The Bag Lady

Chaos in Pens

everything askew

everything in chaos

chaos in homes

chaos in the streets

streets now unsafe

streets being controlled

controlled movements

controlled speeches

speeches curtailed

speeches sound off

off putting words

off kilter rules

rules for walking

rules for talking

talking heads dictating

talking not working

working people rounded up

working for democracy

democracy fading

democracy overruled

overruled by leaders

overruled in congress

congress inabilities

congress ineffective

ineffective law enforcement

ineffective judges

judges rulings denied

judges intimidated

intimidated throngs

intimidated families

families threatened

families separated

separated children from parents

separated from safety

safety no longer safe

safety is threatened

threatened innocents

threatened people of color

color of skin selections

color of thoughts ignored

ignored cries

ignored pleas

cries from innocents

cries from protestors

protestors herded

herded into pens

pens of internment

pens like livestock herded

herded

internment.

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W3 Prompt #174: Wea’ve Written Weekly

While swimming, Jesse found a toy floating in the lake. It was a puppet playing a tuba, dressed in Jesse’s high school uniform colors with a coupon for free popcorn at the next band concert.

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Can You Tell A Story In…

I saw a video of a female bear that was just walking along and many photographers were filming her and all she wanted was to get to a body of water. It made me sad. We are taking over wildlife habitats. We are ruining the environment while “camping” and leaving trash, etc in those areas. These campers also cause forest fires with their careless and unknowledgeable actions. The wildlife and beautiful forests were here first and their areas and homes need to be respected.

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Independent: state of not being controlled or influenced by others

Intrinsic: essential or inherent, belonging to something, or originating from within

Innate: originating in the mind, not acquired through learning or experience

Interested: showing curiosity or concern about someone or something

Imitiable: impossible to copy

Industrious: diligent and hard working

Inquisitive: curious or inquiring

Individualistic: unconventional, self reliant

Imaginative: having or showing creativity or inventiveness

Informative: providing useful or interesting information

Immediate: expeditious

Insightful: perceptive

Impatient: tendency to be quickly keyed up

Impulsive: quick and not thought out

Ineffectual: not achieving desired outcome

Insecure: not adequately fixed, lacking confidence

Insistent: not giving up, demanding

Irritable: having a tendency to be easily annoyed

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The good, the bad and the ugly page of words describing myself.

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Reena’s Xploration Challenge #396

Today’s challenge is to write a poem using one of the syllabic forms here: https://tankatuesday.com/tanka-tuesday-poetry-cheat-sheet-for-tanka-tuesday-poetry-challenges-2/ including personification.

What is personification?

Personification is a figure of speech that gives human qualities, emotions, or actions to inanimate objects, animals, or abstract concepts.

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presenting Lady Iris

ruffled pink skirts are rain drenched

showered and sunning to dry

yellow capes to meet her day

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Filipino Tanaga poem, 7,7,7,7.

#TankaTuesday Poetry Challenge No. 27, Personification, 08/26/25

The door to the study had been locked for years, yet tonight it stood wide open. A light shone from the study into the hall. Shadows were moving in the room and I thought I must be seeing things! I was. Robbers had broken in, gasping at the thought. I stepped closer and grabbed a heavy candelabra from the bureau in the hall. I was shocked to see dogs, about five dogs, running around in the room. Apparently the master of the hounds had broken in, using the dogs as protection.

As he saw me in the doorway, he tried to explain. “I’m owed a sum so I can retire and the master kept it in his desk, here. I only want what I’m owed. He promised I could retire and it’s been the ten years we agreed upon. I only want what is due.”

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Fandango’s Story Starter #215

How spoiled am I? I Just retrieved some leftovers from my freezer to put in the microwave to thaw out for lunch. And then I retrieved a cold bottle of water out of my refrigerator. I ate the leftovers and then cleaned up the pan in my sink and putting what was left into garbage disposal. After I cleaned this dish, I put it in my dishwasher. This is being written on an Apple iPad, yes, also spoiled while people are starving and smaller countries and our president in all of his gold trimmed office that belongs to the people, not him, is smiling, saying it’s just business. Children dying and starving. It’s just business, and why should we care about someone in a shit hole country?

We are spoiled as we sit reading this, or any other blog. What are we going to do about it? These are the milder photos.

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Julietta thought she could sing

Her voice really made their ears ring

An audition for opera

Made them try to stop her

Said “Sorry, it’s just not your thing!”

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Laughing Along With A Limerick

sliver moon

shines defiantly

gold crescent

floats in black

a brave portrayal witnessed

not hidden in clouds

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Monday Poetry Prompt: Crescent Moon

I could pretend it was cold enough that the honey bees would stay home, but I saw some trying to hover over the zoo’s dense garden of roses. The roses were bordering the primate area, a poorly planned section. Once I tried to move them along back near their hive where the honey was, but it was a failed practice. The security for the primates forbid any interaction with them or the bees, so I couldn’t do it alone. My coworker and I smoked them and were successful in pulling them back into the hive. Either the bees or the primates would have to be moved.

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MLMM Monday Wordle #439