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For Fibbing Friday

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For Fibbing Friday, this week’s assignment is:

Mixed bag of silliness this week:
Your suggestions for these please!

1.  What is a mamba? A mother sheep.
2.  What is a rumba? A negative response to any drink made with Bacardi.
3.  What is a samba? The result of Sam Shepherd taking his name seriously.
4.  What is a metronome? An elf living in a city.
5.  What is a mantra? Someone who has transitioned from female to male.
6.  What is a salsa? It is a condiment often matched with pepper, ma’am.
7.  What is a cappella? A small hat.
8.  What is canasta? A tubular lidded container for storing flour or other kitchen staples.
9.  What is alabaster? How liquid is dispersed over meat while cooking.
10. What is a stanza? An abbreviation for street and half of the name of a Gabor sister.

Mostly Covered

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Mostly Covered

Sheep keep snug because they’re fully
covered by a coat that’s wooly
rising right up from their thighs
to the heads above their eyes.
(Though why their legs and feet aren’t covered,
not one of us has yet discovered,)

 

The two remaining prompt words today are wooly and rise.
Neither of these prompts had been published yet when I wrote my earlier poem, so here they are with one of their very own. Image by Judith Prins on Unsplash.

More Than 5 Items–Cee’s Fun Foto Challenge,

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The largest head is a portion of a larger sculpture that blew apart in the wood-fired kiln of my favorite pottery studio.  The tall sculpture and plate are also by the same artists.  The bowls are pre columbian, The glazed vase in back contemporary Colombian. The Frida/doe sculpture in front is a piece I bought unpainted from a Michoacan artist. I added the thorns.  Its fragile antlers and legs have been broken off so many times as Yolanda dusted them that after my last repair job,  I finally put it up too high for her to reach.IMG_1328As I pulled into the upwardly inclined cobblestone road that leads up to my house, this herd of sheep came charging across the road.  Luckily, my camera was close at hand.  They streamed onto a vacant lot and as the rest grazed, one with illusions of grandeur sought out the highest hillock to become king of his own small mount.

http://ceenphotography.com/2015/07/07/cees-fun-foto-challenge-more-than-5-items-2/