Mistakes are normal
As, nobody is perfect
Be nicer to you
Grin and bear what comes your way
You’re human, not a robot…
-AAA/MAD 09/24/2024
You ran away fast
Without an explanation
Cowardice told me
Betrayed me right from start
I’ll rise up and learn from it…
-AAA/MAD 09/24/2024
Lemon lime and ice
Carbonation is quite nice
Refreshment entice
All it needs is a slight spice
Make sure it’s not overpriced…
-AAA/MAD 09/24/2024
http://mymindmappings.com/2024/09/24/fowc-with-fandango-want/
Welcome to Fandango’s One-Word Challenge (aka, FOWC). I will be posting each day’s word just after midnight Pacific Time (U.S.).
Today’s word is “want.”
Write a post using that word. It can be prose, poetry, fiction, non-fiction. It can be any length. It can be just a picture or a drawing if you want. No holds barred, so to speak.
Once you are done, tag your post with #FOWC and create a pingback to this post if you are on WordPress. Please check to confirm that your pingback is there. If not, please manually add your link in the comments.
And be sure to read the posts of other bloggers who respond to this prompt. Show them some love.
WANTS AND NEEDS
I want to live my best life now.
I need to keep my physical and mental health in check.
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I want that ideal love that happens once in a lifetime.
I need to love myself first and trust in divine timing.
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I want to be a successful published writer.
I need to continue blogging, honing my craft, and amassing a volume of material.
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I want financial security.
I need to stay fast, keep chugging away, pay down debts and save.
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I want control.
I need to accept that many aspects of our lives are beyond our control and that how we react in critical moments is in our control.
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I want peace of mind.
I need to accept my past and not mull the future.
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I want happiness.
I need to accept that happiness is a choice and not a destination.
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I want freedom.
I need to understand, freedom is always present: in choices, challenges, and living…
-AAA 09/24/2024
The thunderclaps roll
A sky is dark, like midnight
Only its noontime
Beware, a storm is brewing
Take precautions and keep safe…
-AAA/MAD 09/24/2024
What brands do you associate with?
I humbly apologize to all my readers, but I will be abstaining from the question today. This feels like a marketing/data mining ploy in my humble opinion.
As always, thank you for reading hopefully we’ll get a better question of the day tomorrow.
-aaa
Your three words today are:
SHRINK
BLINK
RINK
NOT A GREAT ROLLER SKATER
Age 9 at the rink,
I’d hold the on side and shrink.
Trying not to blink.
As skaters went, I did stink.
And it drove me to the brink…
-AAA 09/23/2024
http://madmissywork.blog/2024/09/23/mad-missys-challenge-008/
Every week, a creative prompt will be offered for you to unleash your imagination and artistic skills.
You can share your response in the form of art or any creative expression that the prompt inspires.
There are no restrictions and no deadlines, so feel free to take your time and enjoy the creative process.
Remember to label your response with #missysmadchallenge.
Your challenge for the week
MEANS TO AN END
I should have left you
A lot sooner than I did
Was just a paycheck
You never cared about me
I was just a means to an end…
-AAA 09/23/2024
The serendipitous tide
Laps water along the side.
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Bubbles rise out of wet sand
If you’re lucky, small sand crab in hand.
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Rubbery kelp floats by bearing odd fruit
Sometimes entangled with our swimsuits
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The salty scent of the ocean is clean
Adding beauty to all that is seen.
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Gulls fill the air gliding like ships
Ready to feast on any bag of chips.
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The sand is soft support for walks
Just be wary of super sharp rocks.
–
Waves crash hard a saltwater burst
If you drink any, it’s instant thirst.
–
Transistor radios crackle alive
One playing “I Will Survive”.
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Sea and Ski and coconut fill the air
As beachgoers protect their skin with care.
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This beach was my beach when as a kid
Nowadays it’s undergone such a skid…
-AAA 9/23/2024
Interesting, don’t you think?
Science Quote By Carl Sagan: “Avoidable human misery…”
Thank you for this post Short Wisdom
https://shortwisdom.wordpress.com
-aaa
What could you do more of?
I could write more, a lot more, but then I’d never do anything else. I could work out more but then I’d be sore all the time. I couldn’t get on a more strict diet, but those are hard to maintain and I end up breaking them.
