tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1149217012399643733.post8221537555601986471..comments2023-12-06T00:48:23.734-08:00Comments on Daily Writing Practice: Saturday March 18th, 2017Marchttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14952331166517430843noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1149217012399643733.post-19807358248794789442017-05-06T17:36:17.882-07:002017-05-06T17:36:17.882-07:00Greg - the bakery's carrot cake is legitimatel...Greg - the bakery's carrot cake is legitimately amazing. People tell us it's the best they've ever had quite regularly.<br /><br />Also: do you have my mailing address? Because I want some of those flapjacks next time you make some.<br /><br />I'm always saddened whenever I see a fruit orchard being ripped up so that more grapevines can be planted. I guess that's where the money is right now, but I still don't like seeing it.<br /><br />Hah, I was not expecting your final two lines after you set the scene with your opening two. Really well done, as usual.<br /><br />Morganna - ah, an excellent interpretation and take on the prompt. I think you really captured the upheaval of a move with this one.Marchttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14952331166517430843noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1149217012399643733.post-60007902410396094622017-03-20T07:24:41.045-07:002017-03-20T07:24:41.045-07:00Pack it all up
Into the boxes it goes
New house,...Pack it all up <br />Into the boxes it goes <br />New house, new neighborhood,<br />New life.morgannahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04295309367485408358noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1149217012399643733.post-70567620865931572442017-03-19T10:18:51.450-07:002017-03-19T10:18:51.450-07:00Carrot cake sounds nice! I made walnut-cranberry ...Carrot cake sounds nice! I made walnut-cranberry flapjacks this weekend, and they are pretty tasty too.<br />It might be my preferences but I think there's an air of sadness about your poem today, not least because I prefer apple trees to grapevines. Though I suppose they both provide fruit and alcoholic drinks, so there's a sense in replacing one by the other.<br /><br /><b>Uprooted</b><br />They tore down the whole street with diggers,<br />Ripped up the cobbles and the paving stones.<br />They started a diaspora of plague-rats<br />Uprooted from their subterranean homes.<br /><br />Greghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08503319830584828982noreply@blogger.com