Those Who Live in Grass Houses (Book) https://www.Writing.Com/main/books.php/item_id/2316938 Garcia Reports âPsst, Garcia, are you ready to unload?â âI have it, boss, but itâs in code.â âAnd can we read it, is it broken?â âIn places yes, but just a token.â âWell, leave it in the litter bin - Iâll work on it until Iâm in.â âItâs done already, waiting now.â âGood work, Garcia, youâve kept your vow.â âThanks, boss, until I see you next.â âYouâre welcome - now go get some rest. While I will wrestle with the trash through ...[Read Full Post] Sat, 08 Mar 2025 15:24:53 EST https://www.Writing.Com/main/books/entry_id/1085024 https://www.Writing.Com/main/books/entry_id/1085024 Of Upper Lips Now at last the worst has happened, disaster swoops, my will to sap and drain me of all hope to win; so low am I my headâs aspin. Yet my mood is not downhearted, I feel better than when I started, my burdens fade and fall away, much brighter now the coming day. You see as I have reached the nadir, ill fortune serves to make me hardier and I rejoice, am certain sure, tomorrow brings my wondrous cure. For now that I have re...[Read Full Post] Sat, 08 Mar 2025 14:49:10 EST https://www.Writing.Com/main/books/entry_id/1085022 https://www.Writing.Com/main/books/entry_id/1085022 Instruction Manual Way back in the mists of time software came in boxes, marvellous things with opening tricks to tease anticipation, amazing with invention, pull out these flaps and bend this leaf, extract the hidden lip and box within a box, the treasureâs slow revealed. A floppy disk (remember those?) or later a CD but more, oh joy and boundless glee, a manual we see, a solid tome, a pristine brick, a slab of arcane knowledge; âtis ...[Read Full Post] Wed, 07 May 2025 06:36:59 EDT https://www.Writing.Com/main/books/entry_id/1085011 https://www.Writing.Com/main/books/entry_id/1085011 Loserâs Lament âJust my luck,â is oft my cry, I hardly need to tell you why, for life it sees me as a joke; itâs true that Iâm that kind of bloke. For instance if I had a brolly, for some that would be awful jolly, but then the rain would turn to drought and wind would blow my brolly out. The other day I fell for you and I just had to tell you true; I should have known my words so sweet would send you running down the street. So now Iâ...[Read Full Post] Sun, 02 Mar 2025 10:34:55 EST https://www.Writing.Com/main/books/entry_id/1084643 https://www.Writing.Com/main/books/entry_id/1084643 Oh Twisted Fate It being the appointed day and my refusal to look decays, âtis the time of my undoing so wasted all of my pooh-poohing. Now the heavens mock my being while darkness cloaks what I am seeing, the glory of the world is brass, all happiness is faded fast. But fate decrees and I am bound with faltâring step towards the ground where too familiar the sight of Nemesis enshrines my plight. And I am drawn by forces strong to ent...[Read Full Post] Sat, 01 Mar 2025 17:49:20 EST https://www.Writing.Com/main/books/entry_id/1084598 https://www.Writing.Com/main/books/entry_id/1084598 Darling! Oh sweet object of my desire, my world is dark without you, my heart consumed with fire, till you return to me anew. The past is now a long lost book, all bitter thoughts forgotten, at my transgressions do not look, new promises I have begotten. Forgiveness is the thing I crave, I pray that you will now relent, remember that itâs me you save, and donât forget to pay the rent. Line count: 12 Quatrains rhymed abab For ...[Read Full Post] Sat, 01 Mar 2025 09:34:33 EST https://www.Writing.Com/main/books/entry_id/1084568 https://www.Writing.Com/main/books/entry_id/1084568 Prompt to Post A little bit of this and thought begins the play avenues explored corners turned imagination seeks the spark of idea A little bit of that moment of knowing the thought obedient its gift bestowing the trail discerned and direction taken But most of all the other the cursorâs winking dance in the bright white field the words suggesting phrases assembling unto completion. Line count: 18 Free verse For Cards ...[Read Full Post] Fri, 21 Feb 2025 15:05:43 EST https://www.Writing.Com/main/books/entry_id/1084190 https://www.Writing.Com/main/books/entry_id/1084190 Oh English, How I Love Your Quirks How ironic is it that the symbol âdashâ means to pause? Line count: 3 Free verse For PromptMaster! Week 3 Task Prompt Prompt: Write a poem where youâre mad at irony because you donât understand it. Note: I know I missed the part about being mad at irony but I just find that impossible. I love irony! ...[Read Full Post] Fri, 21 Feb 2025 10:05:00 EST https://www.Writing.Com/main/books/entry_id/1084176 https://www.Writing.Com/main/books/entry_id/1084176 Interpretation Inspired by Omission. Slow Children said the sign and I praised the decision to omit punctuation thereby leaving the matter open to question. Slow children is merely an observation of the prevailing intelligence in the young ones of the area. Whereas Slow - Children is a warning that children may swarm the road ahead and so offer an obstruction that best be avoided. But slow, children is an instruction to all underage...[Read Full Post] Fri, 21 Feb 2025 10:01:13 EST https://www.Writing.Com/main/books/entry_id/1084175 https://www.Writing.Com/main/books/entry_id/1084175 Frigate Bird An unlikely hero, the frigate bird with bright crimson wattle and extended beak like an overgrown dodo on a diet its eye staring in confusion perhaps at its alternate name of booby yet when it flies thereâs belief in those angled wings and perfect balance playing with the wind to soar and hover a creature in its element and repute fastest in a dive indeed a wing-tucked arrow in vertical plummet from the height to the ro...[Read Full Post] Sat, 15 Feb 2025 10:57:21 EST https://www.Writing.Com/main/books/entry_id/1083894 https://www.Writing.Com/main/books/entry_id/1083894