This is a Senryu for the Smooth Challenge
WORRY STONE
Smooth green worry stone
gifted when they were teenage
now gathering dust.
♥ ♥ ♥ ♥
Author's notes: A smooth green worry stone was a perfect gift for a mom who tends to worry too much or has teenagers.
Fortunately, a teen friend of my daughter's gave me my worry stone. (Side note, they were both teenagers.)
Giving credit to the smooth green worry stone, I survived their teen years.
Mahalo!
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Babs Iverson
Barbara J Iversen, also known as Babs Iverson, lives in Texas and loves her grandkids to the moon and back. After writing one story, she found that writing has many benefits especially during a pandemic and a Texas-size Arctic Blast.
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Comments (23)
Having tactile stimulation when in those states of 'nerve-wrackeded-ness' from teens and the stuff they do...super-duper helpful 😉😊
Great for the smooth challenge! In Ojibwe, there is animate and inanimate. A stone is inanimate and a rock is animate. I'm guessing those stones are really rocks.😉❤️
Thanks for teaching me something today. I enjoyed reading this short piece and I am glad to hear that you no longer need a worry stone.
I’m glad it is resting.
Cool stone!
Sorry I missed this one somehow! No teens or human children of any kind,,,but a worry stone sounnds like a must have!
Love it! I remember these! They are very helpful, I should get another to keep myself from picking at my cuticles 🫣🫣
I want a worry stone! I still have teenagers at home. Nice entry Babs
I have a worry stone too! I should have one for each hand though...hahaha. Great one, Babs :)
I have a collection of seaside stones, I am going to use one as a worry stone. I love the poem and the idea. I so need one right now.
I surely remember them, mine ate collecting dust elsewhere these days, nice poem Babs 😊😊
Lovely! I think I need one, I have 2!
Cleverly done… the things you learn 🙃
That's beautiful. I never heard of a worry stone. Fascinating.
Awesome job Babs! Uber-interesting! :) I've never heard of a worry stone before... I'll have to look into it!
Nice 😊
Like how does that work? We gotta rub it whenever we're worried? I'd rather throw them at someone, lol. Loved your Senryu!
Didn't receive much as a kid but those things are treasures-ie Renard
So you no longer worry about them now that they're grown?
Love it! I can almost feel it in my hands.
A wonderful positive poem!
Ah, I am going to read this as a very positive thing.
This was a great