Prescription Post-Its

“They dress the wound

of My people

as though it were not serious.

'Peace, peace,' they say,

when there is no peace.”

(Jeremiah 6:14 and 8:11, NIV)

Prescription Post-Its –

A Limericked Leap on Minds Asleep

 

In serendipity profane,

We swim in sinful shadows’ stain -

Go with the flow,

Although we know

It swings us closer to the drain.

It seems an inconvenient truth

That we pretend extended youth;

We sneer at fate

And fabricate

Sweet insincerities uncouth.

For purposes medicinal,

We daily dose till we’re unwell,

The tightest knot

May be forgot

If just we label it most swell.

A leaf with stellar points aligned,

Grants temporary peace of mind,

Discoveries

Of broken ease

Will soon return, lest we be blind.

So satisfied, as lazy lambs,

We’re prey to predatory scams.

We gobble lies

With no surprise.

We’re unprepared for life’s exams.

If I could live in era past,

I’d choose to let tradition last.

World-weary now,

Will we allow

Our freedoms torn away so fast?

A sweet solution is festooned,

Although our morals we’ve marooned.

Let’s tape the gash,

With festive flash,

And hope to hide a fatal wound.

c2008 by Linda Ann Nickerson

  Photo c2008 by Nickers and Ink

 

"My people have been lost sheep;

their shepherds have led them

and caused them to roam

on the mountains.

They wandered over mountain and hill

and forgot their own resting place.

Whoever found them devoured them;

their enemies said, 'We are not guilty,

for they sinned against the LORD,

their true pasture,

the LORD,

the hope of their fathers.’”

(Jeremiah 60:6-7, NIV)

Posted for a variety of prompts:

Camera Critters (photo/s)

Easy Street Prompts (“for medicinal purposes”)

Monday Mural (artwork – below)

One Single Impression (“serendipity)

Photo Hunt (#131 – “lazy”)

Saturday Scribes (“Consequences: knot, leaf, stellar, fabricate”)

Scenic Sunday (photo/s)

Simply Snickers (“sweet,” “swell,” “swim” and “swing”)

Slice of Life Sunday (“a secret passion,” “an inconvenient truth” or “writer’s choice”)

Sunday Scribblings (“If I had to live at a different time in history”)

Today’s Flowers (photo/s)

Totally Optional Prompts (“discoveries”)

Weekend Wordsmith (“weary”)

Wordless Wednesday (photo/s)