October Lines in Squares
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Rainy Season Green
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It is certainly the end of the rainy season in my part of Mexico. Everything is lush green.
For Cee’s Fun Foto Challenge: Green
Copa de Oro: FOTD, Oct 29, 2019
For Cee’s FOTD
All Hallow’s Eve
All Hallow’s Eve
The children are ebullient as Halloween grows near—
the day when even scaredy cats put away their fear
and dressed as itchy scarecrows with straw stuck in their britches,
go to meet with zombies and ghosts and ghouls and witches.
Little tiny mummies wound up in mommy’s sheet
naively think they won’t run home at the first witch they meet.
When they knock on neighbors’ doors, it is their fondest wish
that they’ll be met at once with piles of candy in a dish.
M&M’s or Hershey bars, popcorn balls or Snickers.
When their bags get full, they stuff the pockets of their knickers.
If any folks procrastinate in answering their door,
retaliation calls for soaping windows. Maybe more.
Only Scrooges turn out lights, do not hand out treats,
and when they hear their doorbell ring, sit stubborn in their seats.
So get your candy ready, for night will soon be falling
and all your neighbors’ ghoulish kids will for sure be calling!
Prompts today are falling, procrastinate, naive, ebullient and dish.
If you’d like to see a recap of last year’s Halloween in Missouri, here ’tis. https://judydykstrabrown.com/2017/10/31/happy-halloween-from-morehouse-missouri/
Feeling Poorly
Shades of pumpkin face. What I look like!!!
I’ll do you the favor of not taking a selfie of my grotesquely swollen face. A 1 a.m. mad dash to hospital emergency last night did not seem to do anything to solve the problem so I need to be off again to try to find a solution after zero sleep last night. Poor, poor Pearl. What am I doing blogging? Just passing the hours until the lab and dentist office open up. Then another trip to a doctor to get results of blood tests.
Feeling Poorly
The solution to my problem may be labeled as arcane,
for all attempts to solve it have been, alas, in vain.
I’ve visited three dentists but the jagged pain persists,
driven to emergency, gripping the wheel with fists
at 1 am, hoping that I’d soon be on the mend,
but alas is seems as though my pains aren’t going to end.
New antibiotics that have not as yet kicked in,
my pain pills ineffective, I cannot resort to gin.
Two teeth pulsing, face swollen from jaw to cheek to eye.
Skin pulled to the bursting point. I’m barely getting by.
With not one hour of sleep last night, I’d better catch a cab
to take me back to Ajijic for blood tests at the lab.
I’ve got to ask my dentist to try to fit me in,
but all-in-all my patience is wearing rather thin.
Once I’d grown accustomed to all my regular ills,
clear on how to treat them with my handy stash of pills,
it seems that Mother Nature is up to newer tricks.
Is messing with us humans the way she gets her kicks?
If she wants to pay us back for ills that we have done,
could she pick a guiltier target with whom to have her fun?
I’m trying to do right by her by cutting down on trash,
recycling all my plastics, my cardboard and my glass.
And I can give directions to Washington D.C.
so she can plague the guilty guys and lay off li’l ole me!
This is a poor excuse for a poem. Just can’t think of anything else at the moment as I wait for the medical world to awaken. I’ve had a miserable night.
Signs of a sad Halloween
Prompt words today are mend, regular, jagged, arcane and drive.
Beau of the Fifth Column and Climate Change
Forgottenman posted a video of Beau talking about a new report on climate change on his blog last night, and I think this video is probably the most important thing anyone could post right now. I hope you will watch it over on FM’s blog HERE.
Queen’s Tears Bromeliad: FOTD Oct 27, 2019
Little Miracles
This plant is of special significance to me because it grew in profusion from hanging baskets on my porch in Boulder Creek, Ca. For the eighteen years I’ve been in Mexico, I have from time to time looked for it in viveros because it has such a special significance to me, but if it has been there, I’ve overlooked it. But a few days ago, as I was coming back from my front gate, I noticed this bloom growing from a pot. I have no idea how it got there, but it is the Queen’s Tears Bromeliad I’ve been looking for for eighteen years. Little miracles occur every day. What a pleasure that sometimes they make themselves so obvious that we can’t overlook them.
For Cee’s FOTD
Hard Truths from a Best Friend
Hard Truths from a Best Friend
I must derail the rhapsody you’ve treated us to recently
about the new man in your life who’s treated you so decently.
Flowers or candy every date, then wining, dining, dancing.
No man in history ever excelled him in romancing.
It’s been such a whirlwind romance, developing so fast,
but I fear this sudden summer storm is one that will not last.
You may protest I’m flaky and I don’t know what I’m saying,
but I would stake my life on the fact that he’s not staying.
What argument is plausible? What words can I relate
to convince you that your lover is a reprobate?
As your best friend, I must reveal this great love of your life
will fade away on the return of his vacationing wife!
Prompt words today are flaky, rhapsody, derail, plausible and fast.
Housebound Sunbathing: A Photo A Week
Although for the past two years my 18-year-old cat Annie has refused to stir outside the house, she has recently become very enamored of lying below the low light positioned to light up the two stairs that lead up from my bedroom to the hall. I guess it is the next best thing to sunlight! Obviously, the stack of books I had laid there to remind me to take them up to the living room bookcase served as no hindrance to her comfort. (Click on photos to enlarge.)
For Nancy’s A Photo a Week Challenge.
Picky Eaters
Picky Eaters
On this Halloween,
All the zombies hunger for
only Baby Ruth.
For the Halloween Haikai Challenge
