The Secret of Change Is to Focus All of Your Energy, Not on Fighting the Old, But on Building the New – Socrates
“Ooh, Barry, you’re so warm and cuddly! I could just fall in love with your soft brown fur.”
“Anything you want, sweetie.”
“Do you like my dress? I wore it especially for you, it even matches the snow!”
“You know it, baby.”
“Ooh, Barry, hold me tighter, it’s cold out here! Maybe we should go in the cave and warm up.”
“Sure, baby, but it’s only a rental, so I have to be back by nine.”
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He crawled up out of the rathole, anxious to rinse his body in the rain. The stench of it was beginning to cling and offend even his insipid senses. He decided to journey to the grass nearby, just to spruce himself up a bit and decompress from the last few days of debauchery. He was only an insect, with few friends, and lets face it, his lifespan was entirely too short.
He tried to steer himself carefully, avoiding the quick footfalls or swats that all creatures like him had to endure. It was becoming less and less easy accomplishing this feat. His age was making his body deteriorate fast these days–one reason he spent his nights in the rathole.
Larry lived life to the fullest every night since his conversation with Joe ten days ago. Joe always thought he was an expert on everything and never spared Larry any gruesome details on their lives as moths. Learning the sad fact their lifespan was only a few months, he was determined to meet, mate, and party as much as he could.
Joe advised against this, always pointing out the downside of such activity. “The more you expose yourself, the more chance you’ll find yourself in a museum, impaled on a hatpin!”
Larry didn’t take Joe’s advice, and loved the nightlife. He didn’t have to be suave or romantic, his female companions only lived a few days, so why get involved? He was devil-may-care Larry, the lepidoptera.
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Dragonfly beauty
Mysterious and complex
Multi faceted
So delicately arranged
Slim body, gossamer wings
Colleen’s Weekly #Tanka Tuesday #Poetry Challenge No. 81, ENCHANT & SHAPE, #SynonymsOnly
Scraggly scary trees
Frighten you to my embrace
The moon is too bright
My plan for romance thwarted
Evidence of fear too great
#Weekly Tanka Prompt #Poetry Challenge – Week 94 – Moon & Romance
An Unusual letter, certainly over-Used by people across the pond. : )
No offense, after all, we Americans just borrowed your English language and tweaked it a bit!
Wracked my small brain to find anything Useful to put here. My first thought was a comedic actor in some series somewhere that would often exclaim “Unbelievable!” but I couldn’t remember who it was to find him.
So this is it people, no outstanding Use of U.
Is it an angel we need
Before we jump the cliff
Visible through the night
There are no fake scars
Memories refusing to fade
It’s easier in the day
Light hides them in shadows.
Filaments of frustration occur when you contemplate the loss of some great people.
There’s nothing vague about the struggles and pain of war torn countries and their inhabitants. What is vague is our response, as privileged Americans. We talk a big game but actually very few organizations or wealthy businesses do much to help with recovery, such as medical supplies or personnel to rebuild or service these victims. Earth day came and went, but war, desolation, starvation, pollution, and homelessness keep on thriving. Children growing up never feeling safe or having a full stomach, or a warm bed, never knowing if they’ll wake up to another day….what must that be like? This was so sad in the movie “Hair”, but I thought of it today. Ffwd to point 1:30 minute to start.
Ts for Today:
Terrific
Thankful
Talented
Tough
Tolerant
Talkative
Tenacious
Tall-ish
Trim
Touching
Troublesome
Teenaged
Just a few words to describe my grandson Jesse who’s receiving a reward today and tomorrow. ❤️💜💚🎉🎊🤠
Went to the movies yesterday, saw “A Quiet Place”. The ads make it look scary but it’s almost a milder version of “Aliens” which I thought was really scary. It was 1986 and cgi wasn’t as perfected as it is now. Monsters created in the series “Lost in Space” seem silly now, but when you heard “danger, danger, Will Robinson”, you knew Robbie the Robot would save the day. One of the scariest movies I ever saw was “The Twilight Zone”. (Dan Ackroyd: “Want to see something really scary?”)
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“This tribute to the beloved supernatural TV show has four episodes. In the first, racist Bill Connor (Vic Morrow) is transformed into a Jew in World War II. Next, Mr. Bloom (Scatman Crothers) comes to a retirement home to teach the residents that they are only as young as they feel. In the third, teacher Helen Foley (Kathleen Quinlan) meets Antony (Jeremy Licht), a boy who is not what he seems. Finally, panicky plane passenger John Valentine (John Lithgow) sees gremlins attacking his flight.
Directors: Steven Spielberg, John Landis, Joe Dante, George Miller“
