Security is a big comfy bed and permission to use it! (Click on any photo to increase the size of images.)
Today’s weekly photo prompt is a photo that represents security.
Security is . . .
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Tulip Tree: Flower of the Day, Apr 9, 2017
jdbphoto2017Trump Plays War Games and Golf
Sloooooow Burn. Why has no action been taken to make him divest himself of these interests? Eisenhower warned that the biggest threat to democracy would be the takeover of government by the military industrial complex. It has happened, folks!!! I shudder.
Amid speculation that North Korea may try another weapons test in coming days, the US military has sent a naval strike group towards the Korean Peninsula in a tactical capacity to maintain readiness in the region.
“The number one threat in the region continues to be North Korea, due to its reckless, irresponsible and destabilising programme of missile tests and pursuit of a nuclear weapons capability,” ~ US Pacific Command spokesman Dave Benham
President Trump has said the US is prepared to act alone to deal with the nuclear threat from North Korea, and as his missile launches against Syria last week show, not only will the US act alone, but Trump will act without congressional approval… because what does the constitution matter to this POTUS.
And, if it’s good for Trump Enterprises, it’s good for the US: Trump fired 59 Tomahawks made by Raytheon at a cost of $90…
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Temporary Saints
Temporary Saints
Sunday morning, dressed to the nines,
we joined our proper church school lines,
sat upon paint-peeling chairs
that barely fit our derrieres
and were shaken free of sins and taints.
Rows of little Sunday saints,
we learned our Bible verses well,
secure from thoughts that led to Hell—
at least until the closing bell.
You’ll find more about Sunday School and bleached-white souls here: https://judydykstrabrown.com/2015/12/30/i-used-to-eat-red/
The NaNoWrMo prompt for this ninth day was to write a nine-line poem.
Open Hand
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Open Hand
Wings held lightly without crushing
survive to join the world’s wild rushing,
while love held by a tight-clenched fist
quells half our reason to exist.
Some laud passions most rapacious—
grasping, volatile, tenacious;
but this is not the love I feel.
I do not seek to swoon or reel.
The tenacity of a skin tight glove
might stay my soaring to heights above.
I need your love like an open hand.
Not for me the wedding band.
The bond I seek from you, my dear,
is not the gauntlet that I fear
but rather, fingers whose sensations
are left free to life’s elations.
Butterflies kept in a jar
lose that beauty seen from afar.
That grace of movement caught on air
is what makes their beauty rare.
I love it when your arms enfold,
but if you love me, loose your hold.
The measure of my tenacity
is that I’ll come back to thee.
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The prompt word today was tenacious.
Banana Blossom Detail: Flower of the Day, Apr 8, 2017
jdbphotoFlower of the Day: Another Audacious Heliconia
There are so many varieties of Heliconia and some of them are often confused with Birds of Paradise, but each of the flowers in this photo, other than the red ginger, is a heliconia. From my friend’s garden in La Manzanilla, Mexico.
For Cee’s daily flower prompt.
NaPoWriMo 2017, Day 7 and WP Daily Prompt: Outlier
Outlier
Born to privilege, propelled to fame.
Everybody knew her name.
Medals and trophies filled her shelves.
Her friends regretted they were themselves,
not wanting to be who they were,
wanting to be just like her—
noted for her style and grace—
slim of figure, fair of face.
Yet all her silver, all her gold
could not dispel the biting cold
of her mother’s distant smile.
She could not purchase or beguile
or win that thing that she most wanted.
With craving it, her dreams were haunted.
The lack of it cut like a knife.
She could not win her father’s wife.
For NaPoWriMo, the prompt today is to write a poem about luck or fortune. For WordPress, it is “outlier.”
Party House Doors: Thursday Doors, Apr 6, 2017
When the traffic cone lights are lit, it is party time in this house!
Click to enlarge photos.
For Norm’s Thursday Doors prompt.
Heliconia, Flower of the Day, Apr 6, 2017
Love this more fragile red variety of heliconia in my friend’s garden in La Manz. Home now where the jacarandas are in full bloom and I’m sneezing and hearing, sort of, through blocked ears. They are beautiful, though. Other than that, nice to be home.
https://ceenphotography.com/2017/04/05/flower-of-the-day-april-6-2017-helibore/
