Yonder lays a crawling valley,
Where mustangs once did graze,
Amongst the sage and prairie grass,
But, that was in my younger days;
Now coyotes howl and eagles shrill,
At the setting sun on yonder hills,
We mourn the horses of crawling valley.
Posts Tagged ‘word-of-the-day’
Yonder
Posted in Compositions, tagged 1924, art, blog, calgary stampede, mustangs, poems, word-of-the-day, yonder on April 13, 2021| 4 Comments »
Where’s the Thing?
Posted in Compositions, tagged art, blog, creative writing, creativity, goats, humor, inspiration, junk, thing, word-of-the-day on March 3, 2021| 3 Comments »
The word for today is “thing”.
I have developed a fondness for the word “thing”- albeit, it is somewhat of a love/hate relationship.
My use of the word “thing,” usually coincides with episodes in my life where I know that if I am using the word “thing,” I am experiencing some type of mental block. At these times, it is as if the universal vacuum has descended from above to clean out my cranium. Just like any other vacuum, the universal one can accidentally suck up useful things as well as cobwebs.
The universal vacuum likes information. And, just for your information, I am all for loosing such things that constitute life’s most embarrassing moments from my memory bank.
But does it really need to suck out my brain’s capacity to access its inner dictionary?
At such seemingly unintellectual times; those I can only define as brain dead moments, it makes me wonder – where’s the thing? Meaning, my brain! (more…)
In A World Of Pain
Posted in Short Stories, tagged art, blog, blogging, creative, fiction, journaling, prose, Short Stories, word-of-the-day, writing on October 10, 2020| Leave a Comment »
Earlier, he’d pursed his lips, tossed the newspaper aside and decided that even though the state of the world was depressed, he could still improve his grammar. 
The word of the day was weltscherz; a noun meaning sentimental pessimism, sorrow that one feels and accepts as one’s necessary portion in life. (more…)
