Scotch and Soda

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the first time we danced together. I was sitting shyly on the side at a table. I watched you with a pretty brown haired girl, laughing and dancing. A song came on I had not heard before and was surprised when you came over and asked me to dance. I nervously joined you on the floor. You held me close and the music or the feelings I’ll never forget.

http://fivedotoh.com/2022/06/07/fandangos-story-starter-49/

Word Craft Poetry – Color: Multiple

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Hello everyone. Happy June and Pride Month! This week, choose a syllabic form and a color to feature in your poem. If the form is from the #TankaTuesday cheat sheet, let us know so we know where to look for directions. If it’s a new form, share how to write it and where you found the instructions. Think about the different ways you can use color in a poem.

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http://www.bibalex.org

human skin colors

just a body covering

same but different

many hues holding our bones

celebrate the minds within

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https://wordcraftpoetry.com/2022/06/07/tankatuesday-weekly-poetry-challenge-no-277-tastetherainbow-color-poetry/?amp=1

dVerse Poets

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Peder Severin Krøyer, Summer Evening at Skagen. The Artist’s Wife and Dog by the Shore

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She walks silently in contemplation.

While the family pet is an excuse for solitude, she ponders what might have been—

Was it the summer heat, the heavy scent of magnolias in the garden—the furtive touch, the deep kiss that told of imperative need or simply a single moment of passion—

She walks on, a smile begins and her pace enlightened.

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http://dversepoets.com/2022/06/07/sun-sand-storms-and-celebrations-summer-ekphrastic/

Share Your World

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1. We were told to but I thought it was the best part of the bread anyway😃

2. I used to be when I was young but now I think there’s too much singing of words as conversation instead of speaking them.

3. I’ve had a few jobs and loved them all. My first “salaried job” at 18 started with difficultly because the two men I worked with were allowed to be overly friendly and made sexist remarks. Back then (‘64) I took it because I thought it was normal—glad to see it is not anymore.

4. Neil Diamond at Red Rocks

5. Always grateful for my family and long time friends. I regret not being more careful with my back even though I first injured it in my teens.

https://sparksfromacombustiblemind.wordpress.com/2022/06/06/share-your-world-6-6-2022/

Beautiful day in the neighborhood?

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The day didn’t start out like that with noise polluting mowers and trimmers about… But the sun is shining and the sky is a bright blue. The baby trees and bushes they planted in this new development are thriving, and who can’t feel good about that?

Last night returning from watching “Top Gun” in a large theater and believe me it was worth it; I found two very tired ladies in the lobby. Apparently they had been using Lysol and Pine-Sol on all the surfaces and handrails because there have been cases of Covid and bronchitis here ending in hospital stays. Yes we are all fifty-five and over but it’s not a nursing home or care facility, it’s just a federal government subsidized complex and there shouldn’t be this many health problems.

There’s a lot of socialization and meal sharing going on in the lobby which is one of the reasons my daughter thought it would be great for me to live here. And just when I was thinking about dipping my toe in that water, I hear the old Jaws theme in my head.

I don’t want to get Covid again, I do not want to go to the hospital, I don’t even want to be sick at all—so call me a paranoid wimp but I have been perfectly happy here pretty much to myself in my new apartment and I think for a while I’ll stay that way.

Wear your masks, use sanitizer on your hands—it’s still lurking, and adding new ways to make you sick, so stay safe and well!

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3TC

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Your three words today are:
REDUCE
INCREASE
ENLARGE

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“Well of course it’s crazy! Don’t you think I know that?” Julie opened the lingerie bag and pulled on the tight brassiere hoping to reduce the size of her voluptuous breasts. “This doesn’t work, it only pushes everything to the middle and I look like I’m carrying a high pregnancy!”

“Uh, you’re sixty years old Mona….no one is going to think that. Remember when you chose to enlarge those things? You wanted to increase your “dance card” so to speak?”

Julie flopped down on the bed, exhausted and said, “What a fool I was”.

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https://pensitivity101.wordpress.com/2022/06/05/three-things-challenge-985/