Can’t remember who sent this to me. If it was you, thanks!!
Stopping by Friends Enroute to California
Whose house this is I surely know.
I’m sleeping on their sofa, though
And did not see that table there
And so I stubbed my little toe.
Their monstrous dog must think it queer
To find a stranger sleeping near
And yet no fuss he seems to make.
Golden retrievers are most dear.
He gives his collar tags a shake
To ask if there is some mistake
And wakens me from where I sleep–
A task that is a piece of cake.
The morning’s early, dark and deep,
But now I won’t return to sleep,
for I have schedules to keep
And miles to drive before more sleep.
I hope this parody I wrote of “Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening” will qualify For SOCS “Shake”prompt.
Image thanks to the NY Public Library
for Fibbing friday, the task at hand is:
(This is the actual result of my speed test after I turned off the VPN.)
Wrecking My Ping
“I don’t know what to make of ping,”
he told me, simply answering
my question of the difference
and, in truth, my inference
that he would know the answer and
as usual would take a hand
in clarifying one time more
what a speed test measures for
and what they had to do with “ping”
and downloading and uploading
and whether one point twenty three
was enough download for me
and whether zero point six seven
would get me into upload heaven
and what this ping stuff had to do
with starts and stops that ruined my view
of films that I had hoped to stream
that only made me want to scream
because they came in fits and starts,
ruining all my favorite parts!
Are they adequate, I asked?
His scorn was only partly masked
as he admitted they weren’t at all.
“And ping?” I asked him this last thing.
and he was quick in answering,
“I don’t know what to make of ping,”
Ping Fact (Addendum)
These numbers are the actual,
although they aren’t the factual
upload feeds
nor download speeds,
for I forgot to disconnect
the VPN and so I wrecked
results of loading speed and ping,
but I was apt in my rhyming
which only goes to show a poet
is not a techie, so now you knowet!
For the Ragtag Daily Prompt, the word is Wreck
for the Lens Artist Challenge, these are my “Go To” Places.
Click on photos to enlarge and see as a series.
Under the sand are palaces. I’ve seen them in my dreams:
vast halls and empty chambers smoothly rounded at their seams.
Every wall is made of sand. Each ceiling, archway, floor––
as though carved by master craftsmen, digging at its core––
is so magnificent, you’d think they were the stuff of lore.
You may also see them, but you must provide the door.
Though the chambers are filled in, they’re there without a doubt.
You are the one creating them by what you will scoop out.
The beauty’s hidden in the sand, waiting in your sleep
for you to dig the castles out from where they’re buried deep.
All your day’s exhaustion your dream labor will abort,
for what you build in slumber is work of a different sort.
Sand brought to the surface is what you get to keep
of subterranean palaces dug out in your sleep.
As you build aboveground castles in the world that we all know,
you reveal the outward structure of the inner rooms below,
furnishing the magic that the world will see through you,
showing what’s inside of you by what you bring to view.
for dVerse Poets: Magic Realism
Image: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ra_Paulette
To see more poems go HERE
These videos are sorta wonky due to the inexpertise of the camerawoman! Click on the first video twice and it will enlarge and play, but at its end, Youtube will take you to a screen with a bunch of other Youtube videos on it. Just double click on it and then double click on the next egg hunting screen on my blog and the same thing will happen all the way through. Wish I knew editing so I could edit them all together and also take the shots of my feet walking along in pursuit out of the one video. Perhaps one of these years I’ll learn how to do so. In the meantime, if you have patience, go ahead and try to watch these frenzied little videos. Happy Easter!!! And thanks to Forgottenman for all his patience in getting these videos from Youtube to you.
Welcome to “The Numbers Game #69” Today’s number is 190. To play along, go to your photos file and type that number into the search bar. Then post a selection of the photos you find that include that number and post a link to your blog in my Numbers Game blog of the day. If instead of numbers, you have changed the identifiers of all your photos into words, pick a word or words to use instead, and show us a variety of photos that contain that word in the title.This prompt will repeat each Monday with a new number. If you want to play along, please put a link to your blog in comments below. Here are my contributions to the album.
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