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Alternanthera dentata ‘Brazilian Red Hots’: FOTD Jan 9, 2019
I don’t know what this is. It has a small blossom that looks like a chive or a clover but it definitely isn’t as it grows on a woody bush. Can anyone identify it? I found it near Colima, Mexico.
Once again, Bob from LWBT identified the unidentifiable!!! Bob, you are a wonder. Do you know every plant in the world or are you just an excellent researcher or both? Head on over to his blog HERE to see a profusion of Australian plants. Once again, thanks!!!!
Here is more information, as provided by Bob:
Alternanthera dentata
Family: Amaranthaceae
Other names: Joseph’s Coat, Calico plant, Copperleaf, Bloodleaf, Joyweed, Parrot leaf.
For Cee’s FOTD.
Overheard In the Home for Retired Musicians
Overheard in the Home for Retired Musicians
I’m stymied by your crepitus. Your embouchure’s divine.
If you don’t have your own tune, would you harmonize with mine?
Your tonality is breathtaking, your rhythm right on beat.
Your syncopation’s perfect. I fear I can’t compete.
As we play, our joints keep time. My knees snap, crackle, pop.
If our music were to lead to love, you’d have to be on top!
The prompt words today are crepitus, stymie, breathtaking and embouchure.
https://ragtagcommunity.wordpress.com/2019/01/08/rdp-tuesday-crepitus/
https://fivedotoh.com/2019/01/08/fowc-with-fandango-stymie/
https://wordofthedaychallenge.wordpress.com/2019/01/08/breathtaking/
https://onedailyprompt.wordpress.com/2019/01/08/your-daily-word-prompt-embouchure-january-8-2019/
Anthurium
In Defense of Immaturity
In Defense of Immaturity
Kids say immaturity
is not all it’s cracked up to be.
First, they have no salary,
and as of yet, ice cream’s not free,
so they depend on you and me
to determine when ice cream will be!
We tell them not to climb that tree
and put restrictions on TV.
We tell them that they have to pee
on potty chairs, not Grandpa’s knee.
We tell them they must walk, then see
each lurch and fall and laugh with glee.
Imagine notoriety
based on what one’s foibles be.
Kids’ natural spontaneity—
their need to roughhouse, smash and flee
is often quashed, you will agree,
with all those in authority!
It’s tough to be a kid, you see,
given their great temerity.
So grant a bit of charity.
Recognize the disparity
between what we’d like kids to be
and their genetic heredity!
https://wordofthedaychallenge.wordpress.com/2019/01/07/immature/
Garden Mix: FOTD, Jan 7, 2019
The Self-made Woman
The Self-made Woman
Her metamorphosis complete, she found it all a bore.
No longer did she slurp her soup or lumber ‘cross the floor
when executing dancing moves like a gliding waltz.
She’d perfected her curtsy and all that other schmaltz
She had no real resentment for all that they had taught her,
but rather had a grudging sense that all these manners caught her
securely in a web of a great subterfuge she’d learned
simply to insure there was no way that she’d be spurned
when she chose to exercise her wiles on some poor chap
looking for a trophy wife to perch upon his lap.
And so the day she graduated, she set out to prove
that all these pretty charms were not all that might behoove
a clever girl in life, and she got her law degree,
opened up a practice and then set out to be
the smartest woman charm school ever set out on the path,
by adding jurisprudence and biology and math
to her former curriculum of poise and table setting,
thus curtailing some of her yachting and Corvetting,
by building a sure future dependent on her self
and turning into more than just a trophy on a shelf.
Today’s prompt words are lumber, resentment and metamorphosis.
https://ragtagcommunity.wordpress.com/2019/01/07/rdp-monday-lumber/
https://onedailyprompt.wordpress.com/2019/01/07/your-daily-word-prompt-resentment-january-7-2019/
https://fivedotoh.com/2019/01/07/fowc-with-fandango-metamorphosis/
Sensory Memory: Sunday Writing Prompt, Jan 6, 2019
Sensory Memory
The scent of stale patchouli stains your memory
as I inspect the photograph of the “you and me”
we thought would be together for a longer time
than that too-short interval tinged with bitter lime.
The shadow of your rising star occasionally lingers.
The keys on my piano bear the ash gray of your fingers.
The circle of your wine spill still tattoos my divan.
I hoard it like an autograph—your long-forgotten fan.
The words I chose from each classification are: divan, piano, bitter lime, ash gray, patchouli, circle, star, photograph
For Sunday Writing Prompt:
Choose a piece of furniture
Piano
Cabinet
Orrery
Divan
Secretary
Choose a color
Cherry Blossom Pink
Bitter Lime
Alice Blue
Ash Grey
Canary Yellow
Choose a scent
Patchouli
Eucalyptus
Burning Sage
Bergamott
Ylang-Ylang
Choose a shape
Circle
Spiral
Helix
Star
Hour Glass
An item carried in the pocket, wallet, or purse
Photograph
Phone
Punch Card
Tissues
Aspirin
Choose 1 from each category and work it into a story or poem.
https://mindlovemiserysmenagerie.wordpress.com/2019/01/06/sunday-writing-prompt-5-by-5/
Gloria and Friends
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A girl can get accustomed to anything in time, even a family of squirrels moving into her new hairdo. Mama, papa and baby. Now abuela, as well.
Home is the Sailor
Home is the Sailor
Homecomings call for clemency and memory that is short,
for when a sailor comes back home to his favorite port,
he doesn’t like returning to atone for past mistakes.
He’d rather do his penance for the new ones that he makes.
This isn’t any riddle, no mystery is involved.
It’s simply that some other bad habits have evolved.
He finds he cannot take the time to mend what he’s forgotten
when he has so many other newer habits ill-begotten.
The prompt words today are homecoming, clemency and riddle.
https://ragtagcommunity.wordpress.com/2019/01/06/rdp-sunday-homecoming/
https://onedailyprompt.wordpress.com/2019/01/06/your-daily-word-prompt-clemency-january-6-2019/
https://wordofthedaychallenge.wordpress.com/2019/01/06/riddle/
