Tag: RagtagDailyPrompt

It’s Just an E.M.P. Away

Posted on by Pete
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I rummage about
In rubbish I've left behind
The frolics of yore
The many sheets from before
Bits and bytes of things to come

Stacks of melted wax
The mess of cassette formats
All shapes and sizes
Twentieth century discs
Magneto stuff lost in mists

All up in the cloud
Or that's what I have been told 
Digital rummage
NFTs now will be sold
Just like the tulips of old

No lugging required
Paper trail's have long been trashed
Memories now stored
By our server overlords
Just one EMP away

Remember: A.I. thinks the word “memories” has four syllables. They are: me-m-o-ries. 🤣

RDP Tuesday! Rummage!

Umma my Gumma

Posted on by Pete 
A sorcery full of secrets
Full up to the brim
With milk of human malign
Or dandelion wine
Slopping over the rim
Whether to right a wrong
Or to wrong a right
Pick your assignment 
Change the weather 
Change the channel 
Mumble a chant
Bang a gong
Sing a song
Even if you can't 
Black cat moan
Depends on the saucer
Depends on the milk
Depends on the sorcerer 
It's all in the spell

Drizzle Drazzle Druzzle Drome
RDP SATURDAY: SORCERY

Maestro Please

Posted on by Pete
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Tone deaf
No rhythm
Left footed
Stumble bum
Dilettante

Hey That's Me !

In spite of all that, music has played an important part throughout my life.

  1. Choir
  2. Guitarist
  3. Singer
  4. Dancer
  5. Editor
  6. Actor
  7. Listener

Sure it was a church choir, garage band guitarist, high school, college, community productions. Musical theater singer, dancer, and actor in front of big and small crowds alike. I even got paid for a summer acting gig once. Not musical, but since I’m bragging. . .

What I did get paid for and quite well thank you was as a film, video, and digital editor. There I orchestrated numerous medlies of picture, voice, music, and sound effects many times over many years. If there is no music in the way the pictures flow before the eye and the dialog plays to the ear then it’s back to the cutting room.

See Ma, I didn’t waste my entire youth on trivial pursuits.

It also has taught me my most important skill.

I listen

Now It’s Time To Shout

I just love this performance and song 😍

RDP Friday! Musical!

Sync or Swim

Posted on by Pete 
Pix and trk
X marks the spot
Where two smackers met
Hear squawk box pop
Another X 
On mag stripe stock
Line them up
Cut it quick 
Splice it good
Rewind table spin
Crank for all you're worth
Split reel chatter
Spinning on the shaft
Four gang synchronizer clatter 
Time to serve up hot
Dailies on the platter
Rushes always rush for
Client projection screening
Should reels misalign 
There'll be lots of screaming
Assistant editor blame fodder
Becomes main subject of malign 
It's called puttin' in your time
Ragtag Daily Prompt Thursday: Misalign

Guide Posts

Posted on by Pete 
Once I had a guide
Lead me through perilous lands
Ill advised choices
Never there. Then went poof
Deserted and despondent 
left brain talks to right
makes up stories to guide it
follows bad advice
from a wise and trusted guide
that was never there at all
Alternate timelines 
Theory used to guide thousands
Thick plot twists feeding
Episodic syfy shows
Ad nauseam operas
Craiyon
She became my guide 
To places and sensations
Once only dreamt of
RDP Tuesday! Guide!

Haven’t the Foggiest

Posted on by Pete
Craiyon
No clue
Hey me too
But don't be blue
Join the crew

Haven't the foggiest
When we're the groggiest 
Making life the shoddiest
Like a well meaning hobbyist


But

I know
What I know
Until I know 
Something different


Do share
If you think you 
Know different 


Even seeming indifferent 
More likely ambivalent
But I remain diffident 


Spanning irreverent 
To the irrelevant 
Like the room elephant

The word(s) for today is(are) No Clue! We humans like to “know” things and to be right. I’m the first to agree, well, maybe not the first, that uncertainty is uncomfortable. I don’t even have a clue about the temperature outside. My phone says one thing, my actual thermometer says another thing, and the national […]

RDP Friday! No Clue!

Stream On

Posted on by Pete 
fluid emotions
spread all over a lifetime
a deluge of hope
soon will be a trickle down
good ol' waste fraud and abuse
Crayon

Hello Everyone, I hope you are all well and ready for another Ragtag Daily Prompt.  Here is your word for Thursday, 7 November 2024  —  DELUGE. Create a post (words/images/both) inspired by this word!  Just a reminder, anyone can join in. Link to this post by creating a pingback, or paste the URL of your post […]

RDP Thursday- DELUGE

Chair of Bowlies 

Posted on by Pete

Life Is Just A

Craiyon
some secrets should be 
kept because one third will not
give a darn, one third
can never keep things secret,
one third won't understand it.

The law of thirds in life, art, and demographics.

Hello everyone! The prompt word for today, 19th October 2024, is “Secret”. Write/create a post on your blog inspired by the prompt. Then share it with us via pingback or leave a link of your post in the comments section. Have fun. Punam

RDP SATURDAY: SECRET