The House Of Plenty

RDP Thursday – CORNUCOPIA  Create a post (words/images/both) inspired by this word!

 

If something is good

we want an abundance of it, we want to celebrate it, we want to revel in it

we want to get down on our knees and worship it

in a place where everyone agrees with you- with us- we are one

inside the House of Plenty.

 

Maybe that is why

being different is frowned upon

walking out of step

in discourage

having the wrong colored eyes or hair or skin

is a sin

within the sacred walls inside The House of Plenty.

 

I’ve had one true love, one  great adventure and a dog

that we write songs about

and I have never

been invited once, never a member of

the sacred congregation who live

Within The House of Plenty.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

The Face Of Summer

Final Thursday of Na/GloPoWriMo 2019 #25 :

  • Is specific to a season
  • Uses imagery that relates to all five senses (sight, sound, taste, touch, and smell)
  • Includes a rhetorical question, (like Keats’ “where are the songs of spring?”)

 

I love the summer

so say my friends

who love to wear flip flops and insist they only feel alive

when the Sun shines relentlessly in the sky  and the cool nights close in

and the crickets chirp and the nightingales sing.

 

Cool fruit flavored  drinks in hand, swathed in slick, thick  Sunscreen

the Summer air is heavy  with the sent  of charcoal fueled  barbeques and freshly washed cars and

backyard shampooed  dogs

all around them

they sit upon their plastic chairs  and  cry in agony,  ” I hate the  winter”

relentlessly like a broken record.

 

My Summer loving friends sing their praises to the Sun.

Shouldn’t they be singing them all to Ra?

Because every Summer I watch my friends

take one step closer,  they are  one Sunbeam nearer

to looking like the

unwrapped mummies

on a shelf in the Museum of  Cairo.

 

Yes. You Heard That Right.

Na/GloPoWriMo  Day 24: Locate a dictionary, thesaurus, or encyclopedia, open it at random, and consider the two pages in front of you to be your inspirational playground for the day. Maybe a strange word will catch your eye, or perhaps the mishmash of information will provide you with the germ of a poem

 

When it is bored

and looking for some fun

my brain sends a crazy message

straight to my tongue.

 

It plays with words I see

and ties them up in knots

it shoots them past my eyes

and straight out of my mouth:

 

Like.

 

Façade, facade

such an easy word to say!

One  day I read it

and then in a meeting I pronounced it

Fuk-ah-day

Thanks for that internal organs

just remember

I know how to hurt you too.

Who Has The Time For That?

RDP Wednesday – BOOK  World Book Day was celebrated yesterday. The annual event organized  by the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO), promotes reading, publishing and copyrights.

Our prompt for today is “book”. You can use it as a noun or a verb. Share your interpretation of the day’s prompt in words or pictures

Photo by Karol D on Pexels.com

 

I collect excuses about why people don’t read books  or magazines or newspapers ( both on line and hard copies) the way I used to collect stamps and stickers back in my youngerer days.

I find these little pieces of fiction fascinating –  after someone lays one of these iron clad babies at my feet ( iron clad because they are over used and nearly worn out of existence ). I have these replies that I never say out loud because it’s pointless and all I get back is ” I know, right?”  or ” LOL, that’s funny ”  sometimes I’ll get a meme texted to me or sent to me through messenger   from the person I’m standing or sitting next to.

How sad is that?

Here are a few of my favorites- now after you are done try to not use them again and read a book, any book, your brain will thank you.

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Photo by Lukas on Pexels.com

 

I don’t read much, I get everything I need on line.

( I’ve heard that people are waiting for robots to go into production that they can have, er, intimate relations with. Yeah. Is THAT the everything that will make your on line life complete because that’s what I think you’re talking about. )

I don’t buy books, I get stuff to read on line.

( Uh Huh, I’m sure the newsfeed on your Facebook page is just chock full of info and factoids that we can ALL benefit from and be inspired by. )

I don’t have time to read, I’m way to busy.

( Well. I suppose that it does take time to find new games to play on your phone and it takes time to learn them too. Lots of time one would assume because I’ve watched people nearly walk off of the train platform or into the sides of buses because they HAVE to score those points.)

The last book I read was in college

( Deflector shields up… pew pew, don’t criticize me,  I WENT TO COLLEGE and I read those required books so I am EXCUSED from ever having to do it again.)

 

I have this goal, I want to read 101 books and so far I’ve only read 14, but I think I can do it. In fact, I’m sure of it  because have found that if I read on the train and at lunch and if I read when I’m not writing or not playing with my dog ( Playtime with my dog is necessity and I will not give that up ) I can get a lot of reading in.

Plus I signed up on Goodreads and I like it when I can check a book off as read for my 2019 reading challenge.

I won’t fool you, sometimes I watch shows that I like- there are three of them. But  is it the first thing I do when I sit down to relax or I have some free time on my hands?

No it isn’t.

I read a book and sometimes I put my book down long enough to check out the world around me. Come one world, show me something besides people on their phones.

Please.