For Cee’s FOTD
Emily
An introspective traveler, my trips are of a kind
wherein I follow footsteps left there by my mind.
They are a kind of loving, these journeys that I take—
the only sort of antics that I ever make.
Outside of them, I squirrel away, hidden in my rooms,
but oh, my friends, within my mind, my next adventure looms!
If you are an Emily Dickinson fan, you might enjoy this other poem I wrote, inspired by one of her poems.
Photo of Emily Dickinson from the Emily Dickinson Museum. Prompt words today are footprint, introspective, loving, antics and hide.
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This Maguey has serrated leaves that I have found by experience can be dangerous, but they are so beautiful, that I keep them around anyway. And no, I never remember to wear gloves and sleeves when I work around them., and have the scars to prove it. They do flower, but not at the moment.
The rest of the story is that I have 16 hours to go until I can eat again! So I’m torturing myself more than you.
Here’s a closeup:
I love Christine Goodnough’s story concerning the coinage of absurd verbs. Hope you do, too.
As often happens, an article on another blog has fired my mental cylinders and — coupled together with some peeves I’ve already petted — has generated enough sparks to inspire a story.
The culpritical article in this case, is Merriam-Webster’s Great Big List of List of Words You Love to Hate.All your favorite pet peeves in one location.
This has touched a nerve. My past musings, after seeing the word HEROIZE in an article, were about how some writers have such a love of making nouns into verbs, and/or mangling both. Heroize is actually an old word that’s never caught on well, but M-W’s article has given me a few new words to grind my teeth on: CONVERSATE,COMMENTATE, and INCENTIVIZE. Shriek!
Biff has done another Whatnot Wednesday prompt post again; since this post definitely fits in the “Whatnot” class, I’ll give him a nod for that…
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Home
Broken shadows across the cracked ground
flow together when skies darken.
As night birds start to call,
we start our long walk
to that place where
light returns
when we
do.
The opening line of this Nonet is a line from the poem “To the Light of September” by W.S. Merwin. According to the nonet rules, each line had one less syllable, descending from nine to one.
For the dVerse Poets prompt
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Alfresco
This gentle little zephyr does not make a din.
We hardly know that it’s a breezy day that we are in!
We step so lightly over the smooth and green terrain
that we barely notice that it’s begun to rain.
Our bedroom’s warm and cozy. I suppose we should go home,
but nature’s made a softer bed in grass spread over loam.
You once called me nature’s child, and today it’s true.
The whole world is a comfy nest when I am with you.
The grass provides a mattress, the trees spread overhead
form a perfect canopy for our alfresco bed.
It is a perfect ending to our day of roaming
to wait here for the evening star, together in the gloaming.
Word prompts for today are din, zephyr, terrain, suppose, and bedroom.
Pardon by Way of a Higher Power
There was a stay of execution, and the prisoner was relieved.
The executioner, in a turmoil, was sorely aggrieved.
If he couldn’t fire incessantly, it put him off his game.
And yet he couldn’t argue with the one who was to blame.
Sometimes it was the law that won, and sometimes the sinner.
He cut his prisoner free and then shuffled off to dinner.
“Does Jimmy want to stay to eat?” his mom was heard to say,
“I can call his mom to ask her, if he wants to stay.”
But the sheriff told his mom that since he wasn’t ichthyophagous,
a tuna sandwich wouldn’t make it past his friend’s esophagus!
Prompt words today are stay, incessant, ichthyophagous, turmoil and game. What travesties of plot these prompts sometimes force upon us!!!
