PHOTO PROMPT © Lori Wilson Love’s Edifice Mom always said about gorgeous dames, “She’s built like a brick shit house.” First time I saw her, my gonads were pumping like pumps at a half-off gas special at the corner station. I courted her like Billy Jean King courted her tennis balls, hard and fast. She…
Month: October 2024
POPO2024 Day 46
Fungus gnats will kill plantsas their grubs eat their roots.My 1st casualty was a maidenhairfern I bought for son’s dorm room,after he gave it back. I watched itlanguish, then collapse. ResearchID’ed it and showed how to fight back.Sticky strips & mosquito bits on soil works.This year, I learned that putting bitsin drainage trays is perfect…
TTPC — synonyms only (tanka)
want vacant breakfastsuits my vacant morning mindovernight oatmeal!usual hot, cold, jazzed up withcinnamon, raisins, maple syrup mindless = vacanthumdrum = usual Selma Martin is today’s host of TankaTuesday Poetry Challenge. Selma says: Your Tanka Tuesday challenge invitation is to write a tanka, plus choose two synonyms using the two words: Mindless and Humdrum
POPO2024 Day 45
I love nature, but 2 enemiesfrom it have made war necessary.Deathly allergic to poison ivyit was relentlessly creeping up the sides of the house. Ants from flowerbeds marched upinto wet rafters of atrium to munch.Thanks to wise blogmates, myammo of borax worked for both.Boxes of 20 Mule poured alongperimeter and tiny villages of Terro Treats…
dVerse Q210 – Winds of Arete
Winds of AreteWhat is it about white,its exertion of mightthrough tireless fightto strip honor and lightfrom others of the rightto unfurl wings to flight?Drums beat the daypulse for old-new waystravels on winds of arete.We will be heard. I’m reading Tommy Orange’s book, “There There” right now and feel it is a vital and important piece…
POPO2024 Day 44
Petting Mlady this morningI notice she has no eyelashes.It’s like they migrated north,into eye whiskers that complementthe ones coming out of her cheeks.Did eye lashes or whiskers comefirst in the evolutionary scheme?It really doesn’t matter, but it’s fun to wonder about as shesits and washes her face.
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