Robbie’s Inspiration – W3 #111: Golden Shovel Poem and Winston Churchill’s War Rooms, London #poetry #Churchill #W3

I was selected to chose this week’s prompt and this is it:

II. Robbie’s prompt guidelines

A “golden shovel” poem is a poetic form wherein each word of one line from another poem serves as the end word of each line for a newly constructed poem.

You can read more about golden shovel poems and find some examples here:

https://poets.org/glossary/goldenshovel

• For this week’s W³ prompt, chose a quote by any famous or well-known politician, artist, writer, or poet and write a golden shovel poem.
  • Identify your famous person in the post. 

You can join in W3 here: https://skepticskaddish.com/2024/06/12/w3-prompt-111-weave-written-weekly/

The Best Directions

I am not known for my skills in diplomacy.

In fact, my ability to call a spade a spade is

legendary. I have always found this to be the

best way of remaining true to myself. It’s an art

that many more people should learn. Avoidance of

duplicity of meaning and directness in telling

what needs improvement is my way of helping people

to become the best they can be. If colleagues get to

upset about facing the truth, then they need to go

and get some counselling. To praise mediocrity is to

promote it and make it a way of life. The path to hell

is paved with good intensions. Rather, get in

line to receive proper feedback and advice. It’s such

a good idea to identify areas of weakness. Develop a

plan to improve your performance. Make truth your way

of overcoming obstacles and you will find that

people will trust you and will invest in you. They

will see you as someone who wants to learn. Always ask

for assistance in finding the best way to take things for–

ward. People like others who know how to follow directions.

“Diplomacy is the art of telling people to go to help in such a way that they ask for directions.” Winston Churchill

TC and I visited London for 2 days in 2018. We visited Winston Churchill’s War Rooms.

This is what the website says about this museum:

“A branch of the acclaimed Imperial War Museum, the Churchill War Rooms are set in the secret wartime bunker from which the cigar-puffing Prime Minister of Britain, Winston Churchill, directed the country’s war efforts. Situated beneath street level in London’s Westminster district, the Cabinet War Rooms were constructed shortly before the outbreak of World War II. Little has changed within them since the war came to a close in 1945, though these days, the underground complex functions as a museum, documenting the workings of the United Kingdom’s wartime government.”

These are a few photographs from that visit: