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Monthly Archives: March 2017
Unnatural Ending
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Unnatural Ending
What if we always chose to do
what our instinct told us to?
Perhaps by holding it at bay,
it’s reason that leads us astray.
When we leave our natural self behind,
it seems to get us in a bind,
inventing things I fear will tend
to bring about our eventual end—
like nuclear bombs and autos and
devices getting out of hand.
Our instinct prompts us to have enough
while minds lead us to other stuff
like avarice, gluttony, greed
wherein we want more than we need.
If mankind descended from Adam’s loin,
its end began with the first coin
stamped out in gold or other metal
better used for plow or kettle.
That granting of a value to
what we couldn’t wear or drink or chew
gave birth to what we are today—
ready to blow it all away.
The prompt word today was instinct.
dVerse Poets Quadrille: Silent Spring
Silent Spring
The best thing to remember to relieve a snowstorm’s sting
is that when there is no winter, there can’t be any spring.
And yet I must admit to you, I have not any qualms
about spending all my winters at the ocean, beneath palms!
On the Curve
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The curve of a dog’s back or a folded tortilla, the curve of bent bamboo and twited copper. The curve of water and of metal formed to frame a warrior’s dance. The last curve of a fish as it dries in the sun. Curves of life, death and what sustains life. Our very world is a giant curve, our brains a network of them. However straightforward our goals may be, it is curves that reflect life.
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Philodendron: Textured Tuesday
Capturing Beauty: Flower of the Day, Mar 14, 2017
Heliconia bouquet at Azteca Restaurante in La Manzanilla.
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Cee’s Fun Foto: View from the Side
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This is my answer to Cee’s “View from the Side” Challenge.
Total Immersion
Total Immersion
When it came to one diversion,
I fear I went total immersion.
I seemed to be in watching mode
as episode after episode,
the story line just seemed to flow,
and I watched two seasons in a row!
But now I find myself confessing
Netflix can be curse or blessing;
for I’ve found at end of day,
they’ve taken “Men in Trees” away.
Now I mourn its loss. The reason?
They cancelled after second season!!!
I’ve been without TV by choice for most of the time since 1987. The reason initially was because my husband’s daughter, who was having problems in school, came to live with us. I wanted to encourage her to read, so we had the TV cable cancelled. By the time that she moved back with her mother a few years later, I found that I liked my life without the diversion of television. my mother taped and sent her favorite shows, without commercials, as did my sister, so I had my own personal TiVo even before it was invented. With time on TV limited, I turned to other pleasures—mainly gardening and working in the studio.
A few years after I moved to Mexico, I did connect to Satellite TV, but when my service provider skipped town with the year’s subscription money in his pocket, I decided not to renew with another provider. Very shortly thereafter, Netflix became available in Mexico; and so I find myself watching very old series that most have already seen: Friends, Heartland, and most recently, Men in Trees! I allowed myself the luxury of watching the entire two seasons in a week or so. Characters came to seem like old friends, then vanished forever. I mourn their loss.
The prompt today was immerse.
Cee’s Which Way Challenge, Mar 10, 2017
Do you see the hundreds of starlings lined up on the wires trying to figure out which way to go?
Posted for Cee’s Which Way Challenge.
On Hiatus!!!
On Hiatus!
Because I suddenly am bored,
I cannot make myself record
a poem using the daily word.
Suddenly, it seems absurd
to sit here typing nonsense when
I’m thinking of what might have been.
I could be walking in the sand,
throwing balls for Morrie and
sight dolphins others have been hyping—
(having spotted them while I’ve been typing!!!)
So fellow bloggers, here I go
into my own reality show.
What I’ve done? I’ll tell you later.
‘Til then, I’m a procrastinator.
The prompt word today was record.
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