Elbowing
One thing about your elbow,
in fact it’s true of each,
Is that by extending them,
you improve your reach.
In fact it’s true of elbows
that each one you entrust
to be fully unfurled is
bound to up your thrust!
Words for the Three Things Challenge are: EACH ELBOW ENTRUST
Here are my photos for today. Click on photos to enlarge.
“The Stuff of Dreams”
The crisp day turns to creamy night that cushions us in sleep
and seeds our dreams with fertile thoughts that later we will reap
as poems or scripts or lyrics that will shimmer in the light
that’s been kindled to crush out the dimness of the night.
Sleep dusts our petty cares away and whispers in our ear
brisk new tales and sonnets that the whole world needs to hear.
For The Sunday Whirl, the prompt words are:crush crisp creamy script brisk dreams dust seeds dim night whisper shimmer (Illustration created with AI.)
ForgottenMan here, posting a guest blog at Judy’s request.
I posted this video by Robert Arnold on my ForgottenMan blog a few months ago, and Judy just posted this comment there: “This man is so right on! It’s like he crawls inside my mind and says what I believe better than I ever could. Can you somehow put a link to this on my blog? For some reason I hadn’t seen it before.”
I’m happy to oblige.
These were just a few of the projects dealt with today. Too tired to finish cleaning up the last two messes!!
“…That big hour of decision, the turning point in your life… it just doesn’t come suddenly. You’ve trained yourself for it while you waited — or you’ve let it all run past you and frittered yourself away.” ( From “The Autumn Garden” by Lillian Hellman.)
I love this quote and have it taped to my computer desk, actually. This was the best I could do at illustrating it. I really to believe that everyone has some creative talent within but we just have to find it by “doing” and letting it come out.
For Lens Artists Challenge #396 the assignment is to illustrate a favorite quote.
“The Good Life”––Illustration thanks to AI
For Fibbing Friday, this week’s task-at-hand is:
Time for a laugh. These were all popular comedy shows. If you didn’t know, what do you think they were about?
1. Bless this House. The adventures of an Exorcist
2. The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air. Prince Harry and Meghan move from Montecito to West L.A.
3. Diff’rent Strokes. Golf tales about bad golfers.
4. Porridge. Barroom stories told by a bartender
5. Only Fools and Horses. Comedy about rodeo clowns
6. Happy Days. The Pre-Trump years
7. The Golden Girls. The foibles of spoiled rich girls at an expensive girls’ academy, or the retitling of The Kardashians.
8. The Good Life. Life in a convent
9. M.A.S.H. Serial depicting life in America after Trump..The initials stand for “Make America Survive Him!!!!
10 . Cheers. A Seventies high school Cheerleading squad.
I am sorry that I don’t know where I first read this. It just popped up on my desktop. Perhaps I have been possessed by a wise Turkish spirit.
Spoilage of Rain
Glistening raindrop diamonds settle on the fur
of the chairbound sleeping cat, but it does not stir.
Pies upon the window ledge grow soggy in the mist
of that travesty of moisture with which they have been kissed.
My stationery soggy, I find my words won’t stay,
so I give up on this poetry fast fading away.
The Thursday Story Challenge is:
Can you tell a story in 57 words using the following words in it somewhere: (I did a 57 word poem instead of a story.)
Image created with the aid of AI.
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