Monthly Archives: February 2022

Harridan

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Harridan

I’m standing at the crossroads between a saint and bitch.
Schooled in forebearance, I’ve stayed within my nitch.
But lately things are changing. I’m losing self-control.
The hounds of Hell have been released and now they’re on patrol.
They’re fluting all the pillars formerly unmarked—
scoring them with unfurled claws every time they’ve barked.

Soon I will be certified as a nagging crone—
the sort of aging harpie who prefers to live alone.
I’m sure its hard to fathom it, as perfect as I’ve been,
kowtowing to authority—especially to men.
But privilege must come to all as we come to age,
so I’m expressing sovereignty, at least here on the page.

 

Word prompts today are flute, crossroads, certified, bitch. Image by Camila Quintero Franco on Unsplash.

Hibiscus: FOTD Feb 3, 2022

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For Cee’s FOTD

Five Major Annoyances!!!!!!

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1.Drivers that hold up an entire string of traffic behind them for the entire cycle of a green light to enable them to make an illegal left-hand turn as the light turns red.

2.  People who tell pointless looooooong stories, relating every detail about people you don’t know and will never know.

3.  Tiny writing on business cards or medicine bottles or instruction cards when there is an equal amount of blank space that could have been used to double the size of the print.

4. Computer apps that keep changing their formats and the position of things without making anything clearer or easier to use. Skype and Hotmail Outlook and Facebook, I’m talking about you!!!!!

5. Apps. that ask me for my password every time I use them in spite of the fact that I’ve marked the square to “remember this password.” And then don’t accept the password!!!!

Grrrrrr… now you have me all stirred up!!!!!

For: https://fivedotoh.com/2022/02/02/5-things-annoyances/

Strange Conglomeration

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This is probably the strangest conglomeration of close-ups you will ever see. What they have in common is simply that they were all taken within a 24-hour period and I like them all.

For Cee’s CMMC Close-Up or Macro Challenge

Hot Wax, Cold Water

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Hot Wax, Cold Water

He who seeks to dip his wick
should study well which girl to pick.
She was a candlemaker’s daughter,
who lived by what her father taught her,
and though he wooed and thought he’d caught her,
melted wax that meets cold water
floats on top and forms a crust
quickly quenching any lust.

If he seeks to woo and win her,
it will take much more than dinner,
pop of cork and candlelight.
A match, a sip and then a bite
are not sufficient to win a dame
accustomed to a candle’s flame.
He’d do much better if at the start
he had sought to melt her heart.

 

For Bushboy’s Challenge: Hot Wax, Cold Water. (To see the original post that prompted this challenge, go HERE. To see Bushboy’s poem, go HERE.

“See No Evil” Odd Squared Challenge, Feb 2022

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This is my favorite sculpture of the dozens that line Main Street in Sheridan, Wyoming. A clever rendition of “See No Evil.”

For the  Square Odds prompt

A Suitable Ending

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A Suitable Ending

He made a wild adventure out of every act
as his imagination embellished every fact.
No detail insignificant in his lackluster life,
his tall tales irked his children and perplexed his wife.
Each plash became a tidal wave. Trips to the zoo were germinal—
fomenting tales of tigers on safaris nearly terminal.
His day would come, they warned him, but he was a stubborn bloke.
He thrived on spinning yarns  and on concocting his next joke.
They always said they’d do him in—those wild tales he spun.
And in the end, his kin were right. He choked on a bad pun.

Prompts today are tiger, insignificant, perplex, plash and terminal.

Bird of Paradise: FOTD 2/2/22

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For Cee’s FOTD

What is it? Last on the Card: Jan, 2022

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What is it? Click on photos to enlarge. Cee, Carol, Carol and Marilyn–no fair guessing.

 

For: The Last on the Card Prompt

UFO

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UFO

You made your appearance without much excitation,
probably due most of all to your orientation
poised above my housetop and slightly to the right
for almost an hour that clear October night.
It seemed no one was watching—too early or too late
for the world  to witness and to start a great debate
about bizarre lights in the sky that could not be explained.
Perhaps only I watched as your brilliance flared and waned.
And who am I to ruin my integrity
by sharing with the world what was only viewed by me?


Prompt words today are:  watched, orientation, bizarre, integrity and appearance. Image by Rodion Kutsaev on Unsplash.