Your three words today are:
TINSEL
GLITTER
GOWN
World Premiere Night
Queen of tinsel town
Wearing a bright glitter gown
Her tiara crown
Brilliant smile instead of frown
Creating far more renown.
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It’s world premier night
An audience’s delight
Surrounded by large spotlight
Paparazzi’s tight
Snapping pictures left and right…
-AAA 10/13/2024
It’s almost Halloween
Feel it in the air
Children carving pumpkins
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Adults buying candy
Then eating some of it
Then buying more.
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Costumes are ready
Special stores pop up everywhere
Selling seasonal goods.
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Doctors skeletons ghosts
All costumes under the sun
For a price.
–
Parties invitations plans
Dreams soon to be realized
On October 31st…
-AAA 10/13/2024
Everything is nothing
Relative is time
Today is tomorrow
,or,
Tomorrow is today
Time is relative
Nothing is everything…
-AAA 10/13/2024
Time can be such a cruel creature
Pain, a very common feature
We all take our lumps,
falls, bruises, and bumps
We aren’t chumps
Just teachers…
-AAA 10/13/2024
What is forever?
I cannot say.
What is never?
Less by one day?
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How far away is far?
Time can only tell.
Can you get there by car,
or taxi as well?
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How much is too much?
What would be the weight?
Is a lot a bunch?
Tell me don’t hesitate.
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Does love conquer all?
The great poets say so.
We all rise and fall.
As life takes its toll.
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When is enough enough?
Is it less than a lot?
I’m shooting here from the cuff.
Show me what you got.
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How deep is space?
Astronomers don’t know
Does black matter displace?
Quantum theory think so.
–
How difficult is hard?
Can I quantitate?
In this query’s regard,
I must hesitate.
–
When will this poem end?
I think it’ll end now
Thank you for reading my friend
Now go in peace, and how…
-AAA 10/13/2024
You think you’re clever,
Juxtaposing to never?
Then try forever…
-AAA 10/13/2024
One quick lune
I’ll be back real soon
Tomorrow’s, my boon 😊
-AAA 10/13/2024
It’s the happiest day
to all living on Crab Kay
Friends, neighbors and family alike
Come to the beach on a short hike
Blankets are down radio’s play
Providing a soundtrack to the warm beach day
Picnic baskets and lunches are many
The ultimate potluck of all and any
Cool fried chicken ready to eat
Cherries and grapes just can’t be beat
Children, giggle, and dance on the beach
With the cool ocean waters just out of reach
Gentle breezes fill the air
A very pleasant, warm affair
Eat balls, fly, and giggles follow
On this day, that’s far from sorrow
Others swim, where the waves just break
Having all the fun they can take
All this playing and positive mood
Increases the need for some yummy food
Barbecues fire hotdogs cook
With every fixing in the book
Corn on the cob melted butter
All prepared while the goers scutter
Potato salad cold slaw and fruit
An assured full stomach on all this loot
Is the sun moves from overhead to west
The town goes home for a well earned rest
The sunsets now on quiet Crab Kay
Is it residence dream of this beautiful day…
-AAA 10/13/2024
What principles define how you live?
There are a few principles that I live by. Being an empath I always try to put myself in other people shoes since I can kinda sense and even feel where they’re coming from better than they realize.
Also, I believe in the golden rule, do onto others as you’d want them to do on you. And also even if they don’t, I try to turn the other cheek and be the bigger person which isn’t always easy.
I’m trying to learn how to not react and put space between me and my emotions. It’s a big challenge and it’s gonna take time. I’m still working on it. As people say things and do things that hurt us we tend to want to react which is a knee-jerk deal. I’d rather take pause and realize where things are coming from and not taking things so hard.
Another big one for me is that it starts and ends with us. We make bad choices and we pay for them. Those are our fault so we’re not victims take control of what’s happened in our lives and realize where things came from and find peace ultimately grace in the lessons. Don’t get me wrong. Those have done wrong to us their responsibility for their actions, but we also bare responsibility for allowing them to do it and putting them in a physician to do it.
As always, thank you for reading…
-aaa
Lenny tried hard on the bottom of the sea
To be an average lobster like you or me
His body divided
And claws lopsided
Frustrating for a crustacean to be…
-AAA 10/13/2024
Politics of hate
Currently no debate
Cacophony of rhetoric
Fractured nation state.
–
Differences aside
Drop foolish pride
Look for commonality
We’re the same inside.
–
ANTIFA or QANON shrews
No lives and nothing to do
Create insane conspiracies
And pass them off as news.
