helena Smole, author of: – a fantasy novel with romance Vivvy and Izzy the Dwarf: A series about relationships –...