I gave Mommy a little hug, hoping she’d get the hint,
Watched by the usual dummies
Jammies
Cee’s CMMC prompt demands photos of things that contain two M’s.
CMMC: “M and M’s”
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Author Archives: lifelessons
Not in the Cards (An Art Dealer’s Lament)
Not in the Cards
(An Art Dealer’s Lament)
I hear your family reads tea leaves and
can tell the future from a hand.
And it’s been said that being mystic
tends to make one altruistic;
but insufficient evidence
exists in proof of this and hence,
moving forward, I must state
it is a truth I must debate.
Your sister’s painting of the farm
shows some skill, a certain charm,
with animals in states of grace
which normally is not the case.
Stallion, bantam rooster, steer
are not the best of friends, I fear.
And that pig you lately ate
likely knew its horrid fate.
I’ve no need to excoriate
your peaceful kingdom, but of late
realism is the trend
in the paintings that I vend.
It’s clear your sister did not foresee
what my response was going to be,
for her depictions of rural glee
are not the canvasses for me.
Prompt words today are altruistic, farm, canvas, forward, insufficient.
Puddle-Jumping in the Rain: Wordle 515, The Sunday Whirl Aug 22, 2021
Puddle-Jumping in the Rain
A surge of wind predicts the storm,
blows in the clouds, dispels the warm.
One dry gust sends blinds to swinging
and in the eaves commences singing,
billows drapes, blows open doors,
spreads leaves on counters and on floors.
Soon the rain masks land and sky
as the whole world begins to cry,
fashioning a different role
for each ditch or deep pot hole.
Children scurry home from school
earlier than is the rule
to tug on boots over their feet
and splash through puddles in the street.
These stompings in the driving rain
earn their mothers’ deep disdain.
Mud caked on leggings, jeans and coats,
remnants of ramblings through moats,
oceans, rivers, seas and streams—
all the faux waterways it seems
kids are drawn to in a gale
and moms forbid to no avail.
Prompts for the Sunday Whirl Wordle Prompt are: role, surge, fashion, gust, dry, send, children, masks, storm, and counter
Hibiscus: FOTD Aug 24, 2021
Click on photos to enlarge.
This is the only bloom on this bush that I saw this morning.
Tomorrow, there will be more.
For Cee’s FOTD
Kakorrhaphiophobia
Kakorrhaphiophobia*
Bemoan the fates of elephants unable to forget,
for it is a talent they’re likely to regret.
Those animals more vacuous have memories that fade
and they forget their failures as soon as they’ve been made.
The present of the wildebeest, for instance, bears no hint
of any past mistakes and so as he begins his sprint,
he has no qualms about his course and runs away assured
that he’s not being herded, sequestered, penned or lured.
So he puts all his energy in living out the present.
His days are worry-free and his nighttimes calm and pleasant.
Not so the worrisome elephant as all his past disasters
dealing with former problems with poachers, hunters, masters
influence every choice he makes in choosing what to do.
Every decision that he makes could be one that he’ll rue.
So don’t go thinking that a sterling memory is pleasant,
for keeping track of all the past can sure screw up your present!
*(The medical definition of kakorrhaphiophobia is abnormal fear of failure.)
Prompt words today are kakorrhaphiophobia, elephant, hint, vacuous and energy.
Mystery Plant: FOTD Aug 23, 2021
I thought this was lobelia when I bought it, but when I returned home after a month and a half, it had grown so tall that it can’t be. Does anyone know what it is?
For Cee’s FOTD
Perpetual Kid
Perpetual Kid
My little brother was hard to tie down,
and after his rambles through country and town,
hangry and dirty, he plopped in a chair,
and enclosed in his pants cuffs and stuck in his hair
were tree leaves and grass stalks and pollen from flowers
that accompanied him home after hours and hours
of wandering aimless inspecting the world
where all of the wonders of life were unfurled.
A junior adventurer, he would not change.
Even grown up, his travels would range
from border to border as yearly he tended
to follow adventures that never have ended.
From China to Africa, from pole to pole,
to see the whole earth has become his goal.
Yet year after year, when he’s through he comes home
where his sister is waiting with cook pot and comb
to fill up his tummy and clean the man up.
For in every lone wolf remains traces of pup!
Prompts for today are ramble, hangry, enclosed, tend and junior.
Walking on Flowers: For Flower of the Day, Aug 22, 2021
I couldn’t resist sharing these favorite flowers for FOTD. My friend was aghast when I photographed this cinema carpet and stated that I’d gladly use it to carpet a room in my house if I had a different house and could decorate the room to go with it! What do you think?
For Cee’s FOTD
The Refusal
The Refusal
Though you seek to amuse me, instead I’m aghast
when you stir up these tales from your vagabond past—
how you set out with no education
upon a path with no destination.
When you tell what you did when down on your luck—
what you’d do for a dime or a quarter or buck—
I don’t want involvement with one of your kind—
one who’ll do anything, caught in a bind.
How can you think that your tales of abusing,
of wooing, beguiling and loving and using
could be aphrodisiac is hard to see.
They only insure your next victim’s not me.
So I’ll say ta-ta, au revoir and so long.
I won’t be a lyric in any sad song,
and when I dress up in wedding apparel,
I’ll make sure my groom is a good deal less feral.
Prompt words are aghast, amuse, destination, involve and quarter. Illustration by Uyen Nguyen on Unsplash.
Sculpted Wood: Saturday Sculpture
Click on photos to see the incredible detail in this wood sculpture. Amazing. I saw this piece in a gallery in Sheridan, Wyoming.
For the Saturday Sculpture prompt
