Hey there guys and gals.

So, I see a lot of you getting swallowed up in all of this NaNoWriMo (National Novel Writing Month) shenanigans.

It is so very encouraging to see so many of my friends participate in this wonderful event – the world need more writers to keep carrying the fire and keep the flame alive – go brothers and sisters, I know you can succeed!

For my sins, I’ve decided to enter too but I’m approaching it at a much leisurely pace before I hit it with everything I’ve got. (No, I’m not cocky, I’ve just got some holiday time coming up and would prefer to put pedal to the metal when I’m not being drained by the day job).

In the meantime, I fancied writing another poem and this time the prompt is based around the number seven.

Daily Prompt: Seven Wonders by Michelle W.

“Khalil Gibran once said that people will never understand one another unless language is reduced to seven words. What would your seven words be?”

“Photographers, artists, poets: show us SEVEN.”

Thanks for the great idea, Mati!

I really enjoy writing poems stuffed full of inspiration and motivation – hope you all enjoy this one too.

Going Beyond Limitations (by David Ellis)

Natural evolution favours adopters of classical wisdom
Exotic spheres of catastrophes collide, random associations
To know thyself is to embrace compassion
Keep everything within a degree of moderation
Opportunities should rule the heart, not mind
Impossible or not, attempts must be tried
Patience brings respect, honour, a noble life

Nothing is accidental if you just believe
Ancient wonders uncovered never cease to amaze
Music so sweet, electrifying, painting the air
We’re all more than names or numbers
To express yourself is the ultimate goal
Failures forgotten, hard work brings success now
Never allow negativity to gain ultimate control

Essence of our struggles is knowing, understanding
Making connections, building friendships, bridges, deeper meanings
Dreamers and intellectual explorers of the obscure
An abstract world with no clear answers
Life is to be felt and experienced
Triumphing over adversity however harrowing the circumstance
Allowing divine silence to surrender its secrets

Create a core around which everything revolves
Time for everything, just let it unfold
Pick what’s important, outsmart the status quo
Balance between holding on and letting go
No such thing as an overactive imagination
Just people pushing for elimination of innovation
Achieve so much more going beyond limitations

For more exciting blog posts around this topic, check out some posts from my fellow bloggers below (there’s more than seven but don’t let that put you off, the articles really are quite good!):-

