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Missouri Doors: Nov 15, 2018
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In Remembrance : June Tabor – The Band Played Waltzing Matilda
I must reblog Thom Hickey’s touching tribute to WWI soldiers. In particular, I was touched by this rendition of “Waltzing Matilda.” It is not at all what I expected.
In 1914 they came from the hamlets and the villages and the towns and the cities.
They came from the hills and the mountains and the valleys.
Farmers and miners.
Teachers and doctors.
White, Brown and Black.
They marched away from Home with smiles on their faces.
They knew they would be Home again soon.
Today it is exactly 100 years since the guns fell silent ending World War One.
The emotional, spiritual, pyschic and cultural cost of such a war is beyond all human calculation.
A cataclysm shattering hearts and minds.
Shattering philosophies and faiths.
Shattering nations and societies.
Shattering hopes and dreams.
Shattering comfortable certainties..
The toll in terms of deaths and casualties we can, in awe, to some extent number.
From Australia : Lieutenant Joseph Balfe from Brunswick aged 25 and more than 62, 000 of his comrades.
From Canada : Private Percy Bark aged 18 and…
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Hibiscus: Flower of the Day, Nov 15, 2018
Mexico Memories. Definitely not a shot taken in Missouri, because this is what it looks like here this morning:
For Cee’s FOTD
Unsung
Unsung
Life lived as a soliloquy with no sort of belonging
is a bell without a clapper—only motion with no gonging.
Life’s richer orchestrated from many different parts—
a plethora of loved ones. A symphony of hearts.
Love brings complications—a certain pain and mess,
and a life deterged of conflict sounds tempting, I confess,
but still a solitary life cannot be the best.
It lacks a certain melody, a certain flair and zest.
Every unsung melody is searching for a stage,
and a voice without an ear is like words without a page.
Only half of life can be lived behind a wall.
The sound of one hand clapping is no sound at all.
The prompt words today are orchestrate, belong, soliloquy and deterge. Here are the links:
https://ragtagcommunity.wordpress.com/2018/11/15/rdp-thursday-orchestrate/
https://fivedotoh.com/2018/11/15/fowc-with-fandango-belong/
https://wordofthedaychallenge.wordpress.com/2018/11/15/soliloquy/
https://onedailyprompt.wordpress.com/2018/11/15/your-daily-word-prompt-deterge-November-15-2018/
Purloined Passion
Purloined Passion
It was just a small hotel, the only I could find.
I felt lucky to find it, for I was in a bind.
I hadn’t planned to stop here, but snow began to fall
and I could not seem to see the road at all.
The walls were thin as paper and the folks next door
enjoyed one hour of passion, then tried for one hour more.
Both were very vocal in making their demands
about what the other should do with lips and hands.
Those classes in dictation I had to take at school
that I never thought I’d use now became a tool
to record their dialogue, and when the night was through
I took out my computer to do what writers do.
Every cry of passion, every scream and moan
although I cannot claim it for my very own
I can still incorporate in my coming story,
using strangers’ passion for my creative glory.
The prompt was: You’ve obtained a journal — one with a multitude of confessions inside, but you don’t know who this book of secrets belongs to. What do you do with it? Feel free to alter this prompt for your own purposes.
For Daily Inkling
Embrace the Shake
Another wonderful sharing of a complex and quirky mind. If you are an artist or if you aren’t–this is a must-see.
Sapphire and Friends
Sapphire and Friends
Obviously, there’s peacock blue here, but there’s some sapphire blue, too.
For photoaday, sapphire blue
Chock Full O’ Cats: Four Legged Friends
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If given a choice, my cats will always choose a pile. Then when grooming time comes, they never know the difference between them so just groom the closest body within tongue.
Heart of Papaya: FOTD, Nov 14, 2018
I love this photo of the inside of a papaya I bought here in Sikeston, MO. It was not only full of potential flowers, protected by a perfect star, but also gave a hint of the flowers to come in the dark outline of a flower that surrounded the star. Nature is incredible in its plans and artistry.
This is a photo of a real bloom from my papaya tree in Mexico.
Birthday Wishes
Birthday Wishes
If there were a chemical to freeze your age forever,
where you would stay the way you are, as mobile, fit and clever.
Birthday after birthday with no end in front of you.
Always a new chance to take, always something new.
If you were not already feeble, halt and ill,
would you drink the potion? Would you take the pill?
No altering minds afterwards. No climbing from the pit.
Once you made the decision, there would be no changing it.
Would you want to live forever to survive ’til mankind’s end?
Do you really want to see what is waiting ’round the bend?
I think given the choice that I would choose what nature dishes.
I’ve given up on following along with mankind’s wishes.
The word prompts today are birthday, chemical, freeze and quit. Here are their links:
https://ragtagcommunity.wordpress.com/2018/11/14/rdp-wednesday-birthday/
https://fivedotoh.com/2018/11/14/fowc-with-fandango-chemical/
https://wordofthedaychallenge.wordpress.com/2018/11/14/freeze/
https://onedailyprompt.wordpress.com/2018/11/14/your-daily-word-prompt-quit-November-14-2018/quit
