Boys are like Puppies

Clogyrnach, an Awdl. That is the poetry form this week, courtesy C.R. Ward. It is ancient Welsh. So that's where they get all those Word Verification words!

Hush little puppies, please be good.

Stop your wrestling, wish you would

Get along for now.

It's easy. Here's how:

Bow wow wow.

Understood?

And if you know any little boys, you know they come up with crazy names for the things they do to each other (like an "indian burn," when we were kids). Ask them about "five star" and "corn dog."

RanDoM ThUrsDay!

A poem and a quick prompt contest.


The poem is for Haiku Wednesdays at You Know...That Blog and the theme this week is Distance. I took a favorite scene from a classic movie and fit it into Haiku form. Recognize it?

Like what? Like, uh, track!

Whaddaya mean, like running?

No, not just running.

It's something that needs

endurance and stamina.

Long distance running.

Cross country running.

Danny thinks for a minute.

Yeah, that could be cool.

And the quick prompt contest is from sharkly agent, Janet Reid. Appropriate during Shark Week! Here are the 5 words to write a quick 100 word story.
echo

fever

jelly

roll

t-bone

“Fever check!” T-bone said and smacked his buddy in the forehead on his way out.

The glow in the sky told him he’d better have a good excuse for being out all night again.

He cruised home on his Harley and never saw the branch in the road. As he sailed into a spectacular roll down the hill, the last words he said to the gal in the bar echoed in his head, Gotta live like you’ll die tomorrow.

T-bone smiled with no regrets as his guts oozed like jelly onto the pavement.

(a song came to mind after I wrote this, http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EjoRsEVHol0 )

Dunker-shine!

Just trying a new way to say thanks that hasn't been done before because I am sooo appreciative of all my blogger buddies!

Like witty, sweet, multiple personality, Bryce Daniels gave me his stamp of approval with this award. I googled Liebster and am still not sure why it has this name, but hey, it's cute! It is a special award for upstart bloggers =) Thanks!

The rules of the award are:

1. Thank the giver and link back to the blogger who gave it to you.
2. Reveal your top 5 picks and let them know by leaving a comment on their blog.
3. Copy and paste the award on your blog.
4. Have faith that your followers will spread the love to other bloggers.
5. And most of all - have bloggity-blog fun!

Now I will pass it along to some more blog friends with less than 200 followers, but well on their way to blog history! (and this was tough to narrow it down to just five)

1. Little Red Henry - Heather's art is to die for! Well, I guess more to live to see it. Creative and fanciful =)

2. Spirit Called - Huntress is funny and insightful. Quite a combination. She is also one of the creators of the online critique blog site I joined, Unicorn Bell.

3. RJR Daydreamer - An interesting family (his son is a business prodigy!) - and a surprise in every post!

4. Nicki Elson's Not-So-Deep Thoughts - Always a kind word for others (& sometimes cookies!) and fun stuff to do and read about.

5. Writing My Novel...and stuff - Nina Powers is a young woman with a lot to say about books, authors, and life in general and does it in a positive way!