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Simple Beauties: FOTD Feb 2, 2019
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Not Dually Noted
Not Dually Noted
He was an integral part of his community—
much more notable than either you or me.
With anything that mattered, he was associated.
His social calendar was full. Its pace never abated.
As they unrolled red carpets for notables to enter,
he always made an effort to be there, front and center.
In short, he was ubiquitous—adept at being seen
in every newspaper column. In every magazine.
Yet when he slipped this mortal coil and reached the pearly gate,
standing at the back of lines became his final fate.
A shock, because the truth of it had not been very quotable:
In heaven, every denizen is considered notable!
The prompt words today were anything, integral and effort.
https://fivedotoh.com/2019/02/02/fowc-with-fandango-anything/
https://wordofthedaychallenge.wordpress.com/2019/02/02/integral/
https://ragtagcommunity.wordpress.com/2019/02/02/rdp-saturday-effort/
Fibbing Friday: Feb. 1, 2019
Here are my answers to this Friday’s questions:
- Jonah wasn’t swallowed by a whale…he was swallowed by ennui.
- Who (or what) could make even the fiercest pirate quake in his boots? The dentist.
- What did Huckleberry Finn have to really paint? Aunt Polly’s toenails.
- What is the best food that can be paired with red wine? Spam.
- What are you wearing on the sun? A sun bonnet.
- Why do dogs chase after cars? In hopes of a ride.
- What did the cat say to its kitten about the humans? “These creatures were created to be our servants, kids, but be polite to them. Otherwise, they may spit in the food!!”
- Goldfish are not fish. What are they? Misspelled adjectives describing golf aficionados.
- What would you rather do instead of sleeping? Play loud music at 3 in the morning to wake up sleepers.
- The Phantom didn’t haunt the Opera House…he haunted the Smart TV.
- What is the most intelligent life form on Earth? Cats. (Had to tell the truth on this one.)
- Why did we really go to school? To get to the other side.
- What did teachers do during recess? Smoked doobies and played poker.
- How did you get to school? Pogo Stick and Parachute.
- What was life like before the Internet? It was a magazine back then as well.
- What is the best thing about social media? It is non-mandatory.
- What is your favorite thing to put chocolate sauce on? Pizza
- Doctors were all wrong…humans don’t need water. What do they need? Handi-wipe Pre-moistened Towels.
- Dolphins are not mammals. What are they? Those that aren’t mammals are poppals.
- There is a Lost Dutchman’s Mine, but where is it? In the Lost and Found.
For Fibbing Friday. Here’s the link: https://thehauntedwordsmith.wordpress.com/2019/02/01/fibbing-friday-2/
Flower of the Day, Feb 1, 2019
Letting the Fish Guide the Way
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Letting the Fish Guide the Way
I have a side that is concise. It likes to plan and learn,
but it’s a side that I have found I sometimes have to spurn
to follow something else in me that doesn’t know quite where
it may next be going, and doesn’t really care.
Fate is a fish I follow: brilliant, sleek and swift.
It isn’t anything I’ve earned. It’s simply fortune’s gift.
If I give up and follow, the currents that it chooses
lead to healing waters that soothe my cuts and bruises.
I follow where it it leads me, sometimes swimming blind,
dealing with what ‘s dealt to me, working with what I find,
moving through life’s currents, living from day-to-day.
It works to turn the radar off. The fish can lead the way.
The prompt words today are fish, concise and learn. Thanks to my husband Bob whose line in a poem “letting the fish guide the way” I have borrowed.
https://ragtagcommunity.wordpress.com/2019/02/01/rdp-friday-fish/
https://fivedotoh.com/2019/02/01/fowc-with-fandango-concise/
https://wordofthedaychallenge.wordpress.com/2019/02/01/learn/
“My Paint Brush Bites and Kicks!”
Another great film sent to me by my friend Gloria.
Here is Gloria. She’s been hanging around on the beach with me for the past month but goes home in two days.
And here is the uplifting, quirky, wonderful film she sent me. lf you need a lift to your day, have a look:
https://www.theatlantic.com/video/index/580789/horse-artist/?utm_source=eb
Some Good Stuff for a Change
My friend Gloria sent me this in an email. My eyes are still streaming tears. There are so many small and large acts of kindness we can do every day to have an influence on the world. I vow to do at least one today. Hope you might want to do the same. (Sorry, but I don’t know the original source. If you know, let me know and I’ll add an URL or acknowledgement.)
There are still so many good people in our world that we hear so little about.
current daily news.
Flower-Like, FOTD Jan 31, 2019
These tiny coral growths on this palm-sized rock I picked up on the beach may not literally be flowers, but perhaps the moss qualifies. At any rate, they are beautiful and flower-like. Had to share them.
See Cee’s gorgeous hellibore Here.
Stasis
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Stasis
At the zenith of her powers, the glamorous Ms. Z
knew well the art of camouflage. No one could really see
the heretic that lived inside the one in the first pew.
Not even her most loyal friends knew she was a Jew.
Times call for extreme measures, whatever might protect
and preserve us from dark powers, who if they detect
any threatening differences might decide to strike.
One yesterday thought “charming,” today just labeled “kike!”
What small differences between us do we all obscure?
What hidden denials must we all endure?
Convention is a schoolmarm with a ruler in her hand
ready to dish out punishment for any action banned.
One drop of blood not Aryan or thought that’s not mainstream,
any errant choice of style, any avant dream
might be grounds for action, for all good people know
the harm that comes from those who might upset the status-quo.
*kike is derived from the Hebrew word for circle, which is the mark many jews made on their immigration papers coming into America instead of an X for their signature. Like many other racial slurs, it came from immigration officers who used it a s short-hand for a population group entering the country.
The prompt words today are camouflage, heretic, glamorous and zenith.
https://ragtagcommunity.wordpress.com/2019/01/31/rdp-thursday-camouflage/
https://fivedotoh.com/2019/01/31/fowc-with-fandango-heretic/
https://onedailyprompt.wordpress.com/2019/01/31/your-daily-word-prompt-glamorous-january-31-2019/
https://wordofthedaychallenge.wordpress.com/2019/01/31/zenith/
