
Stop the whining
Stop the cajoling
Stop the gerrymandering
Stop your hate speech
Stop avoiding the law
Stop your voice.
***

Stop the whining
Stop the cajoling
Stop the gerrymandering
Stop your hate speech
Stop avoiding the law
Stop your voice.
***

The best revenge film: (IMO)
John Wick (2014)
wanted to leave his past as an assassin behind and grow old with his wife. She dies of cancer, she leaves behind a beagle puppy to help him grieve. Thugs break into his house, kill the puppy, his hope is snuffed out, and his rage takes over, setting a bullet-riddled path to avenge his lost friend in a world that wouldn’t leave him alone.
***My different take courtesy of movieweb.com
https://sammiscribbles.wordpress.com/2022/11/26/weekend-writing-prompt-287-revenge/
Prompt: Write a resolution poem
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Years of contemplation
Hours of rumination
What now would be the good
Wondering if I should
Contact in a letter
Or a cel phone even better
Worries might be over and done
Regrets or answers, either one
Would be better than the mystery
What caused the troubled history
Deciding to take the chance
Try the shuffling guilty dance
Forgiveness might be found
Relationship would be re-bound.
***
https://www.writersdigest.com/write-better-poetry/2022-november-pad-chapbook-challenge-day-27

Like most twelve year old boys they crave games, and want to open any doors that will lead to a chain of adventure. Even in the screen adapted versions, they steal away out of doors to explore and use their imaginations.
This day Joey talked the group into some cave hunting by the sea shore. On a ledge above one of the cave openings, they spied an old partially sunken ship not too far from shore.
Joey decided to swim out to it even though it looked too far a swim for him. Watching as he tore off his outer clothes, they started to plead for him not to go. He didn’t stop and started to free stroke quickly over the waves.
Joey reached the ship wreck and found nothing interesting. The dead bulk had been scavenged quite a few times already. Disappointed, but proud he had managed the swim, returned to his relieved companions. Further sea adventures were saved for the ever present safe video tablets at home.
***
Prompt: Write a rethink poem (rethink an earlier poem, a conversation, a belief etc.)

Deciding on a course of action
What you know at the time
Mistakes are made
Regrets are felt
Memories made
And that is life.
***
https://www.writersdigest.com/write-better-poetry/2022-november-pad-chapbook-challenge-day-26
Prompt for Week #108 (Nov 26, 2022 – Dec 2, 2022). Luck

Luck of the Irish an oxymoron.
***

I’ve never slept in a hammock and it’s hard to maintain friends when you move often but there are always a few old ones that last. I am a decisive person with ethics and wish more others were also. I think double standards is taking the “easy way out” for some.
Sweets are my guilty pleasure but I find it easier in old age to control it. I put my favorite movies or books here on the blog.
I have a hard time remembering names anymore🙄 and I don’t think a person’s name defines them.
Hard to believe if you read my blog but English was my best subject, math the worst and favorite was sociology.
I had to laugh at this one…photogenic? Omg no! I skip photo sessions at gatherings and chill at the prospect.
I believe there are things in the universe we don’t know and would not comprehend fully. I don’t believe there’s an old white man sitting on a throne in the clouds. Oh oh, was that lightning I just saw😂
I love meeting people and have a tendency to form an opinion right away. I like to see warm smiles that include their eyes. Usually I adopt a go with the flow attitude til proven wrong.
***
https://earthlycomforts.uk/2022/11/26/question-time-over-coffee-6/


Your words are:
Your writing form is either poetry or prose.
***
“A sorry state of affairs” she uttered quietly after the waiter plopped the cork in front her husband’s plate. Pouring a bit of wine into the glass as he smiled down at him, some of the red liquid spit out on the white tablecloth. The red faced waiter whipped off the napkin on his arm and quickly covered the mess.
***

Had this great ambition
As I woke up today
A sunny chilly morning
I’d bring out the words to play
Decided I would spoil myself
Fixed a cup of coconut latte
I stretched out in my recliner
My handy iPhone for wordplay
Then hands around my coffee
Warming up fingers to type away
Then suddenly decided
At least my brain did, anyway
To walk the dog for inspiration
And look for Christmas on display
This year is not the usual
Few lights brighten up the way
And I’m sad to think it’s apathy
That rules the decorated splays
The world keeps on turning
No matter what experts say
I think I’ll choose the happy
And let those other feelings stray
Try to do my best for others
It’s the theme of holidays.
***


http://lindaghill.com/2022/11/25/the-mifriday-reminder-and-prompt-for-socs-nov-26-2022/
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