went to the Doctors…got a check-up, a tetanus shot and gave blood for testing…went to the Bank, DIDN’T argue over the latest overdraft…got a little nap, and now it’s back to the “normal” routine–except for going to McDonald’s for Lunch…it’s quicker and cheaper than Subway…in fact, it’s time to go now I think…be back after […]
This Rondelet was written for the CPC Friday Fling poetry challenge. Our theme is to try the Rondelet format and write about something or someone that/who makes you happy. HAPPINESS IS A WARM PUPPY A warm puppy. Peanuts’ Snoopy made us happy. A warm puppy. Nothing, not even a guppy or L’il Abner’s […]
Friday Fling #270 for Febuary 7th 2014 This week we’re featuring not so much a topic as a format. From Shadowpoetry.com: The Rondelet is a French form consisting of a single septet with two rhymes and one refrain: AbAabbA. The capital letters are the refrains, or repeats. The refrain is written in tetra-syllabic (four syllables) or […]
I dunno how, but there has been ANOTHER financial fuck-up with my Bank account…Of course it’s possible that I alone am responsible, but it’s just as possible that I’m NOT…I THINK I have enough money to get to work and back…I have $1 of my own and $3 (in dimes) that I borrowed from a […]
This was written for the CPC Thematic Attic Thursday poetry challenge. Host Bettie is celebrating National Lame Duck Day. LAME DUCK Lame duck, lame duck, why are you lame? Did you get hurt playing the game? Lame duck, lame duck, why can’t you walk? Is it because You can’t walk the talk? Lame duck, […]
Thematic Attic Thursday Nurses A Lame Duck In The Attic! We are discovering that there are all sorts of goofy National Days in the year. ne of them is today, National Lame Duck Day. Encourage your poetic muse to make the most of that concept! As always, our goal is to Be Creative, […]
I think of you from far away I do not know whether hope or illusion, time waits, does not slow down nor consolation, makes your absence friendly shadow that walking beside and more solid and concrete the silence the night cries unheard, defends, clandestine, every single memory, grasping, with my nails, to resume the future. […]
the “good” news? I don’t have to go in to work tomorrow (Wed) until dinnertime…the reason? that’s the bad news–I have (maybe) enuff money to get to work Thursday morning…hopefully I can go to SunTrust to get the paycheck cashed–so I can come home from work on Thursday…I’d rather meet the guy who signs the […]
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Lena Horne – Stormy Weather (1943) The Gaian Dragon I Ching Calendar #18 : Trouble Life always gives you a little bit of trouble to deal with, along with all of the other blessings Provide for difficulties. Duality implies Trouble. Examine both sides of the equation. Solve problems with imagination. Resolve contradictions with insight. Peace […]
