So far, no one has guessed what plant this seed pod came from, so I’m showing a photo of just the seeds up close. Can anyone guess what plant this is? I promise I’ll give the answer tomorrow. Or today if someone guesses it.
https://ceenphotography.com/2019/03/16/march-16-spikysquares-cactus/
Our Better, Nature
We hoard her in our gardens where we force her into plots,
confine her in our vases, crowd her into pots.
Ambitious men plan towers—trade grass and trees for gold.
They overlook one simple fact. We’re all in nature’s hold.
Man’s illustrious plots and schemes always come to naught,
for the power of nature can’t be sold or bought.
I found it in the city, extending from the curb—
a simple little chain of green, a subtle rus-in-urbe.
Where men would install order, nature overrules.
Those trying to best nature are always proven fools.
For eons, we have buried her, time and time again.
Yet still she prods up from her grave. Nature will always win.
The prompt words today are order, hoard, illustrious and rus-in-urbe.
https://ragtagcommunity.wordpress.com/2019/03/16/rdp-saturday-rus-in-urbe/
https://fivedotoh.com/2019/03/16/fowc-with-fandango-order/
https://onedailyprompt.wordpress.com/2019/03/16/your-daily-word-prompt-hoard-march-16-2019/
https://wordofthedaychallenge.wordpress.com/2019/03/16/illustrious/
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Please tell me your guess as to what this is in comments. Yes, I do know what it is. HERE is a further hint and closeup of the seeds.
For Cee’s FOTD
As this bougainvillea gets more sunlight, it turns from orange to pink. I love the orange color and always wish for it to stay, but alas, to have this come true, you have to sacrifice the sunlight!
For FOTD
Explorers
Harmony can stifle hope
by binding dreams within its rope.
It pulls us close and pulls us near.
No need for change or risking fear
by rumpling what has gone before
and risking opening the door
that leads to other worlds outside.
More comfortable just to hide.
Pull the familiar close around
when strangers share the truth they’ve found.
Are they strictly on the level?
Are they savior or devil?
View other cultures with mistrust.
Do not let them break your crust.
What you are is all you’ll be.
There’s no room for variety.
Thus do some cultures stay the same,
insular and safe and tame,
their rules structured straight and tight,
and perhaps for some it’s right.
But for that individual
who finds the repetition dull,
who finds the limitations tough,
mere harmony is not enough.
From the time that they are tykes,
first venturing out upon their trikes,
In their dreams, they journey far
from Mozambique to Zanzibar.
The world looms wide as they break loose
from ties that have become a noose.
They venture far and venture wide
to fill out all that space inside.
The prompt words today were hope, beware, rumple and harmony. Here are the links:
https://ragtagcommunity.wordpress.com/2019/03/15/rdp-friday-hope/
https://fivedotoh.com/2019/03/15/fowc-with-fandango-beware/
https://onedailyprompt.wordpress.com/2019/03/15/your-daily-word-prompt-rumple-march-15-2019/
https://wordofthedaychallenge.wordpress.com/2019/03/15/harmony-2/
Ashes and Dust
When that cruel wind
blows against memories
that have settled like dust
on our lives,
what will remain
sealed in our crevasses
––fine furniture that we are
of a bygone age?
What remaining minutes
of a long life of years
will define us then?
A kiss? A child held in arms?
Regrets? Terrors?
In those storerooms
where people sit
stacked in silent cubicles,
what zephyrs whisper through
to stir the embers
of their minds?
Is there music in those currents
or are they the sad
whining winds
that curl over headstones
and lament the dust that settles there?
Life builds us and wears us away.
Like the mountain,
like sand on the beach,
we are not above it all.
No matter how much power
we think we gain,
Nature is a wind that breathes
into us at birth,
then dashes us away.
I wrote this poem three years ago, drawing inspiration from a poem by okc forgottenman . Find his poem Here.
Today’s prompt from Matthew’s Daily Inkling:
It is often said that the most important thing on a gravestone is the dash between the two dates. Who in your family has the most renowned dash — the one who made the most pronounced mark on history?
America is Frozen
America is frozen—held fast in winter’s maw,
her government held prisoner under a greedy claw.
For any children but her own, her arms grown arch and cold.
No room for diversity. No room for her to hold
any but the richest, the whitest and the chosen.
No room left in liberty for any but the frozen.
“Give me your tired and your poor” relegated to the past
by the chilling Nordic air that holds us in its blast.
The thaw that brings the blush of spring—the budding of the flower
is held for ransom by the few who have usurped our power.
Our ship of state held fast by ice, its sails still bravely strain
to crack the ice and open up to justice once again.
If they only had the power to billow they might start
to bring us back to sanity and thaw each frozen heart.
The poor would share the power that only the rich can buy
and have their proper portion of the great American pie.
Prompt words today were thaw, power, sail and justice. Here are the links:
https://ragtagcommunity.wordpress.com/2019/03/14/rdp-thursday-thaw/
https://fivedotoh.com/2019/03/14/fowc-with-fandango-power/
https://onedailyprompt.wordpress.com/2019/03/14/your-daily-word-prompt-sail-march-14-2019/
https://wordofthedaychallenge.wordpress.com/2019/03/14/justice/
Out of Order
My Wi-Fi’s ills I must relate,
Its constancy I must delate.
For though I’m much in need of it,
Telmex won’t take heed of it.
It’s off and on by its own whim.
When most in need, its lights go dim
or flash a mock emergency
uncaring of my urgency
to post a blog or read my mail.
When most in need, it’s sure to fail.
I’m in great pain, I must confess.
I am a maiden in distress
who needs a knight who might be able
to bring me fiber optic cable
so when I get the writing urge,
I’ll always get that welcome surge
that allows my words to hit the air
in weather inclement or fair.
So if you’re friends with Carlos Slim,
please tell him I’m in need of him.
We’ve filled his pockets and his banks,
now we’re deserving of his thanks.
It’s time that we received the perks
of a router system that really works.
Perhaps he’ll look at all he’s got:
his houses and his massive yacht,
and realize that it’s only fair
to give a hoot— to really care
to deliver what we pay him for.
Wi-Fi that’s fact and not just lore!!!
Prompt words today were delate, WiFi, knight and pledge. Here are the links:
https://ragtagcommunity.wordpress.com/2019/03/13/rdp-wednesday-delate/
https://fivedotoh.com/2019/03/13/fowc-with-fandango-wifi/
https://onedailyprompt.wordpress.com/2019/03/13/your-daily-word-prompt-knight-march-13-2019/
https://wordofthedaychallenge.wordpress.com/2019/03/13/pledge/
