thecontemplativecat

Monday, December 5, 2022

Treasure Chest of Winter

Winter Winds, Chopin, Pentatonix

Last rays of sunset

Lace through bare trees.

As light fades, a chill wind

Swirls fallen crumbled leaves,

Once so bright and drifting

With a dancer’s flourish.

In darkness, the clouds roll back

As a scroll of gray and black.

The reigns of summer and autumn

No longer tower and burn.

Midnight reveals

A treasure chest of winter:

Ice and snow prepared

To lay a frozen ruin to the land.

https://youtu.be/pHlqEvAwdVc

Wednesday Words, from 2012. We bloggers are blessed. to be surrounded by so much talent. The Wednesday Words were a writing challenge for bloggers to make a change with a different something.

Saturday, December 3, 2022

Snail 101

Snail posing

His folks had forced Sam Snail to attend the class on snail safety, where posters covered the room:

“An Informed Snail is a Safe Snail!” “It’s not dandruff, you idiot! It’s salt!”

Source: Wikipedia

“A stupid snail becomes escargot!”

Mr. Goo

Mr. Goo, the oldest snail in the community, scanned the adolescent snails with his antennae. “Listen up, you slimy slugs!”

The snails convulsed with laughter---the slug joke was an old one. Then all became quiet as the spectres of snails long gone before filled the room.

They whispered, “Grass is good. Sidewalks are bad….”

Then Mr. Goo shouted, “If you are ever besieged by a bunch of birds, then kiss your shells good-bye.”

Intervals of laughter and silence of doom broke up the rest of the day. Finally, class was dismissed.

Mr. Goo watched them in silence, Poor dumb Molluscan Gastropods! Half of them won’t even make it home.

Some time ago, Delores provided participants of the "Wednesday Words" with a variety of six words with which to play: write prose, short fiction, non-fiction, poetry...Each week there was always a challenge. This was posted in 2018.

Delores has stepped back, and now a variety of Bloggers cover each month. Check with /river-driftingthroughlife.blogspot.com/, Elephant's story for other Wed. Word selections.