The Bag Lady

Here are the questions:

1. Something you’ve waited for recently?Paycheck☺️

2. What’s something you loved to do as a child? Fly on a swing.

3. Something you learned from a grandparent? Be quiet.

4. The most visited cities in the world last year (according to this site) were-Bangkok, Paris, London, Dubai, and Singapore. Have you been to any of the cities mentioned? Which would you most like to see? How do you feel about international travel in general these days? I’m not really interested in those places to visit but would love to visit my son and his wife in southern France.

5. February is the perfect month to rest up from the cold of January.

6. Insert your own random thought here: I would like WP to loosen up their constraints on how lines are posed on posts.🙄 Constantly having to readjust, etc takes a lot of time and causes frustration.

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http://www.fromthissideofthepond.com/2024/02/waiting-on-hodgepodge.html?m=1

Poetics: Sail into a Poem

This week’s Story Starter teaser is:

They just stood there, staring at each other. Everyone in the family around them stared too. It was the first time any of them heard him say “I love you” to his wife.

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Fandango’s Story Starter #135

24 Seasons Syllabic Poetry Challenge, No. 20, 2/6/24, Part I, The Beginning of Spring (February 3 – 20) Risshun 立春 24

4 line stanzas, as few as one stanza and up to as many as you like. 8 syllables or less per line. Rhyming is AAAb. The second stanza would be CCCd. The third, EEEf. And so on. Meaning nothing in one stanza must rhyme with anything in the previous stanza. The fourth line does not rhyme.

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being ten, loyalties were clear

parents, friends, even pets, all dear

only later pressure caused fear

teenage peers lay it on

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Ovi Poetry Challenge 34: LOYALTY is your inspiration.

It’s already almost the middle of February—time to start my exercise routine:

What Day is it Anyway? February 8, 2024

Swirl around touching on the floor

Choosing perfect partners the key

Music soars, couple locked in sync

A waltz’s meaning so much more

Closeness of bodies now feels free

Dizzy head is a welcomed feel

Melody taken in as drink

Love begins as the dancers reel.

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Note: I used the phrases in italics as repeat theme but not sure that is the requirement

W3 Prompt #93: Wea’ve Written Weekly

“Bad men need nothing more to compass their ends, than that good men should look on and do nothing.”

Said by “the utilitarian philosopher John Stuart Mill, who delivered an 1867 inaugural address at the University of St. Andrews.

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https://lindaghill.com/author/lindaghill/

Simply 6 Minutes – Welcome to the Challenge: 02/06/2024

Having a huge attic of immeasurable treasures, imagination was rampant in my childhood.

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detective with a round spy glass
ballerina dancing in music class
the possibilities amass
when you imagine
riding horses as old cowboys
quiet reading was always a joy
tented blankets on the floor
listening to victrola seventy-eight scores
what child could ask for more?

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Come play with me!