Mirthful in folly
Laughter echoing through time
Silliness embraced
Look in the mirror and small
at the person looking back…
MAD/AAA 01/03/2024
Harmony’s embrace
Strings vibrating in concert
Music’s perfect blend
An ensemble’s wall of sound
Penetrates all who will hear…
MAD/AAA 01/03/2024
Branded and repeated
Business model standardized
Franchise expands wide
All for lemmings to consume
Line up, and be a number…
MAD/AAA 01/03/2024
Shadows faint and dim
Light obscured and fading fast
Dimming into night
Stars slowly make themselves known
Competing with the moonlight…
MAD/AAA 01/03/2024
Loss of home and hope
In foreclosure’s cruel grip
Dreams shattered and lost.
Gone are all the happy times
No one owns homes anymore…
MAD/AAA 01/03/2024
Singing in the dawn
Nature’s joyous serenade
Melody of life
Everyone join the parade
Dancing to celebrate life…
MAD/AAA 01/03/2024
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
Your three words today are:
BLUE
BUMP
BASH
Bob’s Battered Blue Bug
Bob’s blue bug
Had a bashed bumper
Bill, a bumbling buffoon borrowed
Bored, he begged Bob like a baby
Bob broke down which was his blunder
He’s to blame balking to his friends boon
Then one bright blustery afternoon, bam!
-AAA 01/03/2025
Some
Day
it will
make some sense.
In the meantime, do not dwell,
or you might waste a whole lifetime bound to self pity…
-AAA 01/03/2025
Take your time
Do not rush
Moments fine
If you push.
–
All in stride
Doesn’t hurt
Deep inside
Is our worth.
–
Manage you
In your lane
Less miscues
And less pain
–
Change is good
As we grow
We’re understood
All will know.
–
Reaching goals
All laid out
Paying tolls
So devout.
–
Smile not sad
Trying best
Isn’t bad
Take a rest.
–
Then look back
At all done
You’re on track
Life is fun…
-AAA 01/03/2025
When a someone dies
The wind is knocked out of you
Then everyone cries
Knowing not what they can do.
–
Desperately searching your mind
for the last thing said
Something substantial and kind
That might ease your head.
–
It hits you between the eyes
Harsh reality
You’ll never see them and sighs
Such finality.
–
So sad you almost can’t cry
Yet endless tears fall
You do all you can to try
But you’re three feet tall.
–
Try to hold it together
Others are far worse
Moments forever
An eternal curse.
–
Wishing hard we couldn’t feel
A shock to the core
Much more than life, death does steal
Someone we adored.
–
Feeling that there’s more out there
Does help some get through
Offering comfort to share
And positive thoughts too.
–
Positive thoughts, prayers as well
Through these emotions
One day you’ll heal, time will tell
Life is an ocean.
–
Forever they are alive
In memories and hearts
As the living must survive
Moving, forward, starts…
-AAA 01/02/2025
How far will you go before you are lost?
Some lose themselves in others
Missing all that they are.
-AAA 01/02/2025
Bad
tempers
violently
erupt,
like
a
molten
strata
volcano
blowing
off
its
mountain
top.
-AAA 01/02/2025
Stay
Play
Convey
On each day
Or else you might flay
Turning as ghastly as you may
Undesirable melancholiness on display.
-AAA 01/02/2025
The sky gently weeps her life giving tears
To the deeply parched landscape
Keeping all things alive.
-AAA 01/02/2025
Night
turns
to day
in a flash
of brilliant morning
Watch the warming sun beckon us
With all of its promises for a bright sunny day.
-AAA 01/02/2025
Don’t get even, live your life
Past is a closed square
Whether ex husband or wife
No need to go there.
–
Feel the peace of the present
Enjoy all that’s now
Looking back causes resent
Make today your vow.
–
Go outside, start a nice walk
Stretch your arms and legs
Stop negative talk
Its depression begs.
–
Notice the flowers and trees
Beauty everywhere
Feel a warm spring breeze
Nothing else compares.
–
Remember you are alive
As air fills your lungs
With nothing contrived
Sweetest songs are sung.
–
So take pause, don’t overthink
Feel your happiness
Life passes, don’t overthink
Moments don’t digress….
-AAA 01/02/2025
Your three words today are:
ABLE
ACTOR
AFT
Arthur Can Act
Arthur is beyond the most able actor
Rehearsing with the tenacity of a tractor.
Practicing on the aft of a ship
On a cruise adventure trip.
Dedication is his biggest factor.
-AAA 01/02/2025
Having not used any words beginning with Z last year, I’m starting 2025 with these:
ZEST
ZEBRA
ZONK
Zoey’s Zest
Zoey a zebra had zest for life and all
She went for it and zonk, she had a ball
Other zebras were lazy
But for life she was crazy
Feeling like she was over ten feet tall
-AAA 01/01/2025
The first words
My very first lune of
the new year.
–
I contemplate deeply
Before writing down initial words
Stream of consciousness.
–
Slow at first
Like any poem I write
I speed up.
–
Next I know
Something is working here now
Just keep going.
–
Before too long
A lune series is born
First of 2025…
-AAA 01/01/2025
The
final
seconds
have
poured
out
and
it’s
all
over,
it’s
a
new
year…
-AAA 01/01/2025
Sit awhile
Tell me your story
Don’t hold back on the details
Share the good, bad, and all ugliness
Talk to me…
-AAA 01/01/2025
Our children could teach us a thing or two
Just try seeing past their age
and look at all their hopes.
-AAA 01/01/2025
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
Where have you been all of these years
Parting ways after spent endless tears.
–
You silently crawled away in the night
Disappearing and out of sight.
–
I don’t know why you ghosted me
And sailed away on time’s tide sea.
