Monthly Archives: February 2025

“Abandoned” for The Sunday Whirl Wordle, Feb 23, 2025

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Abandoned

Voices echo down long hallways where there’s no one left to hear––
each second fading into hour to day to week to year.
Old friends now departed, time has finally run out.
Words have lost their power. Memories have lost their clout.
Mirrors show no images, locks rust and fall away
as the fires of time passing burn to ash another day.

For The Sunday Whirl Wordle #695 the prompt words were: lock fades echo out voices burn show friends time power hear second.  Image by Alexy Malakov on Unsplash.

“How the Mighty Will One Day Fall” for the One Day Prompt, Feb 22, 2025

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How the Mighty Will One Day Fall

I would pay a pretty tuppence
to see his highness get his comeuppance.
His smug assurance, his galling preening.
He’s like a babe in need of weaning,
sucking at the teat of fame.
What other mortal needs his name
written on towers around the world?
He’s Ozymandius, stone lip curled
in cruel splendor, sure in his power
reasserted on every tower.
But remember, as he counts each coup,
how all the mighty have fallen, too.
False knights wear armor prone to tarnish.
His Midas touch will lose its varnish.
We’ll laud the day when he’ll be dumped—
That day when he’ll be over-trumped!

 

For: https://weeklyprompts.com/2025/02/22/weekly-prompts-the-one-day-prompt-10/

“Busy World” for Lens Artist Challenge #336, Feb 22, 2025

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I didn’t even try to count the number of notices that must have been tacked, nailed, stapled and screwed onto this tree turned telephone/ light pole. What better symbol of the busyness of our lives…and the effect it might be having on nature?

 

For Lens Artists Challenge #336-only one picture We were to choose a photo meaningful to us and to explain why we chose it.

Between Two Worlds

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Between Two Worlds

This piece is about contrasts: old and new, peace and conflict, blended cultures, freedom and confinement. It reminds us of the wide variety of what the world has to offer, the need to stay on target, and also to have fun and to spend our time wisely.

This is another of the three mixed-media pieces I have in the new show currently being displayed in the Cultural Center in the Ajijic Plaza. (The same place where I just displayed in the Artful Codger show.) Out with the old, in with the new.

It joins lots of interesting work on the first floor.  Upstairs on the second floor is a showing of Jesus Lopez Vega’s work. You’ve seen lots of his work adorning both the inside and outside of my house and don’t tell anyone, but yes…I did buy another of his paintings. It’s small. I’ll squeeze it in somewhere.

This is the third show I’ve set up in three weeks. After this I will be taking a rest…perhaps going into retirement re/ exhibiting, at least for a few months. 

Hibiscus, FOTD Feb 22, 2025

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For Cee’s FOTD

For Weekend Sky #141

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Click on photos to enlarge.

 

Weekend Sky #141

For Flashback Friday, Feb 21, 2025

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For Flashback Friday we are asked to rerun an earlier blog published on this day. I’m reblogging one from Feb 21 of 2017. Click on link below to see the blog and then on each photo to enlarge the photos:

https://judydykstrabrown.com/2017/02/21/looking-down-on-things/

 

 

“In Person” For SOCS, Feb 21, 2025

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In Person

I am the emptiness in you that glues the parts of you together.
I form those other worlds that are the universe inside of you.
I have a language all my own that speaks through your voice.
There is something holding us together, something keeping us apart.

You are that part of me that only I can search for.
You are the part I wrap myself around.
You are the mystery that forms the game of my life.
When I am alone, you create in me the opposite of loneliness.

They are the full cast of my life.
They  come together when I am willing to let both of them go.
I let them take turns being my guide.
It is in getting lost in them that I let myself be found.

For SOCS  the prompt is “in person.”

Fibbing Friday, Feb. 21, 2025

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For Fibbing Friday, Feb 21, 2025 the challenge is to define the following:

1.   What is a quaver? It is an over-the-shoulder receptacle for arrows in Louisiana.
2.   If you didn’t know a door as a door, what would you call it?  An In-or-Outer.
3.   007 has a license to kill, but what would an 010 have a license for? To drive a ten-speed bicycle.
4.   Define Corybantic. One member of a comedy duo known for their ribald humor..
5.   What does Crinkum-crankum mean?  An invitation to come witness Rin and  Ran in an X-rated movie.
6.   What is a Cacodemon ? Satan with dysentery.
7.   What would you do with a collop? Answer it.
8.   What is a curlicue? A cookout for doggies.
9.   Who or what is a cootie? An attractive young pigeon.
10.  What is an erf?  The sound made by a dog with a speech impediment.

Image thanks to z-grills Austalia.

For Cee’s FOTD