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Election Year Blues
Election Year Blues
This is nuts!
No ands or buts.
Change is brewing,
voters stewing.
Economic crunch,
most of the bunch
Half-Baked choices,
crazy voices.
Urban jumble
about to crumble.
The Yellow Brick Road
Soon to erode.
A Dastardly Mash
of rich guys’ cash
Make Rocky Roads
of mother lodes.
Cool Britannia
wins the day
as the rest of Earth
Just melts away!
For dVerse Poets Ben & Jerry prompt. The italicized words above are all Ben & Jerry flavors and yes, I admit I sneaked in one non-B&J flavor as well!!! Plus, changed the rhyme scheme in the last stanza. I should run for public office, changing the rules like that!!!
Here are the flavor choices:
Change is Brewing – current
Half-Baked – created in 2000 -still going strong
Urban Bourbon – 2017 -still going strong
Coffee Coffee Buzzbuzzbuzz – current
Wavy Gravy – 1993 – 2001
Urban Jumble – 2000 -2001
Dastardly Mash – 1979 – 1991
Miz Jelena’s Sweet Potato Pie – 1992 – 1993
Goodbye Yellow Brick Road – limited edition available July 18 to 25, 2008
Late Night Snack – 2010 – 2014
Imagine Whirled Peace – 2007 – 2013
Sugar Plum – 1989 – 1990
Cool Britannia – 1995 – 1998
Economic Crunch – only in 1987 during the stock market crash
This is Nuts 2001 – 2002
To see other posts that feature Ben & Jerry flavors, go HERE.
Reality Redefined
Reality Redefined
(From Reality Shows to Reality Politicians, the meaning
of the word seems to have shifted to its opposite.)
Your underwhelming comments on my photographs should shame me,
but if they foster apathy, you really cannot blame me.
Timeless snapshots can’t be made of subjects that are boring,
and ordinary truth, it seems, leaves viewers merely snoring.
“What seems to be” has turned into the new truth that we seek—
reality becoming something we can tweak.
A pantomimed emotion, sadly, I must confess,
if one is good enough at it, is good enough, I guess.
So bring on the kitschy actor, the reality show clown.
Their entertainment value will bring them wide renown.
They are what is called for in this modern cyber world.
“Reality’s” new meaning therein has been unfurled.
Prompt words are snapshot, underwhelming, timeless, kitschy, foster and pantomime.
Raucous Recipe #1
Raucous Recipe #1
My flashback to a nifty dish of pears and peas and beans
is tastier if one can add olives and nectarines.
The problem is that when these five are ingested enmasse,
they cause indigestion and, I fear, a lot of gas.
So for the interim, until science solves the puzzle,
keep these five ingredients separate when you guzzle.
Prompt words today are flashback, gas, nifty, dish and pear.
Precious Things
Precious Things
When lucky heirs received the shipment of their auntie’s things,
full of photos, pots and pans, old hats and silver rings,
mismatched shoes, a wash tub and an armchair that was armless,
a flintlock rifle that was jammed, ammunition-less and harmless,
they fondly combed the contents of her varied life—
her times as daughter, student, lover, wanderer and wife.
Her time spent in the orchestra, the years that she just wandered,
gypsy skirts and cowboys boots and bride’s dress that she laundered
years ago, then paper-wrapped and carefully put away
high up in a cupboard, just in case one day
one of her sister’s children was in much duress
searching for a favorite vintage wedding dress.
Boxes full of letters, old toys and souvenirs—
all of life’s remainders collected through the years.
What are they to do with these reminders of her living—
memorabilia of her life she took such joy in giving?
Call the second hand store to pick up the armless chair,
the tables and and sofas and all the kitchenware.
Pack away the photos and the eyeless teddybear
and put them in the storage space beneath the lowest stair
along with all their own stuff that they can’t throw away
so they can pass it on to their own kids some future day.
Prompts today are lucky, shipment, orchestra, heir and harmless.
Kids’ Fashion
Kids’ Fashion
Ribbons and laces
and scrubbed shiny faces
are often conducive
to acts most abusive
by children who gad
in areas bad
that create messes
of fancy new dresses,
for puddles in paths
and gooey mud baths
wreak havoc, at best
on kids fancily dressed.
Prompts for today are children, fancy, gad, ribbon and conducive.
The Building of a Legend
The Building of a Legend
When there’s an event that attracts attention
worthy of notice and worthy of mention,
no matter how silly or boring or gory,
it’s a regional custom to concoct a story
that exceeds pure fact and creates a tale
with additional details added without fail
that with the recital of each new re-teller
becomes much more luminous, sadder or sweller
than at the last telling and so to the credit
of the last person who heard and resaid it,
it reflects the memory and education,
the sense of humor and imagination
of each one who passes the story along
as anecdote, joke or novel or song.
Thus are legends made of the simplest act
by using our fancy to swell out pure fact.
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Today’s prompt words are credit, regional, luminous, exceed and story.Image by Vitolda Klein on Unsplash.
Open Range
Open Range
Most cowboys are beef-witted. They ride the open range
decrying life in cities, avoiding any change.
They scan the far horizon to detect changes in the weather—
rain or hail or funnel clouds and speculating whether
to move the herd to shelter, making noises that will soothe them,
wondering if moves down towards the south draw might behoove them.
Their horses part the tall grass like a boat might part the sea.
Their lives out in the open are kitchen and bathroom-free.
They cook over a campfire and when it’s time to pee,
they mosey over yonder where no one else can see.
Prompt words for today are: bathroom, speculating, beef-witted, noises and boat,
I decry the usual definition of beef-witted and hereby expand its definition. I’m presently in South Dakota at my town and school reunion. Plenty of cowboys here and in fact I took this photo a number of years ago on main street at another town reunion.
Nuptial Turnabout
Nuptial Turnabout
The blushing bride’s the instigator of a lot of fun,
and she will have her victory before the day is done.
She’ll outfox her friends and kin with a turnabout,
completing her last antic as the wedding bells peal out.
Trust her to do her business as the rice is thrown,
for in the deep folds of her dress, she has brought her own.
She’ll reach into her pockets to withdraw a sack
and as they they run through showers of rice, she’ll send a shower back!
Prompts for the day are: outfox, trust, business, bride and instigator. Image by Hermes Rivera on Unsplash.
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