I’m finally in Wyoming after a flight from Guadalajara to Dallas Fort Worth to Billings and a drive to Sheridan. This little posy and friend are still back in Mexico, however.
For Cee’s FOTD July 12, 2022
Air Travel While Intermittent Fasting
I’m not asking for your empathy.
It doesn’t take much courage
to suspend my appetite
for a later forage.
Since my time line’s not jentacular,
I must delay my dining
even though my empty tummy
prods me with its whining.
My intermittent fasting
is the boss of me
and it only permits eating
in the hours to nine from three.
And since I’ve flown into a time zone
which set me back an hour,
there are sixty minutes more
before I can devour!!!
Prompt words today are: ask, empathy, jentacular, filter and courage.
For Cee’s FOTD
With travel friends in Timor
Point of View
It was a rainy night in March under a Timor moon.
We hunched in cruel misery beneath a wild monsoon.
Around one flickering candle, under a canopy
that formed a refuge for us, strung up from tree to tree.
Travelers all, and young and broke, we stalked a narrow line
creating our own magic with mushrooms, weed and wine,
working our way around the world on impulse and on grit.
Misfortune? Fortune in disguise when we accepted it.
Thus sighs transformed to laughter when shared with kindred mind,
following adventure’s road wherever it might wind.
A sudden thud behind us? Some flinched but others spun
around to see what new adventure came to swell the fun.
For The Sunday Whirl Wordle 560 prompts: library monsoon hunch sigh disguise cruel thud flickering impulse stalk magic line
Easy Love Affair
When I’m atop my sweetheart, everything’s sublime.
My time with her is perfect every single time.
Once I had a sampling of everything she does,
no other loved one of her kind could satisfy because
I needn’t be too active, for she does all the work.
She is not loud or vulgar. She does not yank or jerk.
If you would like to see me put her through her courses,
come out to my stable, for there are lots more horses!!!
Prompt words today are atop, sample, sweetheart, loud and active. Image is a detail from a photo by Sebastian Hermann on Unsplash.
Grass will grow where grass wants to grow. No telling how it got into this pot by the pool.
For Cee’s FOTD
Broadband Controversy
When he formed his “Broadband,” he wanted them all girly:
ruffles and boutique lace, and he wanted their hair curly.
But I fear that what he named them is a bit passé,
for no one ever calls a girl a “broad” today.
Still, he liked the name and said he would not cave
and make use of modern lingo, so the name he gave
remained in use as east and west they traveled on their tours.
Those shiny broads continued their bills and coos and purrs,
bravely enduring catcalls and pickets from their sisters
who proclaimed real women did not cave in to misters
who use insulting language like battle-ax, broad and bitch,
bimbo, bird and arm-candy, sheila, chick and witch.
An “all-girl” band’s acceptable, at least was in the past,
but women’s lib participants hope this band will not last.
Their music’s great and expressed according to their nature.
Too bad a guy decided on their clothes and nomenclature.
Prompts for today are shine, broadband, boutique, east and brave. Image by Zoriana Stakhniv on Unsplash.
For Cee’s FOTD
Memories of Loves Past
To improve those ancient feelings regarding love that’s past—
all of those sad endings for love that didn’t last—
relate the facts as comedy. Banter about life’s failings.
Laughter serves you better than retroactive wailings!
Actually, the past love I’m fighting sad feelings about today is the 22 year old Royal Poinciana tree that they are cutting down today. It had root rot and was in danger of falling so it had to be done. So, unbeknownst to me, I gave myself good advice in writing this poem which started out to be about love of another variety. Here is the tree in all its former glory:
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Beach finds create an exotic bloom. I believe they are the gills of a fish and ????? Perhaps a portion of dried kelp
For Cee’s FOTD
lifelessons - a blog by Judy Dykstra-Brown 