Here is this week’s One Liner Wednesday. I like to get technical and I agree with this statement!
Daily Haiku – Wed. March 20, 2019
Senryu
Light steady rainfall
Washes away my heartache
Cleansing my spirit
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Fatal Error
Fatal Error
In a heartbeat
Focus lost forever
A moments dalliance
Has become your never
Like a tassel
Blowing in the breeze
at the mercy of being
brought to your knees
A blot on the character
For one poor choice
Shunned from society
No longer owning a voice
Christine Bolton – Poetry for HealingWord Promts
Focus
Tassel
Blot
Daily Haiku – Tue. March 19, 2019
Dewdrops on the grass
Mist sitting on the water
Another day breaks
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Daily Haiku – Mon. March 18, 2019
Drfitwood and sea shells
Scattered along the shoreline
Gifts from the ocean
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Song Lyric Sunday – School
This week, Jim Adams has challenged us with School/Books/Learning for his Spring Break Song Lyric Sunday prompt. I hope you like my choice of Paul Simon’s “Me and Julio Down by the Schoolyard”. The song was written by Simon and recorded in 1972. He made a video for this song in 1988 that showed him playing basketball with some school kids on a playground. The video has a rap intro by Biz Markie and Big Daddy Kane, and a cameo by baseball legend Mickey Mantle, who lip-synchs the chorus. At the end of the video, NFL Hall-of-Famer John Madden is shown giving tips to the young players. Paul Simon is a big Yankees fan.
Enjoy your Sunday!
Lyrics
Me and Julio Down by the Schoolyard
The mama pajama rolled out of bed
And she ran to the police station
When the papa found out he began to shout
And he started the investigation
It's against the law
It was against the law
What the mama saw
It was against the law
The mama looked down and spit on the ground
Every time my name gets mentioned
The papa said, "oy, if I get that boy
I'm gonna stick him in the house of detention"
Well I'm on my way
I don't know where I'm going
I'm on my way
I'm taking my time
But I don't know where
Goodbye to Rosie, the queen of Corona
Seein' me and Julio
Down by the schoolyard
Seein' me and Julio
Down by the schoolyard
Whoa, in a couple days they come and take me away
But the press let the story leak
And when the radical priest
Come to get me released
We was all on the cover of Newsweek
And I'm on my way
I don't know where I'm going
I'm on my way
I'm taking my time
But I don't know where
Goodbye to Rosie, the queen of Corona
Seein' me and Julio
Down by the schoolyard
Seein' me and Julio
Down by the schoolyard
Seein' me and Julio
Down by the schoolyard
Songwriters: Paul Simon
Me and Julio Down by the Schoolyard lyrics
© Universal Music Publishing Group
Daily Haiku – Sun. March 17, 2019
Senryu
I drown in your eyes
Compassionate deep pools
Of understanding
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Be Gone
Be Gone
They said,
“If the broom fits, ride it!”
And she did, of course
Controlling, fearless and fierce
Aware of all secrets
And what might be source
Gifted with calculating skills
And knowing where souls and
skeletons were concealed
She used information acquired
Holding feet to the fire
Shameful stories were revealed
Stopping one day
To take refreshment
From an offered chalice
It was poison she drank
That took her life
A death from obvious malice
Despised by her enemies
Loved by her followers
She was both target and idol
An illustrious force of nature
A hurricane in a sandstorm
No one could ever unbridle
RIP you crazy witch
and haunt us no more
It’s enough we have to see
A constant calling card
Your hat on a pole
When all we want is to be free
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In response to Sue Vincent's Thursday Prompt
Sign - Write/Photo
Word Prompt
Illustrious
Soul
Daily Haiku – Sat. March 16, 2019
New buds on the trees
Flowers pushing through the earth
Spring is in the air
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Looking For Love In All The Wrong Places
Looking For Love In All The Wrong Places
In this jungle
where love hides deep
camouflaged from scrutiny
and preferring to sleep
Harmony is rationed
for all but a lucky few
Kill or be killed
in a game for only two
Beware the predators
Stalking their prey
Like lambs to the slaughter
and so easy to sway
Sliding down
a slippery slope
Know that in the end
There is always hope
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Word Prompts:
Harmony
Beware
Hope