Forever kisses
Are the best kisses of all
Since they never end
They warm up the heart and soul
Bringing joy and peace to you…
-AAA/MAD 10/19/2024
I love hamburgers
Well seasoned patties of beef
Cooked to perfection
Layers of cheese melting slow,
Each bite a savory dream…
-AAA/MAD 10/19/2024
Your three words today are:
REEDS
ORCHID
LILY
My Garden
Brilliant green reeds dance
Blue orchids share their beauty
Sweet scented lily
All in abundance
Here in my garden with care….
-AAA 10/21/2024
Glory and fame
Needed are heroes
Example by shining
,themselves,
Shining by example
Heroes are needed
Fame and glory…
-AAA 10/20/2024
http://mymindmappings.com/2024/10/20/fowc-with-fandango-derelict/
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 “derelict.”
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.
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Dizzy Dan’s Damaged Derelicts
Dizzy Dan’s thought his buildings, erect
But in the end, there were derelict.
Cheap material stacked up tall
Cheaper material soon would fall.
Down to their foundation’s defects…
-AAA 10/20/2024
Love who you are now
Not who you were yesterday
That’s a fools errand
Embrace the new inspired you
For there is no one quite like you…
-AAA/MAD 10/19/2024
I truly will never forget
The advent of the Internet.
Back in college in ninety-three
The would change for you and me.
In some ways it’s improved your life
But in others it’s caused us strife.
Bombarded with information
With noticeable degradation.
Advertisements and facts hit us like rocks
Once opened, we can’t close Pandora’s box.
We do our best to deal
And express how we feel.
The inundation has burst our bubble
And that’s just the start of our trouble.
Determining false from true
Is the hardest thing to do
I guess I’m among the few
That now see our world askew…
-AAA 10/20/2024
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Our words are: scratches screeches soothes fringe image sighs locks shiny rises swarm ghoulish night.
Banshees Take Flight
On the fringe of here and there
Rises the existence of everywhere.
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A swarm of banshees take to flight
Their ghoulish screeches fill the night.
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Their scary images shadow the blocks
As they fly overhead with wily locks.
–
Rushing indoors feeling soothed by the shiny floors
As I sigh relief, then tiny scratches on the door.
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Am I safe, now, no one knows
But I’ll feel better when the dawn’s rooster crows…
-AAA 10/20/2024
Fervent winds blow
stronger and higher
They ebb and flow
Fanning the fire.
–
The more we learn
The less we’re tame
Many things burn
As they are aflame.
–
Can anything be done
It may be too late
Less time is for fun
Reaping our fates.
–
So much change
Rampant confusion
So very strange
Is it a delusion?
–
Wake me up
Because I care
Before times up
From this nightmare…
-AAA 10/19/2024
Your three words today are:
HANDBASKET
POSY
BOUQUET
Leaders In Destruction
As the world goes to hell in a handbasket
Our leaders are caught up in a major racket
Feeling the world is quite rosy
Like a bouquet of posies
We know the truth, no matter how they stack it…
-AAA 10/19/2024
Slue Foot Sue I’ll see you real soon
We’re in a rocket and on our way
Your bustle bounce brought you to the moon
And we’ll be reunited in just over a day.
–
The countdown starts
The clock starts to run
Our rocket departs
As the count reaches one.
–
Shimmy and shake
Like a busting bronco would
Such a commotion for your sake
I’d do it again if I could.
–
We speed up faster
Leaving the earth
Risk is our master
No time for mirth.
–
All the coyotes howled
For one last time
Our wedding was fouled
I’m undoing that crime.
–
Patience my dear
It’s been a long while
Your Pecos Bill is getting near
Bring out your smile.
–
The moon grows large
As we approach
This NASA barge
Is our stagecoach.
–
It’s been many years
It’s taken so long
Frustration and tears
Now turned into song.
–
I can see your pretty face
And ocean blue eyes
It’s now just a race
Through star filled skies.
–
Traveling fast is such great fun
Pushing the rocket to the limit
Faster than a bullet from my gun
A stagecoach rocket with your Bill in it.
–
Hit the retros we’re slowing down
I hoot and holler as we get near
I’ll soon be in your lunar town
Hang on darlin I’m almost here…
-AAA 10/20/2024
Too much pondering
Will give you a big headache
Do not overthink
In stillness, I find my way,
Letting go of endless thoughts…
-AAA/MAD 10/17/2024
Polarized and charged like an ion
Proceeding, with the ferocity of a lion.
–
Into danger without a thought
Excepting what fate brought.
–
Moving without hesitation
Lacking any consternation.
–
Until the task at hand is through
Nothing else will possibly do.
–
Focus now we’re almost here
Gather your wits, dispel fear.
