image link Fandango’s FOWC is underdog, and the Word of the Day Challenge is riddle. Today’s post is inspired not only by the challenge words but by my experience at karaoke last night. My friend called and asked me to figure out who had karaoke so I did the google and gave her 3 places…
Category: Word of the Day Challenge
Heart thaw
image link Today’s Word of the Day Challenge is thawing. Sol’s beams warm Caress crystals To tears With warm beams Your smile caress My fears Tears to streams Sate river’s slake Fears melt, Puddle, dissipate Burgeoned river From banks to flats My burgeoned heart Holds strong at crack Flowers sprout To herald spring Love’s…
gratitude
image link The Word of the Day Challenge is gratitude. Passage from Robert Heinlein’s book, Stranger in a Strange Land, on the topic of gratitude: “Sit back down—and for God’s sake quit trying to be as nasty as I am; you don’t have my years of practice. Now let me get something straight: you are…
Madness Ignited
image link Fandango’s FOWC today is madness and Word of the Day Challenge is ignite. This gloomy weather is getting to me. Today’s offering is both disturbing and frightening. WARNING: It may be triggering and is not suitable for children. Don’t say you weren’t warned! a finger traces an imaginary line down a path…
Mirrorball
gif link The Word of the Day Challenge is resolutions. Fandango’s FOWC is enigma. The offering today are two nonets, one a reverse (the first one is the reverse), but each uses both prompts for today. I also tried to make them complement each other. Orb Focus Of varied Resolutions Generates versions Enigma of what’s…
Beads and how the world turns
image link The Word of the Day Challenge is traditions. Fandango’s FOWC is revenge. Today’s offering is in the form of a villanelle. As an introduction, I wanted to talk about how I was inspired to write this. On Saturday, I went to Hobby Lobby to take an art print that my older son got…
Plumbing and Potential
I have had two plumbing technicians out to the house during 2018. The first one was in the summer and the second one was on Friday. The first one was to figure out why the sewage was backing up into the house. The second one was to do a seasonal inspection of my furnace. Please…
Tao Talk 