Today’s prompt: seven, solution, laugh
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Come on, seven, eleven!
Jack threw the dice
Then had to look twice
His luck was iffy
Shot the dice in a jiffy
Hoping for a solution
For his debt situation
Fate had a laugh
Snake eyes the draft
Now Jack’s bond is increased
Jail time with no release.
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https://lightmotifs.wordpress.com/2019/08/07/three-things-challenge-pl144/
A hot sunny day and Sarah still had not completed her task. The cordoned off lavender garden was so overgrown it was surrounding the now inaccessible respite. She remembered days of sitting opposite her grandmother, iced tea or lemonade and a spread of cookies she loved on the white iron table. Those memories visited her as she worked to revitalize the rest of the gardens her grandmother shared with the public. It was her life work, and now it fell to Sarah to keep the legacy of beauty.
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“Round and round, up and down,”. Chubby Checker and Joey Dee and the Starlighters were dancing and singing these words in “Peppermint Twist”. I liked that song, danced to it, not really knowing it was only a metaphor of the roller coaster road of life.
We all lead these lives, if we really live at all. You struggle, anticipate when to reach the top, not realizing once you’re there, it lasts only a few seconds before you plunge down uncontrollably. Do we ever have control, or as some people believe, life is ordained, set in stone already when you’re born?
Your path will be shown to you, another belief. Numerology believes in dates of your birth, palm readers look at lines in your hand, seekers of truth on mountain tops want you to look inside yourself for your truth. Who really knows when the roller coaster will end, or how many twists and turns will take you to the edge only to be relieved at the calm plane once again?
I think no one, no belief can tell you. You just have to sit under the bar, pull it down hard and hold on for dear life. Because life, no matter how wild, is dear.
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(Teer or tare?). Which does your mind choose today? Or could I choose both in which a tear tears my heart once again?
https://cyranny.com/2019/08/08/tear-word-of-the-day-challenge/#like-49211
The scene before me has not changed
Wars held here over centuries
Empty now of canons, blood of the young
All decayed and disappear from time to time
Seeping into the space.
The hungry ground is waiting
For there is always another war
The dreams of peace ceased by tyrants.
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https://scvincent.com/2019/08/08/thursday-photo-prompt-within-writephoto/
Masterpiece Theater on PBS Sunday evenings – it doesn’t get any better than this:
This season’s cast: Robson Green, Tessa Peake-Jones, Al Weaver, Tom Brittany. James Norton’s character is pictured below. First episodes, season one and behind the scenes all available at PBS.org, YouTube, etc. The best deal to watch from the beginning is getting a PBS passport which allows access to all the shows.
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I wish
They weren’t just paper
We need dragons today
Not guns, to clear troubles away
I wish stamps could be magic
Just peel and stick
They’ll do the trick
If wishes were horses it has been said
It would be easy, nothing more to dread.
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Now that’s surreal.😎
I come into this paradise
I bring my voice
I decide to settle in for a while
I lie back against your rough bark
I stretch my legs on your brown carpet
I listen to your voice, your plentiful music
And then when I am accepted
By my surroundings
When all is quiet
And previously timid creatures gather round
I smile, as all is content and waiting
I slowly open the case and reveal
My voice, my effort, my feelings
I fix my fingers on the keys
Blowing a soft sweet sound
Resonating through trees and leaves
Hoping to communicate
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100 words
https://bikurgurl.com/2019/08/07/100-word-wednesday-week-132/#like-32387
I was about to write about guns and the NRA, which seems surreal to me, but thought no. . . art.
https://fivedotoh.com/2019/08/07/fowc-with-fandango-surreal/#like-33443
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