The Bag Lady

It seemed like an ordinary day, just dressing to grocery shop, take out the trash and even looked sunny! I opened the door. Cars parked, not unusual, the yard across the street with its odd shrubs and trees, but then I looked up. The gobbles were coming!

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(When my oldest granddaughter hated being strapped in a car seat she would throw a screaming fit. Her dad stopped it by telling her to look out the window to the dark gray clouds, telling her they were the gobbles and if she wasn’t good…it only took a crack in her window and she’d settle down.)

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https://cyranny.com/2021/02/17/february-17th-1minfiction-challenge/?like_actor=102337606&like_hmac=b4423f47fd90ded25970b6271396b527&postid=56773&like=1&source=sub_email

Jurassic Park gulp:

https://images.app.goo.gl/ngG9HxU9r7sCPLHi7

https://lindaghill.com/2021/02/17/one-liner-wednesday-gulp/

Smokey vision shades

Outdone by your umbrella

Maudlin and morose

Suddenly taken aback

By the bright rainbow colors.

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https://wordcraftpoetry.com/2021/02/16/weekly-tanka-tuesday-poetry-challenge-no-213-ekphrastic-photoprompt/

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I am red.

I am the color of soft satin sheets of seduction.

I am the prominent color of a hot summer morning sunrise.

I am the beauty of a single perfect rose.

I am the red hot chili pepper spice in your food.

I am the mouthwatering sweet flesh of fresh fruits.

I am the six inch stilettos worn by a female impersonator.

I am the flame that burns too hot.

I am the dark sticky residue sprawled on the street after Jack the Ripper’s work.

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https://dversepoets.com/2021/02/16/poetics-true-colours/#like-21350

Lindor balls….oh yes!

https://aroused.blog/2021/02/13/friday-fun-diet/

https://americanart.si.edu/artist/jackson-pollock-3826

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https://ragtagcommunity.wordpress.com/2021/02/16/rdp-tuesday-art/

I’m excited to go. Last time she went on vacation to the mountains I was small and I loved it. You stayed at the vet, remember?

Uh, no, she’s taking me this time, you are the one staying at the vet! She has a surprise for you, but don’t worry, you’ll feel much better soon. Heh heh.

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Time was short and I didn’t want to be late. I gathered my book bag, my cell and my umbrella, just in case, because it was going to be a wonderfully long day with the club. It had been a while since we had gathered for an outing like this and I wanted to be prepared for anything.

Just thinking of visiting the original book store on Baker Street with the vellichor atmosphere surround, caused a smile on my face. The club had managed to secure a private session with the first owner’s grandson to give us a tour.

We were all looking forward to it except one odd member we knew would not attend. She preferred pristine hardback copies of our club choices, straight off the press and would repudiate any volumes in this store. Most of us bibliophiles loved the musty smells of leather bindings and parchment of ancient first editions, but never Michelle. She thought them laden with germs, however she did love to read and was welcomed in our club.

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https://cyranny.com/2021/02/16/vellichor-word-of-the-day-challenge/#like-56763

https://fivedotoh.com/2021/02/16/fowc-with-fandango-repudiate/

https://thedailyspur.wordpress.com/2021/02/15/club/#like-2356

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Winds blow bird’s seed far

Some may catch it on the wing

Others sit and dine.

https://ronovanwrites.com/2021/02/15/ronovan-writes-weekly-haiku-poetry-prompt-challenge-345-bird-and-blow/#like-167726

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“Give me a home where the buffalo roam”. A wish in the minds of indigenous populations here in the United States before visitors from the East plundered the population of wildlife. This classic song perfectly paints the wide open sunny spaces of the West.

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https://fivedotoh.com/2021/02/15/fandangos-flash-fiction-challenge-106/#like-54197