My thoughts on the Universe and travel therein are expressed in this poem from a few years ago: https://judydykstrabrown.com/2021/02/21/the-return/
Universal Ponderings
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Teenie Weenies: For MVB
From skating on thick ice
To everyday tales of domesticity
The closest to modern day Teenie Weenies are these model railroad figures.
They are meant to grace the scenery alongside the tracks.
You can see how many stories they tell.
Aloe Blossom: For FOTD Oct 9, 2023
For Cee’s FOTD
As you can see from this photo, my view of the aloe vera plant pictured above is from the opposite side, but it gives me an excellent view of the hummingbirds who come to sip from its blossoms! Although it appears to be invisible here, I have an excellent view of the bloom.
Jail Break: For The Sunday Whirl Wordle 623
Jail Break
All these words are borrowed. They are not really mine.
They came all neatly packaged in an orderly line
where they were held hostage, gathered up and wrapped—
a lexicography in waiting with its power oddly sapped.
Words slack with grief, all gathered in a long veiled sigh,
as though lined up like prisoners, scheduled to die.
Bare pockets empty of bare change, stripped of all their worth,
words that once soared to lofty heights were now brought down to earth.
But here I am their savior, for it’s been left to me
and other hero poets to set their power free.!
The words for The Sunday Whirl Wordle 623 are: slack grief hostage gather bare heights wrapped words pockets long veiled sigh
No Escape, for The Three Things Challenge
No Escape
I’ve vowed that I will have no more
of all the things that I abhor.
Indeed, these things that I detest
that in the past came to infest
my head and home and my whole life,
causing pain and stress and strife,
I left behind when I moved South,
and merely hear by word-of-mouth.
And in return, I trade for tales
of my South-of-the-border travails.
For the Three Things Challenge the words are: ABHOR DETEST INFEST
On the Rails for CWWC
Bougainvillea: FOTD Oct 8, 2023
Wouldn’t these make a gorgeous bridal bouquet? Problem is, they wilt too quickly once picked.
For Cee’s FOTD
Rehearsal Reblog for #MVB
I’m reblogging this blog from years ago as it seemed so perfect for the prompt today!!
Prime
Travel Primer (Past Our Prime!)
We wander narrow alleyways in countries that are foreign—
negotiate their tunnels, like rabbits in a warren.
We do not pay attention as we ogle and we gawk
who may follow closely—who may observe and stalk.
We are naive travelers. We’re innocents abroad.
One listens to our narratives, then signals with a nod
just as we are reaching to try to reimburse,
for another watcher to swoop down on our purse.
Then they’re off down alleyways where we are loath to go
where they’ll have their own adventures—financed by our dough.
For #SOCS Oct 7, the prompt is “Prime.”
lifelessons - a blog by Judy Dykstra-Brown 