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Opening Doors
We click them open, pull them shut.
We shine their locks and dust them, but
when we leave a house to roam,
a turned key doesn’t make it home.
Ownership is not the thing
that crowns you as your house’s king.
If you want your house to fit,
you need to put some life in it.
For Thursday Doors prompt.
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Plumeria, papyrus, cactus, bougainvillia, yucca and palm form the layers in this garden collage. I need to go our and see how much remains after the colossal storm last night.
Do not miss Cee’s iris bud after rain today. Here it is.
The nourishing environments of still water and the forest floor both bloom in circular beauty. Whether the tiny orange “flowers” were flowers, mushrooms or another type of fungus, I couldn’t determine and I was too far behind our guide to ask. The forest floor is in a Lacandon Reserve in Chiapas, where one of the few remaining members of this purely Mayan village led us though the forest. The cycle of nature is clearly portrayed as life springs forth from decay. The still pond is actually a still inlet of an Amazon River tributary in Peru.
From a 2014 post. The prompt today was forest.
These ladies and young ladies are certainly not without causes or clauses! The same is not true of me today. Mental lapse.
Rebel Without a Clause
I forgot to write my post today. It simply slipped my mind.
It was not done on purpose, for I’m not the rebel kind.
I do not flaunt convention. I do not break the rules.
I am polite to everyone. I gladly suffer fools.
So I don’t know the reason why it slipped my mind today
to look the daily prompt up and then to have my say.
So since I have not written, no poem exists because
I guess you’d have to say I am a rebel without a clause!
Phew! Just in the nick of time. If I hadn’t realized 15 minutes ago that I’d forgotten to write to the WordPress daily prompt, it would have been the first time in four years that I hadn’t done so! Thanks to forgottenman for finding an appropriate photo to post with it. The prompt today was rebel.
I love lantana, which sometimes grow to tree size here, but I had to remove all of them from my backyard because my dogs were eating the berries, which are very poisonous for dogs. I took a stroll outside my wall today and was delighted to find this lantana, which I had forgotten I had planted there.
For Cee’s Flower of the Day prompt.
For Rugby‘s challenge. Instead of nominating anyone, I’m going to ask anyone who wishes to play along and post three favorite quotations, on a day, in their blog. The rules are in the Rugby’s link.
A Cywydd Llosgyrnog Poem is a syllabic-based Welsh form with both end and internal rhymes. Here’s the structure of this six-line form (with the letters acting as syllables and the a’s, b’s, and c’s signifying rhymes:
1-xxxxxxxa
2-xxxxxxxa
3-xxxaxxb
4-xxxxxxxc
5-xxxxxxxc
6-xxxcxxb
So lines 1, 2, 4, and 5 are 8 syllables in length with lines 1 and 2 rhyming as well as lines 4 and 5. Lines 3 and 6 have 7 syllables and rhyme with each other; plus, line 3 has an internal rhyme with lines 1 and 2 while line 6 has an internal rhyme with lines 4 and 5. Phew!!! There are no further rules for subject matter or meter. (I think they have rules enough, don’t you?
Here is my poem. Poets in the crowd, may I invite you to try out this challenging form as well? Don’t forget that internal rhyme as well as the end rhymes!
Make it a Double
I must admit that chocolate
is still my favorite ice cream, but
when asked what I’d like to lick,
pistachio is very good
and so it’s likely (if I could)
some of each would be my pick.
(I found the prompt HERE on the Writer’s Digest website.)
What’s another job on the day’s list? Thanks to Rugby, I think, for nominating me for the 3 day quote challenge.. a quote a day for three days. Instead of nominating another person to take part, I’m inviting anyone who want to to join the challenge. Go to Rugby’s post above for the “rules,” which I am breaking now. Ha.
