The Memento
Yes, I received your letter and the enmity enclosed.
And yes, it has accomplished what you probably supposed.
I here enclose your photograph. I have no further need of it.
If I want to end the grieving, I must dispose of the seed of it.
I’m burning all your letters and crumbling your dried roses,
disposing of your paintings of me in different poses.
I’m in need of no mementos to bring you back again.
I need no souvenirs to remember all the pain.
These ashes are the lovelock you asked me for that night.
I found it in your pillowcase the morning of our fight.
Its cremated remains were easiest to send.
They are so easily scattered to signify our end.
The prompt words today are letter, enmity, photograph and accomplish.
https://ragtagcommunity.wordpress.com/2019/01/11/rdp-friday-letter/
https://fivedotoh.com/2019/01/11/fowc-with-fandango-enmity/
https://onedailyprompt.wordpress.com/2019/01/11/your-daily-word-prompt-photograph-january-11-2019/
https://wordofthedaychallenge.wordpress.com/2019/01/11/accomplish/
For FOTD
Click on any photo to enlarge all.
https://ceenphotography.com/2019/01/10/cees-black-white-photo-challenge-anything-related-to-music/
* jdbphoto
An Ode to the Annoyingly Ebullient
Her ebullient nature sometimes seemed a little cloying.
Others less endowed with cheer could find it most annoying.
It seemed that her ambition was to slipcover the earth
with a shell of levity—a monologue of mirth.
That others didn’t seem to have her appetite for humor
based on romance serials and hearsay and on rumor
didn’t seem to faze her. Her allusions’ rarity
coupled with her seeming lack of storytelling clarity
fazed her not a bit. Though no one else seemed to be buying it,
she kept on unrelentingly with her “pie in the sky” ing it.
But, there is hope. Click on the below arrow to learn more:
Prompt words today are ebullient, ambition, clarity and appetite. Here are the links:
https://ragtagcommunity.wordpress.com/2019/01/09/rdp-wednesday-ebullient/
https://fivedotoh.com/2019/01/09/fowc-with-fandango-ambition/
https://onedailyprompt.wordpress.com/2019/01/09/your-daily-word-prompt-clarity-january-9-2019/
https://wordofthedaychallenge.wordpress.com/2019/01/09/appetite/
I don’t know what this is. It has a small blossom that looks like a chive or a clover but it definitely isn’t as it grows on a woody bush. Can anyone identify it? I found it near Colima, Mexico.
Once again, Bob from LWBT identified the unidentifiable!!! Bob, you are a wonder. Do you know every plant in the world or are you just an excellent researcher or both? Head on over to his blog HERE to see a profusion of Australian plants. Once again, thanks!!!!
Here is more information, as provided by Bob:
Alternanthera dentata
Family: Amaranthaceae
Other names: Joseph’s Coat, Calico plant, Copperleaf, Bloodleaf, Joyweed, Parrot leaf.
For Cee’s FOTD.
Sensory Memory
The scent of stale patchouli stains your memory
as I inspect the photograph of the “you and me”
we thought would be together for a longer time
than that too-short interval tinged with bitter lime.
The shadow of your rising star occasionally lingers.
The keys on my piano bear the ash gray of your fingers.
The circle of your wine spill still tattoos my divan.
I hoard it like an autograph—your long-forgotten fan.
The words I chose from each classification are: divan, piano, bitter lime, ash gray, patchouli, circle, star, photograph
For Sunday Writing Prompt:
Choose a piece of furniture
Piano
Cabinet
Orrery
Divan
Secretary
Choose a color
Cherry Blossom Pink
Bitter Lime
Alice Blue
Ash Grey
Canary Yellow
Choose a scent
Patchouli
Eucalyptus
Burning Sage
Bergamott
Ylang-Ylang
Choose a shape
Circle
Spiral
Helix
Star
Hour Glass
An item carried in the pocket, wallet, or purse
Photograph
Phone
Punch Card
Tissues
Aspirin
Choose 1 from each category and work it into a story or poem.
https://mindlovemiserysmenagerie.wordpress.com/2019/01/06/sunday-writing-prompt-5-by-5/
Home is the Sailor
Homecomings call for clemency and memory that is short,
for when a sailor comes back home to his favorite port,
he doesn’t like returning to atone for past mistakes.
He’d rather do his penance for the new ones that he makes.
This isn’t any riddle, no mystery is involved.
It’s simply that some other bad habits have evolved.
He finds he cannot take the time to mend what he’s forgotten
when he has so many other newer habits ill-begotten.
The prompt words today are homecoming, clemency and riddle.
https://ragtagcommunity.wordpress.com/2019/01/06/rdp-sunday-homecoming/
https://onedailyprompt.wordpress.com/2019/01/06/your-daily-word-prompt-clemency-january-6-2019/
https://wordofthedaychallenge.wordpress.com/2019/01/06/riddle/
The Monarch of Dogs
Morrie is the underdog. Diego’s top dog now.
Does one find this jockeying with horse or pig or cow?
Why does there need to be a boss now dogs don’t roam in packs?
I fear dog organization sound logic sadly lacks.
I am the queen of doggiedom in my house. There’s no need
for a boss of dogs to calculate their every deed.
Their kibble comes in cans and bags. Nobody needs to know
How to be the chieftain in bringing down a doe.
Perhaps they need a barking order as a way to tell
whose loud barking will predict the ring of the doorbell.
Perhaps they need to show me who deserves the premier pat
or the biggest food dish, or bone with the most fat.
And yet I love them both the same, in spite of any wishes.
I pat them equally and put their bones in equal dishes!
https://fivedotoh.com/2019/01/06/fowc-with-fandango-underdog/
