yellow is the key
umbrella hiding
unsure of the canary
but it is yellow
arrived or leaving in a yellow car
posture indicates unsuredness
is she leaving or just now sitting
the canary speaks for her
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dVerse – Open Link Night 372, Thursday, October 24 – Ekphrastic Options
Everyone thought it was a party boat, a little cruise, a little booze, a possible schmooze, what could be the harm? That’s what Joe hoped they all would think as he planned a two in the morning robbery of each millionaire on board. Apparently Joe didn’t think things through.
Joe jumped overboard, was picked up by the harbor patrol, and had a hard time explaining what he was doing in the water a long ways from shore in the middle of the night.
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25 October 2024
A is for autumn
Unusual colors in trees
Trees overjoyed with attention
Under a graying sky
Monstrous sculptures for Halloween
Nearly chilled for winter
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Winter brings a lovely look
Indigenous trees look bare
Nicely swept sidewalks clear
Thanksgiving dinners done
Every child looks for snow
Riding a sled down hills
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Spring a favorite
Preferable greens
Renewal of leaves
Interchanging temperatures
New buds on branches
Green leaf curls unfurling
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Summer, the child’s delight
Usual school is out
Mountain vacation trips
Mutual sleepovers with friends
Every stream investigated
Rarely a dull moment
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W3 Prompt #130: Wea’ve Written Weekly
Your three words today are: OUTRAGE CROSS LIVID.
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Has it ever crossed your mind why people take a job they probably don’t like, don’t try to do it well, and provide no excuse for their inefficiency? I find it outrageous that so many businesses employ this type of person.
Today I spent three and a half hours talking to two different businesses and I still don’t have the impression I’ll be served. My original call was on the 16th to both places and I took notes as usual. I didn’t hear anything or receive my medical supplies, so I called again yesterday. Both places had “no record” of my calls.😳🤯. I should not have been surprised but I was, even at my age you’d think I’d know better.
Today I recalled both to make sure everything was copacetic and of course it was not. Needless to say I was livid but remained calm on the phone. Afterwards I was so upset I couldn’t say anything to anyone. After lunch, I’m now resigned to the fact that if everyone does their actual F-ing job, I might get the medical supplies I need.😖
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Three Things Challenge #M856
Having elders, treat with respect
Subtle feelings they can detect
Family love is the connect
There’s always time to let them know.
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Ovi Poetry Challenge 71: RESPECT is your inspiration.
Working on costumes back in the day
Every child wanted a certain way
To be funny or scare someone
Imagination soaring getting them done
Would they be happy to be a boxed tv
A monster, or some sports guy they had seen
Or a princess with a flowing dress
Sewing, cutting, making a mess
I remember my girl as Elizabeth the Queen
Remaking my prom frock so she would reign supreme
Memories of these times are not scary at all
Its nostalgia with my children and into it we fall.
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Writing Prompts
There’s no better time than this moment to open the window (or patio door in my case) and yell: “I’m as mad as hell and I can’t take it anymore!” Details in another post.
One-Liner Wednesday – No better time
Jealousy
She always looked good in green
Most compliments were when seen
Wearing different shades and hues
That is why she’d always choose
Clothing that suited her red hair
Contrasting nicely with greenish fare
Only after she fell for him
Green was the unwelcomed trim
He loved her for a moment true
Then suddenly out of the blue
He met another lover girl
Danced with her for a short whirl
Then the lady who wore green
Flaming hair’s temper keen
Her body now never seen
Jealousy had turned it green.
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This Week’s Writer’s Workshop Prompts – October 22, 2024
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An evening illusion—
Look out into my yard
I want and need the dream today
Visions of fairies at play
Sometimes it takes fabrication or a wish
To keep trudging on in the everyday.
How free they are dancing in moonlight
I may try it, to manage the fight
Floating, flying in moonlight
Pretending the fantasy.
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Moonwashed Weekly Prompt – Pretend
So your challenge is to either use repetition as a rhetorical device (repetition of a word or phrase or line) in constructing your poem; or to write a poem that centers around a motto, your own or perhaps passed down in your family or in your culture, showing how it’s been used or misused. Or, if you’re ambitious, see if you can do a combination of the two (as in “Deor’s Lament” & Angelou’s “Still I Rise”).
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It’s all good
That’s what they always say
Everything may not be with us
No one says anything except
It’s all good.
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It’s all good
Mantra from a busy woman
Discarding thoughts of inadequacy
Tries to think
It’s all good.
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It’s all good
Covers a number of feelings
Hidden thoughts lurk in your mind
Outwardly, though
It’s all good.
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Poetics: Of Mantras, Repetita Juvant
The Bag Lady 
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