image link The Word of the Day Challenge is hymn. Fandango’s One Word Challenge is contrast. Every Sunday, it was the same routine. Same old sermons, same old songs. Until that one Sunday, when our pastor was gone and we had a substitute. The substitute was a young woman who had spiked blue hair, a…
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Now you see me….
gif link Fandango’s One Word Challenge today (oops yesterday) is leave and the Word Challenge of the day is dismal. I should have just skipped the challenges, but it’s done now. I decided to do something short and sweet, well not that sweet as leave and dismal are kind of like the day outside was,…
Off They Go^
image link Tonight’s dverse poet’s cafe topic is fire and it can be in any form. This one may be in a form but no guarantees. two extinguished travelers searching for shelter where warmth could be and found each other * kindling of combustible memories tossed into the pyre ignited by unvalidated emotions consumed…
Blue Twilight Zone
click for essay, “The obsession with creating ‘perfect female robots’: Should women be worried?” Warning: this post contains material of a sexual nature that is not appropriate for children and may be objectionable to some adults. Last night I watched a 45-minute netflix offering about the subject of fembots, called, “My Sex Robot”. Going to…
Trap
image link Fandango’s One Word Challenge today is trap. Today’s offering is a sedoka . The Sedoka is an unrhymed poem made up of two three-line katauta with the following syllable counts: 5/7/7, 5/7/7. A Sedoka, pair of katauta as a single poem, may address the same subject from differing perspectives. Trap Arms, bodies entwined…
Mi Familia
image link A family gathering gives, Appreciating why one lives Reminisces, laughter galore About things serious before Time, growth, and love blossoms forgives. Sons, now men, have women to love Humble prayers they would be beloved Helpmates, companions, hand in hand Cherished partners, unfolds as planned Thank you, Grace from dverse for the prompt today…
tangled up in tryst
The Tryst (1840) Jean-Leon Gerome Fandango’s One Word Challenge’s selection today is tryst. Today’s offering is a series of senryu . as he closed the door to the room, he broke one heart and burst another * dark end of the street where lust and betrayal rise unholy phoenix * “working late tonight” cliched…
Tao Talk 