Home for the Duration?
I simply must go shopping. I’ve a plethora of needs.
My soup has gone unsalted and my garden’s full of weeds.
I need whips for my whacker and I need a box of salt.
So if my meals aren’t tasty, you can see it’s not my fault.
The bane of my existence is the branches that have grown
to obscure my lake view and upset my garden’s tone.
When I’m in the hammock, I’m thereby deprived my vista
because I loaned my hedge clippers to my older sista.
It’s easier to buy new ones if I could just go shopping,
but nobody knows when our immurement will be stopping.
Lately what might happen in the future’s arcane knowledge.
I hope that school resumes before my 3-year-old needs college!
Prompt words for today are salty, arcane, vista, plethora and shop.
lifelessons - a blog by Judy Dykstra-Brown 
It’s like being a baby again with a blank slate in front of us. Sometimes, I don’t mind. Sometimes, I do.
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This is such a fun poem, Judy. I am starting to think I will be home schooling my kids forever.
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How do the kids feel about it? Are they itching to get back to school?
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Thanks for introducing me to a new word today: immurement. I knew what it meant because of context, but still had to look it up to see from whence it came (besides your vast internal dictionary).
xoxo
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I used it to make the rhythm correct. Otherwise I would never use a word that obscure.
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I love it when writers send me to the dictionary.
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Me too, Judy! And immurement sent me to Merriam-Webster as well!
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Kept you off the streets!
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Well, that and corona and my deeply held antisocial tendencies.
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I am hearing that the kids are having a tough time with the lockdown — my nephew says his boys are really suffering from the lack of social contact!
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I can imagine.
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Good one
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A fun poem. Love the last lines.
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This made me laugh out loud. And “immurement,” there’s an impressive word.
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Uh oh. Bet it shows up as a prompt word on “some” prompt site one of these days!
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😉
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