Flint: Try to Explain

image link Try to explain to a child the taint in the water when, by its very nature, the child will have no capacity to understand. Try to explain to a parent how a system expects her to accept their choice to cut the children of Flint in half. Try to explain to the public…

Sorry to Bother You (2018)

Sorry to Bother You – No You’re Not! I was finally able to borrow a copy of, “Sorry to Bother You” from my local branch of the library and watched it last night. Although I had a general idea of what it was about, I’d purposely kept myself ignorant of spoilers and wanted to go…

Poetry — Peaky Blinders

image link Today’s form is a limerick Peaky Blinders A man with a roving eye’s sneaky so’s not to get caught doing peeky if his wife catches him for him it’ll be grim and he’ll sleep on the couch for a weeky.   Word of the Day Challenge — roving

Poetry Day 31 — One

Today’s prompt, the final one for OctWriPoMo2018, is Endless. The form I chose is cinquain. It’s been very satisfying writing a poem a day for this challenge. The picture with today’s poem is one I drew based upon a dream I had not long ago. One Endless life death cycle arising, setting sun, joy and…

Poetry — Dunes

image link Dunes Wander through woodlands along sandy trails hearing lake’s whooshing up dunes and down vales a shimmering guide orange-pink rivulet reaching the crest to see the sun set   Click the link to see a nice youtube video with the whooshing sound of Lake MI: Lake Michigan, water against the shore Word of…

Poetry Day 30 –it’s time to dance!

gif link Today’s writing prompt for OctWriPo is:  “It’s time to celebrate a job well done, a love won, the turning of the sun. Write about that exuberant feeling you get whenever you are happy, that feeling that makes you feel like dancing whether it’s on the earth or the moon!”  The suggested form today…