One Lovely a Blog Award

January 24, 2015Yoshiko Award 18 Comments

With gratitude and thankfulness to my Lord Jesus Christ and to Kirt D Tisdale at his One Lovely Blog Award to nominate me for the One Lovely Blog Award. I’m honoured for the nomination.

To accept this award, the nominees have to follow a few rules:

Thank the person who nominated you for the award.
Add the One Lovely Blog logo to your post.
Share 7 facts/or things about yourself.
Nominate 15 bloggers you admire and inform nominees by commenting on their blog.

Seven Facts about me :

I love cute stuffs ^_^
Doraemon is my favourite. characters
Traditionalist thinker
My dad labels me as an idealist
Learning piano is my wish to sing to my Lord
I can not stand my own voice. It sounds like a small kid.
Night soars my muse

My 10 nominees are:

Wish you all the best and God bless you all.

Poet or Writer?

August 15, 2014Yoshiko Poetry, Rhyme / Rhythm 21 Comments

Is a poet a writer?
Is a writer a poet?

Either Poet or Writer?
Neither Writer nor Poet?
Both Poet or Writer?
Which one are we?

Inspiration On: Tuesday, 11 August 2014 at 9:38am
Revised On: Friday, 15 August 2014 at 12:35pm

These are the questions I have been asking around and myself. Though I have some friends who are writers, they are not poets. One out of the writers is a poet whereas my writing isn’t so well but unexpectedly, poetry opens my unique poetic voice. I really thank God for opening my voice. Wish you all have good days and thank you.

As Sticky As

February 25, 2013Yoshiko Poetry, Simile 4 Comments

As sticky as a sticker
Sticky body with
Sticky hands
Sticky neck
It is
The leftover of
A dried perspiration.

As sticky as a glue
Sticking his body parts
Sticking his hands
Onto me
Onto his dad
So sticky like a glue
Such a pungent smell
Enough to faint you
With crossed eyes.

Inspiration On: Sunday, 24 February 2013 at 1:44pm
Inspiration Ends On: Monday, 25 February 2013 at 12:26am

Trapped Head

February 22, 2013Yoshiko Free Verse, Poetry 4 Comments

Pushing head into trolley basket
Curiously
For fun
For play
But . . .
But . . .
Can’t!
Can’t
Pull out his head.
Stuck!
Head is trapped!
Head is trapped in the basket!

BANG!
Trolley falls to sideway.
Hold hard with his hands.
But . . .
Still . . .
Head is trapped!
Head is trapped in the basket!
Wail for help!
WAILING!
SHRIEKING!
Grandpa comes to his rescue.
Gradually and patiently
Pull out his head from
Trolley’s basket.
Resolving
Not to do anymore.

Inspiration On: Friday, 22 February 2013 at 10:52pm

The above incident occurred in the morning while I was inside my bathroom. His mind is always full funny ideas out of curiosity and often got into trouble. Then he learns his lesson. With speech warning is not enough. Sometimes, I just can’t help it. At night, then my helper told me the incident.

Attempting Mouth Kissing

February 15, 2013Yoshiko Free Verse, Poetry 2 Comments

Two hands
Fingers of both hands
Are
Clasping
Holding tightly
Wringing
Around her neck
With his legs clasp her waist.

Attempting to
Go near her face.
Attempting to
Kiss her mouth.
Where she holds him further
Attempting to
To prevent him
To prevent his rounded lips
From kissing her mouth.

Door creaks
Door opens
Fingers loosens grip
With failed attempt
Mission fails!
Quietly learn from rebuke.
While she gasps for breathe
Speaks such a strong grasp.

Days pass,
He resolves
He answers
He wants
To have a wife.
Laughter burst out
Amused of speech.
He laughs ear to ear.

Inspiration On: Friday, 15 February 2013

A few days ago, my son was trying to kiss the helper’s mouth by holding her neck. She told me what happened when I was in the room for a while. I understand that he was curious about kissing though normally he kisses his soft toys. But I guided him not to do mouth kissing towards anyone and even his helper.

