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About lifelessons

My blog, which started out to be about overcoming grief, quickly grew into a blog about celebrating life. I post daily: poems, photographs, essays or stories. I've lived in countries all around the globe but have finally come to rest in Mexico, where I've lived since 2001. My books may be found on Amazon in Kindle and print format, my art in local Ajijic galleries. Hope to see you at my blog.

Christmas: A New Rendition

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Christmas: A New Rendition

That the papers had a field day is totally explicable,
“Santa Stuck in the Chimney and for Hours Inextricable!”
So now he’s on a diet. No more cookies, no more milk.
He’s restricted to mere salads and others of their ilk.

He’s feeling way less boisterous. No more “Ho ho ho’s!”
So there’ll be fewer miracles in our stockings’ toes.
That year the Grinch stole Christmas  just might  be repeated
and socks hung on the mantel might have to be re-feeted.

Prompt words today are field day, inextricable, fireplace, boisterous, miracle and rendition.

Bougainvillea, FOTD Dec 8, 2022

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Bougainvillea


For Cee’s FOTD

Mosquito Bump Blues

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Mosquito Bump Blues

This strain of mosquito is so sanctimonious
because it claims its droning is indeed harmonious.
According to their drone master, they drone in harmony
depending on their sting site: ear or arm or knee!

They’re trying to get a copyright on harmonies they’ve written
according to locations simultaneously bitten,
but alas they don’t write music so they cannot win the rights
to music just recorded by the pattern of their bites!

Prompt words today are mosquito, strain, sanctimonious, according, copyright.  Image by Jimmy Chan on Pexel.

Apple Red

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As Cee says, there. are as many colors of Apple Red as there are types of apples. For CFFC Apple Red

Poinsettia: FOTD Dec 7, 2022

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Paciano trimmed back all the greenery behind my planter, cutting off all the leaves and flowers right before my house tour!  Yikes. The bougainvillea were trailing down over this stone planter and were so pretty.  So, I planted this Poinsettia to hide the damage.

For Cee’s FOTD

Shaving Brush Trio: FOTD Dec 6, 2022

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Couldn’t resist. I thought this gorgeous and quirky shaving brush-laden tree warranted one more photo.

For Cee’s FOTD

Exclusion

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Exclusion

Those who stage conniption fits
throw in the towel and call it quits
whenever things get hard and crusty
or the road gets steep and dusty.

When plans convene, they’re totally for them,
but when things get rough, abhor them.
They pick on each rut and slant
as an excuse to rave and rant.

Each plotted road’s slightest digression
is a cause for their aggression,
giving reason for the pause
in their former wild applause.

Would that they would live and learn,
but progress is a thing they spurn.
So it is best, without a doubt,
when plans are made, to leave them out!

Prompt words today are conniption, slant, aggression, convene, pause and dusty.

Stories and Poems on “Nostalgia.”

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Help. Someone contacted me via comments on my blog and invited me to submit work to a “Nostalgia” issue of a poetry journal. I cannot for the life of me find it.  If anyone knows what journal this is or if you are the one who contacted me, could you comment again with the details?   Thanks, Judy

Blabbermouth

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Blabbermouth

You open lips and yammer on,
unmindful of your listener’s yawn.
We yearn to hear your final word,
but when we think that it’s been heard—
your topics trite, your point invalid—
you treat us all to more word salad!

Your prosery and versity
display little diversity,
and yet, my dear, both night and day,
you sputter words—a constant spray.
We yearn to hear your lips are sewn,
for we have stories of our own!

Prompt words today are yammer, topic, final, diversity, spray and salad. Image by Enis Yavuz on Unsplash.

Shaving Brush Flower: FOTD, Dec 5, 2022

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This tree outside Paciano’s house just burst into bloom today. Magnificent.

 

For Cee’s FOTD