autumn
colorful displays
windswept leaves dancing in circles
tangolike
moving with stealth only revealed
when tree limbs join the rhythm
tense waltz
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I chose the form Cameo, 7 lines unrhymed with a syllable count of 2/5/8/3/8/7/2 and love of the earth card.
TankaTuesday Poetry Challenge: Oracle Card Poetry – Finding Your Joy: 12/16/24
ReShare: Treasuring Poetry-Robbie Cheadle
I would use food like I was having fun and say I just ate an orange, fresh and juicy and perfect but as-my overall opinion hospital food sucks. It’s worse when you decide you don’t want to feel like any food and they send it up anyway – who orders it I don’t know.
To make the whole story lovely – on Friday the sixth I got up early for an appointment at the hospital for an echocardiogram. My legs and arms are feeling weak and I have other symptoms like shortness of breath etc. so we decided we would try an echo to see what was what. Unfortunately as I was getting into the car, my left leg and half hip were in the car on the seat. My leggings are slippery and they started to make me slide off and it took my hip and everything with it and my right leg is still too weak to hold me lately so it started slipping underneath the car, hit car door and when it hit it, my leg actually crunched. I could hear the break the crunch, and it’s separated my knee above the knee and up towards my upper thigh. I was laying there with one hand on the car door and one hand on the seat and I was stuck so when the EMTs came they didn’t know how they should pick me up and finally it was just decided one fell swoop so we did they were really nice and knowledgeable and careful.
So now it is the 15th. I am still in the hospital and will probably be moved to a caring facility tomorrow for rehab. I am not looking forward to this at all. Any slight movement on my leg is not pleasant. But I think it’s what we have to deal with for a while so I am. I imagine this stream of conscious is not very uplifting, maybe I’ll read yours and get lifted up. I can’t get the sound of the crunch out of my head and if you’ve ever seen a slab of wood being just split over somebody’s knee that’s what it sounds like and that’s what it looks like so it was operated on the two bones shifted back together and I don’t know if there’s a screw in there or not so much that it probably is I have no idea.
My apartment is mostly decorated for Christmas. I probably won’t be doing any more shopping. I’ll have to do it online.. And I apologize right off for not answering or reading a lot of blogs because I am so tired I am and I can’t figure out why yet and to even speak into the phone is hard and tiring so I won’t be writing much and I won’t be talking to you much but believe me I’m thinking of you and hoping everyone has nice holidays coming up❤️💚☺️👍🏻
The Friday Reminder and Prompt for #SoCS Dec. 14, 2024
Gallops on green
Their manes flying free in the wind
Gallops on green
Hooves digging deep in the prairie
No saddles, bridles, bits, reins bind
Feelings of freedom felt in kind
Gallops on green
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** This is probably a stupid question but I don’t understand the one small a in the rhyme scheme. Is it supposed to rhyme with anything? Is it supposed to be completely different? I have tried to find the answer to this question, and I finally gave up. I don’t understand the small a.
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W3 Prompt #136: Wea’ve Written Weekly
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Oh
I could
Forever
Expound on trees
I grew up with them
They were my confidants
They listen without judgment
Every season changes views
From spring green to gold and vibrant reds
Evergreens have the scented beauty leaves
Most trees
Charming
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MTB: An Etheree Tree
The space travelers eating dinner: “This Martian spaghetti’s not bad!”
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Can You Tell A Story In…
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6 December 2024
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**Another Photo of VT winter from my niece Minh B.👏🏻
If eating dinner we’d hurry and dash
Sit down by the tv and watch “Mash”!
The colonel a favorite, I’m sure you’ll agree
But Hawkeye and BJ loved capriciously
Then there was Frank, an exasperating soul
Even Winchester could not fill that role
Houlihan, oh of course can’t forget
She flirted with most that she met
Secretly meeting Frank, I ask why?
Surely a different man she’d eye
But Radar O’Reilly and Father Mulcahy
Took my heart each episode daily.
I think if you’re looking for humor and pathos
You should try “Mash” for some meaningful chaos.
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Favorite TV shows
I need no fancy dress
No rose or white wine
I have gifts aplenty
But I could wait in line
At a gift shop or bazaar
Spying gifts from near and far
Or spend time in a quiet nook
Trying to find the perfect book
But like many songs proclaim
I can skip the shopping game
The greatest gifts I find
Are the family kind.
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