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Celticsea's Rhymetime
Give me a topic; keep it rated PG-13 and under, and I will give you a rhyme.
In the meantime, enjoy the responses I have made to other prompts.
Sunday, April 29, 2018
One of my Twitter posts
Saturday, April 28, 2018
No Water River Prompt 4/28
A Simple Gift’s Meaning
From my void of early memories
Effie Bender pushes through
daily donning her white
bonnet and a dress some shade of blue.
Just how long our friendship
lasted, recollection won’t attest,
but I know our dispositions
made us standout from the rest.
Past the clothing and the
bonding, there’s the gift her grandma made –
the only present I remember offered
me in any grade.
She gave to me a velvet teddy,
brown, with paws and ears of white,
dressed up with a satin
ribbon, hand-sized width and crayon height.
A rare display of affirmation,
one I still have sensing of.
At sixty, as I try to grasp,
I think the bear,
to me,
meant love.
Colleen Murphy
© 2018
http://www.nowaterriver.com/community-collection-29-making-things-with-amy-ludwig-vanderwater/
Friday, April 27, 2018
No Water River Prompt Response 4/27
From Your Bathroom Scale
You step on me incessantly
and test my fortitude.
But here’s the most degrading part –
you do it in the nude!
I never get a bit of thanks.
I often hear you swear.
It’s not my fault you ate those chips,
then never left the chair.
And when you’re in denial mode –
which often seems the case,
you’ll boldly say I fabricate,
but never to my face.
I know I have a job to do;
the workload I expect.
but life would be much better if
you'd show me some respect!
Colleen Murphy
http://www.nowaterriver.com/community-collection-28-mask-poems-with-juleah-del-rosario/
Tuesday, April 24, 2018
No Water River Prompts 4/18/2018
FEAR NOT FAILURE
(A rephrasing of JK Rowling's commencement speech given to Harvard's 2008 graduating class)
When failure strikes, we cannot know
how long before the light will show.
In darkness, though, we find our friends,
abetted by a focused lens.
While discipline sustains our stance,
by strength of will we can advance.
And once the glint of hope's revived,
there's joy in knowing we've survived.
http://www.nowaterriver.com/community-collection-19-strong-women-with-supriya-kelkar/
From No Water River Prompt 4/20/2108
What Were You Thinking?
With my gradual slope
you had minimal hope
for the waters to flow.
Tell me, where would they go?
Since what drainage there was
was no longer because
your impervious lots
had now covered my spots
and the bayous, too small,
could not handle it all
With your growth so immense
you’d no practical sense
as you built your abodes
and established no codes.
With your dams out of date,
mere disaster in-wait,
any fool could portend
how this story would end.
Prompt: http://www.nowaterriver.com/community-collection-21-earth-speaks-to-its-people-with-carole-boston-weatherford/
Monday, April 16, 2018
To the Man
in the Moon
“I love you
to the moon and back,”
is what my mom
will say.
Please tell
me Mister, are you close
or are you
far away?
Since I’m in
bed when you get up,
I never see
your face.
I need your
help to understand
your
distance from my place.
So when my mom
asks, ”Do you know
just how
much I love you?”
with your response
I’ll be prepared
to answer, “Yes
I do!”
Saturday, March 31, 2018
No Water River prompts
Decisions,
Decisions
To tell or
not to tell?
I struggle
to decide.
What seems
a simple choice
has torn me
up inside.
Nadine’s my
closest friend;
I don’t want
that to change,
but telling
her the truth
just feels
a little strange.
At last I tell
myself:
as friends it is your place.
“Nadine,” I
say to her,
“There’s ketchup on your face.”
“There’s ketchup on your face.”
http://www.nowaterriver.com/community-collection-1-choices-with-margarita-engle
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