Alive and Trekking’s Which Way photo challenge – August 25
Cracks
Such a beautiful building you once were
Host to many a party
Home to many a family
I must remind myself
Don't dwell on what has passed away
You were not all perfection
Host to many a tragedy
Home to many a sufferer
I must remind myself
There is a crack, a crack in everything
Disrupting the very foundation of existence
That's how the light gets in
Illuminating space for transformation
W3 Prompt #69: Wea’ve Written Weekly poet of the week Ange, prompts us to write a poem using two to three lines from Leonard Cohen’s (1934 – 2016) ‘Anthem’.
I chose:
“Don’t dwell on what has passed away…
There is a crack, a crack in everything…
That’s how the light gets in”
A Tanka: Japanese Anemone
Nonnative flower
Chastising barbs to myself
It should not be here
Yet it is so beautiful
Pollen praised by honeybees.
Cee’s Flower of the Day Challenge (FOTD) and Ronovan Writes weekly poetry prompt .
A Haibun: Supine
Midsummer afternoon. Trees whisper in the breeze. The breeze brings the scent of flowers. The flowers feed colorful insects cavorting under a wondrous sky. A sky viewed from the blanket on which I lie supine.
Midsummer evening
A cloudless sky overhead
Supine under stars
Prompted by dVerse host De’s Quadrille #182: Are You Pining for Poems? and Colleen’s #TankaTuesday Weekly #Poetry Challenge No. 334, 8/22/23
Mondays – St. Bernard
For Sandee’s Awww Mondays at Comedy Plus.
Impartiality?
Does impartiality exist given our unconscious biases?
It seems even our best intentions are sabotaged.
* * *
Sorry Sammi, I couldn’t stop here…
Fiduciary?
You say you have an insurance claim?
We’ll be happy to take your (recorded) statement
Impartiality is our middle name
(Unless you require a hefty payment).
Your house was destroyed? A bad injury?
Maybe you exaggerate a bit…
We’ll use our power as a fiduciary
To decide if your claim is legit.
You may not like our decision
We offer you appeal undeterred
But don’t expect an admission
That our claim review practices are absurd.
You can always hire a lawyer –
At a cost of (at least) one-third.
#FOWC – Fandango’s One-Word Challenge
Image credit: Unsplash.com
Spectacular Seeds
Monarch
I planted Milkweed in my garden this spring and today saw my first Monarch – so exciting!
According to the U.S. Forest Service, “[t]he monarch is the only butterfly known to make a two-way migration as birds do,” traveling as far as 3000 miles south to their winter homes in Mexico and southern California. It takes 3-4 generations of breeding Monarchs to make the return to the northernmost regions of their habitat, northern United States and Canada.
Collective We
Let’s rid the world of misery
An awful place, don’t you agree?
Now let me just enlighten thee
To change the way the world you see
The worthy are the “collective we”
Enforcing how things ought to be
We will not tolerate the [s]he
Whose point of view is contrary
Unworthy
A few little lies is all it takes
To be the victors of this debate
Together we shall congregate
A righteous mob to escalate
Setting all the people straight
Follow or we’ll obliterate
All who fail to cooperate
With our efforts to propagate
Hate
Prompted by MTB: Convince us with rhetorical devices. dVerse host Björn challenges us to write a poem/prose using rhetorical devices.
Caterpillar
Prompted by Cee’s Midweek Madness Challenge (CMMC) on the topics of green and summer.
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