Poem: "The Things You Do"

This poem came out of the November 2, 2021 Poetry Fishbowl. It was inspired by prompts from chanter1944 and rix_scaedu. It also fills the square"The things you do mean something to people." in my 11-1-21 card for the NCIS Bingo fest. This poem has been sponsored by a pool with fuzzyred, ng_moonmoth, janetmiles, and edorfaus. It belongs to the Trichromatic Attachments thread of the Polychrome Heroics series.

Warning: This poem contains intense and controversial topics. Highlight to read the warnings, some of which are spoilers. It includes making mistakes, self-recrimination, feeling helpless, relationship issues, jealousy, commitment issues, cluelessness, questionable decisions, kidnapping, chair bondage, dubious consent, interrogation, reference to past roughhousing, use of superpowers in dubious context, suggestive fondling but not of sexual parts, emotional incompetence, clue concussion, abandoning someone in an altered state of consciousness, man crying, and other challenges. Regardless of the rough road between here and there, though, this thread does have a happy ending where the characters get married. If these are sensitive issues for you, please consider your tastes and headspace before reading onward. This is the start of the backstory, so skipping it would leave a big gap.

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Poem: "Never Accept an Apology"

This poem came out of the November 2, 2021 Poetry Fishbowl. It was inspired by prompts from chanter1944 and rix_scaedu. It also fills the square "Never accept an apology from somebody who just sucker-punched you." in my 11-1-21 card for the NCIS Bingo fest. This poem has been sponsored by a pool with fuzzyred, ng_moonmoth, janetmiles, and edorfaus. It belongs to the Trichromatic Attachments thread of the Polychrome Heroics series. It follows "The Things You Do," so read that first or this won't make much sense.

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Lexember Day 30-31

I'm doing Lexember this month. The idea is to make (or learn) a new word every day. This can be for a conlang or a natural language.

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The Multiverse

This article looks at how quantum mechanics predicts the multiverse. 

Birdfeeding

Today is cloudy and mild.  It sprinkled last night.

I fed the birds.  Not much activity today or yesterday. 

The first seed catalogs have arrived.

Raining Fish

It rained fish in Texarkana.  Given the general weirding of weather, we might see more of this. 

Poem: "I Love You in Cat"

This is the freebie for the December 7, 2021 Poetry Fishbowl. It was inspired by a prompt from See_Also_Friend.


"I Love You in Cat"


The cat brings mice
as a gift of love.

You step on one
and scream.

The cat brings
you leaves because
you didn't like the mice.

You don't scream, but
you aren't excited either.

The cat brings you
candy wrappers which
are shiny and crinkly.

You don't play with them,
but you are still pleased
to get litter out of the yard
and into the garbage.

Love is about observation
as much as gifts, even when
it's saying I love you in Cat.

Unsold Poems for the December 7, 2021 Poetry Fishbowl

The following poems from the November 2, 2021 Poetry Fishbowl are currently available. Poems may be sponsored via PayPal -- there's a permanent donation button on my Dreamwidth profile page -- or you can write to me and discuss other methods. There are still verses left in the linkback poems "Everything That Blooms," "In the Shade of the Mighty Oak," "Let the Children Lead Us," "Autumn's Palette," "Pumpkin Spice Prosperity," "Delight in Another," "A Sense of Weather Changes," "Ouroboros Insects," "The Loving Embrace of Night," "Generations of Cooks Past," "Begin to Understand Ourselves," and "Homefree and Clear."

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Fandom Snowflake

It's that time of year again! :D snowflake_challenge will be running every other day in January 2022. Come celebrate your love of fandom with us.

Boost the signal to increase participation.  You might like to browse prompts from previous years to get an idea what the challenges are likely to be -- many of them repeat, like the wishlist and making a new fanwork, but the order varies.

Poetry Fishbowl Report for December 7, 2021

This month's theme was "Acts of Kindness." I wrote from 1:30 PM to 6 AM, so about 14 hours 30 minutes, accounting for lunch and supper breaks. I wrote 2 poems on Tuesday and 4 later in the week.

Participation was down again, quite low with only 7 comments on LiveJournal and another 23 on Dreamwidth. A total of 7 people sent prompts.


Read Some Poetry!
The following poems from the December 7, 2021 Poetry Fishbowl have been posted:
"I Love You in Cat"
"Those Who Have Nothing"

Buy some poetry!
If you plan to sponsor some poetry but haven't made up your mind yet, see the unsold poetry list from December 7. That includes the title, length, price, and the original thumbnail description for the poems still available. All sponsored poems have been posted.

This month's donors include: ng_moonmoth (after the official counting period). There were no new donors. There are 3 tallies toward a bonus fishbowl.


The Poetry Fishbowl has a landing page.

One-Week Resolutions

This time of year, I usually write something about New Year's resolutions. Here I'm going to cover the idea of one-week resolutions. If you're daunted by the idea of longer-term resolutions, but unsatisfied by one-day resolutions, then one week is a timeframe worth exploring. Let's look at some ideas...

While searching for inspiration online, I found this gem of advice:
"Don’t commit to doing something for a year if you haven’t done it for a week."

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