Imagine a huge tree covered with these gorgeous blooms and the sun in the right position to turn them into stained glass.
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Tree Hibiscus: FOTD, May 11, 2022
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Author Archives: lifelessons
Gardener
Gardener
As life tautens its string and pulls me along,
I delay thoughts of my funeral gong
with a story, a rhyme, a poem or a song,
creativity being the one way I know
to write my own ending for the end of the show.
Our quota of years, that cessation of flow,
that furtive departure, that summons to go,
that human surrender to the undertow,
need not be an ending to all that we know.
That’s why I have chosen to come here and stow
what little I’ve learned in an orderly row
of words on this page, following head to toe,
that tell parts of my life, be they pleasure or woe.
I plant them here, hoping that they will grow
into tall verdant meadows that you’ll want to mow.
Prompt words today are creativity, human, furtive, tauten and quota.
Overeducated
Overeducated
I rue the day I sent my oldest kid to college,
for ever since he’s been deluging us with knowledge.
From “dermatones” to other concepts we can’t grasp,
his pedestrian lectures make us want to gasp.
He uses words archaic since majoring in Chaucer,
ostentatiously positioning his “cuppe” in his saucer.
He bores us all to death when his golf club raises turf.
He doesn’t raise a divot. Instead he cuts a kerf!
Constantly, he leaves us in a state of consternation
simply by engulfing us in too much information.
Prompt words today are dermatone, tear, archaic, kerf and pedestrian. Illustration thanks to Muhammad Rizwan on Unsplash.
Meet the Author Event
Join us at 11AM this Wednesday, May 11th at El Gato Feo Coffee shop at 16 de Septiembre #18 in Ajijic for “Meet the Authors” readings. Each author will read from their published book for about 20 minutes and answer your questions. They will be signing copies of their book for your purchase. Coffee/Tea from El Gato Feo will be available and seating is in the cozy Salon of Estrellitas B&B next door.
Judy Dykstra-Brown will be reading from her considerable array of poetry and stories. From Judy: “I’ve always liked both poems and paintings that tell stories. I’ll be telling mine in poetry, their themes ranging from a little girl curled up in the corner of a sofa in the 50’s, listening to her dad trading tales with his friends to a dreaded Aunt Knox who seems to consider socks as perfect Christmas presents and from a first kiss to a last dance that finally takes place four years after the death of one of the participants. From a town of 700 on the lone prairies of South Dakota to a hot tub fed by mineral hot springs in Mexico, these stories have been brewing in me for over 70 years. I’d now like to share them with you.”
Ted Shaw will be reading from his book, The Magic of Wonder, Ted reveals the strategies that actually work and how you can do them at home. Everything is explained in easy-to-understand language. When you are finished with this book, you will have a new resource that you can tap into for the rest of your life.
Glenda Rogers will be reading from her recently published novel A-MUSED: Columbia University’s star astrophysicist, Rani, travels to Greece and encounters constellations, not the star charts she knows, but flesh and bone creatures who’ve fallen from the sky. A-mused, a laugh out loud, Adult Romance, is a mythic journey of becoming who we are meant to be even when the stars align against us.
Bougainvillea: FOTD, May 10, 2022
Words for a Formerly Rejected Would-be Lover
Words for a Formerly Rejected Would-be Lover
The prospects are quite iffy that you’ll shift my view,
but come equipped with custard and I’ll take a spin with you.
We’ll see if we have anything in common other than
a taste for boiled custard and a mania for flan.
Prompt words today are shift, spin, custard, iffy and equipped. Image by Artem Beliaikin on Unsplash.
Fallen Flora: FOTD May 9, 2022
Face Off!
Face Off!
It’s always there in front of me, greeting people first.
With having to live up to it, I always have been cursed.
When I want to look pious, it breaks out in a grin
revealing that within me there is a bit of sin.
It blushes when that boy walks in that I don’t want to know it.
I’m trying to be mysterious, and then I go and blow it!
It heats up and blushes when I’m trying to be cool.
How can something a part of me break every single rule?
When I doll up in my finest, then spend an hour on it,
adding shadow, blush and lashes, it decides to grow a zit!
I’m tired of facing up to its erratic bad behavior.
It seems to be my enemy when I most need a savior.
I’d like to go before it to decide what people see
before my face inserts itself, claiming to be me.
Then Covid comes along and gives me everything I ask.
Ironic that it takes a plague to furnish me a mask.
Big Mac (For The Sunday Whirl Wordle 552)
Big Mac
That alchemy turns lead to gold may be more than lore,
or so says Modern Physics*, but MacDonald’s does much more
by making gold and silver out of snack bar food,
feeding Big Macs, shakes and fries to a hungry brood.
Drunk fools go there for coffee, lonely hearts go to make friends.
Why we greet the golden arches more or less depends
on what we feel we’re lacking. Sometimes, company will do.
Or you may need a hamburger, in fact you may need two.
After you have plowed your furrows, changing clods to dirt,
wipe the soil from your hands and change your soiled shirt
and head out to McDonald’s. You’ll never rue the day
when you order Macs and fries and tuck them all away.
You may have flunked your physics test, my dear, but never mind.
The golden arches provides comfort of the tastebud kind.
*“What is Alchemy? – Live Science https://www.livescience.com › 39314-alchemy Mar 24, 2016 — Alchemy is the ancient practice of trying to turn lead into gold. Modern physics equipment may finally make that quest a reality.”
Wordle prompts for The Sunday Whirl: 552 : sometimes never snack bar drunk fools gold silver alchemy physics dirt clod. Image by Amirali Mirhashemian on Unsplash.
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