We’ll Be Having S’mores!
He’ll rid the cupboards of food he abhors
and refurbish them with the makings for s’mores:
marshmallows, Hershey bars and then for backers,
he’ll purchase a surplus of packs of graham crackers.
A triple pleasure, this snack is the star
of any snack found in packet or jar.
Let the unimaginative shop in stores
for pre-made snacks. He’ll be serving us s’mores!
Prompt words today are triple, unimaginative, marshmallow, refurbish, star, surplus. Photos by Autumn Mott and Jessica Rusce on Unsplash.
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Today is the saints day for the Virgin of Guadalupe and skyrockets and church bells have been going off since 6 A.M. It seems fitting that I show the Virgin and her floral offerings as well as a display of fresh kalanchoe blossoms in honor of Our Lady of the Roses. They are as close to roses as I can get in my garden.
For Cee’s FOTD
Cantankerous
Grandpa is displaying his usual disposition,
expressing all his anger with excessive exposition.
He’s feeling most litigious and says that all the dang
liberals and Democrats should be sentenced to hang!
To Hell with all the secrecy. Sound the fire sirens
and lynch all left wing voters found in our environs.
If it were up to him they’d draw and quarter, limb-from-limb
every gol-durn voter who does not vote like him!
Prompt words today are hang, litigious, secrecy, disposition, sound. Image by Charles Buchler on Unsplash.
Fiction, Dolly!!!!
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How Nature Heals
Here beneath the open sky
all possibilities flow by.
Channels cut through Earth by time
contain the base and the sublime.
Heaven and Hell equally mixed
within a world man thinks he’s fixed,
but the urgency of mankind’s rule
often brands him as a fool.
Serial acts to gain control
have ripped our planet from Pole to Pole.
Disasters far beyond our range
to remedy with tardy change––
threaten with an urgency
that nature in resurgency
thrusts in our faces. Fire storms
plague us as our planet warms.
Hurricanes and flooding rains
show us how nature disdains
our engineering of global drought,
water we can’t do without
and yet, when sent with too much zeal,
destroys what it was meant to heal.
Could it be that nature’s fuss
is meant to do away with us?
The prompt words are: rule open sky beneath within hell heaven flow channel urgency time serial for The Sunday Whirl Wordle 582
Parting Manifesto
All the reasons you have vetted
(reasons I should feel indebted)
are reasons that I question, so,
I can’t accept your tales of woe.
Those monstrous acts you say I’ve done?
It is a fact that I’ve done none.
And all the things you say you’ve bought?
The fact is that I bought the lot!
Your bags are packed and by the door.
Load up that sports car you adore
and take yourself right down the road.
I’m closing up the mother lode!
For, though I’ll miss our hugs and smooching,
I won’t miss your constant mooching.
It’s time you joined the teeming mob,
got off your keister and got a job!!!!
Prompt words today are question, indebted, monstrous, like.
Vanity Mirror
Your grace leaves courters spellbound and at a slight impasse,
for they’d like to woo you, but they do not have the brass.
Ordinary fellows feel they’ve not the right
to ask you for a date in fear they may incite
a cacophony of laughter revealing your disdain
at their misguided efforts—that they would even deign
to think that they were worthy of such a one as you,
deserving of the honor to stoop and kiss your shoe.
Do you feel the portrait that I sketch deserving of your buzz?
Or do you get the message: pretty is as pretty does.
Prompt words today are grace, spellbound, cacophony, impasse, ordinary and sketch.
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Bigger and brighter and more exotic flowers abound in the garden, but this is Zoe’s choice. Actually, she was starting to eat it when I caught her and she quickly shifted to pretending she was smelling it.
For Cee’s FOTD
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