Frangipani Fever
Yes, the scenery is breathtaking. In fact, it is uncanny,
and what mainly takes my breath away is the frangipani.
The color is my favorite—its texture velvet-soft—
but see its pollen messengers descending from aloft?
They permeate the summer sky. They go where e’er they please.
They wind up in my nostril hairs, then spin out in a sneeze.
When I call it “hay fever,” I know it is a gaffe,
but “frangipani fever” only makes folks laugh.
As I explode each morning—blowing, coughing, wheezing,
I fear the fact they’re “breathtaking” is something less than pleasing.
Prompts today are breathtaking, gaffe, zenith and velvet. Here are links:
https://ragtagcommunity.wordpress.com/2019/05/22/rdp-wednesday-breathtaking/
https://fivedotoh.com/2019/05/22/fowc-with-fandango-gaffe/
https://onedailyprompt.wordpress.com/2019/05/22/your-daily-word-prompt-zenith-may-22-2019/
https://wordofthedaychallenge.wordpress.com/2019/05/22/velvet/
lifelessons - a blog by Judy Dykstra-Brown 
So beautiful!
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What a lovely full bush of frangipani — but I do hear you about the sneezes!
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There is a bougainvillea interloper there as well, I see.
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So there is — I missed that — but the frangipani is still full where the bougainvillea isn’t!
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I hope this is fiction, Judy! I am coughing and sneezing myself.
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Nope. Awakened to 5 gargantuan sneezes this morning. Luckily all the neighbors are out of town right now. Years ago I would sneeze and my next door neighbors would shout “Salud!!” (Health. The equivalent of Gesundhet.)
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