Picking Your Pieces
Invest in possibilities and bifurcate your worries.
Soon enough these balmy days will change to winter’s flurries.
But why let future problems intercede today?
Best enjoy the present and put future woes away.
Being in a smaller pond makes you a bigger fish,
so whatever your situation, exercise your swish
and live your life with flair and joy. Wring all the zest from life.
It does no good to drown yourself in thoughts of gloom and strife.
Sometimes I find that in this life I get what I expect,
so when life hands you troubles, why don’t you just object
and turn those woes to prospects and insist on being chipper?
Why choose to be a pessimist when optimism’s hipper?
You might call me a dreamer, but that’s okay with me.
Why be imprisoned by your doubts when you could be free?
Life needn’t be a puzzle. It can be a quest.
Pick out the parts that you prefer and throw away the rest.
The prompt for My Vivid Blog today was “Flurries.”
For Sunday Trees 574
Indigo
The color known so well by teens
that is used to color jeans?
Bet you thought, as I thought, too,
indigo was a shade of blue.
Yet, upon further inspection
during internet detection,
it seems more pupleish a hue
which transforms itself to blue.
For dVerse Poets Quadrille Monday the prompt is “indigo.” (Image by Levi Strauss)
To read more Indigo poems, go HERE.
How the Mighty Will One Day Fall
I would pay a pretty tuppence
to see his highness get his comeuppance.
His smug assurance, his galling preening.
He’s like a babe in need of weaning,
sucking at the teat of fame.
What other mortal needs his name
written on towers around the world?
He’s Ozymandius, stone lip curled
in cruel splendor, sure in his power
reasserted on every tower.
But remember, as he counts each coup,
how all the mighty have fallen, too.
False knights wear armor prone to tarnish.
His Midas touch will lose its varnish.
We’ll laud the day when he’ll be dumped—
That day when he’ll be over-trumped!
For: https://weeklyprompts.com/2025/02/22/weekly-prompts-the-one-day-prompt-10/
For Flashback Friday we are asked to rerun an earlier blog published on this day. I’m reblogging one from Feb 21 of 2017. Click on link below to see the blog and then on each photo to enlarge the photos:
https://judydykstrabrown.com/2017/02/21/looking-down-on-things/
In Person
I am the emptiness in you that glues the parts of you together.
I form those other worlds that are the universe inside of you.
I have a language all my own that speaks through your voice.
There is something holding us together, something keeping us apart.
You are that part of me that only I can search for.
You are the part I wrap myself around.
You are the mystery that forms the game of my life.
When I am alone, you create in me the opposite of loneliness.
They are the full cast of my life.
They come together when I am willing to let both of them go.
I let them take turns being my guide.
It is in getting lost in them that I let myself be found.
For SOCS the prompt is “in person.”
For Fibbing Friday, Feb 21, 2025 the challenge is to define the following:
1. What is a quaver? It is an over-the-shoulder receptacle for arrows in Louisiana.
2. If you didn’t know a door as a door, what would you call it? An In-or-Outer.
3. 007 has a license to kill, but what would an 010 have a license for? To drive a ten-speed bicycle.
4. Define Corybantic. One member of a comedy duo known for their ribald humor..
5. What does Crinkum-crankum mean? An invitation to come witness Rin and Ran in an X-rated movie.
6. What is a Cacodemon ? Satan with dysentery.
7. What would you do with a collop? Answer it.
8. What is a curlicue? A cookout for doggies.
9. Who or what is a cootie? An attractive young pigeon.
10. What is an erf? The sound made by a dog with a speech impediment.
Image thanks to z-grills Austalia.
Dropped Glove
When love first blooms it seems eternal love
Impossible that it might fall away
What use is love that doesn’t choose to stay?
At first love seems to fit one like a glove
that warmly cloaks our hand both night and day
When love first blooms it seems eternal love
Impossible that it might fall away
We know not what love’s garment is made of.
We only note when it begins to fray
and loosens more and more along the way.
When love first blooms it seems eternal love
Impossible that it might fall away
What use is love that doesn’t choose to stay?
For dVerse Poets we were to write a Madrigal poem. Here are the rules for an English Madrigal: :Content: Often includes a theme of love
*Usually written in iambic pentameter.
*Comprised of three stanzas: a tercet, quatrain, and sestet.
*All three of the lines in the opening tercet are refrains.
Form: A thirteen-line form in three stanzas:
Stanza 1] Tercet -Three lines
Stanza 2] Quatrain – Four lines
Stanza 3] Sestet – Six lines
[L1] A (refrain 1)
[L2] B1 (refrain 2)
[L3] B2 (refrain 3)
[L4] a
[L5] b
[L6] A (refrain 1)
[L7] B1 (refrain 2)
[L8] a
[L9] b
[L10] b
[L11] A (refrain 1)
[L12] B1 (refrain 2)
[L13] B2 (refrain 3)
Go HERE to read other poems created to this prompt.
Simplicity
Trying to keep it simple is harder than you think.
Each time I straighten out my life, fate adds another kink.
For Moonwashed Musings,
To see other responses to the prompt, go HERE.
