Double Edged

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Double Edged

For each of us, our pasts are cast
in deeds that bore and flabbergast.
For every act that’s less than vicious,
there is one that’s more pernicious.
Scratchy flannel and itchy wool
are soothed by velvet’s softer pull.
Thus is the hurtful mindless quip
falling from a loved one’s lip
soothed over in our smarting mind
by words more loving and more kind.
Thus do we dig before we plant,
boldly declare and then recant.
Acts alternate from joy to strife
to build an ordinary life.

Prompt words today are wool, quip, pernicious, flabbergast and velvet. Image by Tingey Injury Law on Unsplash

Hibiscus Trio: FOTD March 2, 2022

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For Cee’s FOTD

Chapala Sunset, Feb. 28, 2022 for the Last on the Card Challenge

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I always forget about this challenge until someone else publishes their last photo of the month and so many times have a rather unremarkable photo. This month, Mother Nature helped me out. This was the sunset on February 28. You’ve seen this scene before, but I liked the addition of the bougainvillea poking out into the sunset.

For Bushboy’s Last on the Card Prompt.

Housekeeping (Zoe Chronicle # 10)

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Zoe positively loves her Levis bed that is beside my desk. And, she loves her toys all around her. If I take one of the toys out and toss it onto the floor, she immediately jumps out of bed and gets it and puts it back in the bed. We could repeat this for five minutes, and every time she would immediately replace it. Best roomie I’ve ever had in that respect.

Wars and Dogs and Teddy Bears

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Wars and Dogs and Teddy Bears

Cynophilists and andarctophiles are experts at collecting,
perhaps because they’ve flunked at other methods of connecting.
Wars are staged by countries that believe in hoarding arms.
Ironic that the means for hugs also maims and harms.

My recommendation is that those who make the rules
should be those sent to battle. Arm the presidents and fools
who start the wars—the despots and the senators and kings.
Then let them see what personal riches battle brings.

Let them take the chances fighting wars waged in their name,
so they are the ones slaughtered or made maimed or blind or lame.
The things that one collects should be what they are about
and what we put into the world be all that we take out.

Prompt words today are war, lame, arctophile, chance and recommendation.

Andarctophile, in cast you didn’t already know, is someone who loves or collects teddy bears. The term for those who love dogs is “Cynophilist”. And the love for a dog is called “Canophilia”.

Agave Bloom: FOTD Mar 1, 2022

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For Cee’s FOTD

Cold Assurance

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Cold Assurance

I’m tired of writing alone in my safe room. I crave the cold mountain and my gasps in the thinner air. The threat of clouds. A bleeding sunset that seeps behind an obscuring peak.The small terrors of things heard but unseen in the dark. The press of stones in my back as I roll over in my sleeping bag. Evidence through sensation that I’m still alive.

The comfort of light,
but no form without shadow.
Nature’s cruel truth.

A Cold Mountain Haibun for dVerse Poets
Go HERE to read the prompt.

Morrie’s New Look

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Morrie’s New Look.


Morrie’s Old Look

Lots of excitement on all fronts today, including Morrie’s day at the spa. This is his new look. Cool, huh?

Mr. Wordy

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Mr. Wordy

If you have any questions, he’s there for you to query.
It’s rumored he’s a veritable walking dictionary.
Phrases pile up around him, Paragraphs drift like snow.
He simply has to put in words all that he claims to know.

If you’re breaking the rules of grammar, he’ll put you in your place,
and if you mispronounce a word, he’ll tell you to your face.
He’s a pain to talk to, a vain and tiresome man.
So if it’s possible, I’d say avoid him if you can.

He leaves his words behind him, tracking nouns right down the hall.
Adjectives and participles fall where they may fall.
As rotund in his rhetoric as in his derriere,
if words were spoor, I’m sure that we could track him anywhere!

 

Prompt words are rhetoric, rotund, breaking, spoor and dictionary.

Ghost Hibiscus: FOTD, Feb 28, 2022

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For Cee’s FOTD