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Sealed Windows: Weekend Writing Prompt #343

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Sealed Windows

These windows do not open, but keep me trapped inside
with no hope of escaping, so in full view, I hide.
Seen by every passerby but never touched by one.
For all the beauty trapped inside, there’s not a gram of fun.

Sterile empty paintings. An airless motionless room.
No other person enters to chase away the gloom.
As I look out, observing the drama of the world,
I hold my drama in my mind, where it’s securely curled.

 

 

For the Weekend Writing prompt #343 : Window (exactly 79 words)

So, What happened in 1947? For the Daily Prompt

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I was born on July 3, 1947, as was Dave Barry,  nationally syndicated humor columnist for the Miami Herald. As our parents adjusted to our births, UFO crashes were being reported in Roswell, N.M., the Israeli War of Independence was raging on, Jackie Robinson was breaking  Major League Baseball’s “color line”  by donning a Brooklyn Dodgers Uniform, India won its independence creating India, Pakistan and East Pakistan, Communists were excluded from the governments of Italy and France, leading to the beginning of the Cold War,  the Fort Lauderdale Hurricane decimated southeastern Florida as well as parts of Alabama, Mississippi and Louisiana, and the “Great Fires of 1947” wreaked havoc in the state of Maine, burning over 200,000 acres and killing 16 people. All-in-all, a busy year!

For the Daily Prompt: Share all you know about the year you were born. 

Iris: For Cee’s FOTD Dec 22, 2023

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For Cee’s FOTD

Kristina’s 28th Birthday ;o)

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Santa was caught escaping early-on.
Not a rude gesture. Showing off her fingernail painting.
Friends.
More Friends.
And More
A moment of reflection.

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Yes, it was open-air and cold. Yes, the music was TOO LOUD!!! And Yes, it was fun.  (And no. Not really 28. It’s an in-joke.)

Shhhhh. Secret Santa

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Santa and Jewish Lad.

 

My friend David sent me this. Love it.

“Pull Up A Chair” For Wordless Wednesday, Dec 20, 2023

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For Wordless Wednesday

Speared! for FOTD Dec 20, 2023

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I have lots of new photos of flowers, but cannot resist posting this photo instead. I swear it was not set up. I found it exactly as photographed! If the bottom spear is a Mother in Law Plant, then the leaf must be the Son in Law!

For Cee’s FOTD

For CFFC Challenge: White

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For Cee’s https://ceenphotography.com/2023/12/19/cffc-white-2/

Deck the Halls

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Interspecies Advice, For Wordle 352

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Interspecies Advice

I threw my troubles overboard, but they refused to sink.
They came rolling right back to me, washed pure and clean and pink.
I hardly recognized them, as they looked so fresh and new,
free of the ooze and grime and dirt and all the past year’s goo.

I wiped them dry on dungarees, and, my efforts spent,
I found out just exactly where all my troubles went.
My jeans now stained and ruined, of my troubles I’m not rid.
My troubles had popped out again from where they’d only hid!

So please tell the panda, the giraffe and kangaroo,
that whate’er you do to rid yourself, past troubles will find you!
You can hide up in the treetops or bound over the plain,
but your troubles will come after you and cling to you again.

Words for Wordlle prompt 352 are: fresh, clean, pure, ooze, dungarees, ruin, rolling, panda, spent, overboard, sink, new.