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For Cee’s B&W Challenge: Things that are short.
Short Thangs (Cee’s B&W Challenge)
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Giving Support
Giving Support
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My sister Patti’s horse, passed down to me.
For the Life Captured Challenge: Giving Support
Sense of Smell
Anthuriums: FOTD, May 20, 2020
For Cee’s FOTD
Hibiscus: FOTD May 19, 2020
On the Fix
On the Fix
She’s on the fix:
repairing hems,
cleaning the oven,
puttying cracks,
organizing drawers,
straightening picture frames
with no idea
of how to fix
a cracked heart.
She needs a breaking
of old habits
—a lesson
on letting be,
leaving her broken things
to heal themselves.
Here is the prompt: https://dversepoets.com/
and below is where you can go to read other responses:
For the dVerse Poets Quadrille Challenge: Fix
Mysteries of Home Ownership
The murals being painted on the walls of my house, the wifi installation saga, the bee adventure, the water/plumbing saga–all are events now past, but further stories were waiting to be told. This is the story of a number of little mysteries down through the years that have been solved or are on their ways to being solved due to Jesus’s sleuthery. I here share that story with you because after all, what else have we all got to do?
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I had noticed patches of silitre on the walls of the guest room, as well as a number of other places on the outside of the house and a few inside, but that is par for the course in Mexico where they use too much lime in the concrete to enable it to dry faster.
If you wonder what silitre is, it is the same as salt peter of other fame.
This winter, however, during the rainy season, my guest room flooded two times with an inch of water–thankfully just up to the bed but no further–about half of the room.
It seemed impossible that it was coming in under the sliding glass doors, since they were raised 3 inches off the terrace. And what was causing so much moisture in the walls?
This caused me to call Mohammed Kazem, who was my contractor for my studio and gazebo, who in turn sent Alfredo who decided to attack the guest room problem first. I have suspected for years that it might be a broken pipe embedded in the concrete and so he spent the morning chipping away,
Unfortunately, he had started his exploration on the second floor so now I have a huge hole in my house. How they will repair the pipe, I don’t know. I guess that is tomorrow’s installment.
And we still have the issue of that possible big hole under my house that’s causing all the cracks—as evidenced by all this repair work of the stairwell up to the second level as well as crack in the guest room. I guess that is the day after tomorrow’s installment.
Unavoidable Photo Session
Unavoidable Photo Session
I refresh my makeup,
surrender to the camera,
and when I see the photographs,
force a quick acceptance.
I need to diet
and I am growing old.
Word prompts today are surrender, photograph, quick, refresh and acceptance.
Hibiscus: FOTD May 18, 2020
Knave of Coins
Knave of Coins
Bored with all his yesterdays, needing a new tomorrow,
grown used to fickle intimacies, much to all our sorrow
he stood upon a precipice where the whole world looked back
and declared himself the ruler of the whole damn pack.
That anybody listened is a sort of modern miracle.
He wasn’t very smart and he surely was not lyrical.
Though he understood but little, what he knew just seemed to work.
One can capture much attention by being a dumb jerk.
He pulled the haters to him—the fearful and the jaded.
All his moneyed cronies supported him, elated.
He’d pull apart the world we knew and put it back again,
but I fear that what few plans he had turned out to be in vain.
For when he’d knocked everything down, he knew not what to do
except to blame the mess he’d made on everyone he knew.
The whole world knows that he’s a knave, his mind and soul both dim.
The thing that is distressing is those who supported him.
Synonyms for knave on Merriam Webster Dictionary:
- baddie (or baddy), beast, brute, caitiff, devil, evildoer, fiend, heavy, meanie, meany, miscreant, monster, nazi, no-good, rapscallion, rascal,
- reprobate, rogue, savage, scalawagscamp, scapegrace, scoundrel, varlet, villain, wretch
Word prompts today are overcome, fickle, intimacy, precipice and yesterday.