The Law of Diminishing Returns proves (in theory and graphically) that too much of anything is never good. I do understand that this is applied to the principle of production and management, but you could easily apply it to almost anything.
Be it something extreme, or something even moderate. Too much of anything is never a good thing.
Life is a balance with: balance in your work, balance in your play, balance in your love life, balance in your diet, how complex you make your drum solo on a music chart, etc.
We could always do more of everything, but that could be too much and that’s all I’m saying. Ergo… “everything in moderation”. 😀
As always, thank you for reading…
-aaa
Rubber band be free
When I stretch you, don’t snap me
It’s fair can you see???
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Paper clip don’t slip
Lest my efforts be a blip
Pages lose their grip.
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Yellow post-it note
Display my every quote
To you, I devote.
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My sharp friend, thumb tack
You make things stay with your back
Keeping me on track.
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Just staple it all
Without you order would fall
So, answer the call.
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Please erase the rest
Clean up what I messed
Especially on a test…
-AAA 9/23/2024
Your three words today are:
WRITTEN
PAPER
ESSAY
DIVORCE SUPPORT 101
She’d written her essay
All the words are down
She says he says at play
It’s cringeworthy of a frown.
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The papers are filed
The marriage is over
All that misery piled
All sadness hovers.
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He left to save his life
She watched her lifestyle end
All breakups invite strife
Resulting in losing friends.
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No one truly understands
How hard these things are
Unless you’ve lived it firsthand
Only then, would we be on par.
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So if you have a friend
Or family member
Have their marriage end
Try and remember
What I just said…
-AAA 08/23/2024
The red curtain falls
With a deafening applause
An amazing show
Introspective & Marvellous
Surprising message for all…
-AAA/MAD 09/23/2024
Torrent waters fall
With nowhere for them to go
Violent overflows
An abundance of excess
Severely needs to escape…
-AAA/MAD 09/23/2024
Something is amiss
It was missing in your kiss
No passion or bliss
The love we once shared, I miss
Now, all I do reminisce…
-AAA/MAD 09/23/2024
Do today what want to tomorrow
Your regret is comfortless sorrow.
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Do what you will as you might
Live each day for your delight.
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Take chances turn off your phone
Venture out to nature on your own.
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Get off the grid and disconnect
Then your peace will circumvent.
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All that has gone and all that remains
Needn’t cause you endless pain.
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Live in the now and live in today
Who gives a care about yesterday.
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Tomorrow’s not promised so lower your eyes
Look at this moment and claim the prize.
–
As the pain contorted, drops from your face
And you’re filled with peace, gratitude, grace.
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I know your life’s lessons have been hard
But ease up on yourself in that regard.
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The past mistakes shouldn’t be dire
If you deny this then you are a liar.
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Overcome all the obstacles placed
And watch as frustration’s erased.
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You’re better now, than ever before
And you’re feeling happiness more.
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So, do remember that you did survive
Reap the rewards of your lessons, alive…
-AAA 09/22/2024
Contemplation, such a large word
Some will chase their entire lives
Figuring can seem quite absurd
Experiencing peace is unheard
Neglecting their husbands or wives…
-AAA 09/22/2024
Hank a proctologist was fading fast
His job became a literal pain in the ass
So much to see he’d love to forget
Hemorrhoids and polyps of regret
Now the sun sets on his patients past…
-AAA 09/22/2024
What might the number twelve look like
It’s akin to riding a bike
Needed words are here
Magically appear
Without fear
As you strike…
-AAA 09/22/2024
What’s the best piece of advice you’ve ever received?
The best advice I ever received was from myself. Some crucial lessons I’ve learned are listed below:
1. Be present never get caught up in the past or worry about the future so much.
2. Whatever is meant to be will happen and the rest will never work out so don’t sweat it. Trust in God/Universe/Source that what is meant for you will find you.
3. You are not the sum product of your mistakes, you are made up of the lessons you learned.
4. Love yourself if you want to be loved by others. If you don’t, you’ll choose people won’t.
5. Divine timing is real and happens everyday.
6. Karma is real, do good by others, even those that have wronged you. Trust me you’ll get what you deserve in the long run and so will they.
