Some Kind of Mystery - Nette Onclaud 1-14-26
As a ten year old I dreamt of a huge room with a stone fireplace. Three weeks later I walked into that room. From that time to toady, I still have experiences like this one.
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Mysterious Dream Room
Through gauzy metaphors in tangled dreams
I see a room - a river rock fireplace
An unknown place - a fire unlit
Silvery cobwebs hide definition
As crisp details hide, yet smile
Room with no name - no place on a map
Clutching the arms of reality
In the sunlight I stand in my dream room.
Happy Anniversary…
one year on the Soup for me!
Technically, a few more days,
pretty close though, anyway.
Made some friends and learned a lot;
what you see is what I’ve got.
Wonder what next year will bring -
y’all done heard my toady sing.
Florida Man, Bubba’s barn,
Frog King was my favorite yarn.
Adding much to all the fun,
reading what all y’all have done.
Delighted to have found this group
writing poems at the Soup!
Toady sang a silly song
Sang it underneath the oak
A song to kill, old Toady joked
Silly as the day was long
Song was over, Toady croaked
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Another Emmett: an abbab quintain using the 5 words from the first line
Froggy is croaking
Somewhere where it’s boggy
He’s steering them clearly
A lighthouse, that froggy
Yearlings are frisky
Delightful, these dear things
But dawn is right risky
So fly, flee, you yearlings!
Morning is breaking
It’s sounding a warning
An astounding sunrise
A marvelous morning
Dillo is rooting
She’s billowed the pillow
Oh man, that’s the missus
Sounds darned like a 'dillo
Toady's exploding
A regular roadie
No stopping his hopping
He's touring, this toady
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Irish quatrains with 5x/6a/6x/6a, 2-syllable end rhymes, alliteration, internal and/or cross rhymes, and same start/end word. Seems like they sort of work for children's rhymes...
https://www.writersdigest.com/poetic-asides/breccbairdne-poetic-forms
Lest I be guilty of grossest negligence
I feel like I must put in my own two cents
As I watch and evaluate strong evidence
We owe a debt of gratitude to Mike Pence.
I know, I know, he’s not even a Democrat
But on Jan 6th he knew where he was at
He stuck by the Constitution and all that,
As I see it, it takes courage to stand pat.
If Pence had listened to Donald J. Trump
Asked how high and been ready to jump
On our democracy, he’d’ve taken a dump
We’d’ve never recovered from the lump.
I’m pleased to know some have principle
Not willing to turn their back on sensible
And will defy their unscrupulous principal
I want more cut from a Mike Pence stencil.
Bravo to a politician I thought was a toady,
Wasn’t an a**-kissing Donald Trump roadie.
Both Kamala and Newsom confess
California is in a big mess
Pelosi has found
Elephants abound
And their flatulence causes distress*
* Trump's childish attempt to replace
California's Governor with a toady to
support Trump's claim to have won the
2020 election cost California taxpayers
over $270-million! Don't let him do that
to your State!
No Sun toady
Saturday
Doubt,tomorrow
Sunday
Holiday
F ranklin betrays the spiritual values his father, Billy,
R eflected in the deepest part of his being, a man
A dored around the world for his
N oble speech and god-fearing behavior
K indling a love for God and man in all he did with
L ove for a lost and dying world around him.
I t is sad that Franklin has, by turning so political,
N ullified the creed by which his father lived and died.
G raham has become a right-wing toady, a
R epublican sycophant first and foremost, scarcely
A t all focused on the mission of
H is father's Evangelical
A ssociation and
M inistry.
The Moose
When let loose
Was chased by a goose
The Goose called a Truce
He knew it was no use
He'd run out of puff
The going got tough
Then over the road
An inquisitive Toad
With Big Bulging Eyes
That spied Juicy Flies
The Flies were aware
Of that Toady stare
They flew onto a horse
Who was unaware of course
The Horse had a Mount
He didn't know who
This Mount had a whip
And a Bonza Lassoo
The Lassoo thought
Oh what the heck
I'll capture that Loose Moose
It did around its neck
The Horse, Goose, Toad and Fly
Waved to the Moose
As he passed by
That Moosey was no longer free
Home again, in time for tea
Valentine from my Mother in 1973:
If you see a frog sittin' in a tree,
Pull his tail and think of me.
My response:
Oh Toad!
Though butt of Jest and Ridicule since days of yore reviled;
Though favored on a Frenchman's plate and victim of a child;
Though hunted by Brazilian bats, devoured in the night,
Or dried and sprinkled in the brew to conjure up a blight;
And even blamed for warts and such (although the wise know better)
when little boys decide it's fun to slip one down a sweater!
Despite all this, Poor Toady knows worst yet to come he sees...
is lovers climbing through the boughs tugging toadtails in the trees!!!
Bufo
full-blown balloon
a pin-prick, punctured pride,
deflated, defeated, and downed
Toady
All the teachers were basically horrible,
each could be placed on sliding scale of
horribleness….thus;
1. (the worst) Complete ****
2. Largely a ****.. with a degree of reserve
3. ****
4. Headmaster’s toady prone to outbursts
5. Pathetic but lacking conscience
6. Searching for a personality
7. Lost…smiles occasionally
8. Dominated by all other teachers (easy to mimic)
9. A mess
10. Ineffectual (but sharp dresser, and most likely to become future Headmaster).
Only we, the pupils were perfect and yet to enter the land of shopping, mortgages, menstruation and Mondays.
Sweet privilege;
seeing people fawn;
knowing the superiority of wealth,
and holding it close like a warm coat.
The 'not having to toady',
or to speak nicely to a boss -
she relished these and other moments
of her upper class.
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7/23/2015
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GOD gave you an ANGEL today! so wipe your tears away.
When GOD asked her 'are you ready today' maybe she wanted to stay.
Where she is, there's PIECE and LOVE and HAPPINESS everyday.
Where you are, there's PAIN and WAR and HURT in every way.
Understand that your little Angel had a better plan.
So, when your cry shall turn to weep,
your little Angel will help you sleep.
And, when you find you're in the dark,
your little Angel will light your walk.
Now, when you're troubled, distressed and worried,
your little Angel will come in a hurry.
GOD gave you an ANGEL today so wipe your tears AWAY...
NEDRA WILSON
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