–
All we shared was I guess in vain
Time that’s wasted can cause pain.
–
Answers can elude us all in life
All our deducing causes some strife.
–
In the end they were just a season
Even leaving without any reason…
-AAA 01/01/2025
Sit , crawl , stand, walk
Slowly growing
Babble speak talk
Life is flowing.
–
Giggle, smile coo
Playing with toys
So much to do
All filled with joys.
–
Growing up slow
An inch by inch
Best way to grow
Surely a cinch.
–
Toddlers or infants
Childhood then teens
Due take your chance
No in-betweens.
–
Lastly adults
Hardly can wait
Little consults
End all debates…
-AAA 12/31/2024
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
Searching for subtle words I’d pray would come
Instead I receive nothing
That silence speaks volumes…
-AAA 12/31/2024
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
Everybody, Ring In
Ring in New Years
Celebrate all
No need for tears
Enough did fall.
–
Ring in for change
Into a groove
Lives rearrange
When we all move.
–
Ring in for life
Being alive
Cast away strife
For this we strive.
–
Ring in for fun
With all our work
For everyone
We’re all just done.
–
Ring in for toasts
Countdowns soon start
No need for boasts
Just open hearts…
-AAA 12/31/2024
Your final three words for 2024 are:
PLACATE
CALM
GENTEEL
Calm Women
Dance fast, he said
And so we did
Wear off shoes tread
Do our best bid.
–
Fast music plays
Many good tunes
All night and day
From sun to moons.
–
Partners or friends
Dancing goes on
Music just ends
Until, next song.
–
An endless beat
Deepening grove
Nothing repeats
As we all move.
–
Requests are in
DJ’s in charge
We all will win
All living large.
–
Last call arrives
To our sorrow
We leave and drive
Work, tomorrow…
-AAA 12/30/2024
New Years Day is getting close
All our resolutions set
Enjoy year-end, have a toast
Let we’d all forget.
–
Year is over, don’t worry
It is all now in the past
Live day by day, don’t hurry
New days approach, fast.
–
Countdowns begin, numbers fall
Parties will be set for sure
Patting backs and walking tall
Our notions are pure.
–
Ring in the new year, have fun
Play your music very loud
Well wishes to everyone
Join the happy crowd…
-AAA 12/30/2024
Plummeting
over
the
edge,
time
falls
with
every
fleeting
second
spilling
into
the
next…
-AAA 12/30/2024
This
last
Monday
of the year
will make it special
or at very least, noteworthy.
Smile widely, laugh, and make it all count a lot today.
-AAA 12/30/2024
Dark dusk consumes day with a great hunger
Midnight will be upon us
With celestial light…
-AAA 12/30/2024
Your three words today are:
UPHEAVAL
MOCKERY
JOKER
Joker
You’re such a joker,
making love, a mockery
You just wait and see
Your upheaval come soon
and without any warnings…
-AAA 12/30/2024
Your three words today are:
RAFFLE
DONATE
PASS
Boundaries
Bob did everything in reverse
Which was both a gift and a curse.
–
He could read upside down
Wore inside out clothes into town.
–
Conventional bears found him, perverse…
-aaa
Originally Published 06/10/2024
Composing haikus
Is as easy as breathing
For seasoned writers
Add two lines with seven beats,
and you have made a tanka.
AAA/MAD 12/26/24
Shedding life’s crutches
Empowers everyone
To live their best life
Shining in your very best
Embracing your special self.
AAA/MAD 12/26/24
Green fragrant pine trees
Atop a fresh earthy scent
The mountains beckon
All for your exploration
Many adventures await.
AAA/MAD 12/26/24
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
S anctuary
O bliging
L oyalty
I dyllic
D edicated
A greement
R eciprocity
I nterests in common
T hriving
Y ield
-AAA 12/27/2024
I know you did it
Seeing the grin on your face
It gives you away
No trying to deny it
You are guilty of something.
AAA/MAD 12/12/24
Be happy for what you’ve got
I know it may not be a lot.
–
Be happy for where you live
Even if you don’t have a lot to give.
–
Be happy for who you are
You may not be a famous star.
–
Be happy for loving yourself
Even if others think you’re an elf.
–
Be happy for what you do
Despite all you’ve been through.
–
Be happy that you have friends
Support and encouragement portends.
–
Be happy that you’re alive.
Despite all you’ve had to survive.
–
Be happy for the person you’ve become
Even if your past mistakes were dumb.
–
Be happy for where you’re going
Even if the destination is unknowing
–
Be happy that you are alive
I know life can be an occasional dive.
–
Be happy for in the end
You’ve learned to be a better person, and friend!!!
-aaa
Originally Published 06/10/2024
Oscar an ocelot was ornery and loud
Doing whatever he wanted was allowed.
–
A scowl on his face
His actions meanly based.
–
As a constant jerk, he was proud.
-aaa
Originally Published 06/10/2024
Molly often felt bad
She’d rather be sad than glad.
–
Instead of a crown
She’d rather wear a frown.
–
She wears her depression like the latest fad…
-aaa
Originally Published 06/10/2024
Some intelligence
Would make all the difference
In a cruel hard world
Things are getting dumbed down now
Idiocracy follows.
AAA/MAD 12/26/24
Duplicitous household tools
Singing in chorus
Since Christmas is all over
And new year beckons
Creating resolutions
May take up some time
But carrying them all out
might take you a year…
-AAA 12/27/2024
Cordially invite
As all poets recite
Words through day and night.
–
Inspiration strikes
Ideas flood the mind’s dikes
Like lightning it strikes.
–
Words come fast enough
Shooting out straight from the cuff
No half-hearted bluff.
–
Then the end is reached
No poignant lessons besieged
We’re all here to teach…
-AAA 12/26/2024
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