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Thanks

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one-lovely-blog-awardFirst of all, let me admit that I never quite “get” that I am being nominated for these awards and always think folks are just letting me know they’ve been nominated. It is not your fault— as the youngest of three girls, I’m just always aware of the world’s propensity to say, “Fooled ya! Did you really think anyone would nominated you for an award?” or “Just kidding!!!” At any rate, I am fairly sure that psychologistmimi, whose self-description includes the words, “All the world is my television and life is a highway and I like to provide commentary on it. “ is too busy to perpetrate such a joke and since she includes me in a list of blogs to check out, I’m fairly sure that my nomination was her intention. She has already played the Sally Fields card, so I will just say thanks for the nomination, Mimi, and encourage you all to visit her blog by clicking on the hyperlink attached to her name.

In a burst of self-promotion, the nomination rules state that I must state the rules:

  1. You must thank the person who nominated you and include a link to their blog.
  2. You must list the rules and display the award.
  3. You must add seven facts about yourself.
  4. You must nominate 15 other bloggers and comment on one of their posts to let them know they have been nominated.
  5. You must display the award logo and follow the blogger who nominated you. This award has no restrictions as to who you can nominate.

Seven facts about me:

1. I do not eat fish.
2. I make up for this fact by eating more chocolate.
3. I bathe within reason but write much more than I bathe.
4. I swim every day that I can. (Which explains fact #3).
5. I no longer feel that I have to travel to explore the world. That is what blogging is for!
6. I have a friend who is my faithful editor who missed the fact that I wrote “We was forced to repeat the first grade” instead of “He was forced to repeated the first grade” in my last posting and so now the world not only believes I failed first grade but also suspects why (really poor grammar). In spite of this, Mimi nominated me for this award. Open-minded of her.
7. I’ve written a poem a day (with a very few prose exceptions) for six months. My muse  rewards me for this by being at my beck and call more faithfully than in the past.

I’d like to encourage you to check out these blogs, all of which I follow:

johnpoetflanagan.wordpress.com
purpletoothedgrin.wordpress.com
brucerustonblog.wordpress.com
robertokaji.com
purplemountainpoems.blogspot.mx
ogginblog.wordpress.com
bluejbluej.wordpress.com
alotfromlydia.wordpress.com
napowrimo.net
foxinthehenhouse.wordpress.com
BookSearchJourney.wordpress.com
annkoplow.wordpress.com

P.S.  I don’t know how to do pingbacks, so if you can tell me how to ping back to my nominees, I would be grateful.  Or, if you are a nominee and see this, please let me know or it will take me all day to notify everyone…Thanks.

Lear’s Fool or Harlequin?

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The Prompt today is “A Bookish Choice”—A literary-minded witch gives you a choice: with a flick of the wand, you can become either an obscure novelist whose work will be admired and studied by a select few for decades, or a popular paperback author whose books give pleasure to millions. Which do you choose?

Lear’s Fool or Harlequin?

Obscure or popular? That witch
creates a choice that is a bitch.

For, if at fame I had a chance
only if I wrote romance,

I’d prefer to be unknown,
in my corner, all alone,

writing words they’ll find profound
if in fact they’re ever found.

But wait. Have we two choices only?
Trite and read/genius and lonely?

Where is it written I must depend
upon a witch to plan my end?

Since when has either witch or fairy
determined what is literary?

Once I took a little breather,
I decided I’d choose neither!

Rebellious thoughts swirl through my head.
I’ll simply write my blog instead!!!

Pining for the Prompt

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Pining for the Prompt

Checking e-mails, cooking curry.
Where’s the prompt? Please hurry, hurry!
Not a mother, not a wife,
But still, WordPress, I have a life!

I need to go to buy some rice,
and a shower would be nice.
I’d like to take a swim and then
comb OkCupid for some men.

Instead, I sit like some blog glutton,
staring at my “renew” button.
Is every minute too excessive?
Every hour too regressive?

I understand this sleeping in
on Sunday’s really not a sin.
For, however, those who wait,
it feels like you’ve stood up your date!

That we adore you goes unsaid,
(We know you probably aren’t paid.)
But if all Sunday you plan to snore,
could you please prompt the night before?

(Note:  The prompt was finally posted at 11:43 PM.  Now the question is, is this today’s late prompt or tomorrow’s early one?  Always a new thrill in the world of blogging!!!  Since I’ve already written four poems today, guess I will think of this prompt for tomorrow, or not at all.  Anyway, I think with a prompt this late it was fair to choose my own, don’t you? Happy blogging.)

Do You Know Someone from Greenland?

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Do You Know Someone from Greenland?

Do you know someone from Greenland? Please write them if you do
and tell them that I need someone from Greenland who will view
my blog for me so I can get it lit up on my map;
for on my statistics page it leaves a shocking gap.
Italy is lit up and the rest of Europe, too.
Mexico and Canada and Poland and Peru.
(But not, I fear, Afghanistan or Chad or Katmandu.)

I have fans in India, in England and in China.
Readers in the States from Oregon to Carolina.
Africa, The Emirates, in Russia and Japan,
and even in Australia, I have one loyal fan.
But no one from that Island has ever viewed my blog.
It seems that my well-oiled machine is missing that one cog.
I know that Greenland’s icy—that it’s Iceland that is green,
and perhaps that oxymoron may make Greenlanders mean.
Yet I’d think in winter, when there is so much snow
the Internet’s the sort of place that they would want to go!!!
My blog may not be noted for being really hot,
and if they want X-Rated, my blog is not the spot.
But if you’ve friends in Greenland, please tell them this for me:
my blog may not be steamy, but it’s guaranteed frost-free!

(And while you are at it, please have them stop by Shawn Bird’s blog at shawnbird.com/blog She’s missing Greenland as well!)

The Prompt: Road Tripping—‘Tis the season for road trips — if time and money were out of the equation, what car-based adventure would you go on? (If you don’t or can’t drive, any land-based journey counts.) . . . I interpreted the prompt loosely this time, more as a road trip of the mind. After almost 18 months of blogging, I keep noticing that very big block of the world called Greenland that still sits blankly staring at me, resisting my blog. When Shawn wrote to me after reading my blog about statistics, (read it here) saying that she was waiting for a viewer from Greenland, I knew that was my cue. So although I doubt anyone from outside has ever taken a road trip there, if you’ve journeyed there by some other means, please drop a clue to any friends you may have who live there to take a mind trip to our blogs and shut us up!!!!