Requiem for the Ode
Sorry, but these days an ode
is a form that’s out of mode.
And as tacky as it seems,
modern folks have chosen memes
to convey their inner selves,
and even though a poem delves
with soul in what we want to say,
alas, emojis rule the day.
emojis and
Tactical Failure
Cream whipped up frothy as air smothering chocolate cake—
how much more temptation is my rival going to make?
She knows that my true love is fond of skinny hips,
and yet she makes confections she knows will tempt my lips.
Tiny marzipan cherries adorn the cookies that
she knows that I will not resist and that they’ll make me fat.
She wants to exacerbate a rift she knows is there
ever since as a surprise I cut my knee-length hair.
His complaints resounded over the neighborhood.
Everyone heard his distress, so I’m sure she could
as she passed by on the sidewalk, walking very slow
on her way to the juke joint where they both liked to go.
I know she had designs on him for the very next day
she brought three dozen cookies lined up neatly on a tray.
They were for consolation for she knew we were in trouble,
and so she baked me cookies and made the frosting double.
Thus did this vixen hasten my love affair’s demise
by appealing to my weakness and doubling my size.
And thus because her tactics seemed so perfectly to work,
I wound up with a sweet life while she would up with a jerk!
Prompts today are frothy as air, exacerbate, marzipan, resound and joint.
A Mismatched Love Story
He approached their assignation
with a bit of trepidation,
for she was gregarious
while he found talk nefarious.
With an air of resignation,
he forgave her education,
but though she loved a well-penned book,
he found, alas, she couldn’t cook.
She loved dogs, he had a cat,
but he could get over that
if not the comments that she made
while strolling down the esplanade.
What he found impetuous
was her transforming “Me” to “Us.”
So, alas, they never wed.
He learned to cook himself instead!!
Prompts for today are resignation, lean, gregarious, impetuous and comment.
Bigot
His doctrines are all rusty and anything but rational.
He does not know the meaning of thinking international.
If he’d rescind provincial ways to make his mind more spacious,
it might create a better man, both kinder and more gracious.
Prompts for the day are rusty relic, doctrine, gracious, rescind and international. Photo by muhmed-el-bank on Unsplash.
New Dress, Two Sizes Too Small
Once I hone my figure, this will fit me like a glove.
Not one curve will be awry. I’ll be in shape for love.
I’ll put myself in training and walk a mile a day.
I’ll pack up all my cake pans and stow them all away.
I’ll give up chips and chocolate and concentrate on kale,
and after just a month or two, be skinny as a rail.
I have such fine convictions. I know I’ll reach my goal,
and to celebrate, I think I’ll have another roll!
Prompt words are awry, hone, train, figure and glove. Dress image by Sharon McCutcheon. Cinnamon roll image by Dilyara Garifullina, both on Unsplash.
Flying from Dallas/Ft. Worth to Guadalajara. Incredible clouds. And, an incredible next-door neighbor. He was such a good boy. Please click on these photos to see them full size. It is worth it.
One favor, please. One viewer has said when they click on the first photo that it shows an arrow to advance to the next photo, but that it won’t advance. Can you please try clicking through the entire series and see if they advance and enlarge for you, then comment below? And also, please tell me what browser you were using. It looks like they do not advance and enlarge on Safari, but I’m wondering if the same is true on other browsers. They seem to work on Firefox and Chrome, but Chrome does not enlarge them as much as Firefox does.
News Flash: Sue at Nan’s Farm has given a solution. If you can’t advance through and enlarge the photos by clicking on them, clear the cookies from your browser and it will work. This worked for me on Safari. Let me know if it works on other browsers. Thanks, Sue!!!
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