For Cee’s FOTD
Morning Menu
If you desire a breakfast that’s full of health and crunch,
that will cast away your hunger from awakening to lunch,
lay a corn ear perpendicular and mash it all to bits,
relinquishing it’s former shape to turn it into grits.
No one will guess its origin. They will not have a hunch,
but it will solve their appetite if they eat a bunch.
Prompts today are crunch, origin, castaway, perpendicular, breakfast and relinquish.
Here is a short reflection on New Year Resolutions:
New Year Resolutions
When the new year zaps us with our last year’s reflection,
it brings up all our defects and flaws for our detection.
It goads us to be better and to bend our crooked way
to plot a straighter game in life than we’ve been prone to play.
It’s January 1st that prods our consciences to make them,
giving us a whole long year in which to go and break them.
And here is a longer one: https://judydykstrabrown.com/2014/12/22/resolution/
For dVerse Poets: Resolutions
and if you want to read more poems on the subject, go HERE.
When I published the news of my adult coloring book When Old Dames Get Together and Other Confessions of a Ripe Old Age now being available on Audible, I asked anyone who ordered it to send me a photo of their reaction to it—either a photo of them being an Old Dame (Or Old Mister) or some other response. Here is the first response by my friend Linda Crosfield in Canada. Thanks, Linda. My cats agree that it makes a good chair!! 
Poetic License
Pejorative words will not be allowed,
for poetry folk don’t assent to be cowed.
They want to feel wistful and somewhat romantic,
so they won’t put up with language pedantic.
Demur is acceptable. Artsy is cherished,
but flowery’s been banished and stilted has perished.
Inscrutable language is also passé
as is predictable. So déclassé!!!!
Step carefully, then, through the poetic world.
Take care before your words are unfurled.
For poetic license does not give permission
for outright acts of verbal sedition!!!
Prompt words are demur, pejorative, inscrutable, cherished, and wistful. Image by David Beale on Unsplash
Here is yesterday’s hibiscus today For Cee’s FOTD
If you’d like to see what this flower looked like yesterday, go HERE.
Click on Photos to Enlarge.
A day across the lake at Quinta San Carlos and other stops along the way.
Friends Chris and Sherry came to visit with their friends who had mother-and-son pugs. Look at the photos. Need I say more? Their boy fell in love with Zoe. The five pups had a wonderful time charging around the yard and socializing with their humans.
Book Worm
My friend is loose but I’m demur.
She has more fun, you can be sure.
Her blinding smile can motivate
a guy to ask her for a date.
She’s best when she is center stage,
but I prefer the written page—
a square hole with a rounded peg
when I am asked to shake a leg,
I got the brains, she got the looks.
She parties on. I hit the books.
One of us was born to party,
but I’m the one who is the smarty.
Prompt words today are demur, loose, blinding, motivate, shake and stage. Image by Prasanna Kumar on Unsplaxh.
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