Can the plan

Sometimes things don’t come out exactly as we may have intended them to.

Can the plan

A tetractys on fact to miss

Oops.

Efforts,

Energy

May be wasted.

Purity of planning brings truth to light.

Can a hero make a clean getaway,

If his efforts

Leave white space

Where hope

Flees?

c2016 by Linda Ann Nickerson

This poem was posted in response to these prompts:

Write 31 Days Challenge: What book or book series do you wish would continue when you were done reading it? (20)

31 Days of Poetry and Writing: Write about what you do when Hope flies away.  (20)

OctPoWriMo: “white” – with “purity,” “hero,” “clean,” “light,” and “energy” – TETRACTYS POEM (20)

NOTE: This house isn’t exactly the archetype for any of Laura Ingalls Wilders’ LITTLE HOUSE homes. However, to answer the Write 31 Days Challenge prompt question, I’d have to say that was one series for which the last page made me sad to be finished. Of course, that was many … many … many years ago.

 

#OctPoWriMo  

Image/s:

Still from: One Week

Directed by Buster Keaton and Eddie Cline

1920

Vintage photo /

Public domain

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including public domain artwork.

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Rose-colored glasses and a white gown

Sometimes a half-dozen words are enough. But maybe not always.

Rose-colored glasses and a white gown

A carefree wonder caught her cloak.

She buttoned up to go for broke

And donned her specs of rosy hue.

Perhaps they had been better blue.

Bedecked in lace, this woman-child

Cast dreams aside to deem them wild.

The woodpecker put spark to bark

To measure how she missed the mark.

She wasn’t worthy of her wings;

Alas, the creed of self-crowned kings.

How colored glasses do deceive

A heart embroidered on a sleeve.

I’d love to help this friend by chance

To give her value second glance.

Dare hope she’ll come to recognize

The view improves in honest eyes.

c2016 by Linda Ann Nickerson

This poem was posted in response to these prompts:

Daily Post: “carefree”

Five-Minute Friday: “help”

One Minute Writer: Six Word Saturday

Show My Face: Six Word Saturday

Simply Snickers: “woodpecker,” “wonder,” “wild,” “worthy,” and “wings”

Stream of Consciousness Saturday: “second”
Meme Express: “go for broke”

Theme Thursday: “glasses”

Writer’s Workshop: “spark”

Image/s:

 Thanks to Sepia Saturday

for this vintage/public domain image.

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Overshares and unawares: A-Z verses from vintage visages

Just observing, perhaps a little outlandishly, an occurrence found often online. Not singling out anyone in particular. But I’d bet we all know a few folks like this. Heck, we’ve probably all been like this, at least occasionally.

Overshares and unawares

The vast worldwide web, it is fairly ablaze

With images sweet of the offspring you raise.

Your obvious pride is for all eyes displayed,

With each little breath photographically played.

Each image in order, with outline to boot,

And video streaming your toddlers’ salute –

Objectively speaking, your kids are ideal.

And none can deny your allegiance is real.

It’s not that I’d ask you to close or conceal

The vast overshares or your precious appeal.

But, honey, your wee ones do o’ertake the feed.

I can’t find my other friends’ updates to read.

And yet it bears mention, lest this one forget

That I post at least as much ink of my pet.

c2016 by Linda Ann Nickerson

This poem was posted for the April A to Z Blogging Challenge and National Poetry Writing Month (NaPoWriMo), as well as these prompts:

Daily Post: “breath”

Mad Kane Humor: “seal” or “conceal”

Meme Express: “obvious,” “order” and “outline”

One-Minute Writer: “streaming”

Sepia Saturday: baby photos image

Simply Snickers: "object” and “obvious”

Stream of Consciousness Saturday: “no” (subbed in “none”)

Image/s:

Public domain photo –
 vintage image

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