Why I Can’t Do The Prompts Today
I think I’ll be a morning grouch
and spend these hours on the couch
making lists of things for doing—
certain things that involve gluing,
cleaning, sorting, chopping, timing—
things that do not involve rhyming.
A sea of things I’ve been concealing,
chores that stack up to the ceiling,
divert me from acts of creation
with chores of limitless cessation.
Hobbies I’d rather pursue
put off by what I’ve gotta do.
Pay my house fees, cook the stew,
trim the bushes, find the glue
to fix the statue, sort my purse,
clean out the junk drawer, then rehearse
my poems for next Friday’s reading.
Fix my blouse. Restore its beading.
Answer emails, call the plumber.
Modern life is such a bummer.
Sometimes I think I exist
solely to check off a list.
At any rate, as I have ranted,
other parts of me recanted.
It seems I’m such a winsome elf
that this poem just wrote itself!!!!!!
Prompts today are winsome, sea, certain, list, grouch, hobby and concealing.
lifelessons - a blog by Judy Dykstra-Brown 
Well, Judy, maybe you’ll get back around to doing the prompts again tomorrow. 😉
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Very clever Judy
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vewy kewt!
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Love this one Judy!
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And it was a great one too~! Your life sometimes hangs out like a barometer, I see most of the “ups” and “downs” in a post or a poem, almost like I was a “voyeur”, sneaking a peek~! When one that drops too low, I send that: “R.U.O.K” note, and when I think that it is high, I send you a: “BULLY for you~!” note~! Today it is only a “Good for you, back in the saddle” note~! Look who’s talking, I am sure you have seen or thought you saw, the same in me and others the same way. That’s one neat things that makes blogging interesting, even if it is often only our imagination playing tricks on us~!
Now I will see if WordPerfect can put ME into the “Piss on You” mood by giving me that: “SOMEONE” moniker instead of my usual “nom de plume”.
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Brilliant! Nicely done!!
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I had to google ‘melf.’ I didn’t know you were into the Dungeons and Dragons lore, Judy. Very cute!
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The definition I saw for “melf” was very different from the one Forgottenman saw. His was much racier and caused me to change the poem from “melf” to “elf” lest I offend. So I’m not half so trendy now…but more socially acceptable. (My definition was “a sexy middle-aged woman,” which was a bit of a stretch anyway. Ha.)
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Wait – why is “a sexy middle-aged woman” a stretch?
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Clever and well done!
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“Sometimes I think I exist
solely to check off a list.” Yep. Very good poem. I’m feeling that I’m at the end of my blogging life. I’ve felt that before, so we’ll see.
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It’s like an addiction to me. Don’t know if I can stop.
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Me too. It’s so much a routine of my day and the dogs’ when I’ve tried to do something else, they and I are disoriented. But seriously, I don’t have much to say and I only occasionally write poems which is one way through. It’s a good addiction, though. 😀
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That’s why I started writing to the prompts. It gives me a starting point so I don’t have to try to come up with a topic every day.
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That was very jaunty, Judy. Very enjoyable.
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I’ve got two lifetimes worth of stuff on my “to do” list and if I get a tenth of it done, it will be a minor miracle.
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Me too, Marilyn.
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I can relate to the feeling of existing to check off lists. 🙂 Great poem, Judy. Thanks for using my prompt!
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