1. Daily Prompt: Seven Wonders | Musical Foodie Love
2. Seven Words | Daily Prompt: Seven Wonders | likereadingontrains
3. Daily Post: Seven Wonders? | Pen and Pixels
4. Seven. | Crossroads
5. My.Vivid.Visions | Daily Prompt: Seven Wonders – I feel, you feel, becomes we feel
6. Early Grave – Daily Prompt: Seven Wonders | smoke&mirrors
7. summing it up | bodhisattvaintraining
8. Nostalgia | Nature Activities
9. Seven words | James Clegg
10. Seven Wonders of the Word | MC’s Whispers
11. Daily Prompt: Seven Wonders | veryvanessalynn
12. Daily Prompt: Seven Wonders | The Fountain
13. Seven | The Magic Black Book
14. Who Made The Most Sense Khalil Gibran or George Carlin? | The Jittery Goat
15. Seven Wonders | Relax
16. Daily Prompt: Seven Wonders | Under the Monkey Tree
17. My Seven Words | Life Confusions
18. The Only Seven Words Left In The World | sayanything
19. Daily post: Seven words. Or alternatively… | helen meikle’s scribblefest
20. Daily Prompt: Seven Wonders « Mama Bear Musings
21. Daily Prompt: Seven little words for a blustery Monday | Nicki
22. Daily Prompt: Seven Wonders | Randomize ME
23. A Poem: Seven Wonders | I Hope You’re Taking Notes
24. Seven Leaves (Daily Prompt) | photo potpourri
25. SEVEN WORDS THAT MAKE US | crookedeyebrows
26. Reduction of Languange | mutatiomagistra
27. 7 | Hope* the happy hugger
28. Super Seven | thinkerscap
29. My Apologies to George Carlin | Not a Punk Rocker
30. Seven Stars | alienorajt
31. How to order coffee with the (un?)necessary complexity of human language | Rob’s Surf Report
32. You got me | dawnyhosking
33. Daily Prompt: Seven Wonders | robbiesdailyplanet
34. The Seven Words | Flowers and Breezes
35. Daily Prompt: Seven Wonders | Crow Arrow, Inc.
36. Communication | Rock it classy
37. Touched by Seven. | Blue Loft
38. Seven Words… | Haiku By Ku
39. Words of Wisdom | meanderedwanderings
40. Daily Prompt: Seven Wonders | Awl and Scribe
41. In Seven Words.. | That girl with the spectrespecs
42. Daily Prompt: Seven Wonders | Chronicles of an Anglo Swiss
43. Daily Prompt: Seven Wonders | Of Glass & Paper
44. Seven Words | Momma Said There’ld Be Days Like This
45. Daily Prompt: Seven Words | …and she writes
46. What Is It About The Number Seven? | Just Visiting This Planet
47. Seven Steps to Successful Pumpkin Carving | It’s a wonderful F’N life
48. How To Communicate With Your Spouse In Seven Words Or Less! | The Political and Social Chaos Blog
49. Not enough | Life is great
50. DAILY PROMPT: SEVEN WORDS, SEVEN MYSTERIES | SERENDIPITY
51. Just seven words. | ExLibrisMachina
52. Seven | The Land Slide Photography
53. Seven sounds of music | Processing the life
54. RAINBOW | Randomlyabstract’s Blog
55. Seven | Brianne Writes
56. I see on this Earth: | The Visionary Hollow
57. 7 for all Mankind? | The Silver Leaf Journal
58. Daily Prompt: Seven Wonders | Books and Movies
59. Seven Things |
60. I Recognize the Light in Your Soul…..(daily prompt wp) | Daily Observations
61. Seven. | Sun, Sand, Stars and Dreams
62. Seven Wonders | Taryn Marie Writes
63. SEVEN WORDS | Emotional Fitness
64. Seven | Ripples of Truth
65. Seven words | A mom’s blog
66. Say it in 7 | Writing Daily
67. Daily Prompt: 7 Wonders | Life Juxtaposed
68. Communication In Seven Words or Less | Kansa Muse
69. eight, wonders | pesrevsanatpesrev
70. Seven Wonders or the Seven Words of Life | mother of nine9
71. Expression in Seven — E.I.T.C.A.W.M. | e. e.
72. Sette parole – A very short post | Neva Samaki
73. The Daily Prompt: Seven Wonders | Lucid Gypsy
74. Seven Heavenly Words. | The life of T
75. My Secret Seven | Winging it
76. Seven Wonder(ful) Words | Cheri Speak
77. My Seven Words | A chain of thoughts…
78. Daily Prompt: Seven Wonders | Phoenix Flights
79. Daily Prompt: Seven Wonders by Henrietta Maddox | Henrietta Maddox Webloner
80. The story goes like this . . . | tjbarkerseattle
81. My Seven Wonder(ful) Words | Mirth365
82. Seven | The Attic Blogger
83. The Only Non-Superfluous Speech | On Gorgeousness
84. 7 words | Life as a country bumpkin…not a city girl
85. Daily Prompt:Seven Wonders | writer in progress
86. Daily Prompt: Seven Wonders | Steve Says….
87. What if we had but seven words? | Okay, what if ?
88. Seven wonders. | Evanesco Waffles
89. Daily Prompt: Seven – The voyage | Ord i Bild i Ord i Bild i Ord i Bild
90. If music be the food of love | A Wondering Minstrel I
91. Daily Prompt: Seven Wonders | 4cornersteacher
92. Top Posts — WordPress.com
93. Daily Prompt: Seven Wonders « The Blogging Path
94. Daily Prompt | What A View On A Sunday Afternoon | Mac’s Blog
95. Seven plain and simple | tornin2’s Blog
96. Daily Prompt: An Expression of Seven Wonders with a Minimum of Words Between Us | theempathyqueen
97. To Know Khalil | rarasaur
98. Daily post/seven words | annetteharris42
99. Seven principles to life | Hotel Goddess
100. seven words. too few, too many. | memoirs of an unremarkable man
101. From the Ground Up | Wiley’s Wisdom
102. 7 photos of 7 ancient ruins: turkey | wise monkeys abroad
103. Seven Wonders | View From The Third Eye
104. Daily Prompt: Seven Wonders | The corner of my imagination
105. Just Seven? | tuckedintoacorner
106. Seven wonders of life from a lover’s eye | Shetall says
107. Daily Prompt: Seven Wonders | Your Daily Dose
108. Seven Wonders | My Strong Medicine
109. Seven Wonders | The Nameless One
110. Daily Prompt: Seven Wonders | Let There be Peace on Earth
111. Seven Words That Matter – Compass & Quill
112. THE WORLD IS YOUR AUDIENCE
113. Daily Prompt: Seven Wonders | Nola Roots, Texas Heart
114. What the world needs now … | 365 And Counting
115. Seven Words | The Daily 400
116. Daily Prompt: Seven Wonders | My Seven | Silver Wonderland
117. Seven Cryptic Words | Shannon City
118. 7 Wonders | Rolled Up Sleeves: Wearing My Heart
119. Traveler’s Tales: Cruising Ha Long Bay* | Reveries of Forevers