Slip and slide
All over the place
Now wintertime is here
The snow and ice
Keep building up
And trouble could be near
No school or work
The roads unpassable
The blizzard has started I fear
Hot cocoa and games
To pass the time
Until the roads are finally clear
Then shovel and snowblower
Work overtime
Until the cold brings tears
Rest and recover
Tomorrow they say
The best day of the year
Written for Fandango’s One-Word Challenge (FOWC) – slip
Overall, the preponderance of what I write on WP is poetry or my attempt at free verse poetry anyway. But there are times when I get tripped up by a prompt word that in no way would flow with any kind of a poetic tempo. This is one of those times so I will thank Fandango for the challenge and politely decline to find a poetic entry to this one. Let’s move on… the one from this morning looks a little easier. I think I can work with it … stay tuned to find out!
This was my sad attempt at Fandango’s One-Word Challenge (FOWC) – preponderance
There once was a girl named Cassie
Who was sweet and also sassy
She got mad one day
And had lots to say
And she came off as being quite brassy
Written for Fandango’s One Word Challenge (FOWC) – sassy
As the day wears out
And night does shroud the sky
She sits in her father’s chair
And softly starts to cry
Remembering the life he led
The excitement and the dangers
His service to his country and his city
His kindness to many strangers
He was really well respected
And was liked in many towns
But the darkness makes her maudlin
And the emptiness brings her down
Left behind with only memories
Echoes of laughter from the past
She hopes for some relief
But it never seems to last
Just a longing of a special time
Before both her parents were gone
Now she suffers alone each night
And the pain just lingers on
Written for Fandango’s One-Word Challenge (FOWC) – maudlin
She heard the word
Alone
And she was instantly on guard
Why should she care
If she had someone to call her own
Or if she lived alone
Was it really so bad
To spend time with herself
But she had lived
A lot of years with someone
Her parents, husband and daughter
And the quiet was suffocating her now
Left in that silent void
She had never felt so alone and scared
But she was trying
There were less tears now
And more acceptance
If she could just get past
The feeling she would forever be alone
Maybe she could find a friend in herself
Written for Fandango’s One-Word Challenge (FOWC) – instant
I feel like disaster is waiting
Hiding around the corner
One thing after another
Keeps going wrong
And you are still not here
Not where I can see you
Not near enough to touch
Not within my senses at all
I am trying to be strong
And weather this awful storm
But I would feel much safer
Wrapped up in your arms
Written for Fandango’s One-Word Challenge (FOWC) – disaster
You are Absent from my life
I feel intense Pain from being
Alone for the first time in my life
But I do not Regret my decision
These Tears are not for you
Written for Fandango’s One-Word Challenge (FOWC) – apart
The pirate’s treasure map was moot
Someone else had gotten the loot
They had been quite bold
And taken all the gold
But left a thank you note in a boot
Written for Fandango’s One-Word Challenge (FOWC) – moot
Heartache is the essence of love
Whether it is happy or sad
Heartache is a part of love
Loving someone so much it hurts
Or the pain from love lost
All come from the very core of love
There is no way to avoid that pain
It goes hand in hand with the joys
Love is not for the faint of heart
And often it happens at a time or place
That we never had planned
But in spite of the pain involved
It is the most beautiful feeling
After all there is that saying –
There is a fine line between pleasure and pain
Written for Fandango’s One-Word Challenge (FOWC) – essence
She poured her oat cluster cereal into the bowl, added a little milk and sat down at the kitchen counter. She grabbed her phone and began to search through the updates from overnight that were filling her screen. Sale ads, email notifications, updates from Facebook and one that caught her eyes.
There was a text message from her phone carrier saying she had paid her bill and they had a gift for her. In all of the years she had been with this provider she had never gotten such a text, and come to think of it her bill was not yet due. Upon further examination she found it to be a pretty convincing spam with a link she would go nowhere near. “Damn spammers,” she said and forwarded the text to 7726.
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Yeah, I had a spam text last month that looked pretty legit, except it wasn’t my time to pay. I did a little calling and Verizon said it was not sent by them and to forward it to their fraud division through the spam text number 7726. I guess this is a universal number to report spam… at least that is the way it looked when I looked up the number on Google. Be vigilant! Watch out for all text you receive, they are not all innocent.
Written for Fandango’s One-Word Challenge (FOWC) – cluster
Leigha Robbins 