–
Taking steps forward, more and more
You’ve nearly reached her front door.
–
Pressing the bell, immense anticipation
She appears with a smile to your elation.
–
She follows you to your car as you implore
Dinner and discussions, are next in store.
–
You grab her door as she gets in
Gently closing it behind her, safely within.
–
Do your best to get your bearings
Immense beauty, and that perfume she’s wearing.
–
You reel around to the driver’s side
Silently content you cleaned your ride.
–
Fingers crossed, now without fright
You pull away, to the awaiting night…
-AAA 10/19/2024
Isn’t it great
When you can continue dreams
Throughout the night?
–
Almost akin to
pausing a streaming motion picture
To grab popcorn.
–
Or is it
A form of lucid dream
Under your control…
-AAA 10/18/2024
http://mymindmappings.com/2024/10/19/fowc-with-fandango-deprive/
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 “deprive.”
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.
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Gone Without a Goodbye
Let me deprive you of your joy
Letting me writhe like a wind up toy.
You never loved me I was just a joke
Had I gotten sicker you’d’ve let me croak.
So I walked away, rather ran away
Tired of the sick games you’d play.
Two years plus divorced, seems longer
I’m no longer a worm, I’ve gotten stronger.
My thoughts drift less and less to you
As I have a much happier life in view.
Just like the tides flow and ebb
I’m sure you’ll catch another in your web…
-AAA 10/19/2024
I need hard music
Guitars blaring killer riffs
Magical bass plays
Hypnotic chords while the drums
Beat S.O.S through my heart.
–
High shrieking vocals
and sweet precise harmonies
Really get me there.
To a place where all my pain
and past mistakes are erased…
-AAA 10/18/2024
Your three words today are:
COLONY
OUTPOST
RIDERS
Reed’s Milquetoast Riders
Reed’s Riders left the outpost
Thinking they were the most
The colonies’s best?
But when put to the test
Becoming mere milquetoast
-AAA 10/19/2024
Dragonflies pair up
Coupled closely in midair,
United as one.
Sunlight glints off their warm wings,
A dance in the summer sky….
AAA/MAD 10/17/24
Strong
winds
blew
and
the
trees
shrugged
is
if
they
couldn’t
change
a
thing…
-AAA 10/18/2024
http://mymindmappings.com/2024/10/18/fowc-with-fandango-refine/
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 “refine.”
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.
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Queen of the Refined
Shelly was so refined
She was one of a kind
Gloves and dress
At McDonald’s no less
When she’s formal she’d unwind…
-AAA 10/17/2024
This phase
Quite cathartic
With all its challenges
Yet immensely satisfying
Will count
-AAA 10/17/2024
Your final three words this week are:
PIPE
PEEP
PEER
Pepe And His Pipes
Pepe piped to his peers
His persistence grated ears
We peeped as he popped
His playing never stopped
Almost palpable after some years…
-AAA 10/17/2024
Fast, what’s on your mind?
People, places, or events?
Maybe all of them
Endless information floods
your mind with bright imagery…
–
Can’t turn it off
Even if you try real hard
With your vivid mind
Many things to see and feel
You’re not even finished yet…
-AAA 10/17/2024
True reality,
I can’t shut my eyes to it.
Living it each day.
Dreaming it every night.
It is inescapable…
-AAA 10/17/2024
http://mymindmappings.com/2024/10/17/fowc-with-fandango-conference/
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 “conference.”
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.
Harriet Hamster And The Tone Deaf
Harriet Hamster’s conference ran long
Then many attendees all joined in song
It ended then quite soon
As they sang out of tune
As each note came out wrong…
-AAA 10/17/2024
Your three words today are:
BATH
BASIN
BLOCK
Bailey’s Lego Tub
Baileys bath basin was made out of blocks
Each time she bathed, she timed her clocks
As the water quickly leaked
Through the Lego’s she’d freak
After, through puddles she’d walk..
-AAA 10/16/2024
She was an innocent naive flower of a woman.
–
Until the cruel, cold, harsh world, got a hold of her. Then cynicism took over, and her heart turned to ice.
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Instead of love, all she could see was hate. Her trust, betrayed, she was heartbroken. Then set her sights n hurting others, as misery loves company…
-AAA 10/16/2024
Where did the sun go?
Very dark in its absence.
Maybe it’s the clouds
that have taken it away.
I do hope he comes back soon…
-AAA 10/16/2024
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
Your three words today are:
MAID
WAITER
CLEANER
Mad Molly The Maid
Mad Molly the maid
Worked hard to be paid
Waiting and cleaning
Are her only meaning
Her skills are on parade.
-AAA 10/15/2024
http://madmissywork.blog/2024/10/14/missys-mad-challenge-011/
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
She Never Knew
She never knew I was this strong
She never knew.
