Rose-colored glasses and a white gown

Sometimes a half-dozen words are enough. But maybe not always.

Rose-colored glasses and a white gown

A carefree wonder caught her cloak.

She buttoned up to go for broke

And donned her specs of rosy hue.

Perhaps they had been better blue.

Bedecked in lace, this woman-child

Cast dreams aside to deem them wild.

The woodpecker put spark to bark

To measure how she missed the mark.

She wasn’t worthy of her wings;

Alas, the creed of self-crowned kings.

How colored glasses do deceive

A heart embroidered on a sleeve.

I’d love to help this friend by chance

To give her value second glance.

Dare hope she’ll come to recognize

The view improves in honest eyes.

c2016 by Linda Ann Nickerson

This poem was posted in response to these prompts:

Daily Post: “carefree”

Five-Minute Friday: “help”

One Minute Writer: Six Word Saturday

Show My Face: Six Word Saturday

Simply Snickers: “woodpecker,” “wonder,” “wild,” “worthy,” and “wings”

Stream of Consciousness Saturday: “second”
Meme Express: “go for broke”

Theme Thursday: “glasses”

Writer’s Workshop: “spark”

Image/s:

 Thanks to Sepia Saturday

for this vintage/public domain image.

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Ask Sue Veneer

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(posted for NaPoWriMo - National Poetry Writing Month)

When Trash and Trinkets Become Treasures

Tomorrow, the world will look to London for the much-anticipated royal wedding, when Kate Middleton will marry her own Prince Charming, William of Wales. In the meantime, opportunists are seizing the chance to score a few bucks with mementos of every sort.

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The carpet of red is in place,

With grins marking every face.

Outside, hawkers vend

And try to pretend

Their merchandise dares not disgrace.

From china to condoms and more,

The marketing mavens may roar.

Hot tea bags, fake jewels

And paper doll fools

May mimic the wedding top drawer.

Perhaps we have little to fear

From  matchbooks and mugs for foamed beer,

For Will and his Kate

Are merely the bait

Of tackiness from Sue Veneer.
c2011 by Linda Ann Nickerson

Playing House

Playing House

This weekend, our witty friend Galen will hand off his beloved daughter to her fiance in marriage. In a flash, his child will be setting up house with another.

Recognizing this auspicious occasion, today’s Friday Flash-55 is dedicated to the G-man. Congratulations and best wishes!

The Tailor Made Girl

By C. Jay Taylor

1888

Father of the Bride –

A Limericked Pair for a Papa with Flair

The spiffiest papa this hour,

Beholding his lovely young flower.

Adorned all in white,

This beautiful sight,

He wished he could stash in a tower.

But walls wouldn’t hold hands of time,

Not stave off this moment sublime.

With eyes closed, he gasped.

His child’s grip he grasped

And up to the altar did climb.

Posted for a variety of prompts:

Easy Street Prompts (“playing house”)

Fiction Friday (“… closed his eyes, took a deep breath, and jumped.”

Friday Flash-55 (55 words)

Meme Express (Friday Freedom)

Monday Poetry Train (poem/s)

One Single Impression (“walls”)

Theme Thursday (“beautiful”)

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Sadie Hawkins Day - Leap Year

(Written upon request of Mad Kane's "time" prompt.)

Sadie Hawkins Day –
A Limerick on Leap Year

The passage of time, each four years,
Reduces most menfolk to tears.
They wait for the chance
To be asked to the dance,
By women who swallow their fears.

A bit of history:

Who was Sadie Hawkins, and how did she come to be associated with Leap Year?

Sadie Hawkins Day originated in November 1937 in the “Li’l Abner” comic strip by cartoonist and humorist Al Capp. Part of the much-loved Dogpatch U.S.A. citizenry, Capp’s Sadie Hawkins was called “the homeliest girl in the hills.” Her father, Hekzebiah Hawkins, grew concerned that his ugly daughter might remain an old maid, so he made a plan.

Hekzebiah Hawkins created an annual foot race. All of the town’s single girls would chase the local bachelors. Each young lady would marry the man she caught. (Of course, fathers with shotguns were present as added motivation for matrimony.)

Within a few years, hundreds of American colleges and universities had picked up on the craze and held Sadie Hawkins Day dances, or turnabouts. For one day, it became socially acceptable for a woman to ask a man to join her on a date.

Although it was originally celebrated in November, eventually, Sadie Hawkins Day became linked with Leap Year, on February 29^th. Every four years, according to the tradition, women are encouraged to invite men to mingle or even marry.

Although historians differ somewhat on the origins of the Leap Year link, the general consensus points to Sts. Bridget and Patrick, both of Ireland. Apparently, St. Bridget complained to St. Patrick about the social restrictions on women, forcing them to wait for a man’s proposal of marriage. St. Patrick instituted a plan, whereby women might propose marriage to men during a Leap Year. Irish legend indicates that, during the next Leap Year, St. Bridget actually proposed to St. Patrick!

Fusing these two turnabout traditions, popular practices eventually found their home on February 29^th, every four years.

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