Did you sing Auld Lang Syne<\/em> on New Year’s Eve?\u00a0 The words for the song were written in 1788 by Robert Burns. \u201cAuld Lang Syne\u201d literally means \u201cold long since,\u201d and is commonly translated as \u201cdays gone by\u201d or \u201cold time\u2019s sake.\u201d The song is basically a call to share \u201ca cup o\u2019 kindness.\u201d The \u201ckindness\u201d in Burns’ cup is believed to be firewater, but that\u2019s not necessarily the case.<\/p>\n Let\u2019s begin this spanking new year by sharing a cup of kindness in the form of a poem. Think back over the past year and recall a kindness someone gave to you. What was that kindness? How did it make you feel to receive it? With that in mind, fill a cup with a kindness of your own. To whom will you pass it?<\/p>\n Title your poem \u201cCup of Kindness\u201d.<\/p>\n *Kelly Bennett <\/a>and I began this 7-Minute Poetry Challenge over 990 days ago. We now take turns creating our own prompts to share with you. If you join us in the 7-Minute Poetry Challenge, let us know by posting the title, a note, or if you want, the whole poem in the comments.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" For Old Time’s Sake Did you sing Auld Lang Syne on New Year’s Eve?\u00a0 The words for the song were written in 1788 by Robert Burns. \u201cAuld Lang Syne\u201d literally means \u201cold long since,\u201d and is commonly translated as \u201cdays gone by\u201d or \u201cold time\u2019s sake.\u201d The song is basically a call to share \u201ca … Continue reading “Poetry Challenge #68”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cindyfaughnan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/934"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cindyfaughnan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cindyfaughnan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cindyfaughnan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cindyfaughnan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=934"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.cindyfaughnan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/934\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1128,"href":"https:\/\/www.cindyfaughnan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/934\/revisions\/1128"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cindyfaughnan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=934"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cindyfaughnan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=934"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cindyfaughnan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=934"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}Set the timer for 7 minutes.<\/strong><\/h3>\n
Start writing!
\n<\/strong><\/h3>\nDon\u2019t think about it too much; just do it. <\/strong><\/h3>\n