Cee’s flower of the day: https://ceenphotography.com/2017/10/10/flower-of-the-day-october-11-2017-orange-tulip/
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Hyperbolic Resume
Hyperbolic Resume
His job skills as he stated them matched their needs precisely.
His margins were perfection and his tabs lined up most nicely.
But proper punctuation and perfection in his diction
were used to cover up a resume I fear was fiction.
Those career skills where he claimed himself to be exceptional
were proven once they hired him to simply be conceptional.
The prompt today was exceptional.
H is for Happy
These two lovely ladies are happy because they’d just been presented with first place awards for their writing by Ojo del Lago. They both deserved it!!!
For Cee’s prompt: https://ceenphotography.com/2017/10/10/cees-fun-foto-challenge-letter-h-topic-for-this-week-is-happy/
Leavening
Leavening
I’m not sure who should be blamed
for the fact that I’ve been tamed.
It was no parent nor any spouse
that made me tranquil as a mouse.
Thinking it out, I must admit,
no human was the cause of it.
The thing that leavened my aggression
was simply time’s lengthy progression.
The prompt today was tame.
Ocean Koan II
Ocean Koan
The dolphins ride in on the music,
but why did they come here?
Did they seek to lend their harmonies
to a music new and queer?
Did they soar in on its melody,
come in on a riff,
drawn by its dissonant whistle—
a mere beckoning whiff?
Whatever the dolphins are hearing,
whatever they’re trying to reach,
we don’t understand their language
as they lie stranded on our beach.
Perhaps we divert them with towers
that speak in a tongue their own,
and though it’s not our intention,
our messages form a koan
that they are driven to answer
as we’re drawn to outer space,
pulled to find our others
in an alien clime and place.
We believe we are harmless and loving,
at peace with their watered dreams;
when in truth we are drying their world up—
ripping it at the seams.
We send out the signals to pull them
to where they should not be,
like fairytales told to children
that draw them to our knee—
We turn our backs to the seaward window,
seal our ears to their keening tones
as the dolphins swimming landward
pave our beaches with their bones.
The prompt today was believe. As I am trying to get a book together, I’ve found an excellent way to meld these efforts with my blog. As the prompts come in, I look for an older poem written to the same prompt and spend the time editing it rather than writing a new poem. This one has changed a good deal. If you want to see the original, go here. Let me know if you like the original better.
JNW’s Halloween Challenge: Night
The Visitor
Night creeps in on ghost feet, crawling o’er the hill.
We draw it close around us, as though we’ve had our fill
of sunlight’s lighter glories, ready now perhaps
for shadowed imaginings and black cats on our laps.
Night has different talents—dark, occult and deep.
They stir our dreams and cause us to call out in our sleep.
Acting out the shadows is what our dreams are for.
Surely without night time, our days would be a bore.
Baby Sun Rose: Flower of the Day: Oct 9, 2017
Is part of the reason they call this plant baby sun rose because of its tendency to crawl all over its neighbors? I especially love how they have invaded this agave plant.
(Click on first photo to enlarge all.)
For Cee’s flower prompt.
Pedestrian: WordPress Weekly Photo Challenge
CLICK ON FIRST PHOTO TO ENLARGE ALL, PLEASE.
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https://dailypost.wordpress.com/photo-challenges/pedestrian/
Superficial
Rating Dating
Some men seem to run their dating game like it’s a race,
whereas for their date this doesn’t seem to be the case.
If so, I must advise the guy to try to slow his pace
lest the lady feel that she must slow him down with mace!
She may be superficial, while he is way too smart;
or he may adore motocross while she’s a fan of art.
She’s olfactorily sensitive and he just let a fart.
Such opposites do not attract in the affairs of heart.
In chick flicks when a date goes wrong, it is always funny.
She runs into a former love or he runs out of money.
But no matter how things go, the endings are all sunny.
By the credits, she is “dear” and he is always “honey.”
In real life, when it comes to love, I prefer to view it.
Much easier to say you want it than to really do it.
The problem is if either of you chooses to eschew it,
then the other one of you must admit that they blew it.
So for the couplet, I’ll admit that yes, true love is groovy;
but when it comes to dating, I’ll just settle for the movie!!!
The prompt today was superficial. This is a rewrite of an earlier poem from two years ago.
