We’ve tried you in everything.
Classroom, baker’s, weaver’s guild, butcher’s, child-minders’…
Even the pigs don’t like you.
The goats just ignore you…they ate our father’s best shirt last week.
She just couldn’t pay attention. Something else called, and it wasn’t in their village. Continue reading
Every morning’s a wakeup call
My wakeup call to get busy and go
Bust out the coffee, bounce off the walls
Right now I’m having a wakeup call
And I do wake up, but I cannot go
Cat’s trapped me beneath, though my hunger grows
Even so, can’t push him off: the kitty purrs No.
© Liz Husebye Hartmann (2025)
Just Jot January Day 13 – Prompt: EMBRACE from Laura. Be sure to visit their blog to read or just say hi! See what other folks have done with the prompt, or add your own!
https://lindaghill.com/2025/01/13/daily-prompt-jusjojan-the-13th-2025/
This is your third and final notification, Bub!
Tony stared at the tiny screen on his phone, running his fingers through his hair. He grabbed his long bangs for stability, and sighed. He thought he’d gotten rid of the problem, set a boundary, and politely told Sue to eff off. No, he KNEW he’d told her to stop contacting him. Continue reading
Stream of Conscousness: January can be a dry month, creatively. Up here in the Midwest, kissing distance to Canada, it gets cold and dark. The last few years we haven’t got much in the way of snow – ok, so I exaggerate…I’m in the TC area – but everything is hard and monochromatic. Stark. Continue reading
Image source: Echo by Ellen Thesleff, Finnish (1891)
Just Jot January Day 10 – Prompt: Echo from Dan. Be sure to visit his blog to read or just say hi! See what other folks have done with the prompt, or add your own! https://lindaghill.com/2025/01/10/daily-prompt-jusjojan-the-10th-2025/
Not shy but he swerves
Avoids the ones with too much nerve
Don’t touch him so soon
© Liz Husebye Hartmann (2025)
JusJoJan 2025: January 9 – Prompt SHY. Use it any way you’d like. Have fun! https://lindaghill.com/2025/01/09/daily-prompt-jusjojan-the-9th-2025/
(Forgive my show of ill-temper)
Signed and certified
The orange skidmark
Slides down the back
Of US underpants
Floods our shoes
And stains the news
We make a mockery
Of our democracy
© Liz Husebye Hartmann (2025)
(Ok, this wasn’t exactly fun, but it had to be said. Because I’m sad, and we have to go on.) To join in the fun of Just Jot It January (reading or writing your own on the prompt), visit https://lindaghill.com/2025/01/08/one-liner-wednesday-jusjojan25-the-8th-stop-following-me/#like-18645
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