The Bag Lady

I answer to Cheryl, Carol, Cheri, Cherry, GMA, Grandma, Grammie and my favorite, hey, ol lady! Always makes me smile.

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One-Liner Wednesday – Me from now on

Disney

Princesses dream

Always a magic wand

With words in song, “if you believe”

Comes true

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Cinquain Poetry Prompt 16: BELIEVE is your inspiration.

What is a hairstyle trend to me looks like I’ve been out on a windy day. My daughter came by as I was doing my hair and using a hot curler- I know that’s not what you call it these days, but she said let me try it. So she fussed around twisting my hair, etc and then said she was done. I don’t care for it, but I do see it on people these days. Some trends are not for the faint hearted!

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Joe seeing his favorite ride, sitting there, rusting, and ruined was nostalgic. He hid in that spot years ago being chased by the sheriff when he thought speeding down Main Street was fun. He loved that Chevy. To think those pranks we kids did were horrible, it’s lucky my parents aren’t alive these days when violence is rampant. Joe hauled the car there when it no longer drove, and left it. Remembering Betty and the guys, the many good times they had in that car…smiling to himself, said “so long” to the Chevy that had given him so much pleasure.

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5 September 2025

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Golden Sunset

prairie grasses waving

golden fronds atop green

moving like dancing queens

wind orchestra

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Abhanga poem- titled, four lines, 6,6,6,4. Lines 2 and 3 rhyme.

W3 Prompt #175: Wea’ve Written Weekly

Hey George, notice anything funny in the back seat?

Nah, I think it’s almost Halloween, probably just a mask!

I think our driver is scared, look at his face! He must not like dogs, especially big ones. All our brothers just seem mesmerized by the road ahead…are they all thinking it’s a real dog and scared, too?

I don’t know Harry, but I’m just going to keep looking straight ahead like everyone else. I don’t want to start any trouble. Maybe the dog just needed a ride too. Our stop is coming right up. Let’s get out fast.

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Share with us in the form of a poem, of course, are you the kind to bounce back, do you curse and rant when things go wrong or do you wallow in self pity. As always you are free to interpret the prompt in any which way.

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bouncing back

life turns upside down

go with flow

mantra for my survival

no more making waves myself

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pastime years

temper flared so easily

now better

resist speaking up in groups

writing is now my loud voice

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Poetics Tuesday: Life’s lemons and lemonade making

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let me in

I’m not a burden

life is short

I can’t last here long

pelting rain painful

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My Prompts 1- WDYS

look out my window

patio with empty pots

though hope sees blossoms

feelings of promise in vine

not nourished and still striving

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I love plants and miss flowers I could not afford this year, so pots stand empty. I thought this bit of green was a weed, but now I think it is part of a honeysuckle plant I had in this pot last year. It seems Im surrounded by a discouraging world and this plant gives me hope.

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