For Cee’s FOTD
The assignment: Here are some familiar words but can you make up new definitions for them?
1. Silicone–a dunce cap
2. Fluff–a polite word for a gentle fart
3. Loofah–Scandinavian exclamation or interjection used to express dismay over having to clean the bathroom
4. Caddy–An eight-year-old rude man in training
5. Pedantic–funny foot movements while dancing
6. Tangent–A polite male tourist on a bus back from the beach who gave up his seat to an elderly woman.
7. Muffler–The mother of a crying baby.
8. Calamity–Aphids in the Calla lilies
9. Archive–A cat about to assume its most threatening (and threatened) hump-backed position.
10. Fortify–a poorly-constructed (iffy) structure of defense.
For Fibbing Friday Image by Markus Spiske on Unsplash.
Conjuring
You are my homing pigeon, my wise old owl and dove.
My balsam for the pains of life, a well-remembered love.
Your presence is reality. It does not deviate.
You are a special part of life I can’t eradicate.
I breathe your name into the night and it draws you here.
Equal parts of holy and risque, you hover near.
And although your presence lasts mere minutes at a time,
it is time enough to prompt this laudatory rhyme!
Prompt words today are risque, name, balsam, deviate, reality and pigeon.
Another rose from the perfectly gorgeous bouquet given to me a few days ago.
Here’s another gorgeous shot from Cee, who sponsors the FOTD Challenge.
This is the Audible link but I imagine it only works if you subscribe: https://www.audible.com/pd/The-Moment-in-1965-When-Rock-and-Roll-Becomes-Art-Audiobook/B093CCD3JL
Wedding Ows
Our wedding plans are complicated by the groom’s lasciviousness
that I find incongruous to his vows of exclusivi”us”ness.
That marriage vows will tame him I fear will prove misleading.
He’ll make his heart available as long as it is beating
to any passing lady who looks in his direction,
a fact which as you see has not escaped his bride’s detection.
You might think I’m a martyr to forgive this faithless phony,
but I am looking forward to the future alimony!
Prompt words today are complicated, available, lasciviousness, patient, incongruous and misleading. Image by Nathan Walker on Unsplash.
This Gerbera Daisy was just one of an incredible bouquet of flowers brought to me by new friends. You’ll see the rest later.
For Cee’s FOTD
Musical Intercession
If I delete the news from home and flip all my attention
to aspects of the world escaping major media’s mention—
consign my concentration to birdsong and the tide
that washes out world sorrows that I bear inside
and fills me with the opposite of what the news exports—
that awareness of perfection that is what nature reports—
my life becomes more peaceful as my mind is set at ease
by nature’s lullaby sung to the music of the bees.
Prompts today are delete, home, flip, consign, opposite, birdsong.
I love this subtle little flower that likes to grow where it is hardest to do so. Thanks, Sam, for identifying it for me.
For Cee’s FOTD. See her pretty blue daisy HERE.
Kiss and Tell
How did you make your way into my heart?
Quick, tell the answer before we next part.
Come into my comfort, then comfort me back.
The way of the pair beats the way of the pack.
Reasons are given for all that we do—
For the ways that we love and the ways that we woo.
Approving my actions in loving you is
What wins you my love and wins you this kiss.
We swear to each other that we will be true
Like all the lovers in storybooks do.
Like brides and their bridegrooms and lieges and kings,
We shall swear our obeisance and seal it with rings.
What others have done is what we will do.
Approving tradition will make one of two.
For the rest of our lives, if they revile and chide us,
Reason’s just one of the things that will guide us.
The love we keep strong will keep us together.
Come be my steed, and I’ll be thy tether.
Quick, take my hand and give me thy pledge.
How we’ll kiss in the meadow and roll in the sedge.
For dVerse Poets
This is actually a poem I wrote 8 years ago, inspired by a line of Jane Austen’s. Read the first word in each of my lines to see her line, first forward and then backwards.
and HERE is the prompt, if you’d like to kiss and tell yourself.
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