WORDLE # 307 MLMM

January 30, 2023 Lisa

Wordle #307

Tomorrow is International Zebra Day, a day to bring awareness to zebras, their living conditions, and how the three remaining types in the wild can be protected. One type, Grèvy’s is endangered, its numbers rapidly lessening due to poaching for their pelts. More than 54% of its total population has been lost.

 

 

 

 

stripe
Africa
bookstore
puzzle
obscure
luminary
reproduction/reproduce
cuddle/y
border
grandiose
revolutionary
woolly

 

the striped african zebra

rather obscure

not in the cute cuddly woolly luminary little koala bear class

but nevertheless on the border of extinction

and  worthy of protection

puzzling

who would want a zebra pelt 

perhaps some grandiose creep

who would never consider

a synthetic reproduction

or a revolutionary celebrity 

who owns a porn bookstore chain

EARTHWEAL OLW # 155

BACH

 

The Sunday Muse # 244

 in the still of the evening

listening to opera

on an old phonograph

memories came flooding back

 of another life

of another time

before the war 

the old immigrant couple

had survived

but the sadness  

etched in their faces was

palpable

heart wrenching

all the time

watched furtively

by their young grandchild

never to be forgotten

one of their favourites

 

don't lose heart

listen to his advice

it will work out

NEW AUSTRALIANS....Friday Writings PSU # 61 ...Earthweal OLF # 154

 AUSTRALIA DAY CONCERT JANUARY 26th 2023

 

 they arrived with just 

the clothes on their backs

happy to be here

 

chose australia

because it was the furthest

away from war torn europe 

imaginable

with no family

 no friends

no english 

they taught themselves

by reading a daily newspaper

which became a life long ritual

and listening to ABC radio

 

as a child  i remember them in their rimless specs

hunched over the newspaper in the evening

deciphering this strange language

or listening to opera on 78 records

 played on an old phonograph

thus planting the seeds of their granddaughter's future career

 

i adored both of them
this was one of their favourites

FOR

Paul Frederic and Adele Alexandrine Ludivine

AUSTRALIA DAY......We are one but we are many...we are Australian

AUSTRALIA DAY

 

WORDLE # 306 MLMM

sticky block lucky detail hourglass once
circumstances aimless women scissors challenge tomorrow 

 

 

  sticky situation

tomorrow will be a challenge

once they were friends 

now he is blocked

wont go into the details or circumstances

women who have hourglass figures are lucky 

woman who have sane friends who don't wander  about aimlessly

brandishing scissors are lucky too

Earthweal OPEN LINK FORUM # 153

 https://www.bbc.com/news/world-australia-64041547

 

 SHADORMA

such beauties

signalling christmas 

not seen now

for a while

a very long while in fact

so sad to lose them

as children

we would play with them

we loved them

happy times

must we lose all our small joys

please God let them stay

ARGERICH & FRIENDS Bach Concertos for Piano(s) BWV1065, 1054, 1058, 1061...

You Bring Me Joy...THE SUNDAY MUSE # 243

 

 

 you bring me joy you know

you who bathes

with two little rubber ducks

in a big bubble  bath

you who likes steak and chips

in the pub

you who thinks of me

when the storm hits

you who remembers cassettes

hippies  and kombi vans

you who never forgets my birthday

you who are my true friend

Micro Poems Friday Writings # 60

she fell for him

hook line and sinker

he was good

a master of seduction

knew all the right buttons

to press

caught her in a vulnerable state

 

 oh dear

i am yielding

to my one temptation

 

i know you are thinking it's you

 

way wrong

 

 

found my old cassettes

in a shoe box

thirty years of memories 

so much 

has happened since then

too much

in reality

 poverty does not bring

a lot of smiles

 

love is not

six  people plus two pets

sharing one bed  with

baby balanced on a milk crate

getting some sun

in the fresh air

before afternoon tea?

NO

i think not

https://womangoingplaces.com.au/abandoning-old-people-on-ice-floes

 

 

Glenn Gould always loved dogs

left half of his fortune ( 36 million dollars)

to animal welfare

 

 

 

OPEN LINK FORUM # 153

The Sunday Muse # 242

https://womangoingplaces.com.au/abandoning-old-people-on-ice-floes

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

we don't put the elderly on ice floes

like the inuit used to

we do it differently down under

it's still senecide nevertheless

sneaky senecide

evidently according to statistics 

we excel at it 

(bowing my head in shame)

 

“Age-based prejudice is the last acceptable form prejudice,”  says New York University’s Michael North, who studies ageism in the workplace. “ People are making age-based generalisations and stereotypes that you wouldn’t be able to get away with about race or background.”

Biding time as more older people ‘fall off the perch’  is a convenient strategy for governments that regard older, vulnerable Australians as a burden. It’s a workable alternative when you don’t have any ice floes off your coast

 

 

 

 

 

Whirligig # 405

 

these entrancing  wings 

of  desperate desire are

making my head spin

like glitter in a snow globe 

this longing is

breaking my heart

the distress is not worth it

the cost of this freight is too high

 

i must find a renewed joy 

in something else

laundry liquid cross word puzzles

anything at all

 to rid myself of this scourge

 

THIS WEEK"S WORDS come from " A GULL GOES UP" by Leonie Adams:

 liquid, head, glitter, wings, desperate, distress, heart, cost, entrancing, longing, desire, freight
 

 

MLMM # 304 WORDLE

wager
lot
alternative/alternate
degree
upset
renovation
ironic
morning
propel
mirror
skeptical
fortune

 he upset her a lot

this morning

she'll wager 

he will feel guilty

to a degree later on

and will be propelled

into promising the spending of a small fortune

on renovations as a peace offering

she's skeptical to see if he will honour his promise

how ironic

that the $80  mirror

 

which she had admired at the op shop

only the other day

would have been welcome as

an alternative

OPEN LINK WEEKEND # 152

Dragon : Still In Love With You (Countdown)

Sunday Muse # 241 Shadorma

 starry sky

a moon in a cup

of coffee

with soft clouds

without sprinkles of sugar

time to  change the specs

Triolet

 

i sat and watched the crowds in the mall

so many using walkers

i wonder why i felt appalled 

i sat and watched the crowds in the mall

they all can'r have sufferred from a fall

they were well dressed and good talkers

i sat and watched the crowds in the mall

so many using walkers

i now have an ambition

not so much talking and more walking

before i get a  health condition

i now have an ambition 

keep moving that's my decision

no more gawking and baulking

I now have an ambition

not so much talking and more walking

WORDLE # 303...... MLMM

celebrate
resolution
toast
stake
signature
caught
visualize
teacup
illuminate
value
voyage
dumpling 

 

let's raise a toast

to the value of friendship

that stake in the heart

that falling out was

just a storm in a teacup

celebrate new year

with dumplings

with champagne

with realistic resolutions

visualise a voyage of  goodwill

illuminated by hope 

let the POINTER SISTERS 

JUMP (FOR MY LOVE)

be your signature tune

 

RIP ANITA POINTER (1948 - 2022 )

 

 

 

 

 

 

Open Link weekend # 151