Adulation and Lamentation
Held captive by your luscious smile, I state the total truth
when I say you are perfection, both in lip and tooth!
Your hair’s no less than gossamer. Your figure scores a ten.
No greater beauty’s lauded by any poet’s pen.
Thanks to both your parents for creating such perfection.
Hereafter we must ostracize beauty of less confection.
It’s clear they scored a victory when they created you,
so why stop at one instead of making us a few?
Prompt words for the day are luscious, thanks, victory, ostracize and captive.
Excellent piece. Well written. Thank you
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Thanks, Suzette.
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Beautiful yes, but not very cuddly. 😉
Thanks for joining in the prompt today.
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Sometimes the truth that what is the most beautiful isn’t necessarily the cuddliest.
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Actually, I wonder if that isn’t true MOST times.
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I hesitated to say that but certainly won’t refute it.
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The last line is a gem Judy. Great poem.
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Thanks, Sadje..worried a bit re how to end it but it finally came to me by the end.
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You’re welcome Judy.
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Very cute and well crafted.
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Thanks, Dolly. Are you stir-crazy or doing fine with the staying at home?
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I am too busy to go crazy. Semester has just started, and about a third of my students are not quite comfortable with virtual learning environment. I have to “virtually” hold each one’s hand and make them feel warm and fuzzy.
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But you are so good at that, Dolly!
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I guess I am if I have students crying to the advisor, “Put me in Dr Dolly’s class!” but I still worry about each one of them, and it takes a lot of time and effort.
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Dr. Dolly.. has a certain ring to it. You’ve probably heard this before, but gotta repeat in comparison that in Ethiopia I was Ms. Judy.. until I discovered Muz (pronounced the same way) meant banana in Amharic, so they were all chuckling mentally as they called me “Banana Judy!”
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No, I haven’t heard, and it’s rich, Banana Judy!
The reason they started calling me Dr Dolly is that nobody could pronounce my last name (before this marriage, that is), and it stuck.
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What was your last name/
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Yanishevsky. Most of my students are 2nd language speakers, and some of them don’t even have these sounds in their languages.
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It sounds like you could be a composer. Or a great acting coach. Beautiful name.
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Neither one of those, and it was my last name from the first marriage.
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Fun
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