Performance Anxiety: Nightmare
Bassoons are idly chuckling in the orchestra,
and in the aisle, popcorn crackles underfoot
as the last audience member hurries to find her seat.
I stand center stage
wondering what play this is
and how I came to be standing here.
The curtain opens.
I am naked.
And I have not even seen my lines!
For SOCs the prompt is “Crackle.”
Distracting the Masseur
For Fibbing Friday, the words to define are:
1. Doohickey What one does when carried away by passion as a teenager.
2. Donnybrook What you call a river as the sun first comes up.
3. Dingleberry A berry that grows in a small wooded valley.
4. Dingus What be Gus’s intestines.
5. Drub What I look forward to when my masseur comes.
6. Dreck What happen after d’ car crash.
7. Diggity What goes best inside a hot dog.
8. Dook How I usually do when I take a test.
9. Dibbly Another name for champagne.
10. Dinkum What happen before d outgo.
The Offering
My cat surprised me with a gift
but I must say, I’m rather miffed
with the hairball that she left––
(those locks of which she’s now bereft.)
Was this donation made by chance,
or was it planned far in advance?
Did she commence her furry tearing
with the intent that she’d be sharing?
I wonder if she formed that ball
with any future plans at all
to heave it out upon the chest
of one I thought that she loved best?
Oh that she could communicate
whether it was love or hate
that prompted this hair artistry
produced and then coughed up on me!
The SOCS prompt is to close eyes, open book, point to word, open eyes and use the word as a prompt, so here goes. The prompt word that suppllied itself was “Surprised.”
I’d like to know what the little post it notes said as well! (Thanks, Brad, for passing this on to me.)
It’s true..Chocolate Cigarettes of the Seventies!!
For Fibbing Friday this week’s task is:
General knowledge this week, so wrong answers/fabrications please!
1. What three symbols featured on the game invitation card on Squid Game? Ink blobs.
2. What do Sumo Wrestlers use to purify the ring before a match? Sum Saki.
3. What is the name of the sport played on broomsticks in Harry Potter? Air Hockey.
4. What is the name of the unique language spoken by Furbies? Purrsian.
5. Which chocolate product had the slogan ‘The lighter way to enjoy chocolate’? Chocolate Candy Cigarettes.
6. What unit of measurement is used for electrical resistance? Hotfeet.
7. In what sport would you use the term ‘Daily Double’? A drinking game.
8. Which fashion label popularised the velour tracksuit in the 2000s? “Lane” Bryant
9. Where would you find the Mariana Trench? On Mariana’s bottom.
10. Which two words begin a darts match? “Present arms!!!”
Indigo
The color known so well by teens
that is used to color jeans?
Bet you thought, as I thought, too,
indigo was a shade of blue.
Yet, upon further inspection
during internet detection,
it seems more pupleish a hue
which transforms itself to blue.
For dVerse Poets Quadrille Monday the prompt is “indigo.” (Image by Levi Strauss)
To read more Indigo poems, go HERE.
For Fibbing Friday, Feb 21, 2025 the challenge is to define the following:
1. What is a quaver? It is an over-the-shoulder receptacle for arrows in Louisiana.
2. If you didn’t know a door as a door, what would you call it? An In-or-Outer.
3. 007 has a license to kill, but what would an 010 have a license for? To drive a ten-speed bicycle.
4. Define Corybantic. One member of a comedy duo known for their ribald humor..
5. What does Crinkum-crankum mean? An invitation to come witness Rin and Ran in an X-rated movie.
6. What is a Cacodemon ? Satan with dysentery.
7. What would you do with a collop? Answer it.
8. What is a curlicue? A cookout for doggies.
9. Who or what is a cootie? An attractive young pigeon.
10. What is an erf? The sound made by a dog with a speech impediment.
Image thanks to z-grills Austalia.
Rum Dumb
Beer is tacky. Wine’s a joke.
My preference is Rum and Coke.
Squeeze a lime in. Take a sip
to cool your throat and wet your lip.
My favorite form of inebriation
is always Cuba Libre-ation.
The RDP prompt is Tacky. Can’t resist that one. Went back 11 years and found this ditty I wrote that just happened to contain the prompt word. I didn’t remember writing it, so perhaps you don’t remember reading it. Does anyone???
“The Final Word”
Purchased before fur was vilified, Mother’s fur coat was well-used during South Dakota winters when snowbanks piled up to our second-story windows, but it found little use once they moved to Arizona the year I left home to go to college. It was 30 years later, after her death, that we found it in the back of her closet. Along with her car, it was the one item that my mother had insisted should go to me. Ironic, I thought, as I had so often self-righteously railed against her possession of it. Attached to it was a copy of a poem I had written in college and sent to her, a line of which said, “I’ve lost the means to thaw my soul.” Across the bottom of the poem pinned to the coat she had scrawled, “Make of it a parka for your soul”.
For dVerse poets, we are to write a prose poem containing this quote from an Alice Walker poem: “Make of it a parka for your soul”.
Incandescent Insect Insomnia
When nature made the glow worm glimmer,
would that she’d installed a dimmer;
for when I put out the light,
what I expect is total night.
When it puts itself in action,
I fear it sets up a distraction.
Little glow worm on the shelf,
please keep your glowing to yourself.
For My Vivd Blog, the prompt is Glimmer. Photo gleaned from the Internet.
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