–
What happened to compromise
Creative thinking and improvise
Using our mere brains
Rather than buying into stupid lies.
–
What happened to science and sooth
Instead there’s heresay by the uncouth
Spatting of myriads of falsities
And passing them off as factual truth.
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These past few years idiocracy has boomed
With the real facts buried, entombed
We’d better find the common truth fast
Or as a society we are doomed…
-AAA 10/13/2024
Your three words today are:
JEWEL
EMERALD
RUBY
Precious Stones
Highly precious jewels
Diamonds emeralds rubies
Making all light dance
When it catches their edges
Reflecting their bright beauty…
-AAA 10/13/2024
4/4:
3/4:
2/4: counts
6/8:
1/2: time
3/2: amounts
9/8:
12/8:
7/8: odd
Master these times signatures and you’re a percussion God…
-AAA 10/12/2024
What have you been putting off doing? Why?
I won’t lie I’ve been putting off seeing the doctor.
After I had a extended lapse in my visit to the dentist. My most recent one was quite the worst. I had to have four teeth pulled than an implant put in one of the most traumatic dentist visits of my life (I posted about that in here earlier this year).
I know it’s dumb and irrational but that first trip in while is always the worst.
I fear they’ll find something more wrong with me, and I’ve had a decent share of that in my life already!!!
But not everything has to be the worst like all fears I’ve had in my life. I’ll get over this one too, soon, very soon.
I will go soon, we all have to. Knowledge is power and self care, crucial to happiness and longevity.
-aaa
If you’re listening
You just might hear a heartbeat
Soft in the distance
Slightly more than a pin drop
Nearly imperceptible…
-AAA 10/12/2024
Most people think of Gary Numan and think of his huge hit song Cars, which is a great song.
But, the album he recorded with the Tubeway Army (Replicas) has a lot to offer. As it is a highly experimental album with really something for everybody.
Aside from new wave and even some songs borderlining on Punk there’s some pretty good rock songs on Replicas as well. The album’s opening track though is still my favorite, Me I Disconnect From You.
This is truly a sonic explosion of music. Some of the earliest new wave ever recorded and it’s amazing and it’s really really intriguing.
The synth sound here is really different. I don’t think I’ve ever heard these notes together like this except in this song. Also, it has a really catchy beat and I really do enjoy the vocals on this song. Definitely feel there might be a bit of a Kraftwerk influence here as well.
So ahead of its time 1979 this is what music would become in the early 80s when new wave really took off.
I don’t know if there is a term such as Proto new wave, but that’s what this could be or postpunk. I’m making a new words up here, everybody (lol).
So please to check it out, Me I Disconnect From You off the replicas album by Gary Numan & Tubeway Army. And if you get a chance, check out the rest of the album it’s really great. Has a lot of different stuff on it. Great for listening to while you’re writing or while you’re reading.
As always, thank you for reading and listening…
-aaa
Your three words today are:
HANDLE
TOWN
CROWN
The King’s Throne
The King‘s throne has no crown
Be sure you jiggle the handle down
A golden, porcelain seat
With embroidered pleats
It’s the nicest sh*tter in town…
-AAA 10/11/2024
My last poem
For this warm October Friday
My day complete.
–
Just until Saturday
Then I’ll write some more
So don’t worry.
–
I’ll be back
With many more creative ideas
On Sunday too.
–
On that note
Have a wonderful weekend everyone
Live it up.
-AAA 10/11/2024
Solitary stars
Shine so brightly, brilliantly
In the vast blackness
In blues, reds, yellows, and whites
Absent by day out at night…
-AAA 10/11/2024
When was the first time you really felt like a grown up (if ever)?
Before I share my answers to this daily question, I want to put a qualifier out there. I’m not casting any aspersions or negativity on Millennials or Generation Z people out there. This is just from my experience and it’s a very very humble opinion not fact, and not any kind of judgment. That being said let’s get started.
I feel like I’ve always been an adult. I know it’s a sad thing to say but things we grow up and go through in our lives can make us into adults very young.
I was incessantly picked on as a young man, and that made me learn to grow independent and have to deal with things on my own.
Dealing with death for the first time at age 6 (my paternal grandfather), and many others before I even hit young adulthood, also aged me considerably.
Having some relatives that were alcoholics or addicted to drugs, also forced me to grow up very young. 
Finally, being an empath, and realizing I was one now in retrospect at age 6 after my paternal grandfather, passed away. I was picking up on emotions around me by adults and not understanding what they were, also forced me to grow up very young.
