Go swift to work but slower to thy glee,
and you will go with other, not with me.
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If two by two in life you choose to go,
you never will regret if going’s slow.
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Join hands with one who also squeezes back
or else you will forever mourn its lack.
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Choose love by heart and not by merely face
and then regrets will never be the case.
Five heroic couplets on the subject of coupling for dVerse Poets.
Love this plant, but Zoe uprooted all of them in my planters, along with all the moss roses she could reach. I could save a fortune on dog food and just let this girl graze on my plants and lawn grubs! Of course I’d have no garden left to speak of.
For my Floral Alphabet Challenge, Sept 24, 2022: The Letter “K” Please publish your own and link here in the comments below.
If Truth Were Told
I’d call you oxymoron, but the pun is just too corny,
so I will simply say that you’re as dumb as you are horny.
You’d be Barney Fife’s apprentice if they rated you on brains—
your lantern of enlightenment extinguished by life’s rains.
Your logic is so flimsy that you’re little more than beast.
Left is right, in is out, up’s down and west is east.
When we try to help you, you see reason as assault.
The world is out to get you and nothing is your fault.
Everyone we know says that we should abandon you,
let you reap what you have sown and cook in your own stew,
but we cannot do it. We’re with you to the end,
because for a lifetime, we have called you friend.
Prompt words are lantern, apprentice, flimsy, east, oxymoron and assault.
The goofus in this photo has given permission to use it. None of the other descriptions apply to him, however. (Face by Forgottenman)
Roo as a kitten.
Intruder cat trying to break in.
If you haven’t read yesterday”s blog about my intruder cat, go HERE to read the story before you go on reading this post. This is the happy ending. This morning she was still here, glued to the glass door of the kitchen so I had to nudge her away with the door to get it open to feed the cats. The other two cats rushed inside to get away from her and luckily their dishes from last night’s feeding were still inside. I kept inturder cat at bay while I got a scoop of dry and a packet of wet catfood and filled the dishes, but my cats wouldn’t come to eat even though the door was closed, because they could see the intruder through the glass. So, I had to move their dishes into the living room out of sight of i.c. who continued to yeowl at the door.
I was hoping if i didn’t feed her that she’d go away, but that hadn’t worked. Just then Oscar (Yolanda’s son) got back from walking Zoe and Morrie and Diego and saw what was going on. I asked if he knew the story and he said yes, Yolanda had told them and that she liked the cat. I asked if they had a cat and he said no. Then I asked if he thought Yolanda might adopt the cat and he shook his head enthusiastically “Yes!” So, long story short, I found a small carrier in the garage and drove him home with “their” new kitty. I told him I thought perhaps this kitty was a reincarnated Roo, one of the four kittens left on my doorstep a few years ago. I kept them all but two had disappeared after a year or so. Roo had longer hair, but was white like this cat, so perhaps she’d been reincarnated and had sought us out and that was why she was so insistent re/ establishing contact. If you read my friend Rita’s comment on the other blog, perhaps you’ll be convinced that it is so. If you want to see Roo breaking in as a kitten, watch this YouTube video:
And if you want to know the ending to the story, go to the link below: https://judydykstrabrown.com/2022/09/26/an-amazing-ending-to-the-cat-intruder-story/
Tarnished Gold
It’s apparent I’m replaceable. At least it is the shout
that you moved in my replacement as soon as I moved out.
I hope that you remember as you stroll down your new path
that your former roadway contains an aftermath.
The heirlooms of our marriage include three children who
don’t share my intention of divorcing you.
They need a proper father and you’re the only one
licensed to address them as daughter and as son.
On the heirloom ring you gave me on our wedding night,
the chimera of your family crest really wasn’t quite
appropriate, though made of gold polished shiny bright,
An ass head on a serpent’s body would have got it right!
Tenth prompt for the poetry scavenger hunt hosted by A Different Perspective. Write a Golda or incorporate words related to gold into a poem. Is it cheating that I used a poem written six years ago?
(I know gold isn’t supposed to tarnish, but apparently it sometimes does. Perhaps it wasn’t authentic in the first place?)
Hope you show us your “I” flowers. If you do, please link in comments below as well as in Cee’s FOTD.
