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Magic Circle

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Magic Circle

Pardon my astonishment that rhyme and allegory,
as well as words like firmament and comminatory—
billions of rules and concepts, laws and definitions,
as well as music, laughter, a mother’s hands, munitions,
all evolved from stardust—clouds and soil and lake,
bow tie, fingernail and love, liver and wedding cake.

Movie star and  surgeon, macho, bi and femme
evolved from cosmic particles that wanted to be them.
A baby’s cry and earwax. Ribald jokes and laughter,
all the plots and schemes and lies to get what we are after—
all were once identical and so they’ll be again,
as after our becoming, we go back to what we’ve been.

Prompts today are rhyme, allegory, astonishment, define and lake.

Aloe Sunset: FOTD Jan 28, 2020

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This year a bumper crop in aloe blooms has been rivaled by spectacular sunsets. Here’s a dose of both.

For Cee’s FOTD Challenge.

Just 29 views away from my 775,000th View!!! Want to Help?

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Unbelievably, We noticed a few days ago that I am approaching my 775,000th view. Little did I dream six years ago that it would lead to this..If you want to make it come true tonight, have a look!  Here are some blogs from the past:

This is my first post ever in March of 2013. It had five views: https://judydykstrabrown.com/2013/03/27/what-im-doing-here/

Here was one published a month later in April. It had eight views:
https://judydykstrabrown.com/2013/04/28/yellow-day-28-of-napowrimo/

And here is the post that earned the most views to date, on March 5, 2016. That day I got 4,559 views. More than I got my entire first year of blogging. So if you’re just starting out, don’t give up!!!!

https://judydykstrabrown.com/2016/03/05/sunset-beach-ballet/

Thanks for reading and commenting all these years.

Okay, made it! Thanks for helping. xoxoxoxo

 

Unnamed

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Perhaps it was a blunder. He could be a stubborn mule.
A myriad of actions branded him a fool.
Scarce as they were, his virtues always managed to redeem him.
Some fools with little foresight even seemed to quite esteem him.
Still, a vulture is a vulture, and his dark side always won.
Self-serving minions always saved him when the day was done.
How do these soulless tyrants ever rise to power?
How long before he topples from his golden tower?

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Prompt words today are blunder, scarce, vulture, myriad and mule.

Newish Addition: Flower of the Day, Jan 27, 2020

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This lovely blushing hibiscus is one of the newest additions to my garden. This is only the second time it has bloomed. A nice surprise viewable from my new peanut patio!!!

 

For Cee’s FOTD

FOTD Jan 26, 2020

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The only thing prettier than a flower is a flower with raindrops. See Cee’s HERE.

Last Light: Becky’s Square Challenge

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This was last night’s sunset from my porch.

For Becky’s Square Challenge: Light

Chocolate Cake–Musical Version

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I have three different friends who have set my poems to music. Here’s another one recorded by Christine Anfossie, who also wrote the music. Thanks, Steve Raschke, for doing the remastering. I’ve published the poem before, but to listen to the musical version, click on the arrow below. If the arrow doesn’t work for you, click on the  link below it. The picture will vanish, but you’ll hear the song.. Weird.  For some reason some browsers won’t let you use the arrow.

https://judydykstrabrown.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/01/judydb_choccake-new-2.wav

 

Chocolate

You’re being good and I am not.
I broke my diet and got caught.
I’d have resisted if I could,
but chocolate cake just looked so good.

I bought a piece, not a whole cake.
I thought a meal of it I’d make.
But now you feel you must rebut
my obvious need for chocolate.

Will you soon go? It’s getting late,
and there’s this chocolate on my plate.
And though I know it’s impolite,
the chances that I’ll share are slight.

Of your smug lecture I’ve had enough
and now it’s my turn to be tough.
If you must fall from your high throne
and dine on cake, go buy your own!

A Stroll through the Backyard at Sunset, FOTD Jan 25, 2020

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I can’t for the life of me remember what this plant is. I’d go out and look but it’s midnight and dark out there. I’ll gather more information tomorrow.

See Cee’s gorgeous dahlia HERE.

Nose Job

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Nose Job
The precipitant of my angst is this macro of my nose.
I didn’t vie for this when my friend asked me to pose.
I thought she’d use my profile in a locket or some token,
not knowing that she’d use it for purposes unspoken.
If she had told me earlier what the shot was for,
I would not have been compliant. I’d have shown her to the door.
It’s true my nose is cone-shaped, but no one has ever rated it,
disparaged it or laughed at it or scoffed at or debated it.
So, her dad’s a plastic surgeon and what did he use it for?
Someone else the “after,” and my nose the “before!!!”
Yesterday a letter came–inside two hundred bucks
for my rights to the photo from the clinic mucky-mucks.
I’ve discovered I’m no beauty, and yet I’m charmed in life.
I just got a “nose job” without suffering the knife!!

 

Today’s prompt words are macro, profile, precipitant, cone and unspoken.