Thanks to Rebecca and Rita for telling me this is a yarrow flower! It is from my friend Patty’s garden in Wyoming. It is a very large head, similar to a cauliflower. You can judge by the size of the bee.
For Cee’s FOTD
If I had to look back through all the photos I’ve taken this year, it would take hours, so I’ve chosen to present four of my favorites from this month. Help me decide which one to cut, please. This prompt limits me to three. I’m decisioned out so I’m relying on you to help me pick the best three.
favorite views from the past month. For: https://www.toonsarah-travels.blog/lens-artists-challenge-picking-favourites/
Zoe was curled all snug in her bed instead of out ripping
up my garden and terrorizing her brothers!
For all of those of you suffering from drought or fire, I offer proof of rain and hope it soon appears in your life.
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Holding on and Letting Go
Invariably, our enemies will become more surreal,
flushed into our memories—consigned to how we feel.
Every niggling worry and each old friend who’s lost
added to dreadful feelings that leave us tempest-tossed.
Life seeks remuneration, be it justified or not,
and we pay with guilt for sorrows that we might have wrought.
Time renders us more docile but our guilts become much stronger,
until we decide that we can deal with them no longer.
Then life slips away with one long slide and then a gasp
as all that we’ve held onto is released from our tight grasp.
Prompt words today are flush, surreal, docile, remunerated, enemy and invariably.
Seduction
The canvas is my suitor. It holds me in its sway,
seduces me with reaching arms that draw my brush its way.
I paint upon its surface and in turn it draws me out.
All those pains I hide inside on canvas learn to shout.
It stands mostly unnoticed when others are around,
attracting no attention and making not a sound,
but when alone, it prompts me to bare my soul to it,
and all the angst that crowds my mind finds a place to fit.
Written for this prompt: https://lifeafter50forwomen.com/2022/08/01/what-do-you-see-145-august-1-2022/ Image by Marti Alonso @ Unsplash
Romantic Fling
It takes tremendous willpower to duck a louche rogue’s charm,
for something deep within us believes he means no harm.
His appeal is so humongous and his influence so great
that although we know at heart that he’d make a lousy mate,
still we can’t resist him. He piques romantic hopes
that make swashbuckling heroes out of misanthropes.
We bundle up our doubts and cast them overhead,
our fond expectations cancelling out our dread.
We jump into a love story we hope is never-ending,
knowing deep within ourselves its probable sad ending.
But nonetheless, we fall in love, in spite of our friends’ censure,
plunging into a fabulous romance-filled adventure!
Prompt words for today are louche, willpower, pique, humongous,
our and influences.Image by jdb
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