 RANDOM THOUGHTS -- The time is set and the day is long and the work is piled and the will is shallow. The writing on the wall says the words of the prophets were plagiarized. People do care. People pay attention to the most minute details and find the discrepancies. Only the interpretation is what mean anything to them. The factors are encased in a magnificent array of cautionary tales. On cannot separate the abundance of hope from the dreadful reality that exists inside a sponge. The chemistry, the physical manifestation of atoms altering one another are just too much. I am sad tonight. I will be sad tomorrow. I have been sad before and yet I am helpless to abate it. I cannot explain what I cannot explain no matter how many times is is asked and in what new way. Call it a disease if you must. Call it a curse. Call it at supper time to come and eat. I lack the capacity not not. carry two burdens. It is not easy. It is not what I asked for. But it is real. The conventional wisdom is contrary to that. The truth is a note spike that assailed my hand with the last memo that said I'm sorry. It is useless to pretend. I have pretended and the truth is heads and the coin lands on heads most of the time. I am not a Fulbright scholar. I can tell you that the head of a pin is no place for dreams. I can tell you that people are all deserving of liberty, though far too few have it. I wrangle here with a heart beat and a feeling that. I am missing something. Maybe you have it. Maybe you don't. I can't be certain but my time is up. #Freewrite  Twitter is a poor dying bird. Realistically it should live but for one fact, The Trump alter ego. He has pierced it's heart with an acronym. It will fall from it's purch like a drunken sailor. Who will mourn the death of the blue bird?
Sometimes something reflects in a water puddle and it looks like charred bacon. That's how they make bacon bits. You can also make them from the blackened toes of the twitter bird. No, it's not very appetizing. The saint and the sinner were in deep conversation. A Pharisee passed by and curtseed. On to convenience store he went to buy smokeless tobacco. It was a nasty habit, not the purchase but what he did with it. Rain is forecast for last week but that can't be right. That would make it pastcast. I don't have the energy to argue the point, It will only bloom then wilt on the stem and what good is that? The mention of Jazz gets mixed reviews. What is that Muskrat tweeting today? Someone needs to change his diapers before he gets it everywhere. The fact is, we have written all the best stories and now we have to write sequels. I have a sequined jacket I put on for such occasions. Are there any occasions you care to bring up? Seeing no hands, I will continue and we will not pass out gloves. Bright rays of butter are coming down from above. Where is the popcorn? Where is the lard? Where have all the flowers gone? When will we learn. Who can we teach. Someone get the Muskrat. We can teach him a thing or two. The side walk is covered in words written in chalk. Oh look, they are vulgar sayings; quotes from the Muskrat. Why does he have to devalue everything. I must get off this cycle and find a new detergent. No one can can save us from ourselves. #FreeWrite  Misconceptions aside, please understand that I am unsure about much. Please understand at least more than I do. There is a lot of talk about the gates of hell. There is also a lot of talk about the gatekeepers of art, music, poetry. Who has that job? I want to give the gatekeepers a piece of my mind. Oh wait, I have done that with the poetry gatekeepers. They turn their nose up at me more often than they throw me bread crumbs. Will the trail to success have bread crumbs? Will the fortunes languish in a swamp of our own making? The songs of yesterday are still with us today, mostly. The blonde standing by the water cooler has had nothing to say all morning. I think she is there to spy on others. She will likely report to the boss tonight after hours. Their arrangement could be considered unique, but is probably not. Like Bossa Nova that gal. moves and I can't take my eyes off her. The Drummer is mad about his the bounce he gets on his skin. His sticks never have time to stick to the drum skin. His beat is a whole movement that you can't deny. I await word from my lover. It's long overdue. It's like a voice lost in the forest. Raspy replies, na-na-naaa. Harmonica and flute tangle in the air. There is nothing more to say. just listen. Shhh... Quiet. It's just a shame people aren't listening. I'm mostly tired of no one paying attention. I know the economy sucks but please try and buy yourself a little attention. Tonight, sent off submission tonight. Hoping for this unique poem to find a good home.
#submission #LookingForAGoodHome Democracy – a living organism: It breathes, dreams, learns as it grows & hopes for a better, more perfect union of people, held together by a common thread of civil & just ideals.
~ Michael Allyn Wells #Democracy #ProtectOurDemocracy There is so much about language to love. The way we tinker with it at times. The way we incorporate words from other languages into our own. Idioms, or words that seem to evolve in meaning over time, or become obsolete only to come back into usage 80 to 100 years later.
Euphemisms are another interesting part of language. Oxford dictionary defines a euphemism as a noun that is a mild or indirect word or expression substituted for one considered to be too harsh or blunt when referring to something unpleasant or embarrassing. An example could be "downsizing" in place of "cuts." LANGUAGE NERDS, a .com site that from time to time gives us interesting language usage references has offered us a list of euphemisms for the word "period." You ask, what could be embarrassing about the end of a sentence? Well, that's not the period in question. So from around the world I offer you some examples of how people the world over deal with discussing this unmentionable in their language. The English are an interesting sort, the sometimes resort to one of the following:
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Let us know your choice for the best universal Euphemism in the comments below. Source: Thank you to LanguageNerds.com the source of the ever important information. #Euphemisms #Period #aroundTheWorld |
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