7. Forgive all who’ve wronged you, not doing so doesn’t punish them, it punishes you instead.
As always thank you for reading…
-AAA
Bill is a pickle
That feels quite fickle
Never alone in his jar
He never goes very far
Without feeling a tickle…
-AAA 09/22/2024
BWarren is our host for the Sunday Whirl Wordle and you can join in HERE
Our words are:
quivers, limbs, scattered, yellow, twirl, hearts, streak, faint, bags, three, howls, long
DARKNESS CHASING ME HOME
I shiver and quiver as night falls
A yellow moon completes it all.
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Each limb shakes for my fear of the dark
The daylight fades fast as I leave the park.
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I twirl around fast and sprint home
My heart jumps hearing three long howls, I’m not alone.
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Moonlight scattered through dark trees
Streaks of occasional faint light, not enough to appease.
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As I run, the night life all has its say
Crickets, owls, other sounds, all along the way.
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Almost home now, feet don’t drag
Lest I might end up in body bag.
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My familiar street, I’m nearly there
At the moment, not else will compare.
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My front door opens, warm familiar light
I fast scurry in and escape the night…
-AAA 09/22/2024
Expectation’s disappointments
Wants wanted, needs that are not met
Exasperation’s anointments
Creating endless appointments
With myriads of money, spent…
-AAA 09/22/2024
Your three words today are:
SLITHER
SNAKE
WRITHE
SSSNAKES IN POLITICS
Most politicians
Slither about like a snake
Atop a hot plate
Writhing in great agony
When needing to tell the truth…
-AAA 09/22/2024
Most astrophysicists know when stars will die
Yet, we cannot feed all of the food poor?
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Some people, can memorize entire dictionaries
Yet, large homeless tent cities are everywhere.
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Economists can predict recessions or inflation
Yet the political divide has never been so enormous…
-AAA 9/22/2024
Today’s Word of the day is Subscription.
This word is the contribution of our co-administrator of the Word of the Day Challenge blog, Alice, from The59club.blog.
If you want to participate, create a pingback to link your post. Not sure how to do that? See how to create pingbacks here. Please note that for the prompts that I publish, the comment box will now remain open for people who experience trouble with pingbacks. However, I won’t guarantee a quick response to actual comments, that would be left here. If you have questions, or ideas you’d like to submit, please use our “contact” page.
BELIEF IN SOMETHING, LARGER
My subscription
Our prescription
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Precognition
No omission.
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Recollection
Of intention
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Not to mention
An ascension
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New dimension
Comprehension
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Our protection
Good direction
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Contemplation
Then ovation
–
Last, elation
All duration…
-AAA 09/21/2024
What things give you energy?
This is a simple question. Each morning I combine one White Monster Energy Ultra Zero 16 ounce can and 1 two ounce packet of Energen-C Super Orange. I call it my “Breakfast Cocktail. 🤣
As always, thank you for reading.
-aaa
http://mymindmappings.com/2024/09/21/fowc-with-fandango-install/
Welcome to Fandango’s One-Word Challenge (aka, FOWC). I will be posting each day’s word just after midnight Pacific Time (U.S.).
Today’s word is “install.”
Write a post using that word. It can be prose, poetry, fiction, non-fiction. It can be any length. It can be just a picture or a drawing if you want. No holds barred, so to speak.
Once you are done, tag your post with #FOWC and create a pingback to this post if you are on WordPress. Please check to confirm that your pingback is there. If not, please manually add your link in the comments.
And be sure to read the posts of other bloggers who respond to this prompt. Show them some love.
INSTALL
Install new mental attitudes
Instill the more positive moods
Move outside your norm
No need to conform
Weather storms
As one should…
-AAA 09/21/2024
“Touch me very softly”, she said
So I caressed her precious head
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Running my fingers through hair
I can hear her gently sigh
Her feelings safe with none to fear
She closes both of her eyes
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She drifts and floats to welcomed sleep
I hold her and her breathing is deep
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She has a dream of a crystal clear lake
And the waters ebb in gentle waves
I have my dream, but I am awake
Receiving the love that my heart craves
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She awakens well rested after a while
And I continue to hold her with a smile…
-aaa ❤️
Originally Published 05/03/2024
Sweet taste on my tongue.
