For Whatsoever is Lovely, Week 47
This lovely bird perched on the tip of a denuded Frangipani branch to keep me company as I swam in the pool. My friend Harriet tells me it is a great kiskadee.
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Period of Adjustment (Can of Worms)
Period of Adjustment
(Can of Worms)
Even the giants of the ocean must come up to find air.
As the bell sounds and each of us is off to a new table,
it is another indication of the extent of our sanity.
Memories like this reveal the boy within the man,
enough so you can handle caring for a pup—
a tight knot in her cushy denim bed just a yard away.
Those are traits she got from you, and certainly not me—
a small-town landlocked jungle girl.
But if you lay off my breakfast, I’ll cook you your own waffle!
I guess I’ll go eat worms.
(If he’s the one I married, you can bet that he can buy them,)
By the time I’m twenty, I’ll grow out of it,
our break mended by a solid golden band,
and we can dine on tunafish straight out of a can!!!
Little foibles seen in review.
And though our story is not over,
for now this is “The End!”
For dVerse Poets, we were to take the last lines of twelve of our poems and to create a poem out of them. Yes, mine is a “bit” strange, but then so were all of the poems I took them from. Blame it on the prompt words. I always do.
Disgruntled
Disgruntled
When I try to crack the whip and get the world in line,
somehow it turns fractious and starts to buck and whine.
Electrons turn to protons and refuse to whirl about.
The sun refuses to come out and stays inside to pout.
Berries stain my shirt front and seeds stick in my teeth.
Feral felines storm my bed and find solace beneath.
Friends offer consolation that is but a token.
There is little impact in the words that they have spoken.
If only things would go the way I’ve formed them in my mind,
there would be fewer problems in his daily grind;
but the world won’t listen and goes about its day
with very little interest in what I have to say.
No one will believe me when I say that I’ve evolved
to the point where the world’s problems I have mainly solved.
They go about their business like before I came along,
doing things without me and doing most things wrong.
They prefer those idiots who have run the Earth
slowly bleeding all of us as they increased their girth.
So until the world at large decides to meet my terms
and decide to love me, I guess I’ll go eat worms!!!!
Prompt words today are electron, token, fractious, impact, stain. I know I need a new disgruntled photo as I’ve maybe overused this one, but it’s a busy day and this one just seems to work, so….
The Chase: Last on the Card
For Brian’s Last on the Card prompt we are to share the last photo we took in the month. I thought I was taking a video of Zoe and Coco rushing around the yard in a frenetic 10 minute chase, but alas, I took a photo instead. They are a bit of a blur, which they were for 10 minutes. Wish I’d captured it.
CFFC: Caramel Color
Warm Heart
Warm Heart
The small dogs are still warm from their day’s exertion
curled into balls—one at my feet above the covers,
the other, too small or timid to leap up to the bed,
a tight knot in her cushy denim bed just a yard away.
For the dVerse Poets Quadrille prompt, the subject this week is warmth.
To see the prompt and to read some wonderful poems on the subject of warmth, go here:https://dversepoets.com/2022/11/28/dverse-quadrille-165-warmly/
Fandango’s Provocative Question # 13
What is the one subject that should be taught in school that isn’t? Empathy!!!
For Fandango’s Provocative Question # 13.
Inner Parts: FOTD, Nov 29, 2022
Childhood Games
Childhood Games
Hide-and-seeker, breathing hard, pressed up against the ledge,
her tracker stealing closer around the garden hedge.
“Allie-allie-oxen-all-in-all-in-free”
releases other hiders from behind rock and tree.
Boys and girls together, playing a childhood game.
He tosses up a basketball, showing off his aim.
She braids a dainty daisy chain and lays it on his head.
He shakes it off and tosses it to ring her locks instead.
Each meadow is a jungle, each brook a raging sea
within these childhood cravings, these yearnings to run free.
That house they think is haunted and face with certain dread—
will entry show an empty room or the walking dead?
Some pleading not to open it, others saying, “pull!”
with excitement and with terror, their hearts equally full,
thrilled with excitations or with terrors fraught,
opposite emotions crowd their every thought.
Do you not remember when you felt the same?
How many other childhood games are you able to name?
Red Rover and Parcheesi, Jacks and Kick-the-can—
memories like this reveal the boy within the man.
Prompt words for the Sunday Whirl Wordle # 580 are: ledge dead chain boys doors will crave sea free games steal
New Secrets Revealed!!!
Have you ever slept on / in a hammock?
Yes, frequently for short naps in my own gazebo.
Do you find it easy to maintain friendship with other people?
