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Flashback to Hope

Tina Stewart Brakebill
Fandango’s Flashback Friday — July 25th

This was originally posted on 7/25/2019 as A Change is Gonna Come (Hopefully).

Sadly, my feelings of being “uninspired or depressed or lethargic” also are like a bad flashback. Anyway … here’s to hope

The world spins around

Bringing a spark of new hope

As fuel for the flames

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I’ve been WP MIA for a couple of weeks. Between the heat and the constant rain and the general state of our world, I’ve been uninspired or depressed or lethargic. “Whatever” has been my go-to feeling of late. Ugh. But I’m trying to lift myself out of it. So thanks to  Sue’s beautiful photo challenge for giving me a hopeful image to go along with the spark of hope coming out of Puerto Rico.

I’ll leave you with my title inspiration-Sam Cooke’s “A Change is Gonna Come.”

Peace.

Haiku & Other Poetry, Random Rants, tutto e niente

Humpty Dumpty Had a Great Fall

Tina Stewart Brakebill

I must vent, he roared.

Cracking open the window,  

he cried as he fell:

What about the price of eggs!

Now, he’s the one cracked open.   

Today’s three words for pensitivity’s challenge are:
UPLIFT
VENT
WINDOW

Sadly, I could find no uplift. Maybe tomorrow.

Three Things Challenge #M980

 

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Tanka Tuesday – Synonyms Only

Tina Stewart Brakebill

time crawls and I vow

rye to sooth my looming dread

‘til the day dawns blue  

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Welcome to Tanka Tuesday. This week is Synonyms Only. That means you will be using synonyms for the given prompt words.

#TankaTuesday Poetry Challenge: Synonyms Only – 11/5/2024

Today, I wrote a senryu that sums up the state of my current “human condition.” 

What is a senrue?

A form with 3 or more lines following the short-long-short, 3-5-3, 2-3-2, (5-7-5 traditional) approximately twelve syllables. Senryu do not rhyme, nor do they contain metaphors and similes.

A senryu is written about love, human foibles relating to a personal event, and should have an element of irony present somewhere in the form. Humor and sarcasm are two of the most favorable elements in a senryu. But not always… think in tone. What is the tone of your senryu? 

Senryu focus on the awkward moments in life making the human, not the world around them, the subject of their creative endeavor. Senryu poetry deals with the human condition. The most important distinction between haiku and senryu is the tone of your poem.

Think of it this way: Haiku wants to create a feeling, while senryu wants to make a point.
Focus on sexual matters, family relations, religion, politics, and anything that touches on the pain we experience through sorrow, prejudice, oppression, anger, and frustration. Humor and sarcasm are two of the most favorable elements in a senryu. No title.

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Ballad of an Early Voter

Tina Stewart Brakebill

nervous, feeling fear

touch the screen, colour the box

still the noise bangs on    

“I don’t care, do you”? “Trust me!”

comfort your fear, use your spark   

photography of barrel wave
Photo by Emiliano Arano on Pexels.com

 

For this week’s Wordle Challenge, I managed to create a clumsy tanka that touched on my fear and use all the words: fear, noise, bang, colour, spark, use, touch, care, comfort, trust, feeling, nervous.

MLMM Monday Wordle #397

 

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Fibbing Friday

Tina Stewart Brakebill

This week’s Fibbing Friday was fun!

As Di noted: Something a little different this week courtesy of Jim Adams who has been inventive in making up words and asks us to describe what these, if they existed, are or could be used for.

  • Antiplixen: the right-wing movement against adopting a plixen (public library information xchange) approach to k-12 educational reform.
    • As part of their efforts to push for school privatization, the antiplixens launched a TikTok campaign demonstrating the dangers of arming public-school students with information.
  • Mortangru: an archaic word for over consumption of alcohol.
    • Look o’re yonder, Silas gone mortangru. He’ll be hurtin fer sure come morn.
  • Clydearum: when a person is obsessed with Clydesdale horses.
    • You’ll never get Tammy away from the TV now. That Budweiser commercial is on next and you know she’s never gotten over her clydearum.
  • Monogrifrt: A social media trend that claims that all mono audio sound recordings originate from one Deep State source.
    • Stupid Sheep. Still Listening to that “american” life Monogrifrt podcrap.
  • Ulangabop: TikTok dance craze, circa summer 2024
    • Kamala’s ulangabop was bussin’
  • Krixashobie: New Anti-Social Anxiety (or maybe eczema or diabetes-it’s hard to tell) Drug
    • Side effects of Krizashobie include shortness of breath, anxiety, swelling of the hands and feet, and death.
  • Xgreapey: Generation Z describing Generation X’s complaints about being ignored
    • Don’t get salty. Why ya have to be such a Xgreapey.
  • Knobweg: A popular insult among middle school boys in the 1970s.
    • That’s not what your mother said last night, ya knobweg.  
  • Betalafil: Dating App for Non-Alpha Males
    • Find your perfect equal non-domineering partner on Betalafil!
  • Dvpslyaran: The indigenous peoples at the center of the popular Fantasy series, “The Moons of Dvpslyaria.”
    • The Dvpslyaran had watched in horror as their largest moon splintered into pieces and the blue water covered their beloved land.
Fibbing Friday 26th July