Overwhelmed by your fragrance.
A million lilies…
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A delicate touch.
Makes me tingle all over.
Softer than velour.
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An endless embrace.
We cannot let go just yet.
Passion won’t let us.
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Breathless long kisses.
Each its own eternity.
Of many desires.
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The heat, relentless.
It’s burning flames lick our skin.
Setting us on fire.
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We both are consumed.
Two hearts beat faster as one.
As we melt and merge.
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We are at union.
We cannot outlast the stars.
We try with effort.
–
Our brightness now dims.
Falling fast through time and space.
We now gently rest….
-aaa
Originally Published 05/03/2024
Her given name was Pretty Kate
She’d be dressed to the nines by eight
She’d fashion a grin
To all who walked in
She was prim
On a date…
-aaa
Originally Published 05/02/2024
Your three words today are:
BLOOM
STORM
ROBUST
HEAVENLY BLOOMS
On warm summer days
Bright storms of brilliant blooms
Fill up all the air
With their robust fragrances
In pinks, whites, reds, and purples…
-AAA 09/20/2024
How can you discount a rainbow
You claim beauty is all you know
Knowing wrong from right
Or daylight from night
Bark from bite
You don’t know…
-AAA 09/20/2024
Soft fall breezes
Will arrive any day now
Crisp dry eddies…
-AAA 09/20/2024
What’s your all-time favorite album?
I love music questions and I cannot put one album on. I will put my favorite album and probably my top 9 other favorite albums are nine I guess.
He will be the type of things you’d wanna have on a desert island on the planet on the moon and orbit, etc. etc. you could listen to over and over and over.
I won’t digress on the content of the albums again or this will turn into a monster post. You don’t wanna read.
My all-time favorite album of all time by my favorite band as well is Abbey Road by The Beatles.
Another favorite of mine is Pet Sounds by The Beach Boys.
Another one of my top albums is the Dark Side Of The Moon by Pink Floyd. I mean anybody who doesn’t recognize this album cover is dead inside in my humble opinion.
I love Rumors by Fleetwood Mac.
A band that has stirred up plenty of controversy, Oasis, made a great album called. What’s the Story Morning Glory.
Kid A by Radiohead is a fantastic, Grammy award winning album.
Whatever and Ever Amen by Ben’s Fold Five, is yet another amazingly interesting album to check out.
Morrison Hotel is still my favorite Doors album.
I’ve posted about this one before, it’s the greatest Genesis album that I’ve never heard before that’s absolutely amazing and become my favorite, The Wind and the Wuthering.
And I could add like another thousand albums here I’m gonna end it with Replicas by Gary Numan’s Tubeway Army.
As always, thank you for reading and for listening 🎵🎼🎶😊
-aaa
This life
Is not easy,
or for the faint at heart.
Yet, we persevere through it all.
It’s ours…
-AAA 09/20/2024
Fridays are a favorite day
End of work and begin of play
We smile and enjoy
The world is our toy
We share joy
On our way…
-AAA 09/20/2024
Those with longest teeth.
Will know how the game is played.
And its unfairness…
-AAA 09/20/2024
Your final three words for this week are:
ASSURE
LIE~
DECEIVE
SPIN ME LIKE A TOP
Your reassurance
A regular occurrence
Lies are lip service
You intended to deceive
Assuring that I’d believe…
-AAA 09/20/2024
I kissed her freckles and stroked her thighs
Kissed her face and gazed in her eyes
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I kissed her arm and kissed her hands
I kissed her belly button and had other plans
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I kissed her toes and kissed her nose
I kissed her neck carefully, so nothing shows
–
I kissed her ankles I kissed her ink
I kissed her on the kitchen sink
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I kissed her on the small of her back
I kissed her as her head arched back
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I kissed her eyelids and kissed her lips
I kissed her wrists and caressed her hips
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I kissed her forehead and kissed her chest
I kissed her elbows and all the rest
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I kissed her ears and nibbled with intention
I kissed her in places that I cannot mention
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I kissed her body and it’s beauty was a feast
I kissed her all night to say the least…
-AAA 05/05/2024
Originally Published 05/05/2024
This is something new I’m attempting to try
Tis a challenge it may make my brain fry.
