For the Daily Post Weekly Photo Challenge: Out of this World. This is a closeup of a moth on the wall in my bedroom. It is the shadow that really creeped me out! Taken with an iPhone.
Category Archives: Random Thoughts and Musings
Florette #1
rain-sopped, soggy grey
frizzled mop, bad hair day
~kat
Short Form Florette (two lines of six syllables each, with an end rhyme and an internal rhyme). March’s daily poem style thanks to Jane Dougherty. Don’t let the two line, six syllable form fool you. It is a brutal little mind bender. But oh the satisfaction when you nail it!
Cherita #28
heavy with tears
clouds hover
wet and cold
daring us to believe
that sun and blue sky exist
beyond the grey
~kat~
A final Cherita for this short month and wondering what March will bring. Thanks to Jane Dougherty for introducing me to this lovely little form. And thank you for joining me on the journey. ❤
AltReality Woes
if only we had
as much enthusiasm
for intelligence
as for beauty and power…
wisdom’s an uncommon thing
~kat
A Tanka for Colleen Chesebro’s Tanka Tuesday Poetry Challenge using synonyms only for the words, Energy: power, enthusiasm and Knowledge: intelligence, wisdom.
Core Beliefs – MLMM Sunday Writing Challenge
“Everyone is entitled to their own opinion.” Of course this is true and reasonable, allowing us to agree to disagree in many cases, while still respecting the person holding said opinion.
Except…(Now if you are thinking, here comes the “but” you would be right. This is a very big BUT!)…except when opinions are touted as absolute, unwavering truth, despite known indisputable facts to the contrary, I am afraid I cannot agree to disagree, and I most certainly cannot respect people who hold these erroneous opinions. That is the rub, isn’t it? It is why we can’t get along anymore. It is why our society is so polarized and fractured.
The opinionated for opinion’s sake will often say, “It’s impossible to know the truth anymore, anyway.” It is tricky, I’ll give you that, especially in this age of special interest-influenced news outlets and hostile other-government attacks on us through social media, as well as our softening aversion to lies and alternative facts. It is especially troublesome in this age where winning elections for power rather than for service’s sake is the modus operandi of our politics; where facts are inconvenient truths that must be obstructed.
I have decided I will not have opinions anymore. I know I am entitled to them. That’s not the point. Opinions are rubbish if they are not informed by truth, (in my opinion of course) and since we are living in a time of open season on the truth, it is best to keep any opinions I might have, even though I am now loath to have them, to myself.
It goes without saying that I would appreciate others keeping their opinions to themselves as well. If I want someone’s opinion, I will certainly ask for it. In other words, I won’t be asking for it. As for the truth, I don’t particularly care to know that either. Truth in the absolute sense is dead. It can’t be trusted. Which creeps into a new category…faith.
Let’s not go there. Let’s just not.
Oh no you didn’t…
how do you do it, straight-faced,
believe in the lie?
~kat
This Haibun for MindLoveMisery’s Menagerie Sunday Writing Prompt: For this challenge I want you to examine one of your core beliefs.
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