To Scare To Brush Teeth

February 14, 2013Yoshiko Free Verse, Poetry Leave a comment

Looking desperately,
Searching desperately
From the Internet
For
Children pictures
Losing teeth.
Wanting
Wanting to scare
My toddler
To brush his teeth.

Saving image
Printing image
Showing image to him.
Laughingly
He wants to lose his teeth.

Only with my husband
He explains
He reasons
Nothing wrong for
Our toddler happily to lose his teeth.
Oh!
I want to faint!
Oh!
I laugh!
Laugh funnily at my stupid mistake.
A stupid mistake,
A stupid mistake
Such a stupid mistake!
To choose pictures with
Laughing children
Without teeth.

Laughing children
Without teeth
Is liken to
A cute lion to scare.
Is it scary?
My husband’s queries me.

Both of us
Laugh
And
Laugh
At my stupid mistake.

Inspiration On: Thursday, 14 February 2013 at 11:04pm
Inspiration Ends On: Friday, 15 February 2013 at 1:26am

The reason I want to scare my toddler is to make him to want to brush his teeth. I have been having a hard time to make him to brush his teeth.

Swell Like A Goldfish

February 13, 2013Yoshiko Poetry, Simile 2 Comments

Eating rice with
Swollen cheeks
Drinking water with
Swollen cheeks
Purposely to produce
Swollen cheeks
To act cute.

Swollen cheeks like a goldfish.

Inspiration On: Tuesday, 12 February 2013 at 12:15pm

My son was keeping the delicious food inside his mouth where his mouth swells. That swelling reminded me of goldfish. Afterward, he intentionally to make his cheeks swell while drinking water and even without anything in his mouth.

Sniff Raw Fish Ball

February 7, 2013Yoshiko Free Verse, Poetry Leave a comment

Grabbing a raw fish ball
Gradually, he brings his palm
To his nose to smell.
Sniff once is enough
To puke him
And
Almost
VOMIT.

Inspiration On: Thursday, 7 February 2013 at 5:45pm

It happened yesterday in the kitchen. My cute son wanted to help out in cooking. He grabbed an uncooked fish ball and smelled it.Tags: Chronology, Memory, Thirty, One, 31, Months, Toddler, Curious, Smell, Sniff, Fishball, Raw

Like An Ostrich

February 7, 2013Yoshiko Poetry, Simile 1 Comment

Bury his face onto mattress
Like an ostrich
Burying its face into sand.
Shy
Shy to talk
To talk with
grandmother
Through
Webcam.

Bury his face into blanket
Like an ostrich
Burying its face into sand.
Fun
Fun to play
To play hide
hide and seek
With
His dad and me.

Inspiration On: Tuesday, 5 February 2013 at 9:35pm
Inspiration Ends On: Thursday, 7 February 2013 at 1:03pm

Swaying Butt

February 2, 2013Yoshiko Free Verse, Poetry 3 Comments

Refusing to brush his teeth;
Feet sticking to the wall;
Arms onto grandma’s bed.
Helper shouts for his dad’s help.
His dad enters grandma’s room
With a dark face
Nearing him . . .

Brooh! Brooh! Brooh!
Saliva onto his dad’s face
IMPOLITE!
Hand is going to slap!
But . . .
Swaying butt to the left
Swaying butt to the right
Repetitively
Avoid his slapping hand.
Swaying butt to the left
Swaying butt to the right
Continuously
Avoid his slapping hand again.

Stop his butt and . . .
SLAP!
Mouth turns downward
Sad . . .
Holding his tears.
He is sorry.
His dad returns to his room;
Downward mouth turns upward
Grinning!

Inspiration On: Saturday, 2 February 2013 at 12:02am

After I reached home from attending self-publishing workshop, my mother and helper reported to me of my toddler’s second mischief. So the above inspiration was birthed forth. During the swaying of butt, my helper laughed until her stomach pain.