Groupie
Pardon me if I point out that you’re so very very.
When you’re sad, disconsolate, ecstatic when you’re merry.
You put pizazz in all you do.Your humor is pervasive.
Week-by-week it’s passed along, most comically invasive.
Your life must read like fiction, it’s so novel and so varied.
I’d hop up on your bandwagon, but, alas, you’re married!!!!
Prompt words today are pizazz, week, pervasive, novel, fiction and very. Image by Simon Maennling @ Unsplash.
It all started with the shadow of my watch. For some reason, it intrigued me, but I didn’t think I’d ever find a place to use it. Next came Cee’s CFFC prompt and “Zing!” Had to add some companions as well, however. Thanks, Cee.
Ball Mortality Thanks to Morrie
He gores them and he punctures them and rips them on the bias,
demanding that we throw them from the pool or on the playas.
Every time we throw a ball, he’ll chase it and then snatch it,
and one time out of four, he’ll meet it in the air and catch it.
Then he will purloin it and we find when he is finished
somehow our tennis ball supply is rapidly diminished.
This radical behavior is supported by each caster
who realizes unthrown balls are the real disaster.
And so our local sports supply store profits from our loss
because we have to soon replace every ball we toss!
Prompt words of the day are ball, supply, gore, bias, disaster and radical.
My wonderful friend of over 20 years passed away this evening after a long fight. I have taken so many photos of her over the years that I wanted to share them and since there are way too many to send via email, I’m taking this way to do so. I hope even those of you who didn’t know her except through my blog might enjoy seeing the photos of this beautiful woman. She was a fine artist and writer as well as an adventurous soul who had many far flung adventures in her life, moving from New York City to Florida to the Grand Canyon to Ecuador and finally to Mexico. She leaves behind her three sons: Steve, Robert and John as well as grandchildren and friends from years living in both Guadalajara and Ajijic. R.I.P. dear friend. Here lie recorded our many adventures together.
Strappy Stilettos
I languish in these pointy shoes with their flimsy straps.
My ankles teeter with their height, I poke out through their gaps.
I don’t appreciate the fact that they’re the current style.
You try walking in such shoes mile after mile!
The material that forms them is so sparing and so meager
that I’ll be darned if I can figure out why gals are eager
to teeter down the street in them or wear them out to dance.
Trying to walk on shoes like this is taking quite a chance!
The truth lies in the fact that shoes like this must be the fashion
of men for whom the look of things is their only passion.
Safety and walkability cannot be their goal,
for feet were not created to balance on a pole
held in by straps that mean the heels can slide from side to side,
prompting a proclivity to stumble and to slide.
Mr. Choo and Ferragamo, if they ever tried to wear them
might have found their shoes inclined to torture and to scare them.
There should be a special Hell made for designers who maintain
that for the sake of passion one must succumb to the pain
of shoes that are a torture. They should have to walk a mile in them
and while they are in agony, be forced to feign a smile in them!!!!
Prompt words today are: pointy shoes, languish, lie, meager, appreciate and flimsy. Image by Femme Spirit @Unsplash.
Assisted by my friend Becky McGuigan (Thanks, Beck) I did two projects with the kids: egg carton flowers and jewelry. Last week we did necklaces and bracelets. This week we’ll do bracelets and earrings. A photo in my FOTD post for Aug 12 showed one of the flowers. Here are a few photos of the jewelry and also a photography project that my friend Bethany did with the kids. They each went home with a book of their photos. One more day of camp tomorrow! I’ll try to get more pix this time.
I was so busy during art camp that this was the only photo I was able to take!! This is one young man’s egg carton flower. Very colorful! The plate is not part of the flower, by the way. Just something to carry it home on.
For Cee’s FOTD
Reader’s Choice. Do you have a question you’d like to ask me or is there a topic you’d like to suggest? If so, please let me know and I’ll pick one suggestion a week to write about. Sorta setting up my own little personal prompt site, but others are welcome to write a post from the prompts as well and to link them as comments on my week’s post whenever they wish. Let’s see if this works. What do you want to hear me blather on about or to write a poem or song about? Reader’s Choice!!!! Please note that I won’t be making up prompts myself. I will, however, be publishing all the comments and all of the suggestions and if anyone else wants to write on one of the topics and post a link to comments, that will be most welcome. See? I repeated that invitation twice!
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I somehow published an old prompt for Ragtag in my poem today, so here is a photo response to today’s correct prompt: https://ragtagcommunity.wordpress.com/2022/08/06/rdp-saturday-bubbles/
