The Emperor’s New Poem
Poetry perplexes me. They say it arouses feelings. In me, it arouses the feeling that I’m missing something. Some great poetic joke.
Ode To Mommy Brain (with apologies to Dr. Seuss)
Girls, it is said, are made up of sweets, Sticky, and licky, and gooey-gum treats. Boys, on the other hand – puppy dog tails, Creepies and crawlies and eight-legged snails. But neither is true, as I’ve said all along, They’re made up of brain cells they stole from their mom. Inspired by Sara’s grinchy Growing [...]
The Sun and Silence
Six Word Friday: Silence. Hello sun light, my old friend I’m walking in your warmth again. From depths of seemingly endless night Out of darkness into the light From visions, that dragged me down To find, deep in my mind The dark, the tears, the silence. Deep in thought, I walked alone Narrow halls I [...]
Ap plausium
Theme for Six Word Friday: Again. I hold my breath, peer down. A gain? No, a loss. Again. Bits of me are disappearing. Again. I’ll have to go shopping. Again. And now, to do it again. And again, and again, and again.
Just Go
Theme for Six Word Friday: Go. Sometimes I just need to go. To be elsewhere. To be transported, By roaring engines, or turning pages. Somewhere I have never been, or Somewhere that I know and love; Either way, it’s time to go.
One Of Those Days
Today Is one of those days When I will accomplish much. The laundry, the garbage, The dishes, the hall. Babies fed, Noses wiped. Yes, today I will accomplish much. Because the alternative Is to sit down And cry.
oh well.
Theme for Six Word Friday: Well. Well, well, well. It’s Friday already. How did that happen, I wonder? Scribbling, scrabbling, the well is dry. Thought everything was well in hand, But today is Six Word Friday. And I got nuthin’. Oh well.
Six Word Sunday
Theme for Six Word Friday: Novel. Yes I know today is Sunday. (and barely that, truth be told) Me and My Girls: A Novel Novel: me. Fallling, truly madly deeply, For a painting. In a gallery. Just out on a sanity-ramble, To somewhere warm, with underground parking. So much depth in two dimensions, For one [...]
Hindsight
Theme for today’s Six Word Friday: seconds Second post on a busy day. Second look, does not quite say What I wanted it to say. Seconds pass, do I delete it? But hindsight is only 20-20 if You have something to look at.
Other places I ramble
Stack Overflow
