Summer afternoon heavy rainstorm stopped Barefoot throughout garden I walked Earth provides security for me Decided to rest and have a seat Wood bench Metal wash tub Soapy water I humbly cleaned my dirty feet * * See also: The Hermit Poet’s eBooks on Amazon The Hermit Poet’s eBooks detail info and downloads
452 — The Hermit Poet’s Ramblings
Day: November 10, 2022
Vote
Inspired by Word of the Day
Form: Haiku
in a show of hands
the answer of yes or no
what was the question?
©JezzieGFarmer2022
Life in Tokyo by Japan
Life in Tokyo
Album: Quiet Life
Date: 1980
Genre: Alternative/Indie
Artist: Japan
Japan were a new-wave band formed in 1974 in London, UK. By David Sylvian (vocals, guitar, keyboards), Steve Jansen (drums), and Mick Karn (bass guitar). Richard Barbieri (keyboards) and Rob Dean (lead guitar) joined the following year. Japan developed their own sound and androgynous style incorporating electronic music and foreign influences
Back
Inspired by and written for Your Daily Word Prompt – thank you, Sheryl
Form: Haiku
behind the closed doors
boundaries pushed in mistakes
made an ass of that
©JezzieG2022
Má vlast by Bedrich Smetana
Má vlast
1874-79
Symphonic Poems
Bedrich Smetana
Classical
Born: 2 March 1824, Litomysl, Czechia
Nationality: Czech
Died: 12 May 1884, Prague, Czechia
Smetana was a composer and a pioneer in the development of a musical style closely identified with his people’s aspirations for a cultural and political revival. In Czechia, he is regarded as the father of Czech music. Internationally, Smetana is best known for his 1866 opera “The Bartered Bride”
T.o.C.s
Inspired by and written for Weekly Prompts Wednesday Challenge – thank you GC and Sue
T.O.C.s
Form: Free Write
I used to be so good at reading the fine print, and I still do if it’s an old-fashioned paperwork-style fine print. However, when it comes to tick boxing and “I have read the terms and conditions” like most people I tick but sure as hell I ain’t read them. So far, touch wood, that has not caused any major, or minor, problems but perhaps I should read them in the future.
I think people should come with terms and conditions. A this is the reality not the fake smile type thing. Think of the pain and aggro that would solve if you could read the TOCs and make an educated choice. In fact, I know too many people who I would have hit the “Decline” box if I had been more aware. It’s too late once you’ve been sucked in and instead look for ways to not opt-out.
The fine print on products is a real bug for me. Finding a flash of “may contain nuts” on a packet of peanuts – do the manufacturer’s actually think we are that stupid we don’t know that? In the next breath, the companies are moaning that degrees and other qualifications are being “dumbed down”. Well, is it any wonder if we need that fine print put on a packet of peanuts. I am lactose intolerant I get the need to check manufactured goods for ingredients but I don’t know are there really people out there that don’t know a packet of peanuts may contain nuts – guess I will be hitting “Decline” on them
LANDING by Mierle Laderman Ukeles
LANDING
1989-Present
Earth Art
Earthwork
Staten Island, New York, USA
Ukeles has been working on “LANDING”, a reclamation project, since 1989. At the 2200-acre site of Fresh Kills landfill on Staten Island, New York, the project aims to make the site accessible to local people as both a work of art and open space. In 2001 the landfill was closed and the City Planning Department and Municipal Art Society began working with Ukeles and other designers to envision an end-use design for the site.
Mierle Laderman Ukeles
Feminist Art, Performance Art, Conceptual Art, Earth Art
Born: 1939, Colorado, USA
Nationality: American
Ukeles is an artist based in New York City. She is best known for her feminist and service-orientated artwork which relates to the idea of process in conceptual art to domestic and civic maintenance. The Artist-in-Residence at the New York City Department of Sanitation she creates art that gives life to the essence of any urban centre with depictions of waste flows, sustainability, recycling, people, ecology and the environment
Sneak Attack
Sneak Attack
Form: Cyrch A Chwta
As fireworks set the night alight
While bonfires burn on Guy Fawkes night
The Christmas ads race to invite
Taste buds yearning festive delight
Their greed for money shines too bright
And kids wanting, parents take fright
The pressure to please is so hard
Those credit card bills out of sight
©JGFarmer2022
À Gogo
Inspired by AWAD– thank you, Anu
Form: Haiku
coloured bottles lie
abundant in recycling
it was a good night
©JezzieGFarmer2022
Treasured Pearls
Treasured Pearls
Form: Arabian Sonnet
Her loving touch is felt in weightlessness
like falling leaves my simple words confess
before her kiss my senses yield, digress,
to ease my heart of modern life's distress.
Her touch to make me write the words I sing,
and once again, I'll give her anything
the treasured pearls of love upon a string
and on her finger shines my jewelled ring.
Pulsating heart that draws me to embrace
the promise glowing beauty in her face
we know our love will never feel disgrace.
For we must play the tribade cards we're dealt
as all the anger that others have felt
in just one lover's kiss will surely melt
©JezzieG2010
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