FOR CeeS Circles and Curves Prompt
Ally Bean of. The Spectacled Bean asked us Have you posted photos on social media that show the daily, often overlooked, messiness of your life?t Here are mine. Click on photos to enlarge and read the details of these messes!!
Smiled At
The effervescence of your smile
has me soaring mile on mile.
I’m tremulous within your bubble,
It’s elementary. I’m in trouble!
I travel on the lift of you,
billowy in glimmer’s hue.
Transparent from the very start
in what I carry within my heart.
It was as though, once trapped indoors,
you opened in me all the doors.
And now I float out, high and free,
bearing your smile along with me.
Prompts today are effervescence, elementary, tremulous, indoor, glimmer, billowy.
This list of questions about books was shared by Deb’s Despatches A Bookish A to Z. Below are the questions she shared with my answers:
Author You’ve Read the Most Books From: Carolyn Keene!!! Remember her? I’ve also read all the books of Jane Austen, the Brontes, Barbara Kingsolver, Anne Tyler and a number of other authors I can’t remember at the moment. Jodi Picoult. I love it that her books are so well researched in different areas and I find myself delving into areas I would otherwise not examine––like a mixture of fiction and nonfiction. If I find a book I like I read every book I can find by the same author.
Best Sequel: The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain
Currently Reading: The Missing Sister, Book 7 of The Seven Sisters series by Lucinda Riley,
Drink Choice While Reading: Ice water in my special stainless steel thermal cup that keeps it cold all night.
E reader or physical book: Audible books
Fictional character you probably would have dated in high school: Mr. Darcy
Glad You Gave this Book a Chance: The Story of O. I usually don’t like blatantly sexual books, but this one had a sensual beauty about it. Read it a long time ago. Perhaps I’d feel differently about it now.
Hidden Gem: The Delight of Being Ordinary by Roland Murrulo
Important Moment in Your Reading Life: My sisters were both English majors, so by the time I finished high school I had read most of the required reading books for a bachelor’s degree. It changed my life, I think.
Just Finished: The number 6 book in The Seven Sisters series. 3/4 of the way through the seventh.
Kind of Books I Won’t Read: Anything with violence, Harlequin Romances, books that present problem after unresolved problem. I’m tired of mysteries. Used to read a lot of them.
Longest Book You’ve Read: I have no idea.
Major Book Hangover Because Of: Not sure what this question means.
Number of Cases You Own: 5
One Book You’ve Read Multiple Times: Pride and Prejudice
Preferred Place to Read: In bed, listening to Audible, or while cooking or driving or working in the art studio.
Quote That Inspires You, or Gives You All the Feels, From a Book You’ve Read: “That big hour of decision, the turning point in your life, the someday you’ve counted on when you’d suddenly wipe out your past mistakes, do the work you’d never done, think the way you’d never thought, have what you’d never had – it doesn’t come suddenly. You’ve trained yourself for it while you waited – or you’ve let it all run past you and frittered yourself away. I’ve frittered myself away, Crossman.”
– from “The Autumn Garden” by Lillian Hellman (but actually, I have read that it was written by Dashiell Hammett to help her over a blank spot.) I typed this out 41 years ago and have had it taped to every desk I’ve written at since then. Same copy. It can barely be read. I’m reading it now.
Reading Regret: That my eyes have gotten too bad to read anymore. I am on the computer a minimum of 10 hours a day and by the time I’m ready to read, the print is blurry. Also, I tend to listen to books while I do other things so Audible books are best.
Series You Started and Need to Finish: The Seven Sisters
Three of Your All Time Favorite Books:
Unapologetic Fanperson For: The Teenie Weenies by David Lubar and anything by Dr. Seuss
Very Excited For This Release (More than all the others): Book 8 of the Seven Sisters series. It’s being written by the son of the author who passed away after writing the last two books in one year.
Worst Bookish Habit: Wanting to keep books I’ve already read. Running out of space.
X Marks the Spot—start at the top left of your shelf and pick the 27th book: Chicano Voices by Carlota Cárdenas de Dwyer
Your Latest Book Purchase: The Blue Butterfly by Leslie Johansen Nack
Zzz-Snatcher Book (the last book that kept you up late): Major Pettrigrew’s Last Stand by Helen Simonson
As ever, do recommend something for me to add to my ever swaying To Be Read pile. The Brain that Changes Itself by Norman Doidge M.D.
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