Interwoven
Life is like a tapestry, warp giving strength to weave.
Each birth’s celebration a potential loss to grieve.
We might wrangle living’s fairness, its giving and its taking—
one soul giving into sleep as a new soul is waking.
Its weave may seem circuitous, beginnings onto leavings,
all the energy of life–its lovings and its heavings,
yet the flaw within the tapestry is what gives it its beauties.
The pleasures of the life we live are leavened by its duties.
The prompts today are energy, tapestry, circuitous, wrangle.
https://ragtagcommunity.wordpress.com/2018/09/04/rdp-tuesday-prompt-energy/
https://fivedotoh.com/2018/09/04/fowc-with-fandango-tapestry/
https://wordofthedaychallenge.wordpress.com/2018/09/04/circuitous/
When I ran through a mental list of words that rhymed with “wrangle,” they suddenly all sounded very familiar. No wonder. I’d written a one-rhyme poem making use of all of them over a year ago. Go HERE to read it.
Lazy Man’s Creed
How I loathe a hard day’s labor at the furrow or the stile.
It makes me cross and angry. I become volatile!
A sage once gave me this advice: what’s earned will serve thee best,”
but I quipped back with, “Any labor undone is the best!”
The prompt words today were labour, loathe, sage and volatile. Here are the links:
https://ragtagcommunity.wordpress.com/2018/09/03/rdp-monday-prompt-labour/
https://fivedotoh.com/2018/09/03/fowc-with-fandango-loathe/
https://wordofthedaychallenge.wordpress.com/2018/09/03/volatile/volatile
When this new little hibiscus blooms, it will hopefully add some color to this area of the garden. You can barely see it’s spindly little limb sticking up above the citronella, succulents and new bushy red plant. The cactus spine was one we collected in AZ to make a lamp out of before Bob died. It has found a new purpose in this arrangement. The terra cotta cone is the top of a clay sculpture the animals knocked over and broke, now repurposed .
Tree near Guachimontones Pyramids, Jalisco, Mexico.
For: https://beccagivens.wordpress.com/2018/09/02/sunday-trees-355/
Know It Alls
Smug sequacious thinkers with narrow little minds,
seal up all their windows, pull down all their blinds.
Spend all their time and leisure thinking thoughts uncouth,
simplistic in their reasoning, avoiding hard hard truth.
The word prompts today were sequacious, tantalizing, leisure and infinite.
spacious
https://fivedotoh.com/2018/09/02/fowc-with-fandango-tantalizing/
https://wordofthedaychallenge.wordpress.com/2018/09/02/leisure/
https://dailyaddictions542855004.wordpress.com/2018/09/02/daily-addictions-2018-week-35/infinite
These look a bit like nasturtium leaves, but I don’t see evidence of any flowers. They are sweet, I think, mixed in with the grass.
I knew there was a reason I stopped and went back to take that photo of the pacifier in the street near my car!!!!
My dad in a slower mode of conveyance.
Family Vacation
My father on vacation was robotic in his thrust.
His modus operandi was to get there or to bust—
another hundred miles or so before we stopped to sup,
and we rarely got a room before the moon was up!
When he hit the highway, he became another man.
No mere roadside attraction could deflect his driving plan.
In those days of two-lane traffic and a speed limit of fifty,
he thought five hundred miles a day sounded rather nifty.
Fathers prone to threaten, who hit and rage and cuss
are, I fear, too often too ubiquitous.
But this was not my father. Rage was not his style.
He simply had addictions to mile after mile!
My dad was generous and fun. He told a story well,
but to take a trip with him was nothing short of Hell.
His proclivity to “get there,” I fear was never curable,
and so family vacations were just barely endurable!
My sisters and I with my dad. He didn’t usually look this grim!
The prompt words today are highway, durable, robot and ubiquitous. Here are the links:
https://fivedotoh.com/2018/09/01/fowc-with-fandango-highway/
https://dailyaddictions542855004.wordpress.com/2018/08/26/daily-addictions-2018-week-34/durable
https://ragtagcommunity.wordpress.com/2018/09/01/rdp-saturday-robot/
https://wordofthedaychallenge.wordpress.com/2018/09/01/ubiquitous/
lifelessons - a blog by Judy Dykstra-Brown 