I love this subtle little flower that likes to grow where it is hardest to do so. Thanks, Sam, for identifying it for me.
For Cee’s FOTD. See her pretty blue daisy HERE.
More Prairie Verbena: FOTD Feb 22, 2023
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Kiss and Tell
“How quick come the reasons for approving what we like.” – Jane Austen
Kiss and Tell
How did you make your way into my heart?
Quick, tell the answer before we next part.
Come into my comfort, then comfort me back.
The way of the pair beats the way of the pack.
Reasons are given for all that we do—
For the ways that we love and the ways that we woo.
Approving my actions in loving you is
What wins you my love and wins you this kiss.
We swear to each other that we will be true
Like all the lovers in storybooks do.
Like brides and their bridegrooms and lieges and kings,
We shall swear our obeisance and seal it with rings.
What others have done is what we will do.
Approving tradition will make one of two.
For the rest of our lives, if they revile and chide us,
Reason’s just one of the things that will guide us.
The love we keep strong will keep us together.
Come be my steed, and I’ll be thy tether.
Quick, take my hand and give me thy pledge.
How we’ll kiss in the meadow and roll in the sedge.
For dVerse Poets
This is actually a poem I wrote 8 years ago, inspired by a line of Jane Austen’s. Read the first word in each of my lines to see her line, first forward and then backwards.
and HERE is the prompt, if you’d like to kiss and tell yourself.
Fat Tuesday, San Juan Cosala, Mexico, Feb. 21, 2023
Friends as messy as you are.
Men and Boys dressed up as women and girls, bushels of flour flung through the air. Must be Fat Tuesday! I’d brushed myself off before these photos were taken. More surprises awaited when I disrobed to shower, however! I could have baked a loaf of bread!!!
Pull Up A Chair, Feb 21, 2023
For the Pull up a Seat Challenge.
Me, at age 2, journeying into inner spaces.
Click on photos to enlarge.
A Cautionary Tale
A Cautionary Tale
I’m held spellbound by your plan. It is ingenious for sure.
You might be a benefactor and your motives may be pure,
but still you are a diplomat and know your way around
all of the maneuverings that daily may be found
in politics and daily life and so I wonder why
the minute that I said I’d sell, you made an offer to buy.
Is it, as you say, because you know I need the cash,
or are your motives otherwise and have I been too rash
in leaping at your offer? Perhaps I’ll look around
and see if there’s a better deal waiting to be found.
Conspiracies are floating ’round. I hear there is an air full.
In politics and real estate, you cannot be too careful.
Prompt words today are spellbound, why, benefactor, ingenious, diplomatic. Image by Maria Lin Kim Luhn on Unsplash
Kalanchoe: FOTD Feb 21, 2023
These look a bit like wallpaper or an image from an oilcloth tablecloth, but the photo was taken in my front yard.
For Cee’s FOTD
Sculptress
Sculptress
The lady cuts a slab of stone
and in the twilight, works alone.
Attempts to carve and chip and sand
with a sure and steady hand
interpretations of her heart
as she tears the stone apart.
She gauges well, and when it’s split,
she finds that she’s well pleased with it.
One heart of stone broken in two
is what she gives the world to view.
The rock has done what she has bidden:
revealed the heartbreak she has hidden.
Prompt words today are twilight, attempt, gauge, interpret, slab and lady.
February Bouquet: FOTD Feb 20, 2023
Passages, for Wordle 593
Passages
Stalks of elderberries throw arms up to the sky
and thistles sheet my pants cuffs as I go wandering by.
A lonely crow deserts his branch to crest the sheltering trees,
wings laboring to make use of the essence of a breeze.
Its loss sets up a wispy tremor in the depths below
as it lifts above the branch that wavers to and fro.
The world thus marks the passage of every living thing.
What will we leave or will we take when our souls take wing?
For Sunday Whirl Wordle 593 the prompts nearly write the poem itself: sheet elder thistle throw stalks loss crow tremor crest wispy depths sky
Pro or Con?
Pro or Con?
Sternutation means to sneeze—
(to create a noisy breeze)
but no one knows what perturbation
might be set off by a sternation.
Could it be the sternum’s action
when it raises in reaction
caused by the excessive sneezing,
coughing, sputtering and wheezing
brought on by the summer gusts
that stir up pollen, raise up dust?
At the height of of last year’s forum
where we barely drew a quorum,
we discussed the summer pollen
that had lately daily fallen.
Prodigals returning home
bemoaned the flower bits and loam
raised into the gusty air
that stripped the flowers and pathways bare.
It’s true folks stare when you are sneezing,
but perhaps you find this pleasing.
If raised sternums cause sternation,
causing your lungs full dilation,
perhaps it is good for you
to rid your lungs of dust and goo.
So tell me, when you’re on vacation,
Are you pro or consternation?
Prompt words today are forum, height, stare, prodigal, summer and consternation.
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