Yes, although the older I get, the less time we seem to spend together. It has to do with the amount of things there are to do and the longer time it seems to take to do them. Plus, friends are moving and, sadly, passing away. I maintain them in my heart and thoughts.
Are you a person of ethics?
I hope so.
If so, how does that impact your daily life?
I think I’m more aware that when things are wrong, I can do something to change them–by volunteering or at the very least by donating.
Are you decisive or indecisive as a person?
Decisive
Why do people hold double standards?
Because it is easier to think something and/or to believe in it than to do it.
Inspired by Kristian and That Really Burns my Biscuits #10
What is your most unhealthiest but guiltiest pleasure and why?
Cheetos Torciditos, because they are practically the only thing that tastes good to me anymore.
What is your process of writing a new post for your blog?
It is the first thing that I do when I wake up, after feeding the dogs and cats. I get back into bed and don’t leave it until I’ve written at least one poem to the prompts and posted a new photo of a flower for Cee’s prompt. I’ve done this every day for nine years now. I usually come back and read and do more blogs as well.
If you were asked to create a Top Fifteen Book List holding books that you felt everyone should read at least once in their life and would never regret reading what titles would you include?
Becoming (Michelle Obama) nonfiction
No One Can Pronounce My Name by Rakesh Satyal
Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood (Trevor Noah)
The Delight of Being Ordinary: A Road Trip with the Pope and Dalai Lama (Roland Merullo)
The Brain that Changes Itself. (Norman Doidge M.D.). nonfiction
Word by Word: The Secret Life of Dictionaries (Kory Stamper) nonfiction
The Midnight Library (Matt Haig)
Eleanor Oliphant is Completely fine: A Novel. (Gail Honeyman)
Major Pettigrew’s Last Stand (Helen Simonson)
The Inaugural Meeting of the Fairvale Ladies Club (Sophie Green)
The Grand Sophy (Georgette Heyer)
Secrets of a Charmed Life (Susan Meissner)
Crazy Salad and Scribble, Scribble (Nora Ephron essays)
The All-Girl Filling Station’s Last Reunion (Fannie Flagg)
The Tea Girl of Hummingbird Lane (Lisa See)
Fourteen: A Daughter’s Memoir of Adventure, Sailing and Survival (Leslie Johansen Nack)
Anything by Anne Tyler or Barbara Kingsolver
The Seven Sisters series by Lucinda Riley
Anything by Jane Austen or the Brontes
Logical Family: A Memoir (Armistead Maupin)
Simon the Fiddler (Grover Gardner)
How important is it for you to know a person’s real name? [Be this online, off line, social media or blogging]
I like knowing their real name. I always have this feeling that if I did, I would find some connection between us that otherwise we would never discover.
When at school what were your top five subjects that you were passionate about?
Literature, Composition, Botany, Chorus, Math
Why was this – what did you love about them?
I loved reading literature and creative writing and also studying grammar. I liked Botany because it was a science where we didn’t have to dissect animals and because I love plants. I enjoyed singing in the chorus. I loved the puzzle aspect of math but never really discovered what it was for, short of multiplication, division and addition. I could do the geometry and trig and I actually won the math award in high school without ever actually learning any practical applications!!!
Are those five subjects still present in your life today in any form?
I still write for hours every day and always have a book going, although I now listen to them on Audible as my eyes give out by the end of the day. Luckily Alexa and my phone now help me with math as I’ve lost my facility for doing math in my head. I am still crazy about plants without having to dissect them and have lots of plants and flowers and trees in my garden and I do daily photos of flowers for Cee’s blog. I no longer sing much as I’ve lost my voice but all through school and college I sang in church choirs, duets, girls chorus, mixed choirs and in the chorale in college.
Are you a photogenic person?
No. At least I certainly hope I don’t look like any of the recent photos that have been taken of me.
Are you eager to appear in family of friend snaps?
No. I am always the one taking the photos so I rarely appear in them.
Are there many photos taken of you in the various stages of your life?
Yes. tons of them thanks to my older sister when I was younger and because of friends and family taking them later.
With regard to the paranormal do you choose to not believe because there is nothing to believe or because you feel it is safer to not believe?
I do believe in the paranormal to some extent.
Are you a non-believer or a believer?
Non-believer in organized religion. I do, however, believe in some spiritual element in the world.
How are you with meeting strangers/new people who might or could become new friends?
I have traveled so much that I feel I’m good at meeting and befriending people.
Is there a process you adopt to identify if they are the right fit for you?
If it feels right and easy and fun and natural, we are the right fit.
