Morning crept
With cold
Rays,
To frost dress
A new
Day,
With the chill
Soon to
Be,
Preview of
Winter’s
Fee.
For the Sunday Stills photo challenge: Chill
Rhyme
Cruella De-Guile
Photo: Martin Adams on Unsplash
She was queen of artifice. The mistress of malicious.
She made rules that made no sense yet claimed to be officious.
There was no way to do right by her. Even flattery was suspicious.
She’d lay down her law with harsh demands. Her punishments were vicious.
“Beware the dragon,” many warned. “For she is capricious.”
Those who did not heed soon realized that her attentions weren’t auspicious.
She was queen of cruel decree. Her requests often lubricious.
They learned to lay low and wait. Salvation would not be expeditious.
But the day came when he arrived, beautiful, seditious,
And turned the draconian,
Propitious.
For Sammi’s Weekend Writing Prompt: Draconian in 103 words
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What She Ought
Photo: Monika Grabkowska on Unsplash
She looked so fraught
I thought she fought
For what she brought.
She apparently did not
But then still she almost forgot
To tell me of some fish she’d caught
And how distraught
The worms she bought
Were at the thought
That she decided that she ought
Just put potatoes
In the pot.
For Linda Hill’s SoCS challenge: “ght”
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Nick’s Shtick
Photo: Alexander Dummer via Unsplash
I nicked Nick
With a stick
After he picked
And tried to hit
Me
With a brick.
He should not try
Such a sick
Kind of shtick
If he doesn’t like
Being tricked
And summarily pricked
By a royally ticked
But quick thinking
Chick.
For the dVerse Quadrille challenge: Nick
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The Whey Weigher’s Way
Photo: The British Museum #2010,7081.1712
Tis the Whey Weigher’s way
To weigh
The whey
As she goes
About her day
Sifting curds
Through woven trays.
You can stay
If you may
To watch the way
She weighs her whey
In pots and jugs
Of rounded
Clay.
And though so many
Will downplay
The lowly whey
As throw away,
She knows it is
Quite fair to say
That whey is worthy
Of more sway
And should more than
Earn it’s pay.
(I had WAY too much fun with this today! 🙂 )
For the SoCS writing prompt: way/weigh/whey
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Not Fall
Photo: Philip Coons
Just you wait
And you’ll see
The real brave
I will be!
I will walk
With feet bare
From right here
To right there,
Without wobble
At all
I will cross
And not fall!
Note: It is WAY too early yet for me to do anything relating to the other meaning of the prompt word. So, nope … it was gonna be a “not” for me … 😉
For The Tuesday Photo Challenge: Fall
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Garden Gnome
Photo: Dvora Freedman
“You can do it!
Go higher!
Almost there,
Almost there!”
Garden Gnome,
Will inspire
Every bug
On stem’s stair.
For Cee’s Black & White Photo Challenge: Lawn ornaments
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Repeat Construction
Photo: Smadar Halperin-Epshtein
Look, Mama! Look at this!
Can you believe how high?!
I did the whole thing by myself
And I will tell you why:
It is the tallest building king
That ever touched the sky,
And I will build it up again
Each time someone walks by.
For Friday Foto Fun: Construction
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Wheel No More
Photo: Smadar Halperin-Epshtein
It went up.
It went down.
It went all the slow way
Around.
It’s no more
Nor the store
But it sure was
There
Before.
For the Tuesday Photo Challenge: Wheel
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Nimble Nelly
Photo: Engin Akyurt on Pexels.com
Nimble Nelly
Bought a deli
And made a menu
With mashed yam.
She wrote in cheese
Hot from the oven
And sculpted bread rolls
From cold ham.
