Nothing But Blue Sky Redux I

Ambivalent or
#Lackadaisical maybe
Just plain lazybones

#treppenwitz

Random German dude loitering on a staircase: “Wie geht’s dir?”

Me: “The gates are okay but the hinges are rusty.


While it seems the past years 
Have been taken by the boom
Of a loud fat buzzing #Mosquito
In the room

Thank glorious insectile overlords
For the power, wisdom, and pique
To mute endless media harangue of
Blather and Squeak

 A #yakamoz
lycanthrope
May be good looking
But in reality is but a
Sneaking slinking skulking
Weak sad sack reflection
Of a full furred howling
Drooling biting snarling
Genuine issue werewolf

You liked the big lie?
Well step right up for this year's
extra #jumbo lie.

This person
Up
On a platform 
Preening 
Like a bloated budgie 
In front of a mirror
Not #cute
Not #gigil
Just #sad

What's that trickling down?
#Sugar coat it all you wish.
It still amounts to
thinly glazed aerated pure
weasel sputum on a stick

Low expectations 
Have kept me #flexible now
In spite of myself
I can bend backward while I'm
Looking at me in the void

From towering white pines to unusual beach species. Predacious bog plants to native prairie grasses. The plant diversity was outstanding in front of our dune home. Diverse #garden terrain wiped out for a sloping lawn to serve the spouse aesthetic. My biggest regret.

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Was it finding myself floating in a roomful of white mist looking down at myself sitting at a computer?

More likely, that was an end.

Did it #begin when a foot, a bus, and the front bumper of a 1971 Checker taxicab tried to occupy the same space at the same time?

That began something.

Precarious Lips

Life lived on the lips
Of a precipice
With the knowledge
A landslide of doom
Is but a foot slip
Away
Watch your step


Hello everyone! The prompt for today, 24th August 2024, is “Landslide”. Write a post inspired by the prompt and share your post via pingback or leave the link of your post in the comments section. Have a great Saturday. Punam

RDP SATURDAY: LANDSLIDE

Bleu

Happy Tense Friday Match Game

My favorite color is________
My favorite music to play is________
Lost count on how many opportunities I_______
Now my cover has been_______


Now where did I leave my _______ cheese.


The word for today is Blue! Where will this take you? 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! Blue!

Conjure

I conjure up my 
greatest work of fiction self
story of my past

The thing I know for sure is how a film and track can be edited to tell a story in almost any way you wish. Fact and fiction spliced in any whimsically oppressive order to display a completely different timeline from the source. Ever shifting points of view filtered through hard won biases. Good thing memories are not like videotape playback. In fact memory is infinitely fungible. Just ask any eye witness three hours after any event.

Rewrite my fiction
Delete browser history
Refreshing new page

The word for today is Fiction! No, wait a minute, the word is real, but it’s fiction. OH man, no way to be clear. What’s your take on fiction? Is there any truth to it? Do you write it? Read it? Tell it? Photos, Artwork, Poetry, Short Story… Then link to this page. Please tag […]

RDP Tuesday! Fiction!

Dust Bunnies

tiny dust bunnies
under my bed bred into
one big dust devil

A little contemplation never hurt anyone.

Sure.

Go ahead.

Be contemplative.

Think before you move.

Look before you leap.

Stick your little toe in before you dive in.

Overthink.

Second guess.

Doublethink.

Double down

Third down

Fourth and long.

Monday morning quarterback.

Enough contemplating.

Now do something

Even if it’s wrong

Doing is better than not doing anything

Or is it?

Let me think about that for a while.


Proscenium

atop my mesa
working the crowd in my head
theatre in the round

Photo by Maxime Chartier on Pexels.com

After a decade and a half of performing out in the wilderness, I finally dragged myself off the rocky mesa stage. I had distanced myself from the urban delights of big city life to perform at suburbia’s theatre in the round. All in service of another’s dreams; only to find those dreams were not their dreams either. That was quite the emotional cul-de-sac indeed. Acting within the proscenium provided by the urban streets brought focus to the dysfunctional script being followed, so together we took our final bow. Flipping the script. Freeing us up to chase down another booking.


Hello everyone! The prompt for today, 17th August 2024, is “cul-de-sac”. Write a post including the prompt and share with us via pingback or leave the link in comments section. Happy Saturday! Punam

RDP SATURDAY: Cul-de-sac

Captcha the Future

Do I remember the past?


Much of the past I think I remember has been told and retold and written and filmed and televised and reworked to put forth an agenda. Mistranslations, both malicious and innocent errors, misrepresentations due to the transience of human perception, and the ability to represent it using common though imperfect languages , leading to more mistranslations and misunderstandings;usually put forth by people that are certain they know better than anyone else.  The past I do remember while I was paying attention was also delivered by institutions with an agenda, but I have personally witnessed a thing or two leaving me to make up my mind with the understanding that I know what I know until I know something different.

Do I remember the future?

Well that hasn’t happened yet. Or has it?
What I do remember is futuristic prognostications of things to come. What might be, what could be, and what should be. Some have actually come to pass, or at least reasonable facsimiles of them. I am fortunate to have lived long enough to witness things that seemed quite futuristic and wondrous in their time quickly passed into obscure obsolescence only to become  humorous internet memes. But still most of those futuristic things were indeed stepping stones to the marvels of our present day. Yet many of those futuristic ambitions have been left on the ever growing trash heap of history.

As for now, I think Charles Dickens wrote it best

It was the best of times, it was the worst of times

I wonder how that translates into other languages. Perhaps, everything is okay until it isn’t.

In the meantime, remember

Green-stone, Go. Red-stone 
Stop. Yellow-stone. Slow. Every
body must get stoned

The word for today is Futuristic! Flying cars? Androids that look and (good god no) act like humans? Travel to distant worlds? Or here on Earth, maybe, peace and ecosystems in balance? Photos, Artwork, Poetry, Short Story… Then link to this page. Please tag your post “RDP” and “Ragtag Daily Prompt”. Finally, don’t forget to […]

RDP Friday! Futuristic!

Assume Away


Something to be drawn

Something to be filled in

Like a blank expression

On another person’s face

Feel free to draw your own conclusions

Fill in with your own work of fiction

Go ahead

Assume away

Pile up a cairn. Knock 
over a cairn. Build a cairn...
Human history.

Our prompt for today is “blank”. What does the word mean to you? Compose a post, and share your interpretation of the day’s prompt in words or pictures. You know the rules. Use “ragtag daily prompt” , “RDP” , and “blank” as tags. Add “photo” if you’re sharing a picture, as specific tags make your […]

RDP Wednesday – BLANK

Movable Goals

Eclipse on the Elipse

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Life was going great until I heard that I needed goals.

Then the goal post kept being moved

Now back to merrily flailing about in the dark

I never miss my goals

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Rays beating down on
life here for billions of years.
Now that's a sunburn.

The word for today is Goal! Is this a thing for soccer? Or is this a thing for life? What’s your take on goals? 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 […]

RDP Tuesday! Goal!

Having a Swale Ol’ Time

Kindling of A.I. origin
Falsehoods flame the main
Fan with boughs of balderdash
Smoke blinds a cache of cash
Murky waters mottle and schmooze
Senseless seekers still abuse
No amount of abluent cleanse
Will wash the historical lens
Cause where there is confusion
Money will be made in profusion
trickle to drizzle
downpour to monsoon gushed down
twixt lush fertile swale

Happy Monday!! The prompt for today is FAN. Create a post using this prompt. Photos, Artwork, Poetry, Short Story…the options are limitless and 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 […]

RDP Monday: FAN