How can anyone resist such an interesting word?
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CODDIWOMPLE JOURNEY
His outing cut short
As he exclaimed this retort
To his mother who scolded
“Come back as you’re tolded”
“My tricycle’s wobbly
I’ll fall, probly”!
And that’s just what he did
With two knees skid.
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A slight bit of poetic license used.
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https://ragtagcommunity.wordpress.com/2018/08/27/monday-prompt-coddiwomple/
Along the same vein as my other posts today, a non traditional Haiku from these prompts appears:
A well known hero
Respected for endeavors
Reviled by coward
RonovanWrites #Weekly #Haiku #Poetry Prompt #Challenge #216 Hero&Coward
How interesting the Prompt this day
While I was busily reading away
It suddenly occurred
How proper is this word
Describing a certain person’s attitude
Who has not a smidgen of rectitude.
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Any guesses?
https://wordofthedaychallenge.wordpress.com/2018/08/27/rectitude/
A rose so beautiful
A fragrant gift from nature
With ivory luster and dew frosted petals
How can mortals conceive
Of such a mystery
Such innocent beauty
So extraordinarily redolent
Appearing from dark soil
‘Tis an offering to be admired.
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This week I give you an interview on the background of making the movie, “Born on the Fourth of July”. There is R rated language in the video, so be warned. I am a product of the sixties, and I believe in the point of this film.
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I have always supported and honored the military, and veterans. I have been alive through a few wars and of course it’s still going on, everywhere, it seems. I saw the results of heros coming home and the mistreatment of Vietnam veterans returning home–a home they should have been welcomed to, but were not.
I won’t get into all the details here, but I think their treatment then and even veterans today, is deplorable. There are organizations such as IAVA that are trying to remedy that. That is just one.
I encourage you all, take your children to the veteran’s hospitals near you, visit, talk to them, show your children what it is to be a soldier, what they have to sacrifice. Maybe if more people did this, the push for warring would diminish.
It’s hard to believe the concept of a world leader who has the ability to wield such powerful weapons has never served in the protection of his so called beloved country. This from CNN today:
Whatever your political beliefs, a hero is a person who puts their life on the line, away from everything they’ve known including family, to serve their country. John McCain was a hero and no president in their right mind should be allowed to criticize, belittle, or dismiss this fact. The idea he tweets is just dishonorable to the office of president.
Share Your World 8-27-18
Hi De Ho fellow citizens of the blogging world! How’s old WP treating you? I hope it’s just fine. Monday and it is getting cooler each week, thank you, thank you. I believe I have an outing on Thursday but plans may change, so you never know. I just go with the flow. And it flows rather quickly. Thanks again to Ceenphotography.com who is challenging us with another set of getting to know you questions and here are my answers:
1. Let me start by saying I love nuts of any kind and I’m not just talking about the weird humans kind. I find that even though I grew up eating walnuts, I’m now allergic to them, which is a pita because I feel they are a necessary ingredient in my banana bread, and other recipes.
2. I have two closet doors facing my bed. One is always closed, hoarding what used to be necessary items. The other door is partially open because of hooks holding a cloth shoe rack with pockets that hold most everything besides two pairs of shoes, such as gloves, scarves, etc.
3. I am usually on time. Being picked up by other people or a bus, I don’t have a choice. A couple of weeks ago I was being driven to Denver by my grandson, who is always early. We had to leave by five AM so I set my alarm for four. At five he knocks on my door and I’m fast asleep, having set my alarm for PM instead of AM. Luckily I could get ready in less than thirty minutes and we ended up early to our Denver appointment.
As ever it will be, I am so grateful to have a loving family. And my oldest sister (88) just got an email account. She’s a wonder, still as funny as ever. You can’t keep a good woman down.❤️
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http://ceenphotography.com/2018/08/27/share-your-world-august-27-2018/
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Looking at this week’s words, my spirit animal came to mind, the dragonfly. I have always been fascinated by them and have their symbol on my blogsite.
At dusk, dragonflies will eat those pesky biting flies and mosquitoes, as they flutter by your being. Their precious tiny body will approach but never bite you. Their mandibles are not strong enough to penetrate your skin. Being hatched under water, they live there for about two years, before emerging to fly, proving they are durable creatures. They have been known to migrate up to 11,000 miles. Their amazing unique ability to fly up and down, reverse in backwards motion, catch and devour their prey has been the envy of flight engineers for years. Companies have tried to make robot fliers resembling these creatures, but so far their efforts have gone awry.
I have always loved them and over the years, many changes, so chose them as my spirit animal:
https://dailyaddictions542855004.wordpress.com/2018/08/26/daily-addictions-2018-week-34/
It was completely vine covered, holding the deepest secrets of the church. Not even old Father Finnegan would enter this part of the sanctuary. The door had no lock but never needed one. All those who opened the door were either instantly drawn in, some literally sucked in a type of vacuum or shoved in by well meaning parishioners. I hesitate for a moment, in writing that, because personally, I believe they were only concerned for their own safety, not of the poor souls interred within the ivied walls.
The chapel in the town of Douganburg used to be a friendly warm place for visitors passing through. It was, until the elders of the church built an addition onto the main structure. The formerly welcoming church now had a feared and separate destination for the poor tortured people in the area. Persons were lured there and unceremoniously pushed inside the green covered addition, all the while unaware of its confinement.
The rumors spread of course, but most curious visitors never dared open the mysterious blue door. What happened inside the door remains unseen and unheard. A few unfortunate mindless and unwanted were also harbored there. Why it was added to the church is a mystery and what happens when a being enters has been a legend in the village for over a hundred years.
https://sundayphotofictioner.wordpress.com/2018/08/25/sunday-photo-fiction-august-26-2018/
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