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Maria

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Maria

I’m dull-witted and dysfunctional, I’m of no high degree.
I’ve no diploma in a frame. I am a refugee.
I know you think I’m no account and of the lowest order
just because the chances are I sneaked over the border.

But you’ve been on my horizon since the day that I was born.
I’m the brown girl on that other side of town you choose to scorn.
Perhaps I scrub your sinks out and walk your kids to school.
Because I do not speak your language well, you think I am a fool.

So far I’m ineffective in showing who I am.
You furtively observe my movements with your insta cam
to make sure I don’t steal from you or seduce your spouse.
You request I don’t show up again in that sexy blouse.

But I’m as smart as I am pretty and I go to school at night.
One day I will convince you that a brown girl can be bright.
One day I’ll teach your kids in school, and believe me when I do,
I’ll teach them not to be stubborn and prejudiced like you!!!!

Prompts for today are frame, refugee, account, ineffective, horizon, stubborn, dysfunctional. Image by Omar Lopez on Unsplash.

Shop, Shmop I Say

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Ron.'s avatarSCRAMBLED, NOT FRIED

Culinary Innovations

She’s been gone almost a week.
Solitarily homebound, he discovers:

You have to let them egg-soak
a little longer than bread slices,
but French toasted Ritz Crackers
are almost as delicious
as French toasted Fig Newtons.

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Natural Images. Do You See What I See?

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What has nature seen fit to draw on my large flower pot? You tell me what you see and then I’ll tell you what I saw.

What I first saw was the same empty-eyed skeleton skull that is hanging from the overhang of the bedroom far behind the flower pot. Can you see it? You can also see a sketchy rendition of the bones of his body below. Eerie.

All of the answers of what others saw were on Facebook, so I’ll duplicate them here:

  • Tamara Alaine Mitchell

    A dog and a monkey.
  • Cheryl Kennedy

    I see a monkey face and ears about 1/3 of the way down. Also could be his hand.
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  • Sara Axelson

    I see a horse with a parakeet on its head holding a small dog❤️
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    • Jim Anshutz

      A dog and a monkey
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        Carol Bradley

        I see a pregnant alien with big ears and wearing sunglasses.
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        Leland Olson

        A mother baboon holding her baby
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        Sherry Holiman Swindle

        A dog with a mask on
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        Judy Dykstra-Brown

        And i see that I have very creative friends!!!! There is one more thing no one has seen which is the first thing I saw.
        Shannon Evans

        Dragon and a monkey
      Jim Anshutz

      A dog and a monkey
      And a couple pigs🎃🎃🎃😂

 

Surrounding Hills

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Trail
The trails you see on the mountains are the sites of rock slides.
I counted eight waterfalls in the mountains above the town. I live up on that mountain!
Senor Garcia is the name of this dormant volcanic mountain.
Beautiful silhouette of the mountains south of Lake Chapala.
And finally, up the mountain
Guanajuato
or houses on the hillside.

 

Click on photos to enlarge and read captions.

Thanks, Wind Kisses, For the Lens Artist Challenge “Over the Hill.”

Coupling Couplets

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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.

Floral Alphabet Challenge, The Letter “K,” Sept 24, 2022

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Kalanchoe
Kalanchoe

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

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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)

Intruder Addendum

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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

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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?)

Floral Alphabet Challenge: The Letter “I” and FOTD, Sept. 22, 2022

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Iris
Ice Plant
India Shot Lily

Hope you show us your “I” flowers. If you do, please link in comments below as well as in Cee’s FOTD.