Five Minute Friday: SALE

 

The Five Minute Friday prompt this week is SALE.  Enjoy!

I could only find snarky quotes on SALE, and I don't care for snark, so guess what...you get another sonnet.

This is something hard to face,

and when we try, we often fail,

but when we're searching for God's grace

it never is on sale.

He'll give it to you for free

but it bears a fearsome price,

which is and which can only be

your prideful ego's sacrifice,

so step right up, get on your knees,

prepare for your rebirth.

You needn't say, "Oh, pretty please!

for God has set your worth 

as greater than His Son's own pain,

so die to sin, for death is gain.

Sylvia loves it when ice cream is on sale.

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Five Minute Friday: CHRISTMAS SWEATER

 

This week's Five Minute Friday prompt is CHRISTMAS SWEATER.

I couldn't face looking for quotes, 'cause they'd likely come with pictures. So you get a poem instead. Sorry.

'Tis the season of the Sweater,

roused from where it had been sleeping,

an artform in which worse is better;

we don it and will soon be reaping 

our friends' aghast puzzled stares

that imply our marbles fled.

Why else a scene of polar bears

pulling Glam-Rock Santa's sled?

And what's with the LEDs

blinking where they shouldn't blink?

Their eyes implore, oh, pretty please,

did you even stop to think 

that now you've made me anxious, fretful,

that I won't find something more dreadful?

For some Glam-Rock Christmas cheer, here's Wizzard with I Wish It Could Be Christmas Every Day.

It's a really sweet and charming song and video. I hope you'll give it a try.

Sylvia had a Christmas Sweater. She shredded it.

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Five Minute Friday: TURKEY

 

The Five Minute Friday prompt this week is TURKEY.

Barb was sick today, so instead of hunting down TURKEY quotes, I wrote a sonnet instead. I know, I promised quotes...and no poems.

Also trashed one eye, and it is kinda hard to be reading a screen.

I won't have a turkey cooking,

eating critters don't go here.

Rather for my meal we're looking

at a pizza and some beer,

and somewhere there is a turkey 

who will trot all wild and free.

He wasn't shipped to Albuquerque 

to make a Pilgrim meal for  me.

I am sick of all the killing

that makes this fallen world go 'round,

so I really am quite willing 

to eat soybeans by the pound

and maybe to fulfill  my goal

to save a little of my soul.

So...have a fun freewrite about the bird, the dinner, the country, or my particular favourite, the Grumm TBF Avenger torpedo bomber...also known as, wait for it...the Turkey.

The video below shows a TBM (General Motors' license-built version) going through engine start, wing unfolding (a little over halfway through the three-minute video) and takeoff).

Sylvia will gladly eat whatever leftover turkey Barb brings home from the church luncheon.

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Five Minute Friday: PENGUINS

 This week's Five Minute Friday prompt is PENGUINS.

Oh, why not?

Penguins of the cold Antarctic 

find that one of their lives' flaws

is that they don't get the magic

of a life with Santa Claus,

for they and that elf so jolly

have been placed far poles apart;

not even mistletoe and holly

can fill the hole in feathered heart

that they are banished from the lands

where the Christmas toys are made.

"Is it 'cause we have no hands?

Did you teach polar bears that trade,

dear Santa, to restock your shelves,

even though they eat your elves?"

"Penguins are one of the best antidotes for despair that I know,"  - Charles Bergman

"I have taken the liberty of quoting at length throughout from the gospels of the Emperor penguins. To them I owe a special debt of gratitude for their remarkable patience." - Donald Finkel

"It's practically impossible to look at a penguin and feel angry." - Joe Moore

"You can't train a penguin to act. You kind of have to take what you get." - James Tupper

"I think penguins are the most human of all the birds, which may be why people love them. They're cute, they stand upright and they look like they're wearing tuxedos." - Shia LaBeouf

Sylvia would gladly share ice cream with a penguin.

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Five Minute Friday: CHOCOLATE

Some prefer Godiva,

and some plump for Cadbury,

but I have got to tell ya,

Hershey's fine with me.

Some quotes on CHOCOLATE...

"The superiority of chocolate, both for health and nourishment, will soon give it the same preference over tea and coffee in America which it has in Spain." - Thomas Jefferson

"Never mind about 1066 William the Conqueror, 1087 William the Second. Such things are not going to affect one?s life ... but 1932 the Mars Bar and 1936 Maltesers and 1937 the Kit Kat - these dates are milestones in history and should be seared into the memory of every child in the country." - Roald Dahl

"My therapist told me the way to achieve true inner peace is to finish what I start. So far today, I have finished 2 bags of M&M's and a chocolate cake. I feel better already." - Dave Barry

"Strength is the capacity to break a Hershey bar into four pieces with your bare hands - and then eat just one of the pieces." -  Judith Viorst

The 12-step chocoholics program: NEVER BE MORE THAN 12 STEPS AWAY FROM CHOCOLATE! -Terry Moore

Much to Sylvia's disgust,dogs aren't supposed to eat chocolate.

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Five Minute Friday: COFFEE

 The Five Minute Friday prompt this week is COFFEE.

What's your favourite kind? Jamaican Blue Mountain for me, thanks.

Here are some nice coffee-quotes...enjoy!

“In Seattle, you haven’t had enough coffee until you can thread a sewing machine while it’s running.” - Jeff Bezos

"A mathematician is a device for turning coffee into theorems.” -Albert Einstein

"I'd rather take coffee than compliments just now." - Louisa May Alcott 

"It is inhumane, in my opinion, to force people who have a genuine medical need for coffee to wait in line behind people who apparently view it as some kind of recreational activity." - Dave Barry

"I don't really like coffee, she said, but I don't really like it when my head hits my desk when I fall asleep either." - Brian Andreas 

Your turn!

Yes, Sylvia likes coffee -flavoured ice cream.

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Idiot Actors (Tell His Story)

Are you really tired of actors talking politics?

I wonder why the actors think

that we care about their views.

Those not red are surely pink,

and most really hate the Jews.

Some rail on 'bout climate change;

"Follow science!" is their cry,

but they aren't going to rearrange 

the private jets on which they fly.

Maybe they should really stick

to the job for which they're paid,

but do they do the poli-schtick

because deep down they are afraid 

that when youth's good looks are spent 

they'll find themselves irrelevant?

This linkup will close on November 6, at 7pm MST. I'm going to be standing in for Kate Motaung at Five Minute Friday through the end of the year, and so FMF and Tell His Story will co-locate. The posts will go live

 each Thursday at 8pm MST, and will be announced on Facebook (Andrew Budek) and X (@BudekSchmeisser)

In January Tell His Story will return to the usual Tuesday morning schedule.

I hope you'll join me; I have some nice writing prompts planned.

Sylvia prefers Shrek.

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