Sometimes hard to distinguish between agaves, cacti and aloe. After a long search, I’ve settled on agave, but I’m willing to be persuaded. An interesting fact. All cacti are succulents, but not all succulents are cacti.
For Cee’s FOTD
Out of the Whirl
As you linger, drifting, regardless of the fray,
flow along and follow the currents of the day,
do other rasher travelers pass you in a hurry,
trembling that they may be late, foreheads furled in worry?
Those who are part of the chase create a draft in passing.
Some mumble their apologies while others pass by sassing.
Do you stand as in a spell, marveling at the chase?
Do you linger at the turnstiles, craving a slower pace?
When was it that our time became a thing we cannot waste?
What edict declared lives must be endeavors of such haste?
Was there a sign from heaven that said there was a need
for lives to be conducted at such a breakneck speed?
“Slow down and live” the roadsigns say—advice that’s good for all.
“Take time to smell the roses” is also a good call.
What we gain with all this speed won’t make up for the cost.
For every second gained in speed, in fact, a second’s lost.
In your life the getting there should be half of the fun.
If time is only something you are hoping will be done,
you’re missing out on half the point, and it is a crime.
Some of the greatest joys in life may come while wasting time!
Prompt words are spell, fray, drifting, sign, chase, trembling, rash, pass, how, flow, linger. Image of subway by Victor Rodriguez on Unsplash. Image in hammock by me.
For the Sunday Whirl
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An Innovative Approach to Weed Control
My former spouse seems not to feel a similar elation
to what I have been feeling ever since our separation.
He feels invested in the gardening and wants to poke and sow.
Every other day he comes and says he has to mow.
It’s a bit of an enigma, for this farming bent is new,
and I can’t corroborate what’s causing him to do
all these acts of digging and furrowing and tilling.
If he wants me to reciprocate, I fear am not willing.
But my garden sure has flourished since I asked my spouse to go,
which goes to show I really should have done it long ago!
Prompt words today are enigma, corroborate, poke, reciprocal and separation.
Forgottenman has access as an administrator on my blog. As I slept, he was obsessively busy trying to find legitimate brick red in my photos file. This is what he came up with: Thanks, Dux, for keeping me literal.
Color Your World Prompt
Beneath the Covers
Books are cemeteries where old thoughts go to die—
landscapes of words spread out under a variegated sky.
Bright children might discover them ‘neath covers in the night,
searching for new universes where the erudite
join them undercover to whisper down through time:
literature, history, philosopy and rhyme
Prompt words for the day are variegated skies, bite, erudite, bright and cemetery. Image by Klim Sergeev on Unsplash.
Can you identify it? Photographed on the California coast north of Santa Cruz?
For Cee’s FOTD
Lactose Intolerant
If you’re intent on becoming maternal,
I’m hopeful your plans include turning nocturnal.
For babies claim most of your time, night and day,
but their favorite time to entice you to play
is when you have finally collapsed in a heap
and obtained REM sleep, so blessedly deep
that you swim towards the surface with collections of dreams
that shed off you like water as you waken to screams
of your recent dependent who’s hungry and wet,
needing all the attention that there is to get.
Since you went through the nausea and gained all the girth,
acquired all the stretch marks and endured the birth,
though you love this dear bundle with skin smooth as silk,
how you wish that their father could provide the milk!
Yet you search for your robe and for your other shoe,
for that wholesome nutrition provider is you!
Prompt words today are hopeful, claim, nocturnal, wholesome and collection. Image by Jenna Norman on Unsplash.
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