This is as close as we get to autumn colors here. There are five of these vibrant new blooms on my hibiscus bush today.
Autumn Colors for CMMC
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Religion and Politics
Religion and Politics
The ductile masses are easily led
either in affection or body or head,
to memorize lies emphatically told
and transformed from listless to dangerously bold.
Facts sprinkled with hatred may cause them to totter,
and thus are men led to riot and slaughter.
The rules of religion devoid of its heart
are often what rip the world’s humans apart.
Rigidity slams the door to detente,
replacing our “should” with what tyrants “want.”
What they call truth is merely illusion,
leading the masses to senseless delusion.
Look to the truth of the holy writ
and try to see who profits from it.
Is it the person making the rules
profiting by their control of fools?
Prompt words are memorize, listless, sprinkle,ductile, slam and emphatically.
Anthuriums: Cee’s FOTD Oct 12, 2022
For Cee’s FOTD
Echeveria: FOTD Oct 11, 2022
These flower-like succulents are more commonly known as Mexican Hen and Chicks. I love them and have them in most of my planters.
For Cee’s FOTD
Irresistible
Irresistible
Dishabille in a manner that other girls seek,
she was blonde and piquant and golden and Greek.
The men swarmed around her every night
named her “Pepperoncini” and all craved a bite.
No one could predict what she’d wear, say or do,
for each day she invented her image anew.
Her restoration might be crazy dresses
a new career or wild colored tresses.
But in spite of the changes—the weird fuss and fiddle,
she remained the fun girl who was caught in the middle.
No change could obscure her irresistible soul
at sixty years young, still every man’s goal.
Prompt words today are dishabille, predict, pepperoncini, restoration and middle.
Broken Resolutions
Broken Resolutions
I admire your resolution as you once more launch a new one.
Eying the lovely ladies, saying you’re not going to woo one,
but I fear your resolution is due to soon elapse
as you inevitably launch into your annual relapse.
The Miss America pageant should commence with a dire warning
lest an evening’s entertainment turn obsessional by morning.
Men such as yourself who are merely Cupid’s dupe
might find themselves trapped helpless like a fly drowned in the soup.
As you dream of Miss Missouri or fixate on Illinois,
you might find yourself transforming into just a boy
and imagine it’s your privilege, perhaps, to have a date
with the prettiest maiden in the next adjoining state.
But, alas, it’s only dreaming—the result of your illusions
that you can live out your most impossible delusions.
All those lovely ladies that you most desire to woo you
are the ones most likely to reject and eschew you
Prompt words today are admire, warning, elapse, launch, soup, privilege .
Nature will Prevail!! FOTD Oct 10, 2022
Click on photos to enlarge.
I am always surprised about how in spite of all we do to contain them or repel them, plants will find a way to make their way into the world.
For Cee’s FOTD
WDYS 154 – Tools and the Man, Oct 9, 2022
I can’t see tools without thinking of my husband Bob who had every tool on earth. Here is a poem I wrote about him. It’s been on my blog before so hope this is acceptable. Click on this link to read the poem: https://judydykstrabrown.com/2016/11/27/you-have-become-the-art-you-lived-for/
Here is a photo of him at his happiest, in the studio creating:
Arches
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Rebuttal
Rebuttal
My waterfall of words is more than just conjecture,
so do not list my weaknesses in yet another lecture.
Misery begets misery. The truth of this is told.
So when you berate me, intimidate and scold,
the intermittent piercings of sharp words I spew out
are but a reaction to the cruelties you tout.
Prompts for today are pierce, intermittent, weakness conjecture, miserable, waterfall. Image by Kusuma on Unsplash.
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