My Ford

-

Tanka Tuesday #236


Theme: Expedition (I thought a bit literally here!)

No Expedition

that’s far too much space for me

three seats too many

for two kids and some collies

the Explorer fits just right

 

©2021 Lisa Smith Nelson. All Rights Reserved

  

The kids are long grown, the dogs long gone, but the 2000 Ford's still here, with just 90,000 original miles, so he'll be around a long time yet.  


 

 

Comments

  1. D.L. FinnJuly 27, 2021 at 2:52 PM

    I like your literal take :)

    ReplyDelete
  2. ElizabethJuly 28, 2021 at 4:55 PM

    That's nice, Lisa! Both the car and the poem!

    ReplyDelete
  3. Colleen ChesebroAugust 1, 2021 at 8:43 AM

    That is fabulous! I never thought about the vehicle named "Expedition!" What a great take on the theme. <3

    ReplyDelete
    Replies
    1. LisaAugust 3, 2021 at 8:33 AM

      Thanks. That's what I thought of first thing! It was true, I didn't want the bigger one, and even picked the shorter wheel-based Explorer.

      Delete
  4. UnknownAugust 2, 2021 at 10:44 PM

    A lovely lovely take

    ReplyDelete

Post a Comment

Popular posts from this blog

Feuille-morte

-
Image
Weekly Scribblings #90: October “I’m so glad I live in a world where there are Octobers!” " ... take your inspiration from this quote, October, or autumn in general." O chre leaves flutter, C lutter T ogether, a mosaic O de to the B eauty of summer’s death, E arthy R usset, gold, and umber.    ©2021 Lisa Smith Nelson. All Rights Reserved Autumn bouquet - the vase is a new thrift store find, the little animal is a bird (his flat bird tail shows on the inside) .   The title, Feuille-morte , literally translates to "dead leaf," but also is a color.  As Merriam-Webster explains it, feuille-morte is : a brownish orange that is deeper and slightly redder than leather, yellower and deeper than spice, and yellower and deeper than gold pheasant Which about covers any autumn leaf color, doesn't it?  A brownish orange, redder than this,yellower than that, and yellower than... a gold pheasant?  I think John Locke but it best. " To make a coun
Read more

Taco-Mania

-
Image
 For the inaugural Friday Writings at Poets and Storytellers United (no more Writer's Pantry or Weekly Scribblings, they've been melded into one with an optional prompt), I went with the prompt, albeit quite unremarkably!  A haibun, but not.  In other words, a paragraph and a 5/7/5 that is not a haiku.  Nor is it a senryu.  So, it's that "everything else" form zappai!  Can it still be called a haibun then?  🤷   Also, the first Tuesday of the month over at Tanka Tuesday is Poet's Choice.  My choice is a... um... prose/zappai, of the Taco Tuesday sort! Friday Writings prompt : "...write poetry or prose about food: cooking it, eating it, sharing it, craving it, dreaming of it … the choice is yours."  I like tacos as much as the next person does. They’re really a perfect food, completely customizable.   Beef or chicken, both or neither.   Pile on the veggies and cheese, or leave them naked.    Sour cream with a side of chips and salsa.   Or chips an
Read more

Only a Fruit

-
Image
Tanka Tuesday #259 haibun idyll   Friday Writings #12: Colour - or the Absence of Colour If the trip didn’t do you in, we could paint the town red, maybe talk about the old days.   I’m just so tickled pink to see you again!   Perhaps as a blue blood, born to the purple, you’re used to white washing all those grey areas I am just dying to discuss.     As the black sheep of the family, I’ve always been more yellow-bellied, so I’ll be green with envy at hearing your exploits!   Oh, please don’t be in such a brown study… here, have a glass of fresh squeezed orange juice.     alas, poor orange no rhymes nor adages for you solitary hue   ©2022 Lisa Smith Nelson. All Rights Reserved https://www.pexels.com/photo/food-healthy-orange-white-42059/ There is actually one perfect rhyme for orange, sporange .  According to The Free Dictionary, sporange is " A single-celled or many-celled structure in which spores are produced, especially in fungi, algae, mosses, and ferns." I must ap
Read more