Porthole

Being walked

"Walking My Humans"  by ♥HOOves♥

"I still like to walk these humans of mine." Write about walking a dog from it's perspective and views.

Can't write anything from a dog's point of view today though, or maybe not ever as I don't have a dog and have never had one of my own. I do like the poem (I can quibble about cadence but that's my inner poet... pay no-never-mind). Not everything I write is from the human perspective. Each creature has a voice we can hear ... if we bother to listen. Yes, a dog walks a human. A cat has his royal servants. We aliens just watch in amusement.

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Space Blog  (ASR) Cruising WDC cyberspace and raiding ports for blog prompts! #2223838 by Sharmelle's LovableExpressions

Beholden has an interesting entry "On Free Verse"  that I responded to:

My intro to 'poetry' as a child was bastardized Basho. The tortured European forms did not interest me. I had my own poetic voice but was never encouraged and because I wasn't a story-teller and not disciplined I stayed away from English majors. My interest was Linguistics. My degree was Biology. I was useless by the age of 23.

I didn't seriously start writing poetry until I was 47. And I only wrote because I had to. So many years later I just write to forms or no forms. To paraphrase what you said,"I'm too old to fight."

I just can't keep track! Since I reconfigured my blog I needed a place to list the deadlines for poems/stories and to keep track of those that have won and 'lost'. It's still a work-in-progress. "Conquest ... to keep track of contests" 

Me: AQI is 29. We're in the Green Zone! Temp is a cool 14° this afternoon. So I ventured out to pick up a lunch and wandered down to Sacajawea Park to sit with Willie, Ben, Phil and Laxmi. After solving the world's problems (after dumping you-know-who) I went grocery shopping. I only buy chocolate milk when it's marked down and Dove 'soap' when it's on sale. Scored both. Even remembered to pick up Lubriderm for me dry skin.

To and fro I took a few pictures and collected some orange maple leaves.

Once home... did not feel so good, very weak, so I napped the day away. I live alone and no one checks on me so I need to be careful. Seems like such a waste of time though.

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