Reading Challenged
Diana Gabaldon’s romances are way too historic.
Koolkosherkitchen‘s recipes? Delicious, but caloric.
Mo Willems counts on pigeons to chase away the blues,
but I’d never volunteer to fill any pigeon’s shoes
due to my fear of flying, so even in a pinch,
to read of being airborne causes me to flinch.
Can’t read Cormac McCarthy or Murakami either.
When violence erupts in books, I have to take a breather.
Harlequin romances are too mushily romantic,
for I prefer my novels less sexually pedantic.
All-in-all you might have guessed I’ve little left to read
and so instead I write all day to satisfy my need
to hang out with a word or two that has not been written
by writers such as those above by whom I’ve not been smitten.
And though my poems aren’t edible or sexually explicit,
violent or airborne, I feel it is implicit
that I need an appointment with my therapist to see
if I can even stomach silly verses penned by me!
Prompt words are pinch, historic, appointment, volunteer, and flying. Image by Brendan Stephens on Unsplash.
lifelessons - a blog by Judy Dykstra-Brown 
When you find what up want to read, you write your own story!
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As usual, I was kidding.. I constantly have a book I’m listening to. At present, The Last Thing He Told Me by Laura Dave.
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👍🏼👍🏼👍🏼
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That’s a pretty profound statement…
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I think it’s a paraphrase of a quote I once read
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You at your brilliant best. Good to see you incorporating Dolly’s wonderful work
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I know. Her posts incorporate so much.
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