I feel like this being a member of Generation X pretty much destined us all to becoming adults, young. That’s why I find it so shocking that a few Millennials and definitely many Generation Z’s I’ve encountered in my life, can’t seem to adult even when they’re over the age of 18 or 20.
As always, thank you for reading…
-aaa
Pit pat
Little cat
Split splat
Just like that.
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Pounce pounce
Skip and trounce
Little ounce
Jump and bounce.
–
Fling a string
Fun it brings
Purr and sing
Angel wings.
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Flip flop
Cannot stop
Pitter pop
Restful drop.
–
Shadows fall
Curl into ball
Kitten dreams call
Rest then crawl.
-AAA 10/11/2024
Frolicking on a warm Friday
Writing, a big part of my day
As the words come fast
I’m having a blast
As time’s past
Much to say…
-AAA 10/11/2024
Your final three words this week are:
CRINGE
COWER
BRUISE
KEEP MOVING FORWARD
You cower and cringe
As you look at your bruises
Life is been quite hard
But you’re still moving forward
With lessons and tales to tell…
-AAA 10/11/2024
This for me is definitely one of Brian Wilson’s Magnum, opus’s of a song.
He wrote the brilliant stunning, goosebump music to this song along with the brilliant lyrics by the brilliant Tony Asher.
It’s hard to pick a favorite on pet sounds because the whole album is absolutely brilliant and it’s one of the albums. I’d have with me if I was ever stranded on a desert Island.
It’s probably my number three album of all time and this song to me, expresses the troubled, genius of Brian Wilson and how he had a hard time finding those that he could relate to and could relate to him.
“ I keep lookin’ for a place to fit in
Where I can speak my mind
And I’ve been tryin’ hard to find the
people That I won’t leave behind
They say I got brains But they ain’t
doin’ me no good I wish they could”
Note, the interesting use of the theremin towards the end of the song that he’d later use on the masterpiece Good Vibrations as well.
The Wrecking Crew is present here in full force, I love this staccato eighth notes, running up and down the bass guitar by the amazing bassist Carol Kaye. And the countermelody on the keyboards and stuff is absolutely very, very different and it makes you stop and take notice and then the lyrics are amazingly poignant and heartbreaking.
The great master percussionist and my hero Hal Blaine likely playing the wood blocks in the background, which I also love by the way.
And Brian Wilson singing the lead solo alone, echoing in the cold with only the warm harmonies of himself and his colleagues in the Beach boys, providing the background melodies.
Please enjoy…
-aaa
If you had a million dollars to give away, who would you give it to?
This is again a hypothetical that’s really difficult because you kinda need to think about what you do for yourself and those nearest you before you take care of those furthest from you if you had a large excess of money like $1 million.
I would definitely help many if I did have access monies though and in that vein, I will share a fun little song by a band. I’ve liked for a long time and it always makes me laugh when I hear it.
As always, thank you for reading, seeing and listening…
-aaa
Potato Baroque pudding pops.
Slimy sturgeons.
Purple pineapple parakeet.
Amuse
Day and night do not have any letters in common.
I’ve been arrested by the dream police.
Cacophony of reconstituted pickle relish remains untouched.
Everything related is unrelated.
Time is everything and nothing simultaneously, occurring forever…
-AAA 10/09/2024
Words of old
Are all told by many
With such experience.
–
Great legends unfold
From hero to penny ante
With frequent recurrence.
–
Cowardly or bold
There’s no limit to any
Shallow or dense.
–
Read and sold
These stories are in plenty
Providing a recompense…
-AAA 10/09/2024
I once was yours
In that vain
Endless chores
Pouring rain.
–
Hateful notions
Thrown at me
Lackluster devotion
In an empty sea.
–
Promises given
But never delivered
Agendas hidden
Coldness shivered
–
Heartless mental abuse
At your very hands
In my pain you’d amuse
Making other sticky plans.
–
Inside was out
And outside in
Matriarchal clout
Cold ice within.
–
You though you were clever
That I’d eternally chomp at the bit
Until I saw never, your forever
Then I wised up and quit.
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Less and less I look back
All the lessons have been learned
I greatly suffered from your lack
Someday, your karma will be returned…
-AAA 10/09/2024
Lyla was in such a mood
In frustration, she’d brood.
She wanted her say
But just not today
Mustering all the patience she could…
-AAA 10/09/2024
The crops are ready
The time is now
Work them rocksteady
Get off your plow.
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Grab all the baskets
Fill them to the top
Work and be tacit
As you harvest the crop.
–
Time is of the essence
Make your work fast
Only with your presence
Can this bounty last.
–
With aggregate need
You tussle and toil
So that many will feed
From this fertile rich soil.
