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It’s National Read A Book Day…whatcha’ reading? What’s a book you want to read? I am reading “Alone at Dawn” : “Medal of Honor Recipient John Chapman and the Untold Story of the World’s Deadliest Special Operations Force. Book by Dan Schilling and Lori Longfritz” — Goodreads

Which is better…having high expectations or low expectations? Explain why. Always expect the best!

Serenity is being with my family.

What’s the most interesting thing in your purse or pocket right now? I never wear anything with pockets except a sweater in the cold. I don’t carry a purse – a backpack only that probably the most interesting thing is a pack of Mamba Fruit Chews.

What helps you calm down? Reading

Autumn is coming🍁my favorite!

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• Write a two-stanza acrostic poem for the words “Beach Balls”;
  • Thematic: The theme is “holiday thoughts”;
  • Rhyming: In each of your poem’s two stanzas, the 1^st line must rhyme with the 3^rd line; the 2^ndline must rhyme with the 4^th line; and the 5^th line need not rhyme.

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🟰🟰🟰🟰Completely missed it was acrostic 😳🤯. So trying this again:

Blue spheres

Each with stripes

Arching here

Children sights

Having fun in the sand

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Bouncing balls

All in fun

Little child calls

Laughing ones

Showing sand filled shoes

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W3 Prompt #71: Wea’ve Written Weekly

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Write a poem that takes us on a walk with you! Be specific in your imagery so we’re right there with you!

Post the poem to your blog AND add the exact URL for your poem to Mr. Linky below.

REMEMBER to either TAG dVerse in your post, or include a link at the end of your poem that leads readers back to dVerse (https://dversepoets.com).

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Take a Walk with Me!

NPR: Scott’s Thoughts

Nextrecord Archives/Getty Images America observes Labor Day weekend with mattress sales, picnics and political speeches. In the movies, more tech-created superheroes show up than labor and working-class characters. Here are a few films you might want to watch this weekend that feature the hearts and minds of working men and women:

🍇 The Grapes of Wrath (1940): John Ford masterfully captures John Steinbeck’s novel about the Dust Bowl trek of the Joad family. “I’ll be everywhere,” Henry Fonda as Tom Joad tells his mother. “I’ll be in the way kids laugh when they’re hungry, and they know supper’s ready, and when the people are eatin’ the stuff they raise and livin’ in the houses they build — I’ll be there, too.”

🌊 On the Waterfront (1954): Director Elia Kazan sparked controversy by naming names during the McCarthy period. But this film’s moving portrayal of dockworkers and corruption among those who claim to represent them is beyond dispute. Says young Marlon Brando, as Terry Malloy: “Conscience — that stuff can drive you nuts!”

🚗 Blue Collar (1978): Shot on location at a car factory in Detroit, Richard Pryor, Yaphet Kotto, and Harvey Keitel are auto workers on the line. “They pit the lifers against the new boys, the young against the old.”

🏭 Norma Rae (1979): Sally Field plays an Alabama textile worker based on the real Crystal Lee Sutton, who climbs atop her worktable and writes “UNION” for her co-workers to see. Their machines fall silent in solidarity.

Maybe the likes of Tom Joad, Terry Malloy, and Crystal Lee Sutton are the real superheroes.

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Only a sliver, she professed at the table
Spoken by marvelous Mable
A delight in her manner and smile
Even though all the while
Her so called friends turned their backs
Standing envious in a pack
Gossiping that Mable had a serious diet lack.

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Weekend Writing Prompt #327 – Magniloquent

Joe’s scattered ingenuity punctuated his every day job. He wanted to be the “one”, the select, not the ordinary man everyone thought him to be. The quality of the unusual remained elusive for Joe.

As he turned the piece of amber in his hands, watching the sunlight show the mix of hues in the stone, he realized he was similar—with unflagging attempts to be what it was not—a gemstone, and the changes it had gone through, being buried for centuries and still have a life of beauty.

Wordle #338

Share your World 4th September