She never knew I’d write my own song
She never knew.
–
She never knew I’d say goodbye
She never knew.
She never knew I’d get along fine
She never knew.
–
She never knew I’d start a new life
She never knew.
She never knew how to be a wife
She never knew.
–
She never knew I’d move away
She never knew.
She never knew I refuse to stay
She never knew.
–
She never knew what hit her
She never knew.
She never knew I’d quit her
She never knew.
–
She never knew that I knew she was untrue
She never knew.
She never knew I saw it all, brew
She never knew…
-AAA 10/15/2024
Chevron tiled floor.
Strobe lights flash.
The sound of jazz fills the air.
Flowing red curtains.
A short man from a far away place, dances.
Woman in a black dress whispers in an ear.
Clues unfold to an unthinkable murder of a homecoming queen…
-AAA 10/15/2024
Story’s, sagas, and series a plenty
Some great time to kill if you have any.
–
Lord of The Rings and Harry Potter
Sure beats reruns of Welcome Back Kotter.
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Scary stories monsters and clowns
Kings and wizards and fallen crowns.
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Chronicles Of Narnia even Dune
Gathering spice on an Arrakus moon.
–
Spies had saboteurs hiding in the dark
Romantic stories just for a lark.
–
Enders Game and Shadow series
Never leave you feeling weary.
–
Rereading these books so they never end
Is almost like revisiting old friends.
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Super heroes, villains that fall
Turn the pages and see it all.
–
So when you’re bored and by yourself
Grab instant adventure off your shelf…
-AAA 10/14/2024
C acophony of hypocrisy
E nsurung future generations learn nothing
N eedling in everyone’s affairs
S tupidity
U nbelievable
R udiculous expectations
I mbeciles fearing anything different
N o vision
G radndiose piety
–
B erating free thought
O utrageous
O btuse
K now nothings
S adness over lost art…
-AAA 10/14/2024
Your three words today are:
WARLOCK
WITCH
CRONE
Halloween Delight
Witches and warlocks
Dancing throughout the night
While ghosts and ghoulies
Boogie with the crones on sight
It’s a Halloween delight…
-AAA 10/14/2024
What makes a good neighbor?
I was inspired (not in a good way to write a tanka series on the lack of community and neighbors our society seems dominated by these days. Yesterday is a perfect example of selfish people and their cluelessness.
At the grocery store this woman essentially raced me to the register so she could go first with her grocery cart nearly full, and me with my eight items. She didn’t even look at me or conceive at offering me to go first with my few items. Something I often do for others when I have a lot of groceries.
Then on my way home I decided to grab a hamburger to go. Just before the driveway, a man two lanes over makes a left turn (rather than lane change) in front of me 500 feet before the light forcing me to brake. I miss the driveway and had to make two lefts at two lights to go where I needed to. I even recall him motioning with his hand as if to swat me out of his way like I was a common housefly.
The coup de gras were my very unneighborly neighbors that live in the apartment above me. The same ones who: blast their subwoofer’s at all hours with either bass forward music or explosions from movies, enjoy the occasional 2:00 am argument they have, stomp about as if to step as hard and loud as possible, make noise sliding chairs dropping objects (with huge thuds), and are often hammering nails into the wall it seems. For an encore, until at least 1:30 am last night, a drunken stoned chorus of girls singing at the top of their lungs, and dancing and clamoring about. I did what I could to cover it up, closing my window, cranking up my fan, and my television.
Loving Thy Self Not Thy Neighbor
The age of selfish
Everyone wants their own thing
Such a disregard
For anyone else around
Swelling with narcissism.
–
Where are our neighbors?
Busy fulfilling themselves
With tunnel vision
Not a single care to give
Save their own best interests.
–
They will cut you off
On the highways and byways
Or in the store lines
Without a trickle of care
Lest their sole dreams and desires.
–
When did it all change?
Covid did play a big role
We became hermits
Then people forgot to care
About their community.
–
If things do not change
We’re doomed in a new dark age
Of such carelessness
And egregious selfishness
That it hurts and hinders hope…
-AAA 10/15/2024
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.
–
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
–
Adults buying candy
Then eating some of it
Then buying more.
–
Costumes are ready
Special stores pop up everywhere
Selling seasonal goods.
–
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?
–
How far away is far?
Time can only tell.
Can you get there by car,
or taxi as well?
–
How much is too much?
What would be the weight?
Is a lot a bunch?
Tell me don’t hesitate.
–
Does love conquer all?
The great poets say so.
We all rise and fall.
As life takes its toll.
–
When is enough enough?
Is it less than a lot?
I’m shooting here from the cuff.
Show me what you got.
–
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
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