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Murphy’s Law

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Murphy’s Law

An ambivalent lawyer cares hardly a jot
about whether he wins your law case or not.
An optimist one day, pessimistic the next,
if he’s your advisor, I fear you are hexed.

In the legal arena he just mills around.
His decisions are iffy, his judgement unsound.
An unusual confidant, when in a bind,
he’ll find it convenient to just change his mind.

So taking all factors into account,
as the trial goes on and the legal bills mount,
wrap up the case and accept your defeat
as a legal disaster you’ll never repeat!!

Prompt words today are optimist, arena, unusually, ambivalent, lawyyer andjot. Image by Ruthson Zimmerman on Unsplash.

A Rare Sighting: For Bushboy’s Last on the Card Prompt, Jan. 2023

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For Bushboy’s Last on the Card Prompt, here are my two last shots for January, 2023.  So excited to see the Big Dipper (Ursa Major) for only the second time since I moved to Mexico 21 years ago! I was out in the hot tub well past midnight, looking up at the stars, and suddenly realized what I was seeing. Luckily, I had my camera.  You must click on the photos to enlarge them to see the stars. I turned the photo sideways to make the Dipper more obvious as there were lots of stars around it and it was not so obvious tipped on its side.  In the second photo, I included my roof lline to show how the photo was shifted 1/4 revolution to the left.  

New Year Resolutions

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Here is a short reflection on New Year Resolutions:

New Year Resolutions

When the new year zaps us with our last year’s reflection,
it brings up all our defects and flaws for our detection.
It goads us to be better and to bend our crooked way
to plot a straighter game in life than we’ve been prone to play.
It’s January 1st that prods our consciences to make them,
giving us a whole long year in which to go and break them.

And here is a longer one: https://judydykstrabrown.com/2014/12/22/resolution/

 

For dVerse Poets: Resolutions
and if you want to read more poems on the subject, go HERE.

Old Dames Response

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When I published the news of my adult coloring book When Old Dames Get Together and Other Confessions of a Ripe Old Age now being available on Audible, I asked anyone who ordered it to send me a photo of their reaction to it—either a photo of them being an Old Dame (Or Old Mister) or some other response. Here is the first response by my friend Linda Crosfield in Canada. Thanks, Linda. My cats agree that it makes a good chair!!

Poetic License

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Poetic License

Pejorative words will not be allowed,
for poetry folk don’t assent to be cowed.
They want to feel wistful and somewhat romantic,
so they won’t put up with language pedantic.

Demur is acceptable. Artsy is cherished,
but flowery’s been banished and stilted has perished.
Inscrutable language is also passé
as is predictable. So déclassé!!!!

Step carefully, then, through the poetic world.
Take care before your words are unfurled.
For poetic license does not give permission
for outright acts of verbal sedition!!!

Prompt words are demur, pejorative, inscrutable, cherished, and wistful. Image by David Beale on Unsplash

 

A Trip to the Other Side of the Lake

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Click on Photos to Enlarge.

A day across the lake at Quinta San Carlos and other stops along the way.

Zoe Has a Boyfriend

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Friends Chris and Sherry came to visit with their friends who had mother-and-son pugs.  Look at the photos. Need I say more? Their boy fell in love with Zoe. The five pups had a wonderful time charging around the yard and socializing with their humans.

Old Photographs

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Old Photographs

Dark shadows that were yesterday 
in flashbulb’s glare have given way
to images where we are kept
on pages where for years we’ve slept.

They apprise us of the past,
employing images that last
to dominate in blinding light
the past that otherwise takes flight.

Prompt words today are glare, dominant, blinding, apprise, employ and yesterday.

Funny of the Day

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Sisters

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Sisters

Was your relationship with your sister both giggly and nudgery?
Making up with silliness what otherwise was drudgery?
Tic-tac-toe on scraps of paper passed from her to you
but hidden from your parents farther down the pew?
Finding fun in naughtiness when things were at their worst?
Holding down your chuckles when you thought that you would burst?

Climbing out onto the roof to see your older sister
leaving for the prom with some high school dressed-up mister?
Your sister clad in net and lace so lovely and exotic
that for once your ribaldry was replaced with hypnotic?
If so, what naughty girls you were, for my sister and me
were perfect little angels, as good as we could be!!!!

 

Prompt words today are burst, drudgery, exotic and fun. (The other prompts weren’t ready in time for me to use them. I’m going on a day-long writing retreat with friends and had to get up early to do the prompts.)