Why does this little boy have a mustache? For the Virgin of Guadalupe’s saint day parade, little boys dress up like Juan Diego, the man who experienced his first vision of the Virgin Mary on Tepeya Hill near Mexico City on December 9, 1531 while on his way to mass. To see more Juans, go HERE.
Rude Reception
I don’t forgive the kidney punch, sharp and sure and quick.
Your sapless smile an icicle, cold and stiff and sick.
Once they’ve repaired the damage and my tactics I’ve refined,
I’ll return your greeting, in fervor and in kind.
Prompt words are sharp, repair, icicle, sapless, kidney and don’t. Image borrowed from the internet.
For his Flashback Friday post, Fandango asked us to republish a post made on this exact date in a past year. Mine is from 2014, the first year I posted a blog on that date.
The Prompt: The Language of Things—You have to write a message to someone dear to you, telling that person how much he/she means to you. However — instead of words, you can only use 5-10 objects to convey your emotions. Which objects do you choose, and what do they mean?
First of all, I have to say that this is my all-time-favorite prompt, so kudos to its creator. It is original, thought-provoking and fun.
Older sisters are our teachers, our critics, our cruelest enemies and our best friends. When we were younger, my sister was no exception. With age, however, some of these roles have fallen away. The others I often take for granted even though I know they are still there.
This year I will be, as I have been for most years in my life, far away from my four-year-older sister, Patti, for Christmas. Betty, my…
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For some reason, WP will not let me add these links to my previous post about hummingbird moth larvae (also known as hornworms) so here are some links to earlier posts that show even more phases of this fascinating caterpillar:
Hummingbird Moth Caterpillar: One Word Photo Challenge: Insect
Mismatched
By what draconian measures might you cure your spouse of snoring?
No amount of pushing, shoving, poking, shouting, roaring
will rouse him from his sleep, and it does no good to smudge him.
No pungent fumes from spruce or sage can do a thing to budge him.
As maddening as a girl might find a husband who is boring,
there is no match more irritating than one prone to snoring.
Prompt words today are it, spouse, draconian, spruce, push and pungent.
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How Nature Heals
Here beneath the open sky
all possibilities flow by.
Channels cut through Earth by time
contain the base and the sublime.
Heaven and Hell equally mixed
within a world man thinks he’s fixed,
but the urgency of mankind’s rule
often brands him as a fool.
Serial acts to gain control
have ripped our planet from Pole to Pole.
Disasters far beyond our range
to remedy with tardy change––
threaten with an urgency
that nature in resurgency
thrusts in our faces. Fire storms
plague us as our planet warms.
Hurricanes and flooding rains
show us how nature disdains
our engineering of global drought,
water we can’t do without
and yet, when sent with too much zeal,
destroys what it was meant to heal.
Could it be that nature’s fuss
is meant to do away with us?
The prompt words are: rule open sky beneath within hell heaven flow channel urgency time serial for The Sunday Whirl Wordle 582
Christmas: A New Rendition
That the papers had a field day is totally explicable,
“Santa Stuck in the Chimney and for Hours Inextricable!”
So now he’s on a diet. No more cookies, no more milk.
He’s restricted to mere salads and others of their ilk.
He’s feeling way less boisterous. No more “Ho ho ho’s!”
So there’ll be fewer miracles in our stockings’ toes.
That year the Grinch stole Christmas just might be repeated
and socks hung on the mantel might have to be re-feeted.
Prompt words today are field day, inextricable, fireplace, boisterous, miracle and rendition.
Exclusion
Those who stage conniption fits
throw in the towel and call it quits
whenever things get hard and crusty
or the road gets steep and dusty.
When plans convene, they’re totally for them,
but when things get rough, abhor them.
They pick on each rut and slant
as an excuse to rave and rant.
Each plotted road’s slightest digression
is a cause for their aggression,
giving reason for the pause
in their former wild applause.
Would that they would live and learn,
but progress is a thing they spurn.
So it is best, without a doubt,
when plans are made, to leave them out!
Prompt words today are conniption, slant, aggression, convene, pause and dusty.
Help. Someone contacted me via comments on my blog and invited me to submit work to a “Nostalgia” issue of a poetry journal. I cannot for the life of me find it. If anyone knows what journal this is or if you are the one who contacted me, could you comment again with the details? Thanks, Judy
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