
Playing kickball and skipping rope
Helped us all as children to cope
Growing up is hard
Changes made us jarred
Disregard
All the scope…
-AAA 01/18/2025

Playing kickball and skipping rope
Helped us all as children to cope
Growing up is hard
Changes made us jarred
Disregard
All the scope…
-AAA 01/18/2025

Happily prancing in the dark
A young fawn dances for a lark
He’s jumping in fun
Post the setting sun
Skip and run
Crickets hark.
-AAA 01/17/2025

Love isn’t a strong enough word
Belief in the seen more than heard
Laid on the table
Mere facts not fable
While able
Undeterred…
-AAA 01/12/2025

Reaching high for the very top
Until accolades, never stop
When you’re the best
You’ll have passed the test
Without rest
Till you drop…
-AAA 01/10/2025

Your three words today are:
HOTEL
HOSTILE
HONEST
Honest Adventure

Nothing hostile at a hotel
Honest adventure, fun as well
Check in and the rest
They have passed the test
They’re the best
Can’t you tell?
-AAA 01/092025

Your three words today are:
ECHO
EARNEST
ENIGMA
Decrepit In Wealth

An echo of your former self
Far from perfect in mind and health
An enigma plays
Earnest but a haze
In a daze
But in wealth…
-AAA 01/06/2025

Time does move faster and faster
So much in life we must master
The passing of time
So fast it’s a crime
and a grind
Till pasture…
-AAA 01/03/2025

Great entertainment on this earth
Life at beginning with our birth.
All eyes wide open
Spirit unbroken
One token
Of its worth.
-AAA 01/01/2025

Twenty-four hours in a day
Whether January or May
Seven days a week
By day five you peak
Work you seek
and some pay…
-AAA 12/31/2024

Jimmy was such a great dandy
All the girls found him quite handy.
Games he knew to play
Both nighttime and day
Some do say
He’s randy.
-AAA 12/27/2024

Kilo hecto centi abound
Latin prefixes all around
Deci and mili
Are never nilly
Or silly
As they sound…
-AAA 12/26/2024

Rain rat-a-tats against the glass
Lightning and thunder of our pasts
Run down like warm tears
Uncertainty, fears
All those years
Came to pass…
-AAA 12/26/2024

Mondays don’t have to be the worst
It is our week’s opening verse
Projects to complete
Some are quite the feat
No retreat
Or reverse…
-AAA 12/23/2024

Life’s not easy for all living
So be generous and giving.
Share your gifts with all
Then you’ll never fall
Just grow tall
and forgiving.
-AAA 12/18/2024

Blue Skies gently speaking to me
Touching the heart, setting me free.
Rippling in the breeze
Swaying all the trees.
I’m at ease
I can see…
-AAA 12/17/2024

Waiting silently for a voice
Silence beckons, I have no choice
Speak now, answer me
Bring some certainty
Destiny
Or a noise…
-AAA 12/15/2024

Your three words today are:
BRAND
HAND
LAND
Looking For A Deal
Everyone needs a helping hand
Venturing for favorite brands
Each store is so loud
With a hearty crowd
Shopping vowed
Bargains land…
-AAA 12/15/2024

Clogyrnach rhymes syllabled time
Structure and rules are not a crime
Write closely to form
To maintain this norm
Or conform
To design…
-AAA 12/14/2024

Fifi the ferret felt flummoxed
Her sweater was missing buttons
Her search was profound
But they were not found
Not around
As hunted…
-aaa
Originally Published 06/05/2024

No longer afraid of the dark
I’m feeling pleasant as a lark
Without any fear
Everything appears
That’s a mere
Shining spark.

Needn’t be afraid of the dark
It’s a good chance to leave your mark
See yourself inside
Find the strength and pride
Then abide
With your spark…
-AAA 12/06/2024

Staring into nothing’s not bad
Sometimes life can be very sad
Some things don’t work out
That what it’s about
So don’t pout
But be glad…
-AAA 12/05/2024

Friendly faces in a cruel world
More valuable than gold unfurled
Such kind fellowship
Worth the longest trip
With a skip
Or a twirl…
-AAA 12/02/2024

Gray beard, a big belly, red suit
Santa Claus’s image not moot.
His bag, filled with toys
For all girls and boys.
Christmas joys
are a hoot…
-AAA 12/01/2024

Thanksgiving’s holiday is near
Many friends and relatives here
The grateful in ranks
All are giving thanks
Not in banks
Without fear…
-AAA 11/25/2024

I taste your lipstick on my lips
I feel the contour of your hips
The thrill of a kiss
Is what I most miss
It’s my bliss
My heart skips…
-aaa
Originally Published 05/15/2024

The specters stroll on Cumquat Street
With ghostly gazes as they meet
With little to say
At night time or day
Will they stay?
Or retreat…
-aaa
Originally Published 05/12/2024

Residing in the darkest space
The emptiest cold bitter place
A wolf in the foal
Destructive black hole
Without soul
Or a face…
-aaa
Originally Published 05/12/2024

Great flocks are starting to head south
With squawks coming out of their mouth.
–
Winter almost here
Cool weather appears.
–
Do not fear
Winter’s doubt.
-AAA 11/05/2024

Senses overload with beauty
Observing all is our duty.
Nature and the world
Visions to be hurled.
Now unfurled.
To be seen.
-AAA 10/29/2024

Nice waves break and it’s such a rush
Riding my board among the crush
Warm day at the beach
With nothing to teach
say or preach
We all gush…
-AAA 10/23/2024

There’ll be great fun among waves
When the cool blue ocean behaves
But caution abides
Where there are riptides
Loss of lives
Current craves…
-AAA 10/23/2024

Even numbers are really best
Better than odd or all the rest
Two four six and eight
Quite balanced and straight
To relate
My behest…
-AAA 10/16/2024

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

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

End Debate and Hate
We must end all of the debate
Or we are all doomed at this rate
Find some common ground
Where answers are found
They’re around
Beyond hate…
-AAA 10/06/2027

Lazing on a bright Sunday day
Words came upon without delay
Ideas in my mind
Of the poetic kind
To convey…
-AAA 9/29/2024

Kathy Kay had quite a tough day
Consolation was hard to say
Heartbreak is so hard
Hurts in this regard
To the bard
I portray…
-AAA 09/27/2024

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

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

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

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

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

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

It is better love in vain?
How about the rejection’s pain?
Many lessons learned
After you get burned
Or you’re spurned
Love’s insane…
-AAA 09/16/2024

Make your mark do not hesitate
Life is short so you must be great
Obstacles hamper
Don’t let that damper
Just pamper
It’s your fate…
-AAA 9/16/2024

Sunday haze is affecting me
Cloudy as far as eyes can see
It’s really insane
That it doesn’t rain
All a vain
Fantasy…
-AAA 09/15/2024

Week has become long in the tooth
The weekend is always our sooth.
Friday has arrived
This week you survived.
You’re alive.
Smile is proof…
-AAA 09/13/2024

Crystal palaces glimmer bright
Brighter by day clearer by night.
Glass chateaus await
Hurry don’t be late
Never wait
Grand delight.
AAA 09/12/2024