Category: Bladder cancer

Daily Prompt: Translate

by rugby843, posted in Bladder cancer

I have a friend from a distant shore

Always asking from me a chore

To write proper English, he advises

Forget American, make compromises.

Being impatient and rather stubborn

I don’t care to change my pattern.

I’ve used our certain words for years

He’s welcome to his, in fact, Cheers!

I call him the dictionarian

No, it’s not a word, just comparing him

Certainly not to Webster’s New World

He just adds the English flag unfurled

Mentions Oxford’s translation prose

I think he’s looking down his nose

At my American poetry verse

And thinks it couldn’t get any worse.

Learned my lesson? Never! Be mute.

To know the word, find the root.

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Prompt-2003-Scuffle

by rugby843, posted in Bladder cancer

When my grandson visits

He gets the fidgets

While watching a movie 

Or even eating.

He is restless I see

He’d rather play with me.

I’m talking cards or games

Both of them tame

His squirming in a chair

And to be fair

I like playing with him

Adjusting to whims

He sometimes cheats

In cards to defeat

His old grandma.

So I don’t let him shuffle

Since he engaged a scuffle

And says, “52 pickup”.

Without a hiccup

He throws the cards.

Since I put up my guard

I’m now more aware

If he wants to play cards

His shuffling is barred.

Prompt #2003 Word of the Week – Scuffle

Three Line Tales-week 55 – Unity

by rugby843, posted in Bladder cancer


Song written by Nile Rodgers and Bernard Edwards

“We are family, I got all my sisters with me, we are family, get up everybody and sing”.

The song came loud over the speakers, and slowly everyone started to sing along. Many of the concert goers started waving their arms as the music grew louder. This is the stuff of concerts.

Everyone in the same groove, swaying, rocking together. It’s a time to let yourself just relax, feel the music and join with the ones around you. It’s a time for feeling at one with the surrounding people. Music can unite you in a way so many other things cannot.

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Prompt-13-Winter

by rugby843, posted in Bladder cancer

One of the things that makes cold less dire

Is having cut wood for a fire

If keeping warm is an absolute must

You need a good axe you can trust

A good set in handle , no junk

A wedge for splitting the big hunk

Grabbing the kindling you might get a splinter

Just one of the hazards to stay warm in the winter.

https://allaboutwritingandmore.wordpress.com/2017/02/16/daily-word-prompt-13-winter/

Daily Prompt:Squat

by rugby843, posted in Bladder cancer

Ok, I’ve read the posts surrounding squat. 

It seems most have asked, “what?”

Is it a bend where you rip your jeans

Or the home of a person with limited means

I don’t think it’s used by ‘tweens

The whole word is limited it seems.

I remember doing aerobic squat thrusts

Apparently one of the exercise musts

I consider them a torture of sorts

Ok, stop those critical snorts

I used to be in terrific shape

I now cover all with a handy cape.

This word has us in a dither

Making us wonder whither

A rhyme is possible for squat

Guess I’ll just stick with Spot.


https://dailypost.wordpress.com/prompts/squat/

100 Word Wednesday: Week 6

by rugby843, posted in Bladder cancer


She did it again, baked my favorite cake. Oh my, just look at that deep, dark, delicious piece of five million calories. And that’s not even counting the lucious, buttery, creamy chocolate frosting! Even just a photo of it makes my mouth water. It’s so beautiful, just sitting there, luring me in to grab it and devour it quick, before anyone sees me. But then, I can’t. This delight can only be tasted slowly, savoring every nuance of flavor for the short time it’s in my mouth. I have to be cautious because this fudgy fate disappears all too quickly.

https://bikugurl2016.wordpress.com/100-Word-Wednesday/Week-6