Home Song for My Mother
Listening to our shadow.
Puppies, poems and popcorn
the center of the house.
Other than writing, I channel my inspirations by creating mixed-media story boxes that I call retablos. An explanation of the term is given in one of the photos. They may be enlarged by clicking on each photo in turn.
For Jude’s Life in Color prompt: Transportation in Red.
This might also suit CMMC’s August Red Challenge
A friend sent me this story. Such a fine allegory for life and one the world needs right now:
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Ah, To Be Young Again
I envy the quality
of their frivolity:
kids with the vision
of nuclear fission
filling their rollicking
ceaseless wild frolicking,
savoring everything
that each new day will bring—
clandestine meetings
or open-air greetings.
Ah, to be young
with our dirges unsung.
I’d roll in more clover
Could I do it over.
Prompt words today are rollicking, clandestine, vision, savor and quality.
HAPPY INTERNATIONAL CAT DAY!!!!!
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I love this bronze sculpture of a cat looking into a mirror which is one of dozens along the streets and in the parks in Sheridan, Wyoming. This one is on the corner near the cinema.
For Cee’s Photographing Public Art Challenge
And, it seems like this would be appropriate for Travel With Intent’s “Reflections” prompt, as well.
Knackless
Whether you have talent is a subject that is moot.
So far you’ve written nothing that has won you much repute.
All the latent talent that you’ve meant to expose
has turned out to be nothing but the emperor’s new clothes.
Your instruction manuals have ended up intractable,
and all the plays you’ve written have turned out to be unactable
All your readers joke that instead of a word user
you’ve proven repeatedly that you’re a word abuser.
Nature’s Tithe
Cold drafts inspired carpet and swift winds gave birth to walls.
Thus, human folk keep warm and dry in their shopping malls.
A transcript of the weather might reflect our evolution.
Good turns to bad and bad to good with each revolution
of a world that seems to extract her scheduled tithe.
Nine days in ten we celebrate. The other day we writhe.
And yet we find solutions to all of her disaster.
Trials affecting change to make development go faster.
Prompts for today are inspired carpet, transcript, keeping, tithe and affect.
Advice to Self and Others
If your writing is inciting
civil discord and inviting
calls to action
by reaction
of one faction
or another, become a brother
by listening to one another.
Try a blend
of words that mend.
Work upon a pending rending
of ill thoughts you’ve been extending.
Try to start a happy ending.
Choose a task that takes you higher.
Shed your mask and bend your ire.
Anger’s such a bitter pill
that words can poison, bite and kill.
Still your vitriol and follow
kinder thoughts into that hollow
where the gentle grass is waving,
where we go to still our raving,
heeding nature’s gentle call
to save ourselves before our fall.
Here to raise the cup of peace.
That fragile glass that brings surcease.
And by that small sip that you sample,
you can be the good example
that draws another to slake their thirst
and start the journey to best from worst.
Oops.. nearly missed last week’s Wordle prompts. Here they are: writing, civil, bend, pill, mask, follow, glass, still, call, save, blend, sample.
Flower boxes and hanging planters along Main Street are filled with flowers, including these moss roses.
For Cee’s FOTD
lifelessons - a blog by Judy Dykstra-Brown 