For Cee’s FOTD prompt.
Prisoner of Beauty
To win a beauty pageant is a kinky dream.
You want to be the biggest fish in a manmade stream.
You’ll be closely examined both for charm and beauty,
then questioned for your aptitude in fulfilling your duty
at shopping malls and other places where you’ll be on view
displaying what fine work your folks did creating you.
That you’re a lovely model is not up to debate.
What an excellent product they managed to create!
Compared to all the others, you simply glow and shine.
You have that extra element we find hard to define.
Is it a special need to please or is it blind ambition?
Or did you simply need the cash for your college tuition?
We rather hope it is the last prompting your pageantry,
so after one year on the runway, you’ll be able to break free
to live a normal life down here, milling with the crowd,
for when you’re up there, special, hobnobbing’s not allowed.
Jostled by the hoi polloi, your royal crown might tilt,
or there is a danger it might be revealed as gilt.
Not a thing of value. Just a pretty piece of junk.
A perfect metaphor all of this “glamor” to debunk.
Beauty is as beauty does the adage tries to tell us,
yet who we are is not the thing that pageants use to sell us.
You are a perfect object standing up there on a shelf,
made to please our eyes and ears. Not to please yourself.
Indeed, you’re slim and lovely. Your smile has its charm.
You simply look enchanting there on the emcee’s arm.
You will be fluffed and feted and put out on display.
It won’t be free, this privilege that you have won today.
But remember, please, when you’ve done all you’re told to do
that you will come down off that stage and simply live as you.
The prompt words are free, dream, pageant and kinky.
https://fivedotoh.com/2018/12/09/fowc-with-fandango-free/
https://ragtagcommunity.wordpress.com/2018/12/09/rdp-sundaydream/
https://onedailyprompt.wordpress.com/2018/12/09/your-daily-word-prompt-pageant-December-9-2018/
https://wordofthedaychallenge.wordpress.com/2018/12/09/kinky/
For this prompt, we have give three answers to each question:
What are three….
Things you never want to do, but have to? Make airline reservations online, diet, clean the kitty litter box.
Characters found in The Magic Faraway Tree that weren’t human? Donald Trump, Kermit the Frog and Sylvester the Cat (I have no idea what the Magic Faraway Tree is so I’m just listing infamous as well as famous non-humans.)
Things that are yellow and round? Plums, balloons and lemon drops.
Mythical Creatures that begin with the letter G? Grendel, gnomes and gargoyles.
Mammals that don’t have a tail? Humans, gorillas, chimpanzees.
American heavy metal bands? Pantera, Metallica, Anthrax (Had to look these up.)
Films with the number 3 in the title? Three Little Words, The Three Amigos, The Three Musketeers
Things that best describe who you are? Writer, artist, expat.
Aztec Gods/Goddesses? Quetzalcoatl, Tlaloc and Coyolxauhqui (boy, did I ever have a hard time trying to figure out how to spell this one! I once saw a very long play about it many years ago in Australia and had never forgotten the name, but to spell it???? No.)
Planets in our galaxy? Mars, Venus, Saturn.
Things that shouldn’t be in your fridge today but are? A pork loin that should be thrown away, some guacamole gone bad, a little hot pot full of oil.
Things you always forget at the last minute before going out? My phone, the grocery list, my camera.
Actors you admire? Meryl Streep, Susan Sarandon, Harrison Ford.
Ways you can laugh? Talking to friends, watching or communicating with animals, watching a movie or TV.
Things you should have when you are very old but probably won’t? Memory, good health, the ability to live at home.
Things you have achieved and are proud of? Art pieces, my books, blog and writings and friendships.
Your worst habits? Overeating, a certain amount of messiness, humming (ask my sister!)
Link: https://aguycalledbloke.blog/2018/12/08/daily-fun-three-13/
On Flair Pens, Gel Pens,
Montblancs, Sharpies
I do not care diddly-squat
Whether I use a pen or not.
Give me a pencil, give me chalk.
I do not care with what I talk.
If you write me a love letter
with a fountain pen or better
I might respond in lipstick scrawl.
It’s better than no love at all!
If you beg me for a date,
I may as well capitulate
with sooty stick grabbed from the fire
or a “yes” formed from bent wire.
The message, dear, is what we quote,
not the device with which we wrote.
The media might be the message, but the medium with which we write it is not!
https://ragtagcommunity.wordpress.com/2018/12/08/rdp-saturday-squat/
FOWC with Fandango — Pencil
https://wordofthedaychallenge.wordpress.com/2018/12/08/capitulate/
If you use Skype, chances are you’ve been as irritated as I was when it automatically updated me to a feature that suggests responses and emojis to use to answer written messages others have left for you. Since this is how I usually use it instead of visiting orally with visuals, it can be especially off-putting. I finally figured out how to turn the feature off, but forgottenman hasn’t and a few minutes ago, I received this message from him. I had just left him this message:
Judy: Gotta close my eyes now.. the sun is shinin so brightly through the drapes that it blinded me. Can’t see to type…
This is the message I received back from him:
forgottenman: Weird – one of Skype’s suggested responses to your last msg is “What song is that?”.
Judy: I guess I must must have a naturally lyrical mode of speech. Ha!!!
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When I saw Gina’s peeled orange with sections removed, I had to stay her hand until I could get this shot. Doesn’t it look like a gorgeous tropical flower?
For Cee’s FOTD
Is anyone else finding it impossible to post galleries of photos and to keep them in order? My editing page also keeps going crazy, crunching everything up in a very tiny space and leaving a huge space in the middle, then superimposing things on top of each other. I’ve started three different posts and the same thing keeps happening. Anyone else have the same problem?
5:30 A.M. Early Morning Matins
Her imperious demands
slice the morning air.
I’ve only had three hours of sleep.
She doesn’t seem to care.
The young cats all wait patiently.
The dogs are still abed,
but the old cat knows her wants,
and she wants to be fed!
Church bells rise up from the town,
the priest’s demanding voice
calls the village folks to church
and they have little choice
but to go to laud the virgin,
for this is her holy week.
Old women crawl upon their knees,
her miracles to seek.
Dark morning air is quiet now,
the people in their pews,
the priest abandoning megaphone
to disperse his news.
The old cat, too, falls silent,
for she knows well her mater.
If I haven’t catered to her wails
by now, I’ll feed her later!!!
This is the shrine to the Virgin of Guadalupe that the women were constructing in the hotel where we went for breakfast in Acapulco. Every night, we saw processions carrying their virgins to the church to be blessed. This is the twelve-day celebration to the Virgin that is practiced all over Mexico every December and what the very early church bells were about this morning. December 12th is her day and it is a bank holiday in Mexico. Five days to go.
https://onedailyprompt.wordpress.com/2018/12/08/your-daily-word-prompt-imperious-December-8-2018/
