Silly vain humans
build your big walls if you must
life can’t be contained.
kat 16 July 2016
A Haiku for TJ’s Household Haiku Challenge inspired by the prompt words green and fence.
Have a wonderfully wild day! 😊
Monthly Archives: July 2016
Wild Roses
A Poem for Elusuve Tropes Saturday Magnetuc Poetry Challenge. I found these words in the Nature Kit at MagneticPoetry.com
behold the wild rose
how she thrives
in harmony with
rock and stone…
her roots beneath
wind long and deep
~kat – 16 July 2016
Seasoning – Part 1
Alice imagined the hush of new fallen snow as she gazed from the warmth of the parlor. She smiled. Winter was her favorite time of year.
Since receiving the news she had hoped to spend at least one more holiday with her beloved Henry.
Hints of cinnamon and sage wafted through the air and the sounds of clanking cooking utensils echoed from the kitchen. Henry was preparing a feast of roasted turkey, sweet butter-creamed potatoes, string beans and warm bread pudding with spiced rum sauce.
Alice rarely shared her kitchen with Henry. Cooking was her passion, but this was an annual tradition, and he loved it so.
“Dinner is served my darling girl,” Henry announced entering the dining room with a perfect gold-crusted bird steaming on a silver platter.
“Henry…”
His beaming delight dissolved to dread at the sound of her fading voice. The beautiful turkey and silver tray slipped from his grasp bouncing across the floor in a wet plopping, ear-shattering crash.
He rushed to Alice, catching her as she collapsed.
kat – 15 July 2016
(170 Words)
I am afraid I a a week behind on Jane Dougherty’s Microfiction Challenge, but this week’s challenge painting intrigued me. When I read that it was to be the second installment from the previous week, of course I needed to lay the foundation for my story. And so this entry is Part 1. You can other parts HERE.
Animadversion- Friday’s Word of the Day Haiku
It is Friday and time to explore a new word of the day from Dictionary.com. This week’s word is animadversion. Animadversion can be traced to the Latin animadvertere “to heed, censure”with the root animus meaning “mind,spirit, courage, passion, wrath.” It entered the English language in the mid-1500s.
I found a new source fine dictionary.com that provides a summary of definitions as well as the etymology and examples of a word in literature. Here are some additional definitions of the word:
Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary
1. Animadversion – Judicial cognizance of an offense; chastisement; punishment.
2. Animadversion – Monition; warning.
3. Animadversion – Remarks by way of criticism and usually of censure; adverse criticism; reproof; blame.”He dismissed their commissioners with severe and sharp animadversions .”
4. Animadversion – The act or power of perceiving or taking notice; direct or simple perception.
“The soul is the sole percipient which hath animadversion and sense, properly so called.”Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
1. n animadversion – The act or faculty of observing or noticing; observation; perception.
2. n animadversion – The act of criticizing; criticism; censure; reproof.
3. n animadversion – Synonyms Remark, comment, reprobation, reprehension.Chambers’s Twentieth Century Dictionary
1. n Animadversion – criticism, censure, or reproof
Once again, I can see an application for this word in our current political climate. With the first of two national conventions upon us, it is hard to avoid!
Animadversions that are applied unjustly and repetitively with no basis in truth have the power to change our impression and understanding of reality.
It’s a vile practice making it almost impossible to know the truth. I do have hope though, that eventually the truth will rise to the surface and we will all wake up from the pervasive deception that plagues us. The Truth sets us free!
Animadversion – A Haiku
I fear we’re all mad!
Spouting animadversions
Truthfulness be damned!
kat – 15 July 2016
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like mercury colliding... 