Somewhere under there, there should be a geranium and moss roses, but perhaps they’ve been choked out by invaders.
Encroachment: FOTD May 13, 2022
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Revolt at Walmart
Revolt at Walmart
Give us the proper rebate if you want us to behave.
We have our coupons in our hands and we’re not going to cave.
It is not iniquity to ask for what you’re due.
Accede to our demands or we’re going to mount a coup.
So what if it’s a misprint in the paper? Not our fault.
Produce what you offered, for we’re not going to halt.
Although you say to honor it would amount to a steal,
20 for 1 seems to us a reasonable deal!
Prompt words for the day are proper, beam, rebate, iniquity and behave.
Garden with Pool: FOTD May 12, 2022
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Bougainvillea and plumeria are the two main flowers you can see in this photo.
Tree Hibiscus: FOTD, May 11, 2022
Imagine a huge tree covered with these gorgeous blooms and the sun in the right position to turn them into stained glass.
For Cee’s FOTD
Gardener
Gardener
As life tautens its string and pulls me along,
I delay thoughts of my funeral gong
with a story, a rhyme, a poem or a song,
creativity being the one way I know
to write my own ending for the end of the show.
Our quota of years, that cessation of flow,
that furtive departure, that summons to go,
that human surrender to the undertow,
need not be an ending to all that we know.
That’s why I have chosen to come here and stow
what little I’ve learned in an orderly row
of words on this page, following head to toe,
that tell parts of my life, be they pleasure or woe.
I plant them here, hoping that they will grow
into tall verdant meadows that you’ll want to mow.
Prompt words today are creativity, human, furtive, tauten and quota.
Overeducated
Overeducated
I rue the day I sent my oldest kid to college,
for ever since he’s been deluging us with knowledge.
From “dermatones” to other concepts we can’t grasp,
his pedestrian lectures make us want to gasp.
He uses words archaic since majoring in Chaucer,
ostentatiously positioning his “cuppe” in his saucer.
He bores us all to death when his golf club raises turf.
He doesn’t raise a divot. Instead he cuts a kerf!
Constantly, he leaves us in a state of consternation
simply by engulfing us in too much information.
Prompt words today are dermatone, tear, archaic, kerf and pedestrian. Illustration thanks to Muhammad Rizwan on Unsplash.
Meet the Author Event
Join us at 11AM this Wednesday, May 11th at El Gato Feo Coffee shop at 16 de Septiembre #18 in Ajijic for “Meet the Authors” readings. Each author will read from their published book for about 20 minutes and answer your questions. They will be signing copies of their book for your purchase. Coffee/Tea from El Gato Feo will be available and seating is in the cozy Salon of Estrellitas B&B next door.
Judy Dykstra-Brown will be reading from her considerable array of poetry and stories. From Judy: “I’ve always liked both poems and paintings that tell stories. I’ll be telling mine in poetry, their themes ranging from a little girl curled up in the corner of a sofa in the 50’s, listening to her dad trading tales with his friends to a dreaded Aunt Knox who seems to consider socks as perfect Christmas presents and from a first kiss to a last dance that finally takes place four years after the death of one of the participants. From a town of 700 on the lone prairies of South Dakota to a hot tub fed by mineral hot springs in Mexico, these stories have been brewing in me for over 70 years. I’d now like to share them with you.”
Ted Shaw will be reading from his book, The Magic of Wonder, Ted reveals the strategies that actually work and how you can do them at home. Everything is explained in easy-to-understand language. When you are finished with this book, you will have a new resource that you can tap into for the rest of your life.
Glenda Rogers will be reading from her recently published novel A-MUSED: Columbia University’s star astrophysicist, Rani, travels to Greece and encounters constellations, not the star charts she knows, but flesh and bone creatures who’ve fallen from the sky. A-mused, a laugh out loud, Adult Romance, is a mythic journey of becoming who we are meant to be even when the stars align against us.
Bougainvillea: FOTD, May 10, 2022
Words for a Formerly Rejected Would-be Lover
Words for a Formerly Rejected Would-be Lover
The prospects are quite iffy that you’ll shift my view,
but come equipped with custard and I’ll take a spin with you.
We’ll see if we have anything in common other than
a taste for boiled custard and a mania for flan.
Prompt words today are shift, spin, custard, iffy and equipped. Image by Artem Beliaikin on Unsplash.
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