Author: rugby843

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Winds ramped up,
Detached the spheres of color
In leaf piles, awaiting death in plastic bags or funeral pyres
Such a shame, such sadness for my heart
What once adorned plain brown limbs with incredible colors, and shapes
Now reduced to blackened ash debris.

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https://dversepoets.com/2022/04/04/dverse-monday-quadrille-149-tis-the-season/

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https://godoggocafe.com/2022/04/05/tuesday-writing-prompt-challenge-april-5-2022/

From 2012, “Argo” now steaming on Netflix is another movie worth watching. It is suspenseful and based on actual events.

Side note:

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Catching up, so from yesterday-and fitting in for today also, a film with a number in title and from the 70s- “The Taking of Pelham 123”.

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vacant eyes staring

feet planted, fixed under sand

sorrows remembered

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https://ronovanwrites.com/2022/04/04/ronovan-writes-weekly-haiku-poetry-prompt-challenge-404-eyes-and-sand/?like_actor=102337606&like_hmac=ec552ce6b4b6fa2c1e36b32d838e990d&postid=168602&like=1&source=sub_email

“Why do you always have to ruin everything! Now take your pampered spoiled self back home and if and when you return, show some concern for the departed!”

Joe didn’t consider himself henpecked, but his drunken disheveled appearance at his father-in-law’s funeral epitomized his hate for the man and his marriage as a whole.

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https://pensitivity101.wordpress.com/2022/04/04/three-things-challenge-/ Your three words today are:
PAMPER
SPOIL
RUIN

https://onedailyprompt.wordpress.com/2022/04/4/your-daily-word-prompt-Epitomize-ydwordprompt-april-4-2022/

https://cyranny.com/2022/04/04/concern-word-of-the-day-challenge/?like_actor=102337606&like_hmac=1ad5f80c1e1b0c568cd8a0e13216b6f9&postid=62079&like=1&source=sub_email

https://ragtagcommunity.wordpress.com/2022/04/04/rdp-monday-dishevel/?like_actor=102337606&like_hmac=80bd833eb41ece8c3861a3f04a9445d6&postid=12933&like=1&source=sub_email

https://fivedotoh.com/2022/04/04/fowc-with-fandango-henpecked/?like_actor=102337606&like_hmac=9f6e5b22d2ae39492a800be8caace101&postid=68645&like=1&source=sub_email

You get a shiver in the dark
It’s a raining in the park but meantime-
South of the river you stop and you hold everything
A band is blowing Dixie, double four time
You feel alright when you hear the music ring

Well now you step inside but you don’t see too many faces
Coming in out of the rain they hear the jazz go down
Competition in other places
Uh but the horns they blowin’ that sound
Way on down south
Way on down south
London town

You check out guitar George, he knows-all the chords
Mind, it’s strictly rhythm he doesn’t want to make it cry or sing
They said an old guitar is all, he can afford
When he gets up under the lights to play his thing

And Harry doesn’t mind, if he doesn’t, make the scene
He’s got a daytime job, he’s doing alright
He can play the Honky Tonk like anything
Savin’ it up, for Friday night
With the Sultans
We’re the Sultans of Swing

Then a crowd a young boys they’re a foolin’ around in the corner
Drunk and dressed in their best brown baggies and their platform soles
They don’t give a damn about any trumpet playin’ band
It ain’t what they call Rock and Roll
And the Sultans
Yeah, the Sultans, they play Creole
Creole

And then the man he steps right up to the microphone
And says at last just as the time bell rings
“Goodnight, now it’s time to go home”
Then he makes it fast with one more thing

“We are the Sultans
We are the Sultans of Swing”

Source: LyricFind. Songwriters: Mark Knopflet Sultans of Swing lyrics © Universal Music Publishing Group

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He was a dancer swarthy and smooth.

All the girls loved him cause he broke the rules.

The instructor said “stay at arms length in between”.

But Raoul ignored him and often was seen.

Getting closer and closer as the rhythm increased.

All the while partners’ hormones released.

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https://girlieontheedge1.wordpress.com/2022/04/03/sundays-six-sentence-story-word-prompt-206/l

I suppose everyone thinks they are courteous—in their own minds of course, but are they really?

It only takes a second or two to hold open a door, say please or thank you, but it is rarely heard out in public now. We are more likely to hear a couple of people arguing, saying F you or worse and out loud voicing their personal opinions about others’ clothes, manner, orientation, race, etc with not a shred of remorse.

If you watched the news about the Academy Awards and saw Will Smith slap Chris Rock, even though he might have deserved it, it was not surprising. I like both celebrities but Chris Rock made a rude joke and should have been admonished, but behind the scenes. I used to watch comedians a lot but now they are so blatantly rude I don’t care to hear them.

In general, my opinion (and you know I always have one🙄) is that general courtesy went missing even before the pandemic. Anything and I mean anything goes these days.

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