No Longer in the Present
In chairs around the tables of our favorite cafe,
our attention to each other has come to be passé
We are not present here and now. We’re all in other places
as we stare at our tiny screens, caught up in far off faces.
For dVerse Poets Quadrille Challenge, the prompt was “present.” HERE is Lillian’s challenge.
It was a surprise for me to learn that his flower is an oleander. I love the shaggy center!
For Cee’s FOTD
The men came today to tear down my beautiful arched entry that was damaged by the last earthquake. They’ll also have to take out the wall beside my front door–and all of Jesus’s wonderful artwork.Below is the destruction in process. So sad, so sad…..And so strange, because my computer won’t allow any photos of the destruction to download! I ended up having to email them to myself and then download. Numerous cracks that run the depth and height of my house, inside to outside will also be repaired–and the wall between my house and my lot below.
Inevitable
What folly that we thought our “we”
was something that would always be.
That lot we thought that we had cast
though once it was, was not to last,
for life is fated from the start,
conjoined hearts to rip apart.
Divorce or death, when it is done,
reduces two joined hearts to one.
For dVerse Poets Pub: “We” Couplets
To see other “We” poems go HERE.
Does anyone know how I can stop Jetpack from sounding a notification on my phone every time someone views my blog? I don’t want to turn off the sound and haptics because I want to hear phone calls and other messages. Help! Driving me crazy. This has only happened since we were forced to switch to Jet pack.
For Fibbing Friday, the Questions (and my answers) are:
2. What will customs agents find in your luggage? My misplaced breakfast sandwich. It was a very early flight!
3. What do you sneak aboard the flight, and what do you sneak it in? My pet snake. I sedated it, wound it around my waist, gently closed its teeth round its tail and wore it as a snakeskin belt.
4. The plane crashes — everyone survives — where did you crash? In my in-flight dream.
5. What are three things you find at your crash site? The drink the stewardess delivered to my tray table as I slept, the end of the movie I was watching when I fell asleep and that we had arrived at our destination.
6. What is the first thing you do when you get back home? Check to see if my house sitter ate all of my Costco Vanilla ice cream!!!!
7. The airline offers you money, but you turn it down…what do you get instead? My head examined.
8. You decide that a cruise is safer. Where do you go? Along the Ukraine coast via the Bermuda Triangle.
9. Sadly, you get marooned on a deserted island but find huts and scientific equipment made out of coconuts…what do you do? Look for the trees the scientific equipment came from. I’m hungry.
10. A fishing boat rescues you, but you have to pay Poseidon for safe passage…how do you pay? Trident gum.
11. He rejects your fare and throws you across the world…you land safely, but where do you end up? I Fallon Nevada.
12. How does your story end? THE END!!!!
For Cee’s FOTD
If you read all or part of Innocents in Mexico, It would be a tremendous help for me if you would answer the below questions and also make any suggestions of your own re/ how to make the book better.
2. What specific information do you wish had been included in the first chapter?
3. Were the chapters dealing with driving down to Mexico interesting? Any details you wish had been left out?
4. What character do you wish you knew more about in the story?
5. Was anything unclear to you? What details were unclear or insufficient?
6. Would you read another book that took the story from this point?
7. If you hadn’t already read my writing or known me, would you still have kept on reading this book?
8. If you lost interest, at what point was this?
9. Is the book long enough?
10. If I were to write an entire book about one character in Innocents in Mexico, what character would you want that to be?
11. What further comments do you have about the book?
12. Did you read the entire book? If not, which chapters did you read and why did you stop?
13. Would you recommend this book to friends?
14. Who do you think the audience would be for this book?
Thanks for completing this questionnaire. I’m going to choose one person who has written the most helpful comments and I’ll send them a book when it is in print… Or if you prefer, send them to my email at jubob2@hotmail.com
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