Your final three words this week are:
PRICE
PIECE
PIERCE
Paul’s Piercing Piece
Paul’s piece could pierce you.
He obtained a razor sharp
serrated blade knife.
For a price, he might use it.
Be careful, and watch your back…
-AAA 01/17/2025
http://mad-missy-work.blog/2025/01/13/missys-mad-challenge-024/
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
Antagonistic People
Antagonistic
people are the worst to know.
I married a few
to my extreme detriment.
Heed my warning, avoid them!!!
-AAA 01/17/2025
In driest desert
Life finds a way to exist
We must do the same
With strength, we will endure this.
Hope blooms where least expected
AAA/MAD 1/12/25
Please do not blame me
I really had little choice
I had to move on
I would have faded away
Need to be away to grow
AAA/MAD 1/12/25
Dancing long stockings
Warming all of my chilled toes
With each step I take
Spinning in rhythm’s embrace
Joyful laughter fills the air.
AAA/MAD 1/12/25
Crisp salty sea air
Birds rise high without a care
Squawking if they dare
Waves crash on the sandy shore
Sunset paints the sky in gold.
AAA/MAD 1/12/25
Brainstorming haikus
In my current moments choose
Mind burns in my shoes.
Thoughts like rivers flowing,
Ideas start to take shape.
AAA/MAD 1/12/25
Does dirt become clean
After being washed up, or
Does it remain dirt
Can water change its nature
Is there a chance for rebirth?
AAA/MAD 1/10/25
Will horses run free
On never-ending pastures
Faster than the wind
Gracefully, they roam so wide
With joyful hearts, they gallop.
AAA/MAD 1/10/25
Harvest wheat dances
As the prairie breezes blow
Creating ripples
Under the golden sun’s glow
Fields alive, a vibrant show.
AAA/MAD 1/10/25
Voice raised in anger
Bad intentions are in mind.
Violence will follow
Feelings will be damaged and
It will be hard to repair.
AAA/MAD 1/10/25
Better than the rest
Left out in the heartless cold
Many neglected
Dreams are lost within shadows.
Hope flickers like a small flame.
-AAA/MAD 1/8/25
Where did our rain go
Winter seasons really slow
Now nothing will grow
The ground is parched, sky is gray.
Each passing hour, the sun shines.
-AAA/MAD 1/8/25
Fierce winds fan hot flames
Fires race up and down hillsides
Where is the relief
Devasation for many
Compassion is needed now
-AAA/MAD 1/8/25
You count all the words
While I’ll count out all the days
Then divide by two
The answer cannot explain
all the joy & love that we have
-AAA/MAD 1/8/25
In darkness it lurks
Fear and mystery entwined
Eternal unknown
Deep inside us the fear binds
For all life has seen and shown.
MAD/AAA 01/03/2024
Electric spark’s dance
Sensation of joy and hope
Shiver of delight
Tingling from head to toe
Butterflies fill our stomachs…
MAD/AAA 01/03/2024
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
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
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
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
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
Think well of others
Kindness doesn’t cost a thing
In our lives grand scheme
Selflessness goes a long way
To be more than just oneself.
AAA/MAD 12/26/24
It’s ok to cry
Let all of those feelings out
We are all human
Let all the emotions flow
As you heal and grow anew.
AAA/MAD 12/26/24
Time is infinite
As the seconds all add up
Present becomes past
The past is forever gone
Minute moments mean much more.
AAA/MAD 12/26/24
Your three words today are:
ALONE
HALF-HEARTED
DAYDREAM
Daydream
One light in millions
Tries all its brightest to shine
Standing all its own
Filling dark with its brilliance
Alight carrying all hope…
-AAA 12/24/2024
That fleeting moment.
When everything just makes sense.
Stark revelations.
Divine timing works it out.
Presence becomes your mainstay…
-aaa
Originally Published 06/06/2024
There’s warmth everywhere.
Not a chilly spot at all.
Feel the gentle breeze.
Cool breakers fall on the shore.
Move and duck under the waves…
-aaa
Originally Published 06/06/2024
I loved her so much
Feeling wasn’t mutual
No matter how hard
I tried, nothing could be changed
Her heart, made of hardest stone.
-AAA 12/18/2024
It’s absurdity
With what we’re left to believe
Just fake rhetoric
The truth begins to grieve now
In shadows, hope starts to fade…
AAA/MAD 12/13/24
Tankas with a friend
Endless fun that never ends
Words together mend
Laughter echoes through the air,
Sharing dreams without a care…
AAA/MAD 12/13/24
I love winter’s lips
Cold but not nearly too cruel
Ice touches us all
Whispers of snowflakes drift down,
Frosty breath upon my cheeks…
AAA/MAD 12/13/24
Grey-white misty veil
Touching all in moist contact
A morning dew’s kiss
Sunbeams filter through the haze,
Awakening to greet day…
AAA/MAD 12/13/24
Choice of happiness
Will ensure no conditions
For the achievement
Let joy arise in each day
Embrace the light within you.
AAA/MAD 12/13/24
Your three words today are:
VOLATILE
VOCAL
VIOLENT
Toxic Society
Volatile tempers
Show promise of violence
We’re all too vocal
Smashing all over of our beliefs
All over one another…
-AAA 12/13/2024
Hippopotamus
Lurking below the water
Waiting for something
Wading slowly through the stream
He suddenly saw his prey.
AAA/MAD 12/13/24
Your final three words this week are:
BLACK
CAT
BRISTLE
Black Cats Bristle
Black cats will bristle
Especially, late at night
They’ll play in the dark
At least until the sunrise
Then enjoy a long day-nap…
-AAA 12/12/2024
Let it all go, now.
No hang-ups, no bad feelings.
Just, warm contentment.
To have an “inner quiet”.
Often, is to live in zen…
-aaa
Originally Published 06/05/2024
Your three words today are:
INTERACT
INTERCOM
INTERFACE
Face 2 Face
When interacting
I don’t prefer intercoms
As the interface
Rather, I like face to face
Communication, to talk…
-AAA 12/09/2024
Our warm words protect.
In a cold uncaring world.
A sanctuary.
To the kindness we create.
Inside ourselves and outwards…
-aaa
Originally Published 06/03/2024
I am all dried out.
I just don’t have anything.
That I can write, now.
I don’t have any poems.
Or anything else to blog…
-aaa
Originally Published 05/31/2024
Giving up won’t work
It’s just not in your nature
Just keep on going
You never know you’ll find
nearby, around the corner…
-AAA 12/06/2024
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