–
While rhyming the beginning and the end
I’ll be trying to start some new trend.
–
Words that rhyme in the front and back
Absurd this effort to keep on track.
–
I fear my content might suffer
Sigh, this poetry has little buffer.
–
Hoping my subscribers won’t mind
Coping with odd writings of this kind.
–
Wondering what comments I might get
Pondering this work, I might regret
–
Bold as it may be the only time will tell
Cold as a reception would be hell.
–
So, I think I’ll end this right here
Though, this output is overtly clear…
-aaa
Originally Published 05/04/2024
Stand still
This may hurt
Stand still
Do not blurt.
–
Stand still
Do not move
Stand still
Trying to soothe.
–
Stand still
Adjustments are hard
Stand still
In this regard.
–
Stand still
Hold your breath
Stand still
Feel the breadth.
–
Stand still
Is my creed
Stand still
Follow my lead.
–
Stand still
Life gets worse
Stand still
That’s our curse.
–
Stand still
Take pause
Stand still
Retract your claws.
–
Stand still
This is a test
Stand still
It’s for the best.
–
Stand still
Your cross to bear
Stand still
Life isn’t fair.
–
Stand still
Don’t react
Stand still
Call off the attack.
–
Stand still
You will achieve
Stand still
Just believe.
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Stand still
It isn’t the end
Stand still
You’re not alone, my friend…
-AAA 09/19/2024
Strangers we are
Around all differences
Missing are similarities
,today,
Similarities are missing
Differences all around
Are we strangers???
-AAA 09/19/2024
I am the music to your ears
Note by note I’ll always be there
As my hands wipe away tears
Consistency beyond compare.
–
I am creative, occasionally aloof
I am king of my own castle
My life and sign are definite proof
Being another way is such a hassle.
–
I am me and it’s taken a time
To best figure who I am
Loving yourself is not a crime
So don’t expect to get a sham.
–
I am the song in your heart
A pleasant melody to hear
Only pure love will I impart
So you have, nothing to fear.
–
I am writing as we speak
Kind words are coming fourth
Many lovers search and seek
All to find the purest source.
–
So if you see me I won’t be loud
As I’m constantly writing prose
My determination make me proud
Of such many things I suppose…
-AAA 09/19/2024
New poem style mastery
Is challenging when your done
New tools in your battery
Makes writing quite fun.
–
First, study the history
And learn all the rules
Remove all the mystery
Then obtain new tools.
–
The process is enchanting
Twists and turns are there
Not a careless smattering
Of words without care.
–
So hang up the telephone
Distractions be gone
All noise must be overthrown
Then and there you’re on.
–
So practice, be consistent
This is something new
So keep at it, persistent
The best you can do…
-AAA 09/19/2024
People work themselves to death
Never ending daily grind
Tasking each and everything
Lest falling far behind in a major bind.
–
Starts at fifteen or sixteen
In their youth, little regard
Seeking out the greatest time
Not quite the effort for working very hard.
–
Time flies and the years rush by
Laziness will not abide
Learn the value of money
Then accomplishments, the wealth of healthy pride.
–
Scales now tipped another way
Work becomes out everything
As we mature we work hard
Security and prosperity, now king.
–
Those two extremes in our lives
Balance needed that’s the truth
Work and play must coexist
As my life and lessons, are the living proof…
-AAA 09/19/2024
Life is hard
With little regard
Others, do share their best view
All of their agendas must behoove
With canard…
-AAA 09/19/2024
Your three words today are:
PETTY
SILLY
PEDANTIC
PROFESSOR KNOWITALL
Petty Professor Knowitall
Classroom, run like a mini mall.
Pedantic lectures,
silly conjectures
weird gestures,
and his drawl…
-AAA 09/19/2024
Lovely lively
never contrively
–
What does “contrively” mean
This is its debut site unseen
–
It’s a portmanteau of contrived and lively
Adding to the lexicon is beside me
–
So if looking for contrively in a dictionary
When it’s not found you needn’t be wary…
-aaa
Originally Published 05/04/2024
Anthony’s Crazy Love and Life Lessons in Empathy 