Tag: Daily Prompt

Existential Shivers

Posted on by Pete

To deem something incomparable. Doesn’t that imply that you tried comparing it but failed. So clearly an attempt was made to compare it.  That’s downright incomprehensible. Comprehending the process of a comparison of a thing that’s incomparable just gives me the existential shivers.

Craiyon
Obfuscation soaked 
bone deep in free speech lucre.
Bread and Circuses

Very happy Wednesday and the Ragtag Daily Prompt is incomparable. The sky here can be incomparable. What is incomparable to you? Your sky, trees, the gardens, a comfortable chair? In romance novels, especially ones loosely based on history, a woman may be nicknamed “The Incomparable” for her beauty. Tell us what you find incomparable! Link […]

RDP Wednesday: incomparable

Jingle Jangle Streaming

Posted on by Pete
Craiyon
got off financial 
treadmill first in order to
evict wasteful chaff
Butterflies
Aren't free
Oleo sinks
Margarine stinks
Sorrow floats
Hope bloats
Bees sting
Birds sing
Money talks
B.S. walks into a bank, lies about assets, gets a loan, then uses other people's money to live life in a golden cocoon only to emerge
A pro
To con again
Still butterflies 
Aren't free

Hello everyone! The prompt for today is, “Butterflies”.

RDP SATURDAY: BUTTER FLIES

Brain Streaming

Posted on by Pete
Craiyon
Something I heard in
Grammar School still sticks in my
brain. "That'll learn ya."

This is how my inner streaming stick rolls

Hardly Socratic
Often idiosyncratic 
Sometimes bureaucratic 
Can be dramatic
To overblown panic
Then in full tilt manic
Confused as Satanic
With a hint of tannic
Just erie Shamanic
No need to get frantic

This is what comes streaming out

Busboy asks patron,
"How long have the Olympic 
Games been going on."
I reply uninvited
Two thousand five hundred years

A few chuckles from
the room. Then busboy says ,"I'm 
sorry ma'am, what were 
you saying?" My dates may be 
off ,but I crack myself up.

This is why you can’t take me anywhere

The word for today is Dialogue. We need to talk. (haha) Photos, Artwork, Poetry, Short Story… Then link to this page. Please tag your post “RDP” and “Ragtag Daily Prompt”. Finally, don’t forget to read all the other wonderful posts. Need help with the pingback? You can find the instructions on the Ragtag Community About page.

RDP Friday! Dialogue!

Life is but a Stream

Posted on by Pete

Where ever you go there you are

Travel was not part of my family experience. Tried to make it part of my parenting experience. I’ve had good trips. I’ve had bad trips. I may just trip again.

All just more data

Everytime I reach
A conclusion. New  data
Just keeps streaming in

The word for today is Travel! Where have you been? Where would you like to go? How would you like to get there? Space or time? Photos, Artwork, Poetry, Short Story… Then link to this page. Please tag your post “RDP” and “Ragtag Daily Prompt”. Finally, don’t forget to read all the other wonderful posts. […]

RDP Tuesday! Travel!

The Late Me

Posted on by Pete

Finally I had a conversation with myself. I decided to confirm my reservation to give myself a real treat this week. I think I am on the verge of having a viable life once again. Although I am generally allergic to social intercourse, there are times that I look back with a winsome eye for days past. I know I can funnel my knowledge of winning some and losing some and no longer be forlorn for those chances that have slipped away. The brilliant light of epiphany that I see undulate before my eyes shows me a way to carve through the coming adversity. While once upon a time this prospect would evoke a certain amount of dread within my soul, sending me into a more static wait and see stance, today I will entertain a more joyous embrace of my fate and study the life enriching opportunities that such a loophole in my planned path has afforded my life to experience. This agile mind and resolve might shock those who thought of me as a more dull and resolute sort. Perhaps even make them blink a few times to view me reborn. So though I scan time’s horizon, I formulate no set strategy. I must be candid and admit to the universe that I am indeed late again on each and every one of these prompts. But I am glad I was able to …

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via Daily Prompt: Tardy

https://dailypost.wordpress.com/prompts/tardy/

Daily BahaiFi

Posted on by Pete

via Daily Prompt: Shimmer

One day while I was pursuing my new hobby of urban hiking I spied in the distance an opportunity I was not expecting.  I had just finished Taeing my Chi, Yogaing my Yodel, and Shaking my Chakras when I glimpsed the full tilt shimmer of a BahaiFi Bonanza. Nevermind my previous travels had taken me right past this glimmering jewel, the perspective distance called my secret name loud and clear.

“Eureka!” said the right side of my bicameral brain to the left side. Or was that left to right? I guess that depends where you are standing.

https://dailypost.wordpress.com/prompts/shimmer/

I Percolate

Posted on by Pete

I’ve been a percolator all my days

Vast amounts of earthbound gasses have percolated through me. Geysers of matter in liquid form and it’s various components have been through the process as well. Every move I make has my many atoms percolating through other atoms on the of surface this rock we call home. While many particles bounce right off, because I am relatively dense, I have retained some of the atoms I have percolated and transformed them through my amazing secret percolation process.

Patent Pending # 276123464581329834265249830498124562340912309`123464.

 I have heard tell there are subatomic bits so small that they pass through the space between my various and sundry atomic quarks and quirks so apparently I am not as dense as I appear.

I am glad this rock we inhabit is as dense or more than me so I can stay above ground for the time being. I also appreciate the people who are as dense or denser than me on this chunk of cosmic debris we call earth or I would indeed be a lonely little percolator short and stout. Except when we run into each other.  I do not want to break my handle or my spout.

So watch it!

So here I sit percolating away leaving you with this thought.

Et dimanare, ergo sum.

https://dailypost.wordpress.com/prompts/percolate/

Here is an unsolicited endorsement for a nice local joint

perk_logo_full

http://www.perkolatorcoffee.com/

Cool logo they’ve got there and the coffee is good too.

I am certain owners would disavow any knowledge of my bogging activities here if they were aware of said activities.

I’ll have to tell them sometime.

C.U.S.

Posted on by Pete

YOU better BUY this NOW or YOU are DOOOOOOOOOOMED!!!!!!!

I am not a big fan of horsey headlines, but this is the message interwoven in every distraction delivery system I consume.

This seems to be the message in many political campaigns of the day as well.

Believe me.

Or else.

Back in the day I would look at the television.

But now I watch it.

I think my television, cable, satellite, and internet providers are watching me.

Time to go now because I just saw a pharmaceutical advertisement for a pharmaceutical that will alleviate my C.U.S. (Chronic Urgency Syndrome)

Sure hope I can swallow it in time.

So ends another chapter in the Daily Sojourn known as:

The Quest For Urgency

 

https://dailypost.wordpress.com/prompts/urgent/

P.S. Good thing the promise of a television commercial free pay cable and / or satellite and / or internet television diversion delivery system was another hoax perpetrated on the consumer or I never would have found this pharmaceutical rabbit hole to send more dollars down.