Monthly Archives: July 2022

White Glove, Black Glove: Monday Portrait, July 25, 2022

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White Glove, Black Glove

The chef prepares to disinter the roast.

Moonlight Reflection: Wordle 562

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Moonlight Reflection

The radiant moon invites me to meander to the pool.
To miss its cloud-scrimmed drama would reveal me as a fool.
Its flickering light reflected in the pool’s steaming glass,
I part its even surface asunder as I pass.

Clothed in liquid light, I walk a smooth straight line,
reflectively immersed in this world that is all mine.
I have no other idol except this ghost of moon.
I feel that I could taste it if I only had a spoon.

Its taste would be ambrosial upon my earthly tongue—
the first to taste a lunar menu formerly unsung.
I bundle up my prayers and toss them overhead,
leaving all my worries unthought of and unsaid.

The stone steps lead me up again from its steaming mass
and I shed off moonlight around me as I pass.
I take its memory with me as I return to bed,
the splendor of the moonlight forever in my head. 

Today’s prompt words are: reflective radiant immersed meander idol  line taste drama ghost  flickering stone. The photos I took two weeks ago before leaving my house to travel to the states for my school reunion. A glorious scene. One of the shots is the moon and trees reflected in the surface of my  pool that is fed by  hot mineral springs that pass through the  magma layer fed by the Colima Volcano, 80 miles away. I swim in it almost nightly.

 

For the Sunday Whirl Wordle 562

 

Reality Redefined

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Reality Redefined

(From Reality Shows to Reality Politicians, the meaning
of the word seems to have shifted to its opposite.)

Your underwhelming comments on my photographs should shame me,
but if they foster apathy, you really cannot blame me.
Timeless snapshots can’t be made of subjects that are boring,
and ordinary truth, it seems, leaves viewers merely snoring.

“What seems to be” has turned into the new truth that we seek—
reality  becoming something we can tweak.
A pantomimed emotion, sadly, I must confess,
if one is good enough at it, is good enough, I guess.

So bring on the kitschy actor, the reality show clown.
Their entertainment value will bring them wide renown.
They are what is called for in this modern cyber world.
“Reality’s” new meaning therein has been unfurled.

 

Prompt words are snapshot, underwhelming, timeless, kitschy, foster and pantomime.

Quilted Flowers: FOTD July 24, 2022

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A few days ago I showed Quilled Flowers. Today I’m showing Quilted ones. This gorgeous quilt was hanging in my doctor’s office in Sheridan, Wyoming. It was quilted by the receptionist in the office and is even more beautiful and detailed in person than in this photo.

For Cee’s FOTD

Culinary Erotica

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Culinary Erotica

Her silken robes sway gently to the oscillating fan.
She is in her element when around any man.
They are what makes life savory, the salt to any dish.
The doorknob slowly turning denotes her fondest wish.
There’s not a single male faction that would not agree
that when it comes to men, she is the sugar in their tea.

Prompts for today are silk, element, oscillating, faction, sugar and doorknob.

Still life with Zinnias: FOTD, July 28, 2022

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From my friend Patty’s back yard.

 

For Cee’s FOTD

Pollyanna’s Creed

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Pollyanna’s Creed

Why so wan and petulant, so sober and contrary?
Concede that negativity that you sometimes carry.

Concentrate on cheerful things. Begin a new beginning.
Convert all your losses from losing into winning.

Remove the somber funeral veil from your mournful head
and buy a vivid orange hat to wear on it instead.

Life’s too short for sadness that you carry like a weight.
Every time you smile, you’ll feel it dissipate.

That cloud above your head will lift and light will filter in
and you’ll feel a happier time of life  begin.

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Prompt words today are orange, sober, concede,  petulant, beginning and concentrate.

Coleus, FOTD July 22, 2022

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This coleus from my friend Patty’s yard in Sheridan, Wyoming.

For Cee’s FOTD

Raucous Recipe #1

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Raucous Recipe #1

My flashback to a nifty dish of pears and peas and beans
is tastier if one can add olives and nectarines.
The problem is that when these five are ingested enmasse,
they cause indigestion and, I fear, a lot of gas.
So for the interim, until science solves the puzzle,
keep these five ingredients separate when you guzzle.

 

Prompt words today are flashback, gas, nifty, dish and pear.

Petunia: FOTD July 21, 2022

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For Cee’s FOTD