–
Grab the trucks
And your van
Load them with your bounty
As fast as you can.
–
For hunger grows
In this small town
God only knows
This horrible noun.
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The trucks are gone
With food in tow
The fields move on
With new crops to grow…
-AAA 10/09/2024
Your three words today are:
CLOCK
ROCK
MOCK
Dapper Davy
Davy rocked around the clock
Sporting an argyle smock
He looked smart and neat
From his head to his feet
So dapper you hardly could mock…
-AAA 10/09/2024
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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 “birthday.”
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.
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EARTH DAY BIRTHDAY
Earth Day
Was his birthday
He shared this occasion
With some ovation.
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Some elation
And celebration
Pomp and circumstance
Some songs and dance.
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Cake for all
Relatives call
Sharing fun
Under the sun
Until the day is done
And next year, a better one…
-AAA 10/09/2024
What’s something you would attempt if you were guaranteed not to fail.
There’s no such thing as a guarantee to not fail. But nonetheless, I’ll try writing anyway as well as blogging. I’m a musician and will definitely be playing music again soon.
Whether I succeeded or fail, it doesn’t matter as long as I’m doing what I love and it makes me happy and fulfills my life.
As always, thank you for reading…
-aaa
True love
isn’t wasted.
Like a brief passing fad.
Build and develop something that
is Real
-AAA 10/09/2024
Today’s Word of the day is Withdraw.
This word is the contribution of our co-administrator of the Word of the Day Challenge blog, Alice, from The59club.blog.
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WITHOUT A GOODBYE
I withdraw my claim on your heart
A claim you never would accept
I knew this from the very first start
At the realization I softly wept.
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Generosity for you was just a word
Mind games and tricks emptied my soul
It boggles the mind of all that occurred
Continuously under your control.
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Why were you so cruel
I guess I’ll never know
Playing me for a fool
That’s how it would go.
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I imagine your shock and anger
That I had the gall to leave
Your mind, filled with rancor
For losing my money, you’d grieve.
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I doubt you learned a thing
With all the pain you wrought
Another was your king
You just were never caught.
–
Smoke your cigarettes
And bide your time
Karma will find you soon I bet
Repaying all your emotional crimes…
-AAA 10/09/2024
Weather comes with forlorning
And soon it will be storming
The clouds grow darker
Looking ever starker
Striking soon without warning…
-AAA 10/09/2024
Your three words today are:
PRACTICAL
MANNERS
SAVING
PRACTICAL SAVINGS
Practical savings
In a manner will help you
Plan for your future
Put aside those notes and coins
For sunny and rainy days…
-AAA 10/09/2024
Love is the ideal
Playing it all by feel
Satisfaction like a meal
The feelings are real
Almost stronger than steel
Loaded with appeal
The heart, is its seal
Let me turn the wheel
No room at all for zeal.
❤️
Love is not wrong
Hear it in a song
It’s great to belong
Even in a throng
Am I wrong?
❤️
Love is pure and true
Like a sky full of blue
Fun for me and you
And I’m not quite through.
❤️
Love is never cruel
Not played like a fool
Or used like a tool
Or worse yet a mule
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Love with your passion
Not a passing fashion
With mutual attraction
Not a separate faction
Or reduced like a fraction
That’s at least my reaction❤️❤️❤️
-AAA 10/08/2024
What was the hardest personal goal you’ve set for yourself?
The hardest personal goal I’ve ever set is to love myself. It’s also my greatest accomplishment in my life. Because with self love, I can do anything and become the absolute best version of myself.
A lot of my life people around me treating me like I was less than great in the I assumed that I was for a long time.
I had to get out of my head and I had to realize that what they think doesn’t matter it’s only what I think that matters about myself.
It took a lot of self-love and strength to leave my last ex-wife. It was hard and scary. A lot of change a lot of venturing out of my comfort zone, but it was worth it. That’s where growth is that’s where the answer is lie are outside of our comfort zones. If we want to be better, we must challenge ourselves.
Just remember everything starts and ends with us. That’s become one of my credos. We make bad choices and we pay for them. And that’s how we learn. If you love yourself, you will not tolerate less than great treatment by those around you.
I’ve heard the expression that if you don’t love yourself then nobody will love you. I’m living proof that that’s true. I picked (in the past) people that didn’t care about me (unconsciously) since I didn’t care about myself. once I figured out that cycle, I broke it forever.
As always, thank you for reading…
-aaa
Your life
Is such a gift
Do make the most of it
Only the foolhardy waste time
It’s yours…
-AAA 10/08/2024
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