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Friday, February 25, 2022

SLAVA UKRAINE

 

 

 

WORDLE # 277 . MLMM

 War
Artillery
Sorrow
Bravery
Smoke
Twist
Atonement
Billow
Squat
Dirt
Soldiers
Shoulders...

 

war declared

by twisted dirt bag sewer squat psycho putin

firing heavy artillery on ukraine

causing enormous sorrow and destruction

to innocent brave  citizens

true soldiers of freedom

who love and will fight for their country

 

in horror we watch the news

smoke billowing from the bombed buildings

we will stand shoulder to shoulder with them

and with any luck the war criminal will join his mate adolf

in the eternal fiery pit where he can atone for his sins

sooner rather than later

 

Rosemary

 she likes to water her garden

at twilight listening to

the wind chimes tinkle in the leafless tree

by the gate 

pondering on all the poems she is writing


if you are running late

best hedge your bets and arrive

with a big bunch of roses

 

 


 

you wont want to be on the receiving end of

one of her cold withering looks

besides

most of the time rosemary is a sweet heart


Friday Writings - # 15



 The Whirligig # 359

THIS WEEK'S WORDS come from "We Pulled a Rose in Summer Time" by Elizabeth Curtis Holman: rose, gate, sweet, twilight, chime, late, leafless, look, cold, rosemary, beside, hedge

 

 

Monday, February 21, 2022

GOD SAVE UKRAINE

deja vu

we studied it in modern history

we have seen all the ww2 movies

except now these tragic exodus scenes

are happening today this minute

another psycho without the moustache

but  with the same unlimited powers

strikes again

thank the lord our grandparents and parents

of my generation

are mostly not here to live through this all over again 

now it's our turn

we heard all the stories

now it's our turn

to not look away

to stand with them

to all join together

to defend them and fight

to stop the brutality

of this unjust war

and pray

pray for all these petrified poor souls

who needlessly will die

GOD SAVE UKRAINE 

 

EARTHWEAL OLW # 107

Earthweal

 


today

as I got out of the car

i saw a black mask lying in the gutter

about to begin its journey to the stormwater drain

out to sea

and i thought

what kind of person

could do this

and then i thought of the 1.6 billion masks

polluting the ocean

and answered my own question

quite a lot


Christ of the Abyss


it's going to take

a lot of prayers

forgiveness

atonement

and miracles

to sort this mess out


Wordle # 276


 land pretty lattice female jolt fluster shoes canon sloppy hair hug future

 

how on earth

did a flustering sloppy joe

land such a pretty female with

beautiful hair and lovely shoes

as his future wife 

lattice think on that

it was a  jolt out of the blue

not in the canon of courtship

must be good at hugs

and other things



Saturday, February 19, 2022

Sunday Muse # 199


 makes a living out of playing wrong notes

said the sneering music critic

the piano aint got no wrong notes

said the man with the piano eyes

we all know who Thelonius Monk is

no one has heard of the music critic

or knows where he ended up

Tuesday, February 15, 2022

Wordle # 275 _ MLMM

 
 
 

 
 stalemate playboy helium valentine's day cinch thorns roses slender fumble wrists 
woebegone nylon
 
pleasing this  playboy bunny
on valentine's day
would be no cinch
 
how about 
red roses without thorns
wrapped in black nylon stockings
gold helium balloons painted with hearts
diamond encrusted bracelets
for her slender wrists
 
woebegone woe betide
if he fumbles or gets any of  it wrong
a stalemate has more than one meaning





 Open Link Weekend # 106
 

Saturday, February 12, 2022

Sunday Muse # 198 + Earthweal OLW #105


 


 

swimming

means getting wet

an umbrella

offers a little protection

against drenched ringlets

but not against sharks 

 

 



they didn't want to know simple simon  

so he got two owls instead

turned out well

 

 


 

one of the girls

a fancy pants

decided to play at

witchcraft

 

 



it worked

 but no beginners luck here

she wrecked the wrong house

they are both now homeless

 

surprise surprise

they are seeing simple simon in a new light

endless possibilities

they cannot imagine how they overlooked

his attractiveness and in particular his  generosity




Monday, February 7, 2022

Wordle # 274 ...MLMM


perish the thought 

no off the cuff stuff 

on stage

ad._libbing results

often in a garbled read

sounds like middle english

best to have all the material

at ones fingertips 

 

diana and the golden apples

 jason and the golden fleece 

are greek myths not true stories


if your phone conks out

press and jiggle

it still probably wont work


 WORDS

perish press jiggle fingertips middle true fleece apples cuff garbled ad-lib read

Saturday, February 5, 2022

Sunday Muse # 197 ,,,Earthweal Open Link Weekend # 104


 thoughts of you

dear madame defarge

tricoteuse tragic knitting away

as the heads were displayed

the crowds cheered hooray

the streets ran like rivers of blood 

the drums beat to the continual thud

people moved out because of the smell

an aristocrat's life became sheer hell 

things had changed since the time of plenty

now their houses ransacked were all but empty

let them eat cake

she shouldn't have said 

being a smart arse sadly

can cost you your head




 

 

 


Friday, February 4, 2022

Earth, Wind & Fire - September (Official HD Video)

 

 

carefree times

dancing the night away

young and free

dancing

the shortcut to

happiness