Plumeria, papyrus, cactus, bougainvillia, yucca and palm form the layers in this garden collage. I need to go our and see how much remains after the colossal storm last night.
Do not miss Cee’s iris bud after rain today. Here it is.
The nourishing environments of still water and the forest floor both bloom in circular beauty. Whether the tiny orange “flowers” were flowers, mushrooms or another type of fungus, I couldn’t determine and I was too far behind our guide to ask. The forest floor is in a Lacandon Reserve in Chiapas, where one of the few remaining members of this purely Mayan village led us though the forest. The cycle of nature is clearly portrayed as life springs forth from decay. The still pond is actually a still inlet of an Amazon River tributary in Peru.
From a 2014 post. The prompt today was forest.
These ladies and young ladies are certainly not without causes or clauses! The same is not true of me today. Mental lapse.
Rebel Without a Clause
I forgot to write my post today. It simply slipped my mind.
It was not done on purpose, for I’m not the rebel kind.
I do not flaunt convention. I do not break the rules.
I am polite to everyone. I gladly suffer fools.
So I don’t know the reason why it slipped my mind today
to look the daily prompt up and then to have my say.
So since I have not written, no poem exists because
I guess you’d have to say I am a rebel without a clause!
Phew! Just in the nick of time. If I hadn’t realized 15 minutes ago that I’d forgotten to write to the WordPress daily prompt, it would have been the first time in four years that I hadn’t done so! Thanks to forgottenman for finding an appropriate photo to post with it. The prompt today was rebel.
For Rugby‘s challenge. Instead of nominating anyone, I’m going to ask anyone who wishes to play along and post three favorite quotations, on a day, in their blog. The rules are in the Rugby’s link.
A Cywydd Llosgyrnog Poem is a syllabic-based Welsh form with both end and internal rhymes. Here’s the structure of this six-line form (with the letters acting as syllables and the a’s, b’s, and c’s signifying rhymes:
1-xxxxxxxa
2-xxxxxxxa
3-xxxaxxb
4-xxxxxxxc
5-xxxxxxxc
6-xxxcxxb
So lines 1, 2, 4, and 5 are 8 syllables in length with lines 1 and 2 rhyming as well as lines 4 and 5. Lines 3 and 6 have 7 syllables and rhyme with each other; plus, line 3 has an internal rhyme with lines 1 and 2 while line 6 has an internal rhyme with lines 4 and 5. Phew!!! There are no further rules for subject matter or meter. (I think they have rules enough, don’t you?
Here is my poem. Poets in the crowd, may I invite you to try out this challenging form as well? Don’t forget that internal rhyme as well as the end rhymes!
Make it a Double
I must admit that chocolate
is still my favorite ice cream, but
when asked what I’d like to lick,
pistachio is very good
and so it’s likely (if I could)
some of each would be my pick.
(I found the prompt HERE on the Writer’s Digest website.)
What’s another job on the day’s list? Thanks to Rugby, I think, for nominating me for the 3 day quote challenge.. a quote a day for three days. Instead of nominating another person to take part, I’m inviting anyone who want to to join the challenge. Go to Rugby’s post above for the “rules,” which I am breaking now. Ha.
I have recently found a blog I am constantly enchanted by. Its author is a bit of a recluse whose world has become his garden. I especially love two posts in which he talks about his tender care of struggling plants, goldfish found nearly dead under encasements of ice, and his favorite koi, Getsumei (which means Moonlight) newcomer to his pond, who had to be taught how to eat fish food.
Mr. Livingstone, the author of this blog, doesn’t have a reblog button, but he’s given assent to my posting links to a few of his blogs.
In this first link are photos of his garden, along with his story of the struggling little hosta, buried upside down:
https://philiplivingstone.org/2018/05/02/the-1st-of-may-in-the-garden/
And my favorites, the photos and stories about the gorgeous ghost koi Moonlight, are here:
https://philiplivingstone.org/2018/05/07/%E3%81%92%E3%81%A4%E3%82%81%E3%81%84-getsumei/
https://philiplivingstone.org/2018/05/03/%E3%81%92%E3%81%A4%E3%82%81%E3%81%84-moonlight/
Pasiano hard at work with hose and broom, trying to maintain order in the garden.
For Cee’